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Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Publications:: Journal News (Westchester, NY) , NPR.org , San Francisco Chronicle , The Wrap , Washington Post

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	80%	The Boxer (1997)	" Despite its strengths, romantic staying power and a surprise ending, The Boxer has begun to lose the fight as the movie ends." — Washington Post Posted May 14, 2013
	73%	Promised Land (1988)	" Clumsy, heartfelt and promising." — Washington Post Posted Oct 17, 2012
	87%	The Exorcist (1973)	" It's good stuff but, basically, The Exorcist is a museum piece, something to be enjoyed for its historical value, its datedness and its almost quaint shock value." — Washington Post Posted Oct 8, 2012
	73%	In & Out (1997)	" Actually, the funniest parts of the movie are excerpts from the film that Cameron is originally nominated for." — Washington Post Posted Apr 11, 2012
	100%	Toy Story 2 (1999)	" The toys are back with even more hilarious vengeance. The story's twice as inventive as its predecessor. And the vocal talents of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and others bring even fuller soul to the proceedings than before." — Washington Post Posted Feb 14, 2012
—	64%	Wild Things (1998)	— The Wrap Posted Oct 7, 2011
—	——	Deadly Currents (1994)	— Washington Post Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze (The Story of Boys and Girls) ()	— Washington Post Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist ()	— Washington Post Posted Apr 4, 2011
	67%	American Psycho (2000)	" It's hard to summon up enthusiasm for a performance so rooted in bloody banality. I mean, as Patrick, Bale's most emotionally pressing dilemma is: Chainsaw or butcher knife?" — Washington Post Posted Mar 28, 2011
	67%	The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)	" There's an excessive amount of excess -- a mind-numbing plurality of firearm battles, vehicular explosions and brutally frank sexual talk." — Washington Post Posted Feb 16, 2011
	15%	Boys (1996)	" The movie's not helped at all by Ryder, who seems uncomfortable playing femme fatale to these grimy-fingered boys, as if she doesn't believe anyone could feel this adulative about her." — Washington Post Posted Jan 14, 2011
	65%	The Last Supper (1996)	" As the body count gets higher, and the housemates begin to question their high-and-mighty purposes, the movie stumbles under its sophomoric moral weight." — Washington Post Posted Jun 10, 2010
	92%	9500 Liberty (2010)	" Most of us are good people when we're sitting around the dinner table. What happens to us as soon as we step up to the public podium?" — The Wrap Posted Jun 7, 2010
	84%	Hercules (1997)	" [An] insipid, lifeless, animated feature." — Washington Post Posted Nov 16, 2009
2/4	38%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" While it celebrates the creative and the imagined and introduces us to colorful characters, it's bland and dull." — Washington Post Posted Oct 23, 2009
	76%	Captain Abu Raed (2007)	" An endearing blend of myth and melodrama that forthrightly explores family abuse in its own society." — Washington Post Posted Aug 21, 2009
	78%	The End of the Line (2009)	" If the tone is occasionally off-putting, the message -- at least, the facts about the fish -- is harder to shrug off." — Washington Post Posted Aug 14, 2009
	94%	Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)	" All in all, this is a celebration of Australian exuberance, a national ethic of adventurousness and enormous charisma." — Washington Post Posted Aug 7, 2009
	97%	Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land (Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country) (2008)	" Thanks to the new guerrilla narrative, the world has a constant flow of images to file in its collective consciousness. And that camera-testable accountability slowly becomes a global civic right that fulfills the noblest purpose of journalism." — Washington Post Posted Jul 31, 2009
	3%	Speed 2 - Cruise Control (1997)	" [It] sinks faster than a rock." — Washington Post Posted Jul 21, 2009
	87%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" Finally, a romance that understands we mark our lives by our scrapes with love, and our defeats, rather than simply white-wedding-cake success." — Washington Post Posted Jul 17, 2009
	64%	The Merry Gentleman (2009)	" With just a few tweaks, The Merry Gentleman could have made a wickedly funny parody of the over-earnest, lyrically hard-edged indie movie. But it's too late for do-overs." — Washington Post Posted Jun 12, 2009
	79%	The Hangover (2009)	" Even though Apatow has no fingerprints over this movie, The Hangover follows in the same surprise-me tradition: It takes us to the dumb side but comes back with something unexpectedly affecting." — Washington Post Posted Jun 5, 2009
	27%	Fast & Furious (2009)	" The reunion is fun and frantic, like the original on double nitro." — Washington Post Posted Apr 3, 2009
