ROTTEN TOMATOES: Harvey S. Karten

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A	" A beautifully crafted film whose title character's performance recalls Joni Mitchell's view philosophy, 'It's life's illusions I recall.'" -- Compuserve Posted Aug 4, 2006	The Illusionist (2006)	75%
A	" A satiric masterwork, not simply because of its subject matter but because of the brilliantly witty, fast-moving dialogue and spot-on performances." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 14, 2006	Thank You For Smoking (2006)	86%
A	" Beautifully evokes the aphorism that childhood is a magical time." -- Compuserve Posted Nov 9, 2004	The Polar Express (2004)	57%
A	" An Oscar worthy performance from Annette Bening." -- Compuserve Posted Oct 9, 2004	Being Julia (2004)	76%
A	" The most original and powerful conveyance of a filmmaker's vision in years." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 4, 2004	Dogville (2003)	70%
4/4	" Possibly the most astonishing documentary about bird migration ever made." -- Compuserve Posted Feb 3, 2003	Winged Migration (2003)	97%
4/4	" The most vibrant movie musical since 'Oklahoma.' That's 'Chicago.'" -- Compuserve Posted Dec 26, 2002	Chicago (2002)	87%
4/4	" Marvelously combines the gangster genre with coming-of-age themes. First 4-star movie of the year." -- Compuserve Posted Jun 25, 2002	Road to Perdition (2002)	82%
4/4	" Move over Judy Garland: you've met your match in Henry Thomas." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 23, 2002	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial The 20th Anniversary (2002)	98%
4/4	" Diane Selwyn ends her Hollywood career with raves--but not the kind she wanted." -- Compuserve Posted Oct 1, 2001	Mulholland Dr. (2001)	81%
4/4	" An absolute gem: superb performances, clever writing, humorous and sardonic, twists galore." -- Compuserve Posted Aug 22, 2001	Diamond Men (2001)	80%
10/10	" I left stunned by the movie's perfect combination of crackerjack acting, clever writing, sharp cross-cutting of scenes." -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	Nurse Betty (2000)	85%
10/10	" A potent, arch, humorous and downright fascinating glimpse into a society both terrified and titillated by literary descriptions of raging sexuality." -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	Quills (2000)	74%
10/10	" American Beauty mesmerizes because every moment, however caricatured, hits a nerve in each of us." -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	American Beauty (1999)	89%
10/10	Click here to read article -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Spanish Prisoner (1998)	89%
10/10	Click here to read article -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)	76%
10/10	" Once again, Steven Spielberg proves that as a constructer of movie images, he's unbeatable." -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	94%
10/10	Click here to read article -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Red Violin (1998)	71%
10/10	Click here to read article -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	Happiness (1998)	83%
10/10	Click here to read article -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	Love and Death on Long Island (1997)	89%
4/4	" Still the most wonderful movie on the subject of music ever made and the best film I've ever seen." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 1, 2002	Amadeus (1984)	97%
10/10	" All of the drama of GWTW is successfully combined with dazzling production values." -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	Gone With the Wind (1939)	97%
10/10	" Remarkable, colorful, heartwarming." -- Compuserve Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	100%
A-	" Wonderfully scenic, exuberantly romantic." -- Compuserve Posted Aug 9, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
A-	" A darkly humorous, exquisitely performed and filmed story of a Czech Everyman against the backdrop of the Nazi and Communist domination of Czechoslovakia." -- Compuserve Posted Jul 29, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	81%
A-	" Philip Roth should be overjoyed at this adaptation of his novella 'The Dying Animal' about a professor obsessed about old age and mortality." -- Compuserve Posted Jul 1, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
A-	" A stunning feature film that at base asks the question, "What should a woman choose: an unpredictable life with a sexual dynamo, or a stable relationships with a much older man?"" -- Compuserve Posted Jun 4, 2008	Beauty in Trouble (2008)	74%
A-	" A terrific documentary that hones in on the Israeli government's decision to forcibly evacuate 8,000 of its own citizens from Gaza." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 5, 2008	Unsettled (2008)	100%
