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David Wiegand

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Publications:: Hearst Newspapers , San Francisco Chronicle

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/4	56%	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	" Those waiting for the arrival of the next Juno may want to skip Charlie Bartlett, a relentlessly earnest teen film about a 17-year-old misfit who's been tossed out of one prep school after another for bad behavior." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 22, 2008
3.5/4	80%	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	" The film is graced with a mostly superb cast, superior special effects, a sparkling musical score by James Horner and a fantasy-filled plot with a bit of moralizing, but, fortunately, only a bit." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 14, 2008
2/4	86%	The Witnesses (Les Temoins) (2007)	" Some may think the metaphoric possibilities of an incurable illness that can be transmitted through sexual contact have been all but exhausted. Director André Téchiné almost proves otherwise in The Witnesses, a kind of film opera without music." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 1, 2008
3/4	91%	Alice's House (A Casa de Alice) (2008)	" Teixeira elicits extraordinary performances from his entire cast." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 25, 2008
2/4	66%	How She Move (2008)	" How She Move isn't a great film or even a terribly well-made film, but it has its moments and, of course, it has the ending it's promised all along." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 25, 2008
2/4	53%	Steep (2007)	" In the end, you will believe the film's talking heads, but, more than likely, what they say may still make little logical sense to you." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 18, 2008
1/4	23%	P.S. I Love You (2007)	" This is a movie that will leave you stunned and stupefied from beginning to end, if you don't head for the exits first." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 21, 2007
1/4	21%	Outlaw (2007)	" Give me a bit of the old ultraviolence any day. Just make me care about it." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 14, 2007
4/4	94%	Juno (2007)	" Juno isn't a film made in the bell jar of unlikely reality that is, far too often, Hollywood: It's a film whose attention to real-life detail is so fine, audiences will be hopelessly and happily lost in its story from the first frame." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 14, 2007
2/4	16%	The Perfect Holiday (2007)	" Despite the flabby direction and uninspired plot, The Perfect Holiday almost works because Chestnut and Union are an attractive couple and you want them to get together." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 12, 2007
2/4	47%	Man in the Chair (2007)	" For its first 45 minutes or so, and intermittently thereafter, Michael Schroeder's Man in the Chair feels, annoyingly, like a film school project." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 7, 2007
2/4	31%	Undoing (2006)	" The film is too short because the characters just aren't sufficiently developed, but even at a scant 90 minutes, it feels way too long." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 30, 2007
3/4	31%	Midnight Eagle (Middonaito Îguru) (2007)	" Often gripping and ultimately poignant" — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 24, 2007
3/4	98%	The Life of Reilly (2007)	" Written by Reilly and Paul Linke, the film is both revealing and evasive. You want to know more about his personal life than you ever find out." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 16, 2007
3.5/4	79%	The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (2006)	" The truths of [the subject's] life, no matter how unbelievable they may seem at times, make him almost heroic and the film almost perfect." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 26, 2007
3/4	35%	Finishing the Game (2007)	" A very funny, equal-opportunity broadside that targets Asian stereotyping, and not just by non-Asians." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 19, 2007
3/4	98%	For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)	" For the Bible Tells Me So doesn't follow the formula. That's just one of the reasons it works well as a film and a lesson about, as one open-minded preacher puts it, what the Bible "reads" about what it supposedly "says" about homosexuality." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 12, 2007
3/4	81%	Vanaja (2006)	" Bhukya delivers an entrancing and natural performance, deftly balancing both the wide-eyed childishness of a young girl with the dawning awareness of life's darker possibilities." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 5, 2007
1/4	75%	The Last Winter (2007)	" The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 28, 2007
3.5/4	69%	Ira and Abby (2006)	" Ira & Abby is a comedy of errors that makes very few along the way." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 28, 2007
3/4	41%	December Boys (2007)	" The kind of film people call 'uplifting,' and while it is that much of the way, there are times when it's so oversaturated with sweetness and light, it's likely to uplift more cynical viewers from their seats in the movie theater. No matter." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 21, 2007
2/4	38%	Milarepa (2007)	" The movie's spectacular scenery and compelling message counterbalance the somewhat plodding pace and wooden performances by a cast of nonactors." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 21, 2007
3/4	81%	Delirious (2007)	" With Delirious, writer-director Tom DiCillo has crafted a wonderfully giddy meditation on the nature of fame, the people who sell it and those doing the buying, and their mutually parasitic dependence on each other." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 14, 2007
2/4	79%	Chalk (2007)	" Chalk is a gentle mockumentary about high school teachers -- so gentle, you wonder why anyone bothered. So gentle, it verges on 'what's the point?'" — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 7, 2007
3/4	51%	The Bubble (Ha Buah) (2007)	" God is in the details for director Eytan Fox, and it doesn't matter whether that God happens to be worshiped by Israelis or Palestinians." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 7, 2007
2.5/4	45%	Cut Sleeve Boys (2007)	" The performances are fairly static, but Lim and Leow are charming enough to hold our attention." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 31, 2007
2/4	54%	Closing Escrow (2007)	" The film would have worked better if it had stuck more closely to real estate as both the source and target of the satire." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 24, 2007
2/4	——	These Foolish Things (2007)	" For much of the way, These Foolish Things not only drips with catty dialogue, it fairly overflows, so much so that you half wonder if it's meant to be a satire. Alas, no." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 17, 2007
4/4	93%	This Is England (2007)	" Don't expect a history lesson: Shaun's story is more than enough to grab and hold your attention." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 10, 2007
2.5/4	45%	One to Another (2006)	" The film doesn't mean anything, but it's beautifully photographed and the cast is blindingly gorgeous and frequently naked." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 3, 2007
3/4	90%	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	" No one will be bored with the feature film, but everyone who knows the show well will have a nagging feeling that something is missing." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 26, 2007
2/4	71%	Boy Culture (2007)	" As a character, X is rather reticent and buttoned-up. If he'd stayed that way as a narrator, a rather nice film would have been even better." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 23, 2007
2/4	89%	El Aura (The Aura) (2006)	" In the end, the film's bigger challenge isn't its length, or its deliberate pace: It's that it's overly freighted with symbolism and meaning." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 5, 2007
4/4	97%	When the Levees Broke (2006)	" The film asks many questions, implies answers for the easier ones, but ultimately concludes that some are simply beyond answering. Those are the questions posed in stories of incalculable human heartbreak." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 22, 2006
1/4	52%	Garçon Stupide (2005)	" Loïc (Pierre Chatagny) is not only stupid, he's dull and uninteresting, as well as uninterested in the world around him." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 21, 2005
4/4	——	Our Town (2003)	" Reminds us of what an extraordinary work Our Town is and will always be, as long as it's handled by real pros." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 8, 2003
—	83%	Soldier's Girl (2003)	— San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 8, 2003
—	——	My House in Umbria (2002)	— San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 8, 2003
—	——	Jasper, Texas (2003)	— San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 8, 2003

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