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Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
AV Club , The Dissolve
Total Reviews:
628

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3.5/5 —— Shack Out on 101 (1955) " For such a short movie packed with so much incident, Shack Out On 101 devotes an awful lot of its time to folks simply hanging out and shooting the shit, and it's richer for it. " — The Dissolve
Posted Oct 7, 2013
87% 28 Days Later (2003) " Later does a lot of things right, which makes its third-act missteps even more frustrating." — AV Club
Posted Oct 6, 2013
3/5 46% Parkland (2013) " Parkland finds a new angle on an exhaustively chronicled and debated subject." — The Dissolve
Posted Oct 3, 2013
.5/5 —— Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) " The film takes a vaudevillian approach to entertainment: Throw as many gaudy attractions onto the screen as possible, and don't worry too much about whether it all makes sense." — The Dissolve
Posted Oct 2, 2013
2/5 76% Man of Tai Chi (2013) " Man Of Tai Chi nevertheless feels like Reeves made exactly the movie he set out to make, assuming he didn't set out to create a movie that was 'good.'" — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 30, 2013
2/5 16% Baggage Claim (2013) " A movie strangled by convoluted plotting and an attitude toward women [and] marriage...far less progressive than the filmmakers seem to think. " — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2.5/5 5% Battle of the Year (2013) " It isn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but B-movie lovers who like their dance movies flashy, fun, and spectacularly dumb shouldn't mind." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2.5/5 95% Enough Said (2013) " Enough Said is afflicted with a terminal case of what Roger Ebert dubbed "the Idiot Plot," in which a single reasonable sentence uttered in a rational tone could easily, diplomatically resolve the film's core conflict." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/5 33% The Family (2013) " The Family comes close to being a full-on endorsement of vigilante justice and enforcing social niceties through the business end of tennis rackets and baseball bats." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2/5 —— The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) " The Fiend Who Walked the West is as bad as its title, advertising, and reputation, and that's setting the bar awfully low." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 11, 2013
2.5/5 75% Populaire (2013) " Populaire is a featherweight trifle held aloft by elegant production design, a breezy tone, and the enduring if superficial pleasures of watching beautiful people in beautiful costumes." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 5, 2013
0.5/5 34% Salinger (2013) " It is everything the Salinger of his books was not: predictable, cliched, banal, and worst of all, phony." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 5, 2013
3.5/5 68% Bad Milo! (2013) " Bad Milo! gets nasty laughs out of putting its overmatched hero through a gauntlet of comic humiliations, but it works just as well as a dark allegory about the way we handle our demons." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 4, 2013
3.5/5 100% Rewind This! (2013) " The film is ultimately less interested in giving an objective overview of VHS' history than in paying loving, irreverent tribute to some of the strange subcultures that sprung up in the home-video world." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 4, 2013
3/5 —— Staircase (1969) " Harrison and Burton give the central relationship a lived-in quality and a gentleness that can be devastating in the film's rare but welcome quiet moments." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 4, 2013
3.5 91% Our Nixon (2013) " Our Nixon provides an intriguing reverse-angle view of Nixon's time in office by presenting him both as a larger-than-life figure of Shakespearean contradictions, and as a supremely weird boss." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 29, 2013
1.5/5 22% Rapture-Palooza (2013) " Rapture-Palooza is borderline-heartbreaking in its wasted potential." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 21, 2013
3.5/5 80% TV Junkie (2013) " TV Junkie's strength lies in its brutal, unfiltered rawness and intensity. As an assemblage of uncomfortably intimate footage, it's utterly compelling and memorable." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 19, 2013
2/5 4% Paranoia (2013) " The [paranoid techno-thriller] genre has yet to evolve past the age of the football-sized cell phone, and as long as filmmakers keep churning out techno-nonsense like this, it probably never will. " — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/5 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " In its bid to sum up the black experience in America, Lee Daniels' The Butler loses sight of the man at the film's core." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/5 26% Jobs (2013) " Jobs betrays its subject's sensibility: It's bloated, overwrought, and nakedly sentimental, a sappy and cliched celebration instead of a searching and incisive exploration. " — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 15, 2013
1.5/5 0% Killing Me Softly (2003) " Killing Me Softly lingers under the delusion that it's Hitchcock remade for a more permissive era, rather than Cinemax fare with pretensions to art." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 12, 2013
3.5/5 71% The Hot Spot (1990) " It's a nifty, nasty, sexy, and sometimes very funny little paperback of a movie that delivers its genre thrills with a light touch and an agreeable sense of its own lurid ridiculousness." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 12, 2013
