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Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Publications:: Film Journal International , Hollywood Reporter , Newsday , TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	60%	Released (2013)	" While the stars' stories may raise more questions than answers, they're engaging and keep you interested. That's most of the battle with any documentary. " — Film Journal International Posted May 10, 2013
1/4	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" This movie plays like an episode of "Gilligan's Island" done as straight as an episode of "Lost."" — Newsday Posted Apr 25, 2013
	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" Comedy about a wedding where the groom's divorced parents must pretend to still be married. The production should have been annulled." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 25, 2013
	64%	Dog Pound ()	" Overheated melodrama of inmates at a juvenile detention facility hits all the prison-movie clichés." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 1, 2013
	40%	The Other Side of the Ice (2013)	" The film often uses the confessional, speak-to-the-camera format of reality shows, but in this far less artificial context, and minus prompting producers, it works on a gut level." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 8, 2013
	65%	Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (2013)	" Real-life Cinderella story with quiet emotion and a down-to-earth working band make this rock documentary far more than an episode of "Behind the Music."" — Film Journal International Posted Mar 8, 2013
	33%	The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek (2013)	" Unfunny mockumentary parodying Ken Burns' filmmaking." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 1, 2013
	——	The Lost Medallion: The AdventStoneures of Billy (2013)	" Should have stayed lost." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 1, 2013
	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" Densely, atmospherically shot, with two appealing leads...keep an eye on the two rising stars. " — Film Journal International Posted Feb 12, 2013
	83%	Uprising (2013)	" Powerful, ground-level documentary on the 2011 Egyptian revolution." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 10, 2013
2/4	38%	The Guilt Trip (2012)	" Despite some funny offhand moments, "The Guilt Trip" doesn't jell. I almost feel guilty for saying that." — Newsday Posted Dec 18, 2012
	——	Char-ac-ter (2012)	" Well-known actors talk about the nature of acting, interviewed by one of their own." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 29, 2012
	74%	Rise of the Guardians (2012)	" Gorgeously animated children's film about the mythical guardians of childhood just misses being magical." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 20, 2012
	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" The best Bond film since the '60s. Period." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 8, 2012
3.5/4	86%	Wreck-it Ralph (2012)	" "Wreck-It Ralph" blends poignancy and a piston-powered plot that revels in both visual inventiveness and a vaudevillian sense of timing." — Newsday Posted Nov 1, 2012
	70%	Sexy Baby (2012)	" Disorganized, poorly conceptualized documentary says porn and sexual imagery have become mainstream, but then forgets to say, "Oh, and here's what it might mean." Or maybe it just says it vaguely and badly." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 22, 2012
2/4	39%	Here Comes the Boom (2012)	" Why doesn't most of this movie take place in a coma ward?" — Newsday Posted Oct 12, 2012
2/4	78%	Dredd (2012)	" Proves a surprisingly unimaginative cops vs. drug lord story, complete with the weathered veteran forced to take a rookie under his wing." — Newsday Posted Sep 21, 2012
	77%	Las Acacias (2012)	" The filmmakers have managed the near-miraculous feat of creating two characters who aren't larger-than-life or quirky or anything other than what you and I might be in their place. " — Film Journal International Posted Sep 14, 2012
	73%	Toys In The Attic (Na Pude) (2012)	" Czech it out: From the Eastern European region known for Oscar-winning animation comes a toy story with Grimm undertones." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 7, 2012
1.5/4	22%	The Words (2012)	" Romanticized claptrap." — Newsday Posted Sep 7, 2012
	0%	General Education (2012)	" A technically impressive tapioca of a movie, this bland indie seriocomedy may serve as an early springboard for a couple of talented young actors, but little else." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 30, 2012
2.5/4	4%	The Apparition (2012)	" For casual viewers desiring a few scares, some suspense and a sustained sense of dread and malevolence, you could do worse." — Newsday Posted Aug 26, 2012
2.5/4	76%	Premium Rush (2012)	" "Premium Rush" is both the title of this movie and its clever if less than subtle promise to summer audiences -- which it mostly delivers ..." — Newsday Posted Aug 24, 2012
2.5/4	42%	Step Up 4: Miami Heat (2012)	" While dance purists won't be impressed by the energetic and athletic choreography -- the dancers have clearly learned routines but not necessarily technique -- date-movie audiences will likely want to go out dancing afterward themselves, and that's fun." — Newsday Posted Jul 26, 2012
	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" An action-packed ride with top-notch acting, great effects and stunt work, and a plot with more holes than a spider web." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 5, 2012
