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David Rooney

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:: St. Louis Post-Dispatch , Variety

Total Reviews:: 592

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	The Forgotten Bomb (2012)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted May 9, 2013
	82%	Something in the Air (2013)	" Olivier Assayas has made a distinctive and nuanced film about the much-chronicled post-1968 years of radical European politics, as well as providing droll insight into his self-discovery as an artist." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 29, 2013
	55%	At Any Price (2013)	" Standout performances from Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron and an intelligent script distinguish this drama from writer-director Ramin Bahrani." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 22, 2013
	74%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" It's neither unpredictable nor exactly fresh, but audiences willing to surrender to Susanne Bier's gently comic romance will find plenty of rewards." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 22, 2013
	68%	Disconnect (2013)	" The thematic points are made clearly, with well-sustained tension and no shortage of dramatic impact. It's just that it's all a bit obvious ..." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 10, 2013
	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" A somber and striking drama that takes some wrong turns but features a charismatic performance from Ryan Gosling in the leanest and best of its three sections." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 25, 2013
	31%	Emperor (2013)	" When it stops preaching, the film is on surer footing, even if for a drama in which peace hangs in the balance, the stakes never seem very high." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 7, 2013
	69%	The Croods (2013)	" Further back on the evolutionary chain than the Flintstones, and also lagging in the comedy stakes, this sweet Stone Age clan nonetheless will captivate the youngsters." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 15, 2013
	91%	Caesar Must Die (2013)	" Moving away from the literary costume dramas that have been their principal terrain for many years, the Taviani Brothers explore a fascinating encounter between theater and reality." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 4, 2013
	100%	Blue Caprice ()	" The filmmakers have made a smart, sobering movie that speculates with compelling detachment on how the abhorrent urge to take innocent lives might evolve." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 1, 2013
	100%	Sound City (2013)	" An exhilarating history of the studio that spawned countless rock classics, not to mention a welcome reminder to aspiring musicians to step away from the laptop once in a while." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 24, 2013
	——	We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013)	" Alex Gibney's docu-portrait of WikiLeaks is both a juicy chronicle of recent history and a provocative reflection on the role of secrecy in an instant-access world." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 24, 2013
	——	Very Good Girls ()	" Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen are wasted in veteran screenwriter Naomi Foner's underwhelming directing debut." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 23, 2013
	83%	C.O.G. ()	" Don't expect a rash of David Sedaris screen adaptations to be sparked by this bland effort." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
	71%	The Look of Love ()	" Steve Coogan's performance is consistently amusing, but the poignant dimensions the director appears to be seeking don't quite come together." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
	75%	Prince Avalanche (2013)	" Perhaps Green's chief accomplishment in this odd little gem of a movie is that he coaxes that mutual compassion out of the characters without having to put it into words." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Chimera (2001)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	100%	Kill Your Darlings ()	" And the Beat goes on, this time in a syncopated study that sheds light in particular on the young Allen Ginsberg." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
	100%	The Kings of Summer (2013)	" While plot-wise it's a little slender, not to mention heavy on studied eccentricities, Jordan Vogt-Roberts' debut feature also has a generous share of rewards." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
	56%	Walk Away Renee (2012)	" Caouette certainly knows how to manipulate images and sound, painting on a vibrantly textured, semi-experimental canvas. But aside from visual stimulation set to some cool music, none of the fictional stuff adds much." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 29, 2012
	46%	The Comedy (2012)	" The anomie of entitlement pushed to poisonous extremes is the basis of this provocation, which is as frustrating as it is intriguing." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 5, 2012
	47%	A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012)	" A 3D multistyle animated tribute to late Monty Python member Graham Chapman that falls short as biography but honors the spirit of the beloved British comedy troupe." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 31, 2012
	76%	The Bay (2012)	" Barry Levinson gives folks another reason to stay out of the water in this queasy biological catastrophe thriller." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 31, 2012
