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Ben Mankiewicz

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography:: At the Movies film critic.
Publications:: At the Movies , Turner Classic Movies Online , What the Flick?!

Total Reviews:: 200

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	34%	The Hangover Part II (2011)	" Think of it as a decent high school football player who suffers from having an older brother who was all-state two years earlier." — Huffington Post Posted May 27, 2011
B+	83%	The Ghost Writer (2010)	" It's a totally credible, briskly paced, suspenseful and particularly well-cast political thriller." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Feb 19, 2010
B	68%	Shutter Island (2010)	" An adult, insightful, tense, complicated psychological thriller." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Feb 19, 2010
	91%	District 9 (2009)	" This is a great movie." — At the Movies Posted Aug 17, 2009
	92%	Ponyo (2009)	" I was, I'm afraid, a little lost at times." — At the Movies Posted Aug 17, 2009
	80%	Bandslam (2009)	" There is really just a lot to like here." — At the Movies Posted Aug 17, 2009
	88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" This is a seriously provocative film." — At the Movies Posted Aug 17, 2009
	26%	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)	" This was funny in the beginning, no question, but then it turned into I thought a sort of a very stale comedy." — At the Movies Posted Aug 17, 2009
	37%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" I thought really very little in the film worked." — At the Movies Posted Aug 17, 2009
	57%	Paper Heart (2009)	" It felt completely inauthentic." — At the Movies Posted Aug 10, 2009
	60%	A Perfect Getaway (2009)	" I just don't think there was enough drama in the first two-thirds of this movie." — At the Movies Posted Aug 10, 2009
	74%	Cold Souls (2009)	" I found myself thinking about this movie for a long time after I got out of the theater." — At the Movies Posted Aug 10, 2009
	45%	Fragments (2008)	" The film is quite literally fragmented. Too much story -- and too little about each character." — At the Movies Posted Aug 10, 2009
	75%	Julie & Julia (2009)	" If it weren't for the sheer brilliance of Streep and on-screen husband Stanley Tucci, this would be an easy skip." — At the Movies Posted Aug 10, 2009
	64%	Adam (2009)	" A sweet, atypical love story." — At the Movies Posted Aug 3, 2009
	94%	In the Loop (2009)	" Every movie that clearly tells us how we marched toward the war, through bullying, intimidation, and making opponents seem crazy is worth seeing." — At the Movies Posted Aug 3, 2009
	68%	Funny People (2009)	" It walks a perfectly fine line between being funny and tragic." — At the Movies Posted Aug 3, 2009
	89%	World's Greatest Dad (2009)	" I think Goldthwait wrote a terrific script here and I think it manages to stay funny after it takes its rather dark turn." — At the Movies Posted Aug 3, 2009
	81%	Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009)	" There were moments where I was genuinely scared and moments where I was genuinely moved." — At the Movies Posted Aug 3, 2009
	29%	Shrink (2009)	" I felt it felt forced from the first moment into the last moment." — At the Movies Posted Jul 27, 2009
	55%	Orphan (2009)	" It's bloody, you should be warned, but in the end it is worth it." — At the Movies Posted Jul 27, 2009
	79%	Humpday (2009)	" Those conversations were really memorable and really well executed." — At the Movies Posted Jul 27, 2009
	30%	The Answer Man (Arlen Faber) (2009)	" You have a likable cast, an engaging enough story with a few moments of both humor and emotional honesty." — At the Movies Posted Jul 27, 2009
	21%	G-Force (2009)	" I don't think kids will find it funny, [and] their parents will find it unbearable." — At the Movies Posted Jul 27, 2009
	13%	The Ugly Truth (2009)	" The Ugly Truth has a nice moment here and there, but there is much more ugliness than truth." — At the Movies Posted Jul 27, 2009
	87%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" Conventional? Not at all." — At the Movies Posted Jul 13, 2009
	14%	I Love You Beth Cooper (2009)	" The story quickly -- and I mean quickly -- devolves into an unimaginative high school retread." — At the Movies Posted Jul 13, 2009
	67%	Brüno (2009)	" It's certainly not that there aren't a few funny moments in the film. There are, but overwhelmingly, Bruno's stunts are demeaning, they are insulting and they are really cruel." — At the Movies Posted Jul 13, 2009
	84%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" This is a big summer movie that meets expectations." — At the Movies Posted Jul 13, 2009
	85%	Soul Power (2009)	" This has no contextual structure at all. It is essentially the archive footage slapped together." — At the Movies Posted Jul 13, 2009
	68%	Public Enemies (2009)	" I do think this is a film worth seeing, so obviously, I say see it." — At the Movies Posted Jul 6, 2009
	36%	Local Color (2006)	" I suspect Local Color will lose those unfamiliar with the jargon and subtleties of the art world. Skip it." — At the Movies Posted Jul 6, 2009
	45%	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Ice Age 3) (2009)	" Certainly not terrible, but ultimately forgettable and that means you should skip it." — At the Movies Posted Jul 6, 2009
	19%	I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)	" Everyone who's ever seen a movie knows where this is headed... but getting there is breezy, fun, and most importantly, well-executed." — At the Movies Posted Jul 6, 2009
	48%	La Fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco) (2009)	" It was a perfect blend of satire and tension." — At the Movies Posted Jul 6, 2009
	100%	Afghan Star (2009)	" If you think American Idol is a cultural phenomenon here, imagine its impact on a country devastated by 30 years of internal strife, religious intolerance, civil war and foreign invasion." — At the Movies Posted Jun 29, 2009
	51%	Chéri (2009)	" Michelle Pfeiffer is quite good, but the script leaves Kathy Bates -- talented as she is -- with a bit of a cartoonish performance." — At the Movies Posted Jun 29, 2009
	97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" Outstanding performances across the board, but I thought Anthony Mackie in particular really, really nailed it." — At the Movies Posted Jun 29, 2009
	20%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" It is as if Michael Bay was saying "You think I've blown stuff up before? Ha-ha. Wait till you see this."" — At the Movies Posted Jun 29, 2009
	48%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" I have a heart. I just don't want schlock." — At the Movies Posted Jun 29, 2009
	43%	The Proposal (2009)	" Sloppy and lazy." — At the Movies Posted Jun 22, 2009
	50%	Whatever Works (2009)	" It's consistently very funny, sharp and observant." — At the Movies Posted Jun 22, 2009
	54%	Surveillance (2009)	" When Surveillance is good, it's a gory, pleasurable ride. When it's not -- it's just gory. But more often than not, it delivers on the camp." — At the Movies Posted Jun 22, 2009
	65%	Dead Snow (Død snø) (2009)	" It felt formulaic from start to finish." — At the Movies Posted Jun 22, 2009
	14%	Year One (2009)	" [Year One has] some very funny moments but not enough of them." — At the Movies Posted Jun 22, 2009
	51%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" Washington demonstrates his really remarkable ability to make us forget he's a movie star and completely believe he's a flawed but noble civil servant." — At the Movies Posted Jun 15, 2009
	96%	Food, Inc. (2009)	" A powerful, muckraking documentary on the big business of what we eat." — At the Movies Posted Jun 15, 2009
	40%	Imagine That (2009)	" This is a fairly likable family comedy." — At the Movies Posted Jun 15, 2009
	90%	Moon (2009)	" Very inventive." — At the Movies Posted Jun 15, 2009

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