ROTTEN TOMATOES: Eric Melin

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
3.5/4	United 93
3/4	Hard Candy
2.5/4	The Notorious Bettie Page
2/4	The Da Vinci Code
1.5/4	The Punisher
1/4	Poseidon
.5/4	Soul Plane

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	There Will Be Blood
4/4	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4/4	No Country for Old Men
4/4	Sicko
4/4	Knocked Up
4/4	Pan's Labyrinth
4/4	Children of Men
4/4	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
4/4	Munich
4/4	Broken Flowers
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Hide and Seek
.5/4	Lions for Lambs
.5/4	Perfect Stranger
.5/4	Smokin' Aces
.5/4	Soul Plane
.5/4	Blade: Trinity
1/4	10,000 B.C.
1/4	Balls of Fury
1/4	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
1/4	Dreamgirls
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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3.5/4	"James Marsh's remarkable documentary is a reminder that in a rigid world filled with rules and regulations, true beauty can come from the most indefinable of acts." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Aug 28, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
2/4	"*[It] was beaten to the punch by Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman,* which despite its off-the-cuff nature actually gets these people, feels more dangerous, and has way better songs.*" -- Scene-Stealers.com* Posted Aug 27, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	62%
3/4	"This film is genuinely uncomfortable. In fact, you may want to make sure you know the person you see this movie with very well." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Aug 21, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	84%
2/4	"What is amazing%u2014and flies in the face of most conventions of the mystery genre%u2014is that once Mulder and Scully are convinced out of retirement, they do absolutely nothing to advance the case." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jul 28, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
3.5/4	"It plays with the same themes as a lot of other superhero movies, but is about something bigger." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jul 21, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
2.5/4	"Guillermo Del Toro's love for creature features comes through, but his story is uncomfortably rote in this visually dynamic comic book sequel." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jul 15, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	88%
3/4	"The movie strips the comic of most of its psychological darkness and is, quite simply, every nerdy fanboy's fantasy come true in fast-paced, ridiculously fun fashion." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jul 1, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
2.5/4	"Edward Norton is a Bill Bixby-kind of guy and this is more faithful to the TV show than the last film, but its still hard to root for a CGI character." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jun 17, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
1.5/4	"Rather than [the R-rating]being an opportunity-opening device for writer/director Shyamalan to pull out of his toolbox, the graphic violence that got him that rating is more like a monkey wrench." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jun 17, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
3.5/4	"*As fantastic as the 'story' sequences in The Fall* are, we are grounded by the fact that characters we believe in have created them, and they have happened right there in front of our eyes.*" -- Scene-Stealers.com* Posted Jun 9, 2008	The Fall (2008)	55%
2/4	"I've got to credit Bertino with the sense enough to not resort to shocking gore to make up for lack of suspense. The final act, however, is as messy as a plate of spaghetti." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jun 2, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	43%
3/4	"It's not a perfect movie, but it's an Indiana Jones movie." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted May 25, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
2.5/4	"Inspiration comes in all forms and writer/director Garth Jennings gets that idea across with equal parts clich� and whimsy." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted May 22, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
2/4	"This movie just can't put it all together. I'm blaming it squarely on the storytelling." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted May 19, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
3/4	"There is something freeing about watching this movie because it establishes early on that it's not playing by certain cinematic rules." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted May 12, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
3.5/4	"Robert Downey, Jr. is an unusually good leading man ... and has great comic timing in this movie." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted May 5, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
1.5/4	"It ends up coming off like an extended Carlos Mencia sketch, and it certainly can't justify the film's short 100-minute running time." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Apr 24, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
2/4	"It is troubling to watch this uncomfortable balancing act between heartfelt sentiment and a need for entertainment, especially when it just doesn't work on either account very well." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Apr 17, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	36%
2/4	"The story wants to be madcap and freewheeling, but it doesn't quite take flight." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Apr 10, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	52%
3/4	"The 18 cameras Scorsese and his award-winning team of cinematographers employed to cover every angle of the event have captured tons of little personal moments and blown them up to IMAX-size proportions." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Apr 3, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
3/4	"Told entirely from the point of view of the servicemen, it avoids the pitfalls that less-subtle, sloganeering Iraq war movies like "Lions for Lambs" fell into last year." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
3.5/4	"Like the infamous pregnant bedroom scene in Knocked Up, Segel breaks down another sacred behind-closed-doors sex situation that no one likes to talk about, and ends up with a classic memorable moment." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Mar 24, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
2/4	"Directed by Steven Brill, this film is one almost-funny situation after another that is completely undercut by lazy timing and editing." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Mar 21, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
