ROTTEN TOMATOES: Martin Scribbs

MARTIN SCRIBBS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Biography: MARTIN SCRIBBS: The Philadelphia-based pedant, poet, and sot writes on the staffs of Flak Magazine and Mixed Reviews. Scribbs also bloviates at his own site, Low IQ Canadian. LIC's all-puppet version of Daniel Defoe's "Journal of The Plague Year" won grudging respect at every nursing home in which it appeared. LIC is a Member Critic at Cinemarati, and contributes regularly to the Cinemarati Roundtable.

Publications: Flak Magazine, Low IQ Canadian, Mixed Reviews

Critics' Group: Cinemarati

Total Reviews: 86
Total QuickRatings: 117

Location: Philadelphia, PA

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Fresh	Rotten 24%	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	" There is a natural limit as to how deeply any film, but especially a would-be summer blockbuster, can dig into radical ideas of faith and history. To his credit, Ron Howard hits that limit." — Mixed Reviews Posted May 21, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 73%	Secret Honor (1985)	" Does anyone have a clue what Altman was driving at with this intense glob of lunacy?" — Low IQ Canadian Posted Nov 19, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 92%	Gabriel Over the White House (1933)	" Gabriel Over the White House encourages its viewers to live the fantasy of the philosopher-king, but never counts the costs of such a regime." — Mixed Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 25%	Bewitched (2005)	" I'll have some of what Nora Ephron's having, as long as I don't have to watch her movies." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Nov 19, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 63%	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967)	" If you guessed, 'a wheezy social problem drama,' you're right." — Mixed Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 94%	Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005)	" *Not only was Good Night, and Good Luck* filmed in black-and-white, it was written and acted that way, too. This is Good versus Evil for Political Dummies.*" — Low IQ Canadian* Posted Nov 5, 2005
Fresh	N/A	The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959)	" Belafonte is magic in his loneliness." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 26, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 85%	Batman Begins (2005)	" *The class dynamics of Batman Begins* are just insufferable. Thank heavens we have our incorruptable masked moneybags to keep the criminal poor in line.** " — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 17, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 88%	F For Fake (1976)	" A little gem, full of vintage Welles ruminations on the ephemeral nature of personal celebrity and the elusiveness of ultimate truth." — Low IQ Canadian Posted May 22, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 85%	The Yes Men (2004)	" Chris Smith is the next great documentarian for mainstream American audiences to discover, and he richly merits a wide release." — Low IQ Canadian Posted May 15, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)	" *While Smartest Guys* sometimes veers into C-Span2: The Movie territory, just then another shocking tidbit will drop to keep the fires stoked.*" — Mixed Reviews* Posted May 15, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Nobody Knows (2005)	" Nothing more can be done to lay the concrete reality of poverty out for persons of conscience. Take and read." — Mixed Reviews Posted Mar 14, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 56%	Ocean's Twelve (2004)	" Ocean's 12 is malt-liquor-on-a-Monday stupid." — Mixed Reviews Posted Dec 12, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 89%	The Five Obstructions (2004)	" Despite his own pessimism, I think Von Trier does change Leth as an artist, a little, through these chastisements." — Mixed Reviews Posted Nov 25, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 56%	The Polar Express (2004)	" This praiseworthy film has been awarded highest honors from Puissant Guide and All-Fertile Giftgiver Kris Kringle." — Mixed Reviews Posted Nov 17, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 83%	The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)	" An unexpected renaissance in Soviet filmmaking." — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 25, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 61%	I Heart Huckabees (2004)	" *See I Heart Huckabees* before your boss asks you to tell your Shania Twain mayo story and you vomit all over a meeting of the Board.*" — Mixed Reviews* Posted Oct 18, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 78%	Team America: World Police (2004)	" A post-9/11 gutbuster." — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 10, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Bonhoeffer (2003)	" Bonhoeffer doesn't probe as deeply as one might like into the details and implications of his theology, but is an invaluable study of a man of conscience. " — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 6, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 49%	A Home at the End of the World (2004)	" *All roads lead to ruin in Home's world, lending an unexpectedly reactionary tone to the work." — Low IQ Canadian* Posted Oct 3, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 90%	Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004)	" *John Kerry may well be the conscience that America needs at its helm. But I'd never trust a 90-minute campaign ad like Upriver* to tell me that.** " — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 2, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 53%	A Dirty Shame (2004)	" A Dirty Shame, a very funny movie, overcomes its limitations by playing to director John Waters' strengths." — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 1, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Garden State (2004)	" *Ultimately, The Graduate* could only offer that the young would shut out the old and start over. Garden State is about the next season, about getting off the bus.*" — Flak Magazine* Posted Sep 26, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 42%	The Village (2004)	" In this election year, our cinemas have been overrun by insincere communities headed by dissemblers-in-chief." — Flak Magazine Posted Aug 19, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 22%	Alien vs. Predator (2004)	" *If you're aching for lines like, 'Well, that tunnel didn't dig itself,' and 'My enemy's enemy...is....my friend?,' run don't walk to AVP." — Mixed Reviews* Posted Aug 14, 2004