	69%	Not Fade Away (2012)	" In his first feature, David Chase returns to the New Jersey suburbs to cast a bittersweet glance back at the rock-fueled restlessness of the Sixties." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 5, 2012
	32%	Won't Back Down (2012)	" The hot-button issue of public school reform gets unsubtle treatment in this pedestrian and insultingly tendentious drama." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 26, 2012
	11%	House at the End of the Street (2012)	" Feisty girl + troubled young man + house full of ugly secrets = hackneyed horror movie you've seen a hundred times before, even if Jennifer Lawrence keeps it watchable." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 21, 2012
	67%	The Iceman (2013)	" The redoubtable Michael Shannon leads a superb cast in Ariel Vromen's compelling portrait of New Jersey career criminal Richard Kuklinski." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 18, 2012
	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" It has hypnotic visual style and a dense, driving soundscape. But it's also too monotonous and thematically empty to be seriously provocative." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 18, 2012
	68%	Great Expectations (2013)	" Vivid characterizations from Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter are the highlights of Mike Newell's traditional retelling of the classic Dickens novel." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 12, 2012
	82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" There's way more wit than weight in Martin McDonagh's second feature, but still much to enjoy." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 12, 2012
	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence expand their range in David O. Russell's winning comedy romance about two people struggling to rebuild their lives." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 10, 2012
	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" Robert Redford makes a welcome return to double-duty as director and lead actor in this clear-eyed drama about a former Weather Underground radical forced to reconcile with the past." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 6, 2012
	60%	Francine (2012)	" In this spare, striking drama, Melissa Leo's unerringly contained performance provides shattering insight into a woman powerless to resist the destabilizing forces of her life." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 5, 2012
	90%	Keep the Lights On (2012)	" A stiff central performance diminishes its emotional impact, but the visually alluring film's sensuality and tenderness give it a lingering spell." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 30, 2012
	80%	Magic Mike (2012)	" Arguably the raunchiest, funniest and most enjoyably nonjudgmental American movie about selling sex since Boogie Nights, its obvious if considerably darker precursor." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 25, 2012
	56%	Fairhaven (2013)	" Newcomer Tom O'Brien shows promise in this mellow drama about three buddies from small-town coastal Massachusetts." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 21, 2012
	90%	Gayby (2012)	" Gayby doesn't break a lot of new ground in the rom-com or parenthood fields, but its agreeable balance of humor and sentiment makes it worth adopting." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 20, 2012
	60%	Stella Days (2012)	" While its catharsis is somewhat muted and its script uneven, this splendidly acted drama explores its themes with sensitivity, gentle humor and poignancy that will appeal in particular to older audiences." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 19, 2012
	41%	Rock of Ages (2012)	" [Shankman] succeeds in draining most of the fun from a vehicle that was all about the winking humor of its flagrant cheesiness." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 10, 2012
	33%	Deadfall (2012)	" Deadfall is slicker and more compelling than its overdetermined script has any right to expect." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 7, 2012
	92%	No (2013)	" A decisive transitional chapter in Chilean history yields an absorbing account of one country's unlikely route from oppression to democracy" — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 25, 2012
	91%	Gimme The Loot (2013)	" Does it sound patronizing to call a slice-of-life film about teenage Bronx graffiti artists adorable? It's not meant to." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 25, 2012
	——	Trois mondes (Three Worlds) ()	" This stiflingly restrained French dirge about morality, guilt and atonement is chilly and constipated, mistaking ponderousness for intensity." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 25, 2012
	——	Beyond the Walls ()	" Solid in construction and persuasively acted, the drama is strongest in the establishing sections of intoxicating passion." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 24, 2012
	94%	The Central Park Five (2012)	" The film incisively documents a travesty of justice that echoes the infamous Scottsboro Boys railroading of the 1930s." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 24, 2012
—	62%	Me and You (Io e te) ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted May 24, 2012
—	——	Bonnie and Clyde vs. Dracula ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted May 23, 2012
—	——	Les Invisibles ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted May 23, 2012
	——	After Lucia ()	" Credibility issues aside, the film has undeniable impact because the intensity and sobriety of Franco's focus make its ugliness inescapable." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 21, 2012

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