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Michael Rechtshaffen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:: Hollywood Reporter
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 708

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	Getting Up: The TEMPT ONE Story ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted May 9, 2013
	36%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" That crack cast still keeps things involving, especially Rapace's emotionally and physically disfigured Beatrice." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 7, 2013
	86%	Welcome To Pine Hill (2013)	" A tender cinema verite take on one man's quest for spiritual redemption." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 1, 2013
3.5/5	27%	Escape From Planet Earth 3D (2013)	" What Escape from Planet Earth may lack in novelty, it compensates for with a zippy pace and lively voice characterizations, led by Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sofia Vergara and William Shatner." — Jam! Movies Posted Feb 15, 2013
	18%	Parental Guidance (2012)	" The end result should appeal to audiences, including bonding grandparents and grandkids, looking for a little undemanding holiday cheer." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 24, 2012
	33%	Chasing Mavericks (2012)	" Chasing Mavericks manages to sufficiently overcome the obstacles with admittedly affecting results." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 25, 2012
	43%	Hotel Transylvania (2012)	" A scarily unfunny animated monster movie that goes awry right off the bat." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 7, 2012
	65%	The Campaign (2012)	" Ferrell and Galifianakis make for entertaining rivals in a flimsy political satire that too often mistakes bad taste for comic acuity." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 6, 2012
	87%	ParaNorman (2012)	" It has its entertaining moments, but this paranormal stop-motion animated comedy-chiller cries out for more activity." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 3, 2012
	50%	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)	" The third time might not be the charm, but this harmless family comedy proves more pleasant than its episodic 2011 installment." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 2, 2012
	50%	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)	" The third installment in the "Wimpy Kid" franchise turns out to be not so wimpy after all." — Associated Press Posted Aug 2, 2012
	64%	Hit So Hard (2012)	" This keenly-observed, if generically-assembled, Grunge-era doc tells the Hole story through the eyes of its successfully rehabbed drummer." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 13, 2012
	53%	Think Like a Man (2012)	" An attractive, game cast helps liven up this handsome but overlong urban rom-com." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 12, 2012
	50%	Good for Nothing (2012)	" Beauty and the Beast meets Sergio Leone in this amusing Western import." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 16, 2012
—	74%	Big Miracle (2012)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 9, 2012
	22%	The Samaritan (2012)	" A rock solid Samuel L. Jackson adeptly anchors the twists and turns of this noir crime thriller." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 9, 2012
	81%	A Cat in Paris (2012)	" This unexpected Best Animated Feature Oscar nominee is sleek, stylish animated escapade that makes vivid, affecting use of its brief running time." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 9, 2012
	85%	21 Jump Street (2012)	" Co-directors Lord and Miller keep the comic pace humming along agreeably with the same sort of animated energy they provided for those raining meatballs." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 5, 2012
	54%	Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012)	" Armed with a splendid voice cast and a gorgeously-rendered 3D-CG landscape, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax entertains while delivering its pro-environmental, anti-greed message wrapped in a bright package of primary colors that truly pop." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 29, 2012
	25%	Act of Valor (2012)	" The merging of dramatic re-creations and on-camera "performances" proves less seamlessly executed than those masterfully coordinated land, sea and air missions." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 23, 2012
	22%	Darling Companion (2012)	" Lawrence Kasdan's pleasant dramedy boasts a prized ensemble but lacks bite." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
	32%	Man on a Ledge (2012)	" To his credit, director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil) gets right to the business at hand where the set-up is concerned, but it's in the execution that this would-be thriller falls flat." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 23, 2012
	6%	The Devil Inside (2012)	" Proves as scary and unsettling as a slab of devil's food cake - only considerably less satisfying." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 6, 2012
	12%	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)	" Well, at least it isn't in 3D." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 14, 2011
	7%	New Year's Eve (2011)	" The result proves to be as appealing and effervescent as a flute of flat champagne." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 6, 2011
	——	Nothing Special (2011)	" Artificiality prevents this trite mother-daughter dramedy from hitting home." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 21, 2011
	91%	Arthur Christmas (2011)	" Leave it to the folks who brought us Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away to bring a delightful blast of fresh air to the conventional Christmas genre." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 10, 2011
	13%	The Greening Of Whitney Brown (2011)	" Mild tween fare that would have been more at home on the small screen." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 9, 2011
—	——	Light of Mine ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 8, 2011
	27%	Dirty Girl (2011)	" A sweet 'n' sassy period comedy with a Juno sensibility and the soul of a Little Miss Sunshine." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 5, 2011
	17%	I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)	" Fortunately McGrath ultimately moves beyond the shtick and keeps things moving at an agreeable pace, relying on his talented ensemble to capably close the deal." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 11, 2011
	12%	Tanner Hall (2011)	" There are some dedicated performances, but this unfocused drama adds nothing new to the girls' boarding school film curriculum." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 8, 2011
	23%	The Smurfs (2011)	" For all the digitally enhanced Smurfness, the results are remarkably mirthless." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 28, 2011
	71%	Friends With Benefits (2011)	" Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis make for engaging leads in this unexpectedly fresh R-rated comedy." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 18, 2011
	77%	La belle endormie (The Sleeping Beauty) (2011)	" After a beguiling once-upon-a-time beginning... the charm begins wearing off as the film gets bogged down in more contemporary, uninteresting notions of identity and sexual empowerment, leading to a shoulder-shrugging ending." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 6, 2011
	34%	The Hangover Part II (2011)	" What happens in Bangkok isn't as much fun as when it happened in Vegas, but it's still worth the trip." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 23, 2011
	77%	In A Better World (2011)	" A stirring treatise on the nature of violence from the Danish director of After the Wedding." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 28, 2011
	54%	Brotherhood (2011)	" Viewers get paddled into submission in this strident frat-house thriller." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 17, 2011
	78%	Mooz-lum (2011)	" Sensitive performances smooth out the dramatic rough spots of this well-intentioned, racially-charged drama." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 14, 2011
	80%	Barney's Version (2011)	" Highly entertaining and arguably the most satisfying Richler screen adaptation to date." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 11, 2011
	56%	Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)	" Despite the novel approach to Shakespeare's oft-told tale of doomed love, this 3D animated garden gnome variation never fully comes to life." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 9, 2011
	64%	Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)	" An undeniably engaging musical portrait that delivers major bangs for the buck." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 9, 2011
	79%	Small Town Murder Songs (2011)	" An effective ensemble backed by a bracingly haunting soundtrack strike a compelling chord in this rural Canadian crime drama." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 8, 2011
—	——	Poison: Nothing But a Good Time! Unauthorized (2003)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 7, 2011
	30%	Sanctum (2011)	" Soggy theatrics render this gorgeously-shot underwater 3D excursion more shrill than thrilling." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 2, 2011
—	——	All That I Love (Wszystko, co kocham) (2010)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 15, 2011
—	——	Dos Hermanos ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 14, 2011
	44%	The Green Hornet (2011)	" Despite some entertaining moments, this long-in-gestation crime-fighter feature never reaches top speed." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 12, 2011
	90%	Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)	" A darkly mischievous, bracingly original and thoroughly captivating Yuletide import." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 13, 2010

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