	91%	Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2009)	" It's gloriously absent of the hyper-speed anxiety that passes for storytelling on our multiplex screens." — Washington Post Posted Mar 26, 2009
	89%	Coraline (2009)	" For all its visual delights, Coraline remains more an engaging spectacle than a connective drama." — Washington Post Posted Feb 5, 2009
—	38%	Swing Vote (2008)	— NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008
	56%	George of the Jungle (1997)	" Surprisingly pleasant." — Washington Post Posted Oct 18, 2008
	69%	Tin Cup (1996)	" Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap." — Washington Post Posted Aug 5, 2008
	70%	American Teen (2008)	" What makes Nanette Burstein's movie so powerful is its uncanny sense of familiarity. Watching them, we are transported into a humming, philosophical reverie about ourselves." — Washington Post Posted Jul 31, 2008
	14%	Hitman (2007)	" A thoroughly entertaining experience." — Washington Post Posted Jul 16, 2008
	62%	Diary of the Dead (2007)	" We want to high-five Romero for finding new ways to off his lifeless marauders." — Washington Post Posted Jul 16, 2008
	46%	Cassandra's Dream (2007)	" Although McGregor and Farrell produce some occasionally spirited moments, particularly in the earlier scenes, they are little more than walking and talking schemes, their choices based entirely on socioeconomic impulses." — Washington Post Posted Jul 16, 2008
	87%	The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)	" We're really celebrating Hollywood's freedom to create biographies of anyone, no matter how high or low on the social ladder, and still come up with the same banal characteristics, messages and conclusions." — Washington Post Posted Jun 30, 2008
	59%	Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs) (2008)	" Yes, it's weird. But it's wild card weird, with that thrill of never knowing what's coming next or when these Parisians are going to get musical on us." — Washington Post Posted Jun 5, 2008
	14%	Dudley Do-Right (1999)	" Surprisingly pleasant." — Washington Post Posted May 20, 2008
	73%	Son of Rambow (2007)	" We cringe and laugh at -- and are ultimately moved by -- their clumsiness and innocence. And it endears us to the Rambo films in ways we never could have anticipated." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008
	88%	Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks) (2007)	" The movie is more entertaining than it is logical; its narrative leaps are sometimes ahead of our ability to believe them. But as the compellingly enigmatic Pierre, Pinon keeps us rapt." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008
	46%	Mister Lonely (2007)	" A visually and conceptually mesmerizing and mystical movie." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008
	68%	Irina Palm (2008)	" Although director and co-writer Sam Garbarski takes great care in tracing this difficult dramatic path (he has to balance the twin tracks of other people's morality and Maggie's personal course), he can't avoid the predictability." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008
	14%	Made of Honor (2008)	" At its best, a romantic comedy celebrates one of humanity's greatest yearnings: to give and to find the love of a lifetime. At its worst (and this is where Made of Honor comes in), it can leave you with a bad taste, not just in your mouth but in your soul" — Washington Post Posted May 1, 2008
	14%	Deception (2008)	" Deception is another example of when genre-fication (the forcing of otherwise intriguing stories into the straitjackets of horror, thriller or other genres) reduces our entertainment to head-shaking banality." — Washington Post Posted Apr 24, 2008
	84%	The Singing Revolution (2007)	" It's a powerful story of a nation that, almost literally, sang its way to freedom." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 17, 2008
	47%	My Blueberry Nights (2007)	" A star-driven pseudo-indie affair that will please neither celebrity worshipers nor cineastes." — Washington Post Posted Apr 17, 2008
	64%	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	" You know you're in a fantasy movie when the central character has to traverse time in search of the 'Monkey King.' If only you were in a good movie." — Washington Post Posted Apr 17, 2008
	84%	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	" Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a refreshingly tender treatment of love gone wrong -- we mean, for a movie that's got enough lowdown sexual content to start its own Kinsey Report." — Washington Post Posted Apr 17, 2008
	36%	Street Kings (2008)	" We see the big picture way before the characters do, and that pushes us right out of the movie and back into our seats -- the last place we want to be." — Washington Post Posted Apr 10, 2008
	87%	Mio Fratello è Figlio Unico (My Brother Is an Only Child) (2007)	" Although the movie never quite dispels the sense of being dated (it could have been made anytime in the past 40 years), it's a memorable, often moving timepiece." — Washington Post Posted Apr 10, 2008

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