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Chris Kaltenbach

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Biography:: Baltimore Sun film critic.
Publications:: Baltimore Sun , Los Angeles Times

Total Reviews:: 86

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
C-	46%	Cassandra's Dream (2007)	" Allen's latest, his 42nd effort as a director, is the work of an artist devoid of ideas and energy. Perfunctorily staged and lazily written, it comes to life in only the briefest of spurts, usually when the ever-reliable Tom Wilkinson is on-screen." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 18, 2008
C+	22%	Mad Money (2008)	" The pleasures of this slight caper film are strictly small-screen, as three talented actresses walk through quaint roles before they hurry on to the next project." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 18, 2008
B-	77%	Cloverfield (2008)	" The film's overriding sense of the unknown ratchets up the suspense, if not the terror." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 18, 2008
B	41%	27 Dresses (2008)	" Predictable but utterly engaging, 27 Dresses will likely be remembered as the film that made Katherine Heigl an A-list star." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 18, 2008
B	86%	El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007)	" Adult horror returns to the screen with the crisp and frightening The Orphanage, a haunted-house tale about the dueling forces of childhood friendship and maternal love." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 11, 2008
C	13%	First Sunday (2008)	" First Sunday is a movie about forgiveness that asks its audience to forgive too much -- with regard to both its characters and its makers." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 11, 2008
C+	40%	The Bucket List (2007)	" The Bucket List is 98 minutes of mawkish sentiment, a stream of greeting-card moments." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 11, 2008
C-	64%	Dan in Real Life (2007)	" Dan in Real Life wants desperately to be loved. It includes a few laughs...but with all its cloying, tone-deaf attempts at genuine emotional warmth, all it really deserves is to be avoided." — Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 26, 2007
B-	36%	Sydney White (2007)	" A charmer that boldly marches where lesser movies -- at least since the heyday of John Hughes -- fear to tread." — Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 21, 2007
D+	13%	September Dawn (2007)	" Such ham-fisted earnestness does no one any good, least of all those who believe there's a big difference between historical fact and emotional screed." — Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 24, 2007
B-	52%	Introducing the Dwights (2007)	" At times, it's a mawkish drama about a mother-son relationship that's uncomfortable to watch and too melodramatic to be believed. Then, it's a sprightly comedy about an innocent boy who hits the adolescent jackpot." — Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 10, 2007
B+	90%	Rescue Dawn (2007)	" [A] lean, mean surviving machine of a film." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 27, 2007
C	41%	No Reservations (2007)	" A romantic comedy that does precious little with the considerable resources at its disposal." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 27, 2007
D+	14%	I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)	" Films that preach tolerance and respect for diversity, which is what this one does ultimately, are fine and good, and here's hoping the message comes across. But here's betting the fat and the gay jokes hang around a lot longer." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 20, 2007
—	36%	Preaching to the Choir (2005)	— Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 14, 2007
B	91%	Knocked Up (2007)	" The humor arises from the situations and the characters, not from an overeager screenwriter's determination to cram as many jokes and putdowns into the script as possible." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007
b-	27%	Evening (2007)	" The acting, by any measure, is superb." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007
C	12%	The Salon (2007)	" The movie includes a few good one-liners, but that's really all it is -- a forum for putdowns and sassy dialogues." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007
A	76%	Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007)	" [Director] Verhoeven proves a sure-handed storyteller, which might come as a surprise, as well as a terrific visual stylist, which shouldn't." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007
B+	94%	Away from Her (2007)	" Away From Her is that rare movie that breaks hearts with finesse and reserve, not through brute force." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007
B	87%	Efter brylluppet (After the Wedding) (2006)	" Those willing to overlook its emotional grandstanding will find much to admire and even more to think about in this Oscar-nominated Danish drama." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007
C+	70%	28 Weeks Later... (2007)	" 28 Weeks Later doesn't match the impact of its predecessor." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007
B	57%	Transformers (2007)	" Citizen Kane, it isn't. But for 140 minutes in the dead of summer, it's a ton of dumb fun." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 3, 2007
D	7%	License to Wed (2007)	" ...a film that's an early favorite for worst comedy of the year." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 3, 2007
B	81%	Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	" The film's action doesn't disappoint; if anything, it ups the adrenaline ante considerably." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jun 28, 2007
A-	97%	Once (2007)	" There's not a false moment within the film's 88-minute running time, nor many that could be done any better." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jun 16, 2007
C+	70%	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	" Whereas previous Ocean's films have delighted in crossing their audiences, Thirteen barely tries. And when the clever turns predictable ... well, it's no longer clever." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jun 9, 2007
B+	78%	Surf's Up (2007)	" The designers behind Surf's Up give the film a warmth that's often missing from today's computer-dominated animation; the water sequences are especially impressive and beautiful." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jun 9, 2007
C	60%	Gracie (2007)	" Gracie is painfully earnest, which might be OK were it not also painfully trite, painfully cliched and painfully formulaic." — Baltimore Sun Posted Jun 2, 2007
B+	91%	The Italian (2007)	" Like Vittorio De Sica, one of the great Italian neo-realists, Kravchuk populates his film with people, not paradigms; his characters are capable of good and evil, sometimes in equal measure." — Baltimore Sun Posted May 19, 2007
C	49%	The Flying Scotsman (2006)	" Graeme Obree was a champion bicycler who, by all accounts, rarely took the easy way out. Too bad this movie version of his life doesn't follow suit." — Baltimore Sun Posted May 5, 2007
C+	44%	Night at the Museum (2006)	— Baltimore Sun Posted Dec 30, 2006
A-	75%	Over the Hedge (2006)	" Rarely have critters frolicked more hilariously than in Over the Hedge, a movie that should amuse all but the newborn or dead." — Baltimore Sun Posted May 20, 2006
3.5/4	64%	Fever Pitch (The Perfect Catch) (2005)	" Fever Pitch is a delightful romantic comedy that understands as much about the obsessive baseball fan as the chronic workaholic." — Baltimore Sun Posted Apr 9, 2005
4/4	84%	Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004)	" If Kill Bill Vol. 1 was bloody exhilarating, Vol. 2 is bloody great. And, as a bonus, not nearly so bloody." — Baltimore Sun Posted Apr 16, 2004
3.5/4	83%	Earth (1999)	— Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 10, 1999

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