	68%	Extraterrestrial (2012)	" Diverting trifle of romantic misunderstandings in Madrid, under the shadow of an apparently benign spaceship occupation, never gathers steam nor finds a consistent tone." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 14, 2012
	47%	Cellmates (2012)	" Plodding, unfunny prison comedy in which a white racist shares a cell with a naive young Mexican. Still, it's nice to see Tom Sizemore working." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 5, 2012
	65%	American Animal (2012)	" Self-indulgent indie about a trust-fund kid who thinks he's found the answer to the human experience. Whit Stillman it's not." — Film Journal International Posted May 18, 2012
	58%	The Dictator (2012)	" Many of the gags and lines of dialogue -- much of it improvised -- may sound funny on paper but fall flat onscreen" — Film Journal International Posted May 14, 2012
	93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" Expectations delivered, promises fulfilled: The Avengers is everything you could want in a superhero movie, with larger-than-life feats believably and meaningfully executed, and beating human hearts filled with emotion, humor and pain." — Film Journal International Posted May 3, 2012
	77%	Here (2012)	" Languid road movie, punctuated by ponderous abstract interludes, about a young American mapmaker in Armenia who meets a prodigal woman photographer. A promising filmmaker needs to his lose art-school baby fat." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 13, 2012
	56%	How to Grow a Band (2012)	" Fans of the progressive-bluegrass prodigy Chris Thile will enjoy this look at his stripped-down struggles to introduce audiences to his new avant-garde fusion of bluegrass and classical. " — Film Journal International Posted Apr 12, 2012
	7%	Losing Control (2012)	" Clumsy, awkward, unfunny indie rom-com about a grad-student scientist trying to quantify whether or not she's really in love." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 22, 2012
	55%	All In: The Poker Movie (2012)	" Engrossing documentary on the multi-billion-dollar poker industry gets a little too rhapsodic about the game as a metaphor for life and slips into advocacy for online poker, all while offering a revealing, wide-ranging look at a subculture." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 22, 2012
	48%	4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012)	" The ever-original Abel Ferrara offers a stunningly believable final day among New Yorkers waiting, like the rest of the world, for the final hour of planet Earth." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 22, 2012
	12%	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)	" The animated chipmunk singing group creates generic funny-animal antics on a tropical island. After two critically lambasted but huge hits, why make any effort at imagination or originality?" — Film Journal International Posted Dec 16, 2011
	45%	Happy Feet Two (2011)	" Technically accomplished and otherwise uninspired sequel to the 2006 CGI hit about a dancing penguin in Antarctica." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 1, 2011
	0%	Laredoans Speak: Voices of a South Texas Border City (2011)	" Stilted, didactic documentary about immigration reform, with amateurish production values and no journalistic grounding, does not even reach the level of a classroom film." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 16, 2011
	8%	The Reunion (2011)	" Pro wrestler John Cena stars in a WWE film about estranged half-brothers compelled to work together to rescue a kidnap victim in this old-TV-style family adventure-drama." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 28, 2011
	60%	Glitch in the Grid (2011)	" Live-action and animated art film, à la the Quay Brothers, of a spiritually ungrounded young man and his friends." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 24, 2011
	60%	Real Steel (2011)	" A science-fiction family film in which nine-foot-tall boxing robots are greased not with oil but with schmaltz." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 6, 2011
	60%	The Weird World of Blowfly (2011)	" Footnote in musical history gets a padded documentary that says more about the nature of fandom than about songwriter and raunchy party-record singer Clarence "Blowfly" Reid." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 22, 2011
	44%	Beware the Gonzo (2011)	" A crusading young reporter's high-school underground newspaper becomes a rallying point for the bullied and the outcast in this low-budget drama filmed in Brooklyn and Queens." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 9, 2011
	25%	Inside Out (2011)	" Barely workmanlike domestic drama by a lawyer-turned-screenwriter and a TV producer-director, each making their first feature-a vehicle for pro wrestler Triple H as an ex-con." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 9, 2011
F	11%	Captain America (1990)	" The movie isn't merely wrong for kids -- it's just all wrong." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 21, 2011
	79%	Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)	" Stirring World War II story of old-fashioned rightness and integrity, saved from corniness by star Chris Evans' sincere performance and director Joe Johnston's imaginative action sequences." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 21, 2011
	26%	Green Lantern (2011)	" Generic superhero movie, assembled with off-the-shelf narrative components and no authentic soul or emotion. Green Lantern is colorless. " — Film Journal International Posted Jun 16, 2011
	82%	Super 8 (2011)	" ...the result is clunky and predictable, not streamlined and exciting like the Spielberg films of old." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 9, 2011

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