3/4	"I predict that when this film is released, lots of critics who miss the point will complain about its muted tone. Scott and Reilly actually underplay the comedy to great effect." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Mar 15, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
2.5/4	"Credit Pegg for inserting his smart brand of character-driven humor everywhere the script needed him (he polished up an old script by Michael Ian Black), and credit Schwimmer for keeping things moving quickly and efficiently." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Mar 15, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
3/4	"It is at once a celebration of a genre-busting writer/rabble-rouser, and an elegy for a time period when a freak like Thompson could get access to political leaders and actually affect some kind of radical change." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Mar 13, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	89%
1/4	"Making prehistoric people talk and behave just like modern people in a 10,000 B.C. setting makes actors look silly. Their costumes are silly, the settings are silly, and the whole movie is unintentionally funny." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Mar 11, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
2/4	"It puts too big a burden on Ferrell to make comedy gold out of rough outlines." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Feb 29, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
2.5/4	"It falls short in the character development category, relying on a whimsical vibe, the charm of its actors, and ceaselessly inventive movie re-creations to get by." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Feb 27, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	67%
1.5/4	"*In the end, the big message of Charlie Bartlett* was said better and more succinctly in an R.E.M. song. Everybody Hurts.*" -- Scene-Stealers.com* Posted Feb 21, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
2/4	"It plays like Cliff's Notes of the political themes Romero has already explored more effectively with his other movies." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Feb 17, 2008	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	60%
3/4	"The POV [camera] IS the movie...and we get to see lots of angles of the monster. On that point, it totally delivers." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jan 18, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
4/4	"Any towering institution is capable of producing monsters, even if none of them are as far removed from human frailty as Plainview [Day-Lewis] and his pitiable nemesis [Dano]." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jan 16, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
4/4	"This genius collaboration between director of photography Janusz Kaminski and Schnabel immerses you in Bauby's situation so that it becomes your reality." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Jan 4, 2008	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
3.5/4	"By mirroring Dylan's concepts with his music and avoiding both the biographical route and the songs-tell-a-story route, Haynes creates the most provocative, electric examination of an artist in years." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Dec 30, 2007	I'm Not There (2007)	78%
3/4	"*Reilly is fantastic, the music is right on, and the commentary is obnoxiously accurate, so while Walk Hard* may not go to 11, it's definitely worth a seven or an eight.*" -- Scene-Stealers.com* Posted Dec 24, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
2.5/4	"It's like Dario Argento blood just spurting everywhere..." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Dec 21, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
2.5/4	"[It's]a satire of the second Cold War and clueless American politics, while also celebrating the comparatively loose morals and naivet� of the greed decade." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Dec 20, 2007	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	82%
2/4	"The third act is where it finally, fatally trips itself up. A couple of key revelations seem like they are leading somewhere and suddenly, the film is over." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Dec 13, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	69%
2/4	"...rushed like crazy, from one scene to another, introducing characters, spouting [forced] dialogue." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	41%
3/4	"Do you need to have likeable characters to have a good movie? No, and especially not when the characters embody scary traits that are so familiar but so little explored." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Nov 30, 2007	Margot at the Wedding (2007)	51%
4/4	"It proves [the Coens] can hold an audience in thrall with the simplest of cinema's elements: a memorable image." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Nov 23, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
3/4	"It is impossible to shake the fact that other movies have beat this one to the theater with so many similar themes. The new technology, however, has that wow factor that the story is missing." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Nov 15, 2007	Beowulf (2007)	70%
.5/4	"*It is exhibitionist cinema for the post-Crash* era, designed to tell us what we already know and somehow stir us out of our apathy simultaneously.*" -- Scene-Stealers.com* Posted Nov 9, 2007	Lions for Lambs (2007)	28%
3.5/4	"Scott presents the mob leader as a beaten-down minority who finally gets his due, but not without a serious look at the consequences." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Nov 1, 2007	American Gangster (2007)	79%
1.5/4	"The same conflict over and over is not frightening. Once it collapses under the weight of its own preposterousness and lack of suspense, it doesn't matter how many cool-looking vampires screech like feral beasts- the movie has already lost all its blood." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Oct 18, 2007	30 Days of Night (2007)	50%
3/4	"[It] really shines...when it's contrasting the self-righteousness of its characters." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Oct 18, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	94%
3/4	"Gilroy has crafted a smart thriller that revolves around a corporate cover-up but doesn't burrow into hair-splitting details and stays away from clich�." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Oct 12, 2007	Michael Clayton (2007)	90%
2/4	"All the stylistic flourishes in the world cannot cover up a screenplay that works better as a game to guess which song will accompany which cheesy generalization next." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Oct 3, 2007	Across the Universe (2007)	54%
2.5/4	"Rather than an in-depth political look at what the space program meant then and now, Sington instead concentrates on getting us as close as we'll ever get to taking the trip ourselves." -- Scene-Stealers.com Posted Sep 27, 2007	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	94%

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