3.5/5 54% Lovelace (2013) " Lovelace finds a fresh take on familiar material, but the film is also distinguished by its focus and intensity." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/5 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " The film stays true to Swanberg's roots, even if it means making a wispy little slip of a movie that indulgent audiences will not have to get blackout drunk to forget. " — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 26, 2013
3.5/5 34% Hell Baby (2013) " It's genuinely funny, a condition all too rare in horror-comedies, comedies, and movies written by Lennon and Garant." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2.5/5 14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " R.I.P.D. begins from a place of endless possibilities and imagination, then follows the breadcrumbs of formula to a wholly generic end." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 19, 2013
3.5/5 62% Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp (2013) " After an unpromising beginning, Iceberg Slim develops into a thorny, engaging exploration of the strange twilight and late-in-life fame of a bona fide American outlaw." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3/5 37% Dealing With Idiots (2013) " Dealin' With Idiots is at its strongest when it forgets about plot ... altogether (which is most of the time) and gives itself over to the laid-back pleasure of improvisation among veteran professionals finding and exploring a good groove together." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 16, 2013
2.5/5 50% White House Down (2013) " Emmerich's love letter to cliches, melodrama, and God's own United States trades suspense for patriotism." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3/5 84% This Is the End (2013) " The Is The End feels throughout like a feature-length inside joke, but Rogen and company are generous enough to let the audience in on the gag." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
0/5 35% The Internship (2013) " There are bad movies, and then there are movies whose success would bode ill for cinema's future. The Internship is the latter." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
1.5/5 49% Redemption (2013) " The main achievement of this joyless mood piece is gutting a Jason Statham potboiler of anything resembling fun." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
1/5 12% Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) " By the time it winds to a conclusion, the film seems to have tired itself out, like a toddler who screeches nonsensically for hours, then falls asleep in a fetal ball in the corner." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
2/5 69% V/H/S/2 (2013) " Where V/H/S feels deliberately homemade, V/H/S/2 boasts a slickness that's distracting and counterproductive. " — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
4/5 96% A Band Called Death (2013) " It's a soul-stirring tribute to a man whose vision was too bold and revolutionary for his lifetime, or the convention-bound ways of the music industry, but was ultimately too powerful to be denied." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
0.5/5 8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " Though Grown Ups seemingly left nowhere to go but up, Grown Ups 2 speeds downhill in a hurry." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
11% Chill Factor (1999) " As an unintentional send-up of the predictability and wretchedness of modern action-comedies, Chill Factor is hilarious. Sadly, however, no one involved seems to realize the silliness and transgressive stupidity of its sub-direct-to-video-thriller script." — AV Club
Posted Jun 11, 2013
8% The New Guy (2002) " A comedy just funny enough to make viewers wish it were far funnier." — AV Club
Posted Jun 11, 2013
2% The In Crowd (2000) " Late-night Cinemax fare inexplicably granted a theatrical release." — AV Club
Posted Jun 10, 2013
3% Bless the Child (2000) " A supernatural thriller that does for its genre what Battlefield Earth did for science fiction." — AV Club
Posted Jun 3, 2013
3% Deuces Wild (2002) " A repellent orgy of gratuitous violence and hackneyed melodrama, Deuces Wild marks a grim nadir for everyone involved." — AV Club
Posted Jun 3, 2013
3% fear dot com (FeardotCom) (2002) " FearDotCom was made with just enough craft to keep it from being the instantly dated camp howler its title promises, but it's quickly apparent that there's no thought or originality under its grim, familiar surface." — AV Club
Posted May 29, 2013
2% Battlefield Earth (2000) " Not so much watched as lived through, Battlefield Earth is bad enough to make audiences ashamed to be part of the same species as the people who made it." — AV Club
Posted May 28, 2013
5% The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) " A waste of talent and money, Pluto Nash seems convinced that simply sticking Eddie Murphy in outer space with expensive special effects will produce laughs." — AV Club
Posted May 23, 2013
B 47% Phil Spector (2013) " Mamet treats Spector with morbid fascination more than empathy, like a majestic but strange butterfly he can put behind glass and display but never truly understand. " — AV Club
Posted May 22, 2013
31% Hugo Pool (1997) " A sweet, winning diversion that meanders enjoyably on the strength of its laid-back charm." — AV Club
Posted May 1, 2013
D- 7% The Big Wedding (2013) " It's almost impressive how the moronic new ensemble comedy The Big Wedding manages to cram three hours' worth of nonsensical subplots, extraneous characters, and implausible plot points into 90 minutes of streamlined idiocy." — AV Club
Posted Apr 25, 2013
B+ 93% Sun Don't Shine (2013) " Working wonders on a tight budget, Seimetz uses handheld cameras and tight compositions to create an air of claustrophobic intensity interspersed with moments of ragged beauty." — AV Club
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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