Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Adam Keleman

Adam Keleman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Bran Nue Dae (2009) 56% 1/4 EDIT “Trite, silly, and grating are all apt words to describe the cinematic buffoonery of Rachel Perkin's Bran Nue Dae, a flimsy excuse for a nostalgic musical that shoots for playful satire but ultimately proves staggeringly impotent.” – Slant Magazine Sep 13, 2010 Full Review Calvin Marshall (2009) 60% 1.5/4 EDIT “Director Gary Lundgren's Calvin Marshall eventually falls flat in its heavy-handed efforts to score an emotional homerun.” – Slant Magazine Aug 30, 2010 Full Review Middle Men (2009) 39% 2/4 EDIT “Pretty much proffers everything you can want in a film based on the upstart company that brought porn to a computer screen near you.” – Slant Magazine Aug 11, 2010 Full Review The Parking Lot Movie (2010) 75% 2/4 EDIT “What's missing from the film is a real feel-the quiet moments of daily conduct-for the parking lot itself and its inhabitants.” – Slant Magazine Aug 3, 2010 Full Review Ramona and Beezus (2010) 71% 1.5/4 EDIT “At over 100 minutes, Ramona and Beezus is a hefty cinematic effort to get through, especially considering how audience-surveyed and clichéd the film proves” – Slant Magazine Jul 28, 2010 Full Review Red Alert: The War Within (2010) 17% 2/4 EDIT “Red Alert overtly hammers away ideas about corrupt bureaucracy squashing the little man.” – Slant Magazine Jul 8, 2010 Full Review Raavanan (2010) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “Somewhat succeeding as a specimen of pulpy, viscerally lavishing moviemaking, but largely weighed down by overly sentimental subplots, mostly thin characters, and an aural onslaught of a score.” – Slant Magazine Jun 17, 2010 Full Review Racing Dreams (2009) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Curry has expertly stitched together a 90-minute triumph in crowd-pleasing, wholesome entertainment.” – Slant Magazine Jun 7, 2010 Full Review Rajneeti (2010) 22% 2.5/4 EDIT “The partly stiff-acting and tear-inducing reveals shroud the film's more earnest efforts at dissecting the bureaucratic, back-alley dealings.” – Slant Magazine Jun 3, 2010 Full Review Don McKay (2009) 38% 2.5/4 EDIT “Jake Goldberger has lassoed a great cast to ham it up in this comical homage to Billy Wilder's classic noirs Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard.” – Slant Magazine Mar 29, 2010 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon (2010) 99% 3.5/4 EDIT “Dragon's tolerant heart brings back new life to the otherwise stale DreamWorks animation department.” – Slant Magazine Mar 26, 2010 Full Review Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) 12% 1.5/4 EDIT “A somewhat amusing yet trite example of the modern-day screwball comedy.” – Slant Magazine Dec 17, 2009 Full Review Planet 51 (2009) 23% 2/4 EDIT “The film fails at creating characters with credible emotional textures, a task easily, and vividly, demonstrated by Pixar time and time again.” – Slant Magazine Nov 19, 2009 Full Review Dare (2009) 59% 1.5/4 EDIT “Dare is substandard fare by all accounts, plucking its characters from past (and better) teen-angst films.” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2009 Full Review Astro Boy (2009) 51% 2.5/4 EDIT “Astro Boy succeeds at creating a complex world filled with second-class robots and sometimes careless, greedy humans, providing food for thought and animated thrills for adults and kids alike.” – Slant Magazine Oct 22, 2009 Full Review The Boys Are Back (2009) 73% 2/4 EDIT “Despite buoyant performances from its cast and an excellent score by Sigur Rs, cloying sentimentality is in heavy supply throughout Scott Hick's adaptation of Simon Carr's memoir.” – Slant Magazine Sep 24, 2009 Full Review Love Happens (2009) 17% 1/4 EDIT “Eckhart operates on cruise control, but the performance can't be helped as the screenplay is insincere and the overall tone of the film is inconsistent.” – Slant Magazine Sep 18, 2009 Full Review Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Now a 3D animated film, adapted to the screen by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Cloudy looks to work similar magic on a new generation.” – Slant Magazine Sep 16, 2009 Full Review Marina of the Zabbaleen (2008) 3/4 EDIT “The principal strength of Wassef's debut is its delicate, revealing look at Marina's life.” – Slant Magazine Sep 12, 2009 Full Review The Other Man (2008) 16% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film is filled with good-on-paper moments that build up and slowly tighten like a knot but usually end in a whimper.” – Slant Magazine Sep 10, 2009 Full Review Died Young Stayed Pretty (2008) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “From an outsider's perspective, Died Young is thorough, diving into minor, specific details like the silkscreen process used by many of the artists.” – Slant Magazine Aug 21, 2009 Full Review Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Spread out over 33 years and framed almost entirely in three crucial, tension-filled scenes, Oliver Hirschbiegel's Five Minutes of Heaven dissects the intersection of two men's lives in the aftermath of wartime and sectarian conflict.” – Slant Magazine Aug 21, 2009 Full Review The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard. (2009) 26% 1.5/4 EDIT “A mean-spirited nightmare of throwaway gags.” – Slant Magazine Aug 13, 2009 Full Review Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story (2009) 2.5/4 EDIT “The film is as insubstantial and irrelevant as the group itself, providing no probing insight into its ultimate purpose and function, or how they managed to survive all these years.” – Slant Magazine Aug 4, 2009 Full Review In the Loop (2009) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “Armando Iannucci's debut feature In The Loop carries on the staggering comedic traditions of its source material, his critically embraced BBC series The Thick of It, hardly ever missing a step.” – Slant Magazine Jul 13, 2009 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More