A-	" Though similar to Schindler's List, this riveting Holocaust drama, also based on a true story, features actors who throw themselves wholly into the violence of a brutal concentration camp as they practice a trade that could keep them alive." -- Compuserve Posted Jan 23, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
A-	" Remarkably imaginative: Director Morgen merges archival film with animation to bring to life the excitement of youthful demonstrations against the Vietnam War during the '68 Democratic National Convention." -- Compuserve Posted Jan 7, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	78%
A-	" The movie is performed so well that you come away thinking that high school years are both the worst time of one's life and the most joyful." -- Compuserve Posted Feb 13, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
A-	" An embarrassing chapter in America's history of race relations becomes the scene of wonderful uplift in Denzel Washington's moving and true story of how a small African-American college debating team took on Harvard's in 1935." -- Compuserve Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	80%
A-	" This wonderful documentary tracing little Estonia's independence from both the Nazis and the Communists brings tears of joy to the eyes." -- Compuserve Posted Oct 25, 2007	The Singing Revolution (2007)	84%
A-	" Audience members who found previous Coen brothers' works too precious can rejoice in this, their best film--close to an American masterwork." -- Compuserve Posted Oct 24, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
A-	" A gem of an animated movie which subtly and comically jabs the Iranian regime while unfolding the spiritual journey of a woman from 1978 to the 1990's." -- Compuserve Posted Oct 15, 2007	Persepolis (2007)	96%
A-	" Seamlessly mixes campy comedy with sentimental romance: an epic film based on a Nobel Prize winner's novel." -- Compuserve Posted Oct 8, 2007	Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)	28%
A-	" An absorbing doc that punctuates the idea that abortion, legal or banned, is not a black-and-white issue but is in a political gray zone." -- Compuserve Posted Sep 30, 2007	Lake of Fire (2007)	94%
A-	" Melodramatic in tone, complex in thought, this 'Clayton' is a thinking person's John Grisham." -- Compuserve Posted Sep 29, 2007	Michael Clayton (2007)	90%
A-	" Remarkable performance by Valerie Harper in this one-woman show from the Broadway play focusing on Israel's former Prime Minister, Golda Meir's, critical decisions during the 1973 mid-East war." -- Compuserve Posted Sep 8, 2007	Golda's Balcony (2007)	67%
A-	" The only problem with this insanely funny movie is that it's going to incite envy from anyone in the audience who thought high school was for studying." -- Compuserve Posted Aug 9, 2007	Superbad (2007)	87%
A-	" Exhilarating! I say, 'Bring back the sixties' (minus the Vietnam War)." -- Compuserve Posted Jul 9, 2007	Talk to Me (2007)	81%
A-	" Ratatouille is the best of the eight movies that Pixar has offered to date. It has color, glorious music, a fast pace, a clever and witty script, a credible villain or two, and the one thing everyone in the audience loves: lots of delicious food." -- Compuserve Posted Jun 27, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	95%
A-	" Yet another doc that socks it to the current administration's foreign policy--this one most effectively." -- Compuserve Posted Jun 16, 2007	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
A-	" Its major drawback is its failure to allow even a single dissenting argument, but Moore proves again to be the most entertaining and opinionated documentarian in America and greatest opponent of greed." -- Compuserve Posted Jun 14, 2007	Sicko (2007)	93%
A-	" 'Vitus' could show a blank screen, play the soundtrack, and still be more intelligent than half the movies at the multiplex." -- Compuserve Posted Jun 11, 2007	Vitus (2007)	64%
A-	" Artfully done, allowing us to be so caught up in the build-up that we can wait patiently for the gore." -- Compuserve Posted Jun 6, 2007	Hostel: Part II (2007)	45%
A-	" An exhilarating balance of action and romance, this Spidey is intricately detailed, weaving the subplots together into a nicely balanced whole." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 30, 2007	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	61%
A-	" If 'Waitress,' like 'Alice,' is sitcomish, then let's hear it for sitcoms. The pic is a delight from start to finish." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 25, 2007	Waitress (2007)	88%
A-	" With more than half a year to go, one can scarcely imagine a better set of awards-worthy performances than those of Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 17, 2007	Away From Her (2007)	95%
A-	" Perhaps one of the great dog stories ever." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 4, 2007	Year of the Dog (2007)	69%

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