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Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:: New York Times , Slate
Critics' Group:: New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews:: 677

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1/5	6%	Son of the Mask (2005)	" Son of the Mask is an irredeemable mess, a computer-animated Punch and Judy show without wit, heart or a single memorable performance." — New York Times Posted Feb 17, 2005
	52%	Knight & Day (2010)	" Cruise, for his part, can still dependably produce unlimited quantities of Tom Cruise-ness, a natural resource undiminished and virtually unchanged since its discovery in 1983. The question for the 2010 audience is whether we have any use for it anymore." — Slate Posted Jun 23, 2010
	80%	Cyrus (2010)	" The oblique final scene seems intended to leave the viewer in a state of delicious suspense, but it feels more like a frustratingly underwritten limbo." — Slate Posted Jun 18, 2010
	47%	The A-Team (2010)	" The A-Team is utterly convinced of its own lovability even as it strains our credibility, abuses our patience, and punishes our eardrums." — Slate Posted Jun 11, 2010
	72%	Get Him to the Greek (2010)	" There's no buildup, no narrative arc, just one scene of comically debauched partying after another." — Slate Posted Jun 3, 2010
	15%	Sex and the City 2 (2010)	" The stakes are so low that, during the girls' final madcap sprint through an outdoor market disguised in burqas, the unspeakable outcome they're trying to forestall is the possibility of having to fly home in coach." — Slate Posted May 27, 2010
	47%	MacGruber (2010)	" There's a conceptual flaw at this movie's heart: By the very nature of the sketch, MacGruber can't succeed on the big screen." — Slate Posted May 24, 2010
	73%	Iron Man 2 (2010)	" Casting the likes of Downey and Rourke and then imprisoning them in jointed refrigerators is resource-squandering of the highest order." — Slate Posted May 6, 2010
	19%	The Back-up Plan (2010)	" I wouldn't go so far as to recommend this movie, but if you were tied down and forced to watch it, you wouldn't necessarily have to chew off your own leg to get away." — Slate Posted Apr 23, 2010
	76%	Kick-Ass (2010)	" What do these characters consider worthy of killing and dying for? That a protagonist lacks superpowers is no reason for him to lack motivation, conviction, or purpose." — Slate Posted Apr 15, 2010
	28%	Clash of the Titans (2010)	" Avatar has taken a lot of heat for being weak on story and overly reliant on visual effects, but compared with this witless, chaotic mess of a movie, James Cameron's epic looks worthy of the ancient Greek authors..." — Slate Posted Apr 1, 2010
	51%	Chloe (2010)	" The only Verhoeven element that's missing is deliberate camp, a healthy ladling of which might have made Chloe worth watching for some reason other than the prospect of glimpsing Seyfried's and Moore's admirably formed torsos." — Slate Posted Mar 26, 2010
	63%	Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)	" I am genuinely saddened not to have enjoyed Hot Tub Time Machine." — Slate Posted Mar 25, 2010
	69%	The Runaways (2010)	" The beats the movie hits are predictable enough that, after a rousing, raunchy opening act, the story of the group's fast rise and spectacular flameout begins to feel like an exceptionally dirty-mouthed after-school special." — Slate Posted Mar 19, 2010
	53%	Green Zone (2010)	" Seven years into the Iraq quagmire, we need more from our political filmmakers than an angry fist (and a hand-held camera) shaken in the Bush administration's direction." — Slate Posted Mar 11, 2010
	51%	Alice in Wonderland (2010)	" A film adaptation should, of course, treat its source material as inspiration rather than dogma. But did Burton have to get the books so entirely wrong?" — Slate Posted Mar 5, 2010
	71%	The Crazies (2010)	" The filmmakers seem less clear on what really made those early Romero films great, which is something that, by definition, can't be re-created by any level of loving craftsmanship: They were timely." — Slate Posted Feb 26, 2010
	68%	Shutter Island (2010)	" The movie is inert, despite the fact that it bombards us with lurid imagery and high-intensity stimuli: frozen Dachau victims, dying Nazis, beautiful child murderesses, abandoned graveyards besieged by hurricanes." — Slate Posted Feb 18, 2010
	18%	Valentine's Day (2010)	" Contemplating the romantic prospects of Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner, it's hard to summon up a sentiment beyond the one muttered by my viewing companion: "Fine, mush your boring faces together already."" — Slate Posted Feb 11, 2010
	41%	44 Inch Chest (2010)	" All moody buildup and no -- I mean no -- real suspense." — Slate Posted Jan 29, 2010
	37%	Nine (2009)	" We don't need to see Daniel Day-Lewis and Nicole Kidman sing a duet next to a Roman fountain any more than we need to see an elephant pirouette in a tutu, but wouldn't you be crazy to pass up the opportunity to see either?" — Slate Posted Dec 22, 2009
	76%	Invictus (2009)	" Freeman-as-Mandela is an actor all dressed up with no place to go -- at least, nowhere we didn't already know he was headed." — Slate Posted Dec 11, 2009
	32%	The Lovely Bones (2009)	" Scene by scene, the movie alternates between prurient violence and sentimental uplift." — Slate Posted Dec 10, 2009
	62%	Brothers (2009)	" After watching this movie, I had what you might call Portman Traumautic Stress Disorder, a condition that leaves you twitchy, irritable, and in need of a well-acted light comedy." — Slate Posted Dec 4, 2009
	91%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Jason Reitman's third film has the lifespan of a state-fair churro: tasty at the point of consumption, it congeals soon afterward into its component ingredients of sugar and lard." — Slate Posted Dec 3, 2009
