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Howard Rosenberg

Howard Rosenberg's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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A Christmas Carol (1984) 98% EDIT “This is a fine production.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story (1994) EDIT “Instead, “Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story” turns out to be just another dull movie about dull people.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 16, 2025 Full Review The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) 90% EDIT “The history of slavery was vividly relived through the memories of a fictional 110-year-old woman beautifully played by Cicely Tyson in a story adapted for TV by Tracy Keenan Wynn and directed by John Korty.” – Los Angeles Times Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Tongues Untied - The Black Gay Male Experience (1989) 100% EDIT “[Riggs] is anguish, passion, rage and defiance, using the camera to undermine prejudice and ignorance while boldly and eloquently celebrating diversity.” – Los Angeles Times May 20, 2020 Full Review 61* (2001) 86% EDIT “Featured here are Barry Pepper as Maris and Thomas Jane as Mantle, actors as persuasive on the field as off.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 25, 2020 Full Review Stephen King's It (1990) 68% EDIT “There is something very poignant and warming about these kids, branded as losers, closely bonding and banding together in "It" to battle not only the town bullies, but also the demonic Pennywise.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 16, 2020 Full Review Jane Austen's Emma (1996) 89% EDIT “Although [Kate] Beckinsale hasn't much romantic chemistry with [Mark] Strong at a point late in the story when she should have, she is irresistible.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 2019 Full Review The Ernest Green Story (1993) EDIT “Director Eric Laneuville can stage frothing mob scenes with the best, contrasting this shrill abnormality with the sane home environments of [Ernest] Green and his fellow integrators, leaving no doubt as to who are the animals.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 26, 2019 Full Review Ken Burns: The Civil War (2015) 100% EDIT “It's as scintillating and utterly seductive as television gets, a Yankee Doodle Dandy of a historical extravanganza from a man who combines a scholar's appreciation of fact with a filmmaker's eye and sensibility.” – Los Angeles Times May 24, 2019 Full Review Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999) EDIT “Except for occasional belabored moments, the rest of [the mockumentary] ranges from genial to hilarious, with the self-spoofing David as himself amid a company of actors convincingly playing his manager, wife, friends and associates.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 11, 2018 Full Review Age-Old Friends (1989) EDIT “It's a universal theme, and nowadays a familiar one, but one rarely expressed as richly and compellingly.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 25, 2018 Full Review The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults (1986) EDIT “The man who couldn't get "no respect" from ABC News began his dramatic countdown. "Five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one. . . ." BLOWIE!!!!!! Gads! Geraldo and his blue boys had blown down a wall. And behind it stood . . . another wall.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 25, 2018 Full Review And the Band Played On (1993) 100% EDIT “And the Band Played On adds its own snare-drum resonance to the AIDS catastrophe, beating elements of Randy Shilts' journalism into a passionate, incisive condemnation of the government's public health policy regarding this epidemic.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 25, 2018 Full Review Strapped (1993) EDIT “It stands tall as an example of HBO's commitment to drama as a mirror of society in a summer when theatrical movies have fled into fantasy.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review Path to War (2002) 100% EDIT “Directed confidently by John Frankenheimer, Path to War is a powerful expression of mourning.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review The Gathering Storm (2002) 83% EDIT “HBO is now the small screen's most captivating window to the past, though. Witness its recent account of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review World War II: When Lions Roared (1994) EDIT “The actual face-to-face meetings of the Big Three--at Tehran in 1943 and at Yalta in 1945--are the centerpieces of When Lions Roared, just as these conferences were the strategic centerpieces of the war itself.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review A Season on the Brink (2002) EDIT “A Season on the Brink is a movie on the brink, as it ploddingly follows Knight and his Hoosiers during the 1985-86 season.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review The Last Best Year (1990) EDIT “There is simply never any doubt where the story is going, or that you'll be sobbing when it gets there. Keep those tissues handy.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review Andersonville (1996) EDIT “It's a grim story that should be told, but too often it's also a slow one.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985) EDIT “The point of this brilliant, suspenseful, hammerlocking drama was delivered early on by Raymond Graham, the fictional convicted murderer played with aching and terrifying realism by Jeff Fahey.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987) EDIT “A single Gunsmoke movie won't recapture this lost genre. But as Miss Kitty tells Matt tonight: "Welcome back, cowboy."” – Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2018 Full Review Suspicion (1987) EDIT “Adapted for television by Jonathan Lynn and producer Barry Levinson, "Suspicion" is handsomely mounted, but directed at too slow a pace by Andrew Grieve, leading to an abruptly soupy and syrupy ending that fails to satisfy.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 20, 2018 Full Review
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