Rotten 0/5	Rotten 46%	Secret Window (2004)	" Another lousy movie adapted from Stephen King's writing; another slander against the mentally ill; another energetic Depp performance in a losing cause." — Mixed Reviews Posted Aug 6, 2004
Fresh 99/100	Fresh 96%	Intolerance (1916)	" D.W. Griffith wants to fight for your right to party." — Mixed Reviews Posted Jul 25, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 78%	The Saddest Music in the World (2004)	" The best film of 2004. A throwback in more than just its look, Guy Maddin's latest brings new life to the melodrama." — Flak Magazine Posted Jul 22, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 7%	Boat Trip (2003)	" Only Cuba Gooding Jr., the Olivier of his generation, could pull off such a daring commentary on modern manners." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jul 18, 2004
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 49%	De-Lovely (2004)	" 'There are no little memories with you,' Cole tells her. " — Mixed Reviews Posted Jul 18, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 65%	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)	" All hail Will Ferrell, King of the man-children!" — Mixed Reviews Posted Jul 10, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	" *Its predecessor's equal in pure popcorn entertainment, Spiderman 2* adds moral complexities to daunt even the most intrepid of webslingers.*" — Mixed Reviews* Posted Jun 30, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)	" Moore films exactly how we think in the age of 164-channel cable TV, flipping among a variety of moods and tones, engaging in levels of discourse both high and low." — Mixed Reviews Posted Jun 29, 2004
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 69%	Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)	" *Most of Dodgeball's considerable humor comes from droopy-eyed Vince Vaughn watching manic, macho Ben Stiller wear himself out." — Mixed Reviews* Posted Jun 16, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 92%	City of God (2003)	" Directors K�tia Lund and Fernando Meirelles stir all the cinematic virtues into this finely-crafted narrative." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)	" The big story here is neither the coup, nor the countercoup, but the spread of constitutional values to the people of Venezuela." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)	" *Using the Zephyr team's creation, its sudden fame, and death by defection, Dogtown* documents genuine 20th century tribalism.*" — Low IQ Canadian* Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Modern Tribalism (2002)	" Modern Tribalism tries to universalize the discontent felt by tattoo addicts, cheek-spear enthusiasts, and weekend anarchists." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 54%	Veronica Guerin (2003)	" Veronica Guerin is a sharp study of the vices that sometimes goad us to virtue." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 37%	Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003)	" Legally Blonde II is even smarter than Election. It is a brutal satire of the pop politics with which the Rock the Vote generation deludes itself." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 87%	Home Movie (2002)	" Each of the subjects alternates between charming and creepy." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Dark Days (2000)	" *As a chronicle of midnight and dawn in the great human day, Dark Days* ranks among the most moral of films.** " — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 56%	Devil's Playground (2002)	" Devil's Playground is a classic exposition of the choice between freedom and order, between a closed society and an open one." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Winged Migration (2003)	" Winged Migration must be the most subversive G-rated film ever." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Thirteen (2003)	" What power does a teenage girl have?" — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 70%	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)	" Sadly, what began as a smart sci-fi franchise has apparently been huffing glue since 1985." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 13, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 57%	Northfork (2003)	" *With the pacing of a death march and the theological heft of Angels in the Outfield, this feel-bad extravaganza is 2003's Exhibit A of why people avoid arthouse cinema." — Low IQ Canadian* Posted Jun 13, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 85%	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)	" In 2003, what our psychic diet needed most wasn't blood and bombast. No, it needed films to reawaken our respect for life and love of peace." — Flak Magazine Posted Jun 13, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 63%	Love Actually (2003)	" *My problem is an acute allergy to repitition. Love, Actually* and other champions of the romantic-comedy flyweight division make me break out in hives.*" — Low IQ Canadian* Posted Jun 13, 2004
Fresh	N/A	Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo (2004)	" Lo Sgaurdo, a Top Ten movie in this or any other year, speaks for every tourist left speechless by Rome's scenes of religious and artistic enormity." — Mixed Reviews Posted Jun 12, 2004

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