	75%	The Road (2009)	" Unless you're far better at walling yourself off from identification than I am, you walk out in a state of untreated shock. Rather than thinking about the movie afterward, you wait for it to wear off." — Slate Posted Nov 25, 2009
	21%	Amelia (2009)	" Directed by Mira Nair and executive-produced by its star Hilary Swank, the movie seems oddly preoccupied with the audience's approval for its subject." — Slate Posted Oct 23, 2009
	48%	Antichrist (2009)	" After the infantile bludgeoning that is Antichrist), I feel no need to keep accompanying von Trier's career at all." — Slate Posted Oct 22, 2009
	73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" Jonze and Eggers' approach to the book is both original and well-intentioned; it's clear that they take both Sendak and childhood seriously (though not as seriously as they take themselves). It's just too bad the end result isn't a better movie." — Slate Posted Oct 15, 2009
	58%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" Despite the ambitious scope of its premise, this confounding, disappointing and, in the end, depressing movie is content to devote 80 percent of its screen time to wondering who gets to kiss the girl." — Slate Posted Oct 2, 2009
	75%	Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)	" Moore's choice to make "capitalism" his straw man (rather than, say, greed or Reagan-era deregulation) puts him in closer company than he might like with some pretty nasty world-historical bedfellows." — Slate Posted Sep 24, 2009
	78%	The Informant! (2009)	" Mark's collection of bizarre behaviors doesn't add up to a character." — Slate Posted Sep 19, 2009
	57%	9 (2009)	" It's easy to see why Acker's gifts caught the attention of these directors; he's a visual craftsman of no little promise. Now if he can just stitch together a story with the same loving care that went into creating those digital burlap dolls..." — Slate Posted Sep 10, 2009
	48%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" Even as a mind-clearing break from Lee's darker, more ambitious work, Taking Woodstock is an underachieving movie, so slight and gentle-spirited that it seems to be looking at the summer of 1969 through a scrim of rosy gauze." — Slate Posted Aug 27, 2009
	37%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" Long spans of time pass between lines of dialogue, many of which seem to have been inexpertly translated from a foreign language so that they almost make sense but not quite." — Slate Posted Aug 14, 2009
	68%	Funny People (2009)	" Judd Apatow may be the first filmmaker to jeopardize his career through excessive niceness." — Slate Posted Jul 30, 2009
	68%	Public Enemies (2009)	" It's like spending an afternoon -- a long one -- at a beautifully lit wax-museum display inspired by earlier gangster movies." — Slate Posted Jul 1, 2009
	20%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" The simplest thing Bay could have done to clarify the stakes of the robot wars would be to visually distinguish the robots from one another in some way. Armbands? Shirts and skins? "Hello, My Name Is" stickers?" — Slate Posted Jun 24, 2009
	50%	Whatever Works (2009)	" The idea of wedding Woody Allen's comic persona (the introverted nebbish) to Larry David's (the entitled jerk) sounds promising on paper, but as Boris portentously observes just before his unsuccessful suicide attempt, life doesn't take place on paper." — Slate Posted Jun 19, 2009
	67%	Away We Go (2009)	" Away We Go is like a disappointing term paper by a promising student." — Slate Posted Jun 5, 2009
	79%	The Hangover (2009)	" This kind of 'one crazy night' tale relies on drum-tight structure to work. Without it, The Hangover sputters to a sentimental halt." — Slate Posted Jun 5, 2009
	33%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" A good summer movie isn't just an uninterrupted crescendo of cacophony. You need stuff in between the fireballs and the cyborgs." — Slate Posted May 21, 2009
	66%	The Brothers Bloom (2009)	" One question rings hollowly in the brain for the length this painfully twee romp: What hath Wes Anderson wrought?" — Slate Posted May 15, 2009
	37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" If nothing else, Angels & Demons proves that, as McGuffins go, a cylinder of antimatter is more fun than the Holy Grail." — Slate Posted May 14, 2009
	73%	Rudo y Cursi (2009)	" I won't tell you who wins the Rudo/Cursi showdown, but when it comes to the Cuarón brothers, my money's on Alfonso." — Slate Posted May 8, 2009
	38%	X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009)	" Even by the standard of a fourth-in-a-series summer blockbuster, Wolverine is remarkably lame." — Slate Posted Apr 30, 2009
	84%	Tyson (2009)	" It's a movie that's thought-provoking without being intelligent and candid without being truthful. The same aesthetic choices that [director] Toback seems convinced will set his documentary apart are also what diminishes its credibility." — Slate Posted Apr 24, 2009
	84%	State of Play (2009)	" Instead of luring us down an ever-darker and twistier path, it strands us in a tedious and ill-designed maze." — Slate Posted Apr 16, 2009
	51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" Observe and Report tickets should come with a free breath mint, because however hard you've been laughing, that ending leaves a seriously bad taste in your mouth." — Slate Posted Apr 9, 2009
	64%	Duplicity (2009)	" Duplicity plays as a less-successful comic remake of Michael Clayton." — Slate Posted Mar 19, 2009

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