ROTTEN TOMATOES: Kim Newman

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	The Godfather Part II
4/5	Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
3/4	Scream 2
3/5	Vodka Lemon
2/5	The Cave
1/5	Aeon Flux

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Cool Hand Luke
5/5	All That Jazz
5/5	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5/5	The Big Sleep
5/5	Serpico
5/5	The Odd Couple
5/5	The Lost Weekend
5/5	Quiz Show
5/5	The Killing
5/5	Dead of Night
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	Reno 911!: Miami
1/5	The Wicker Man
1/5	Scary Movie 4
1/5	Evil Aliens
1/5	Big Momma's House 2
1/5	Aeon Flux
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 86% of the time.

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3/5	"It�s a shaggy dog story, with a script obviously made up as the film was being shot, but reasonably engrossing as the directors enjoy exaggerating their own mannerisms. " -- Empire Magazine Posted Aug 29, 2008	Triangle (2007)	36%
3/5	"An effective, scary emotional work-out, but perhaps you can have too much paranoid despair." -- Empire Magazine Posted Aug 29, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	43%
5/5	"One of those movies you remember Great Moments from." -- Empire Magazine Posted Aug 22, 2008	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	100%
5/5	"Savagely witty on backstage life and audaciously edited." -- Empire Magazine Posted Aug 12, 2008	All That Jazz (1979)	87%
4/5	"Massively underrated." -- Empire Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2008	Cobb (1994)	68%
5/5	"Amid the endless homages and the sheer adoration meted out to Sergio Leone's ambitious, pricier finale to his Spaghetti Western trilogy, it's easy to forget just how damn good the film is. " -- Empire Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	98%
N/A	"Kim Newman's Guide to The X-Files" -- Rotten Tomatoes Posted Jul 31, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
3/5	"An okay paranormal mystery, with solid work from the regulars � but please Mr Carter, next time, could we have liver-eating mutants or post-modern comedy like the really good episodes of The X Files?" -- Empire Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
4/5	"As per usual it features a superb cast, including the ever-present Gena Rowlands, who successfully improvise their way the film." -- Empire Magazine Posted Jul 28, 2008	Opening Night (1977)	95%
4/5	"A remarkable performance from Emil Jannings." -- Empire Magazine Posted Jul 28, 2008	The Blue Angel (1930)	94%
5/5	"Bogart as Marlowe is compelling in this classic thriller that is complex but triumph of atmospheric cool." -- Empire Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Big Sleep (1946)	95%
2/5	"Not rich in plausability of plot or character development, but tonally interesting in places." -- Empire Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Night Porter (1973)	65%
4/5	"McAvoy crashes the A-list, Jolie finally gets to be as big a star on screen as she has been in print, and Bekmambetov proves the most exciting action-oriented emigr� since John Woo." -- Empire Magazine Posted Jun 24, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
3/5	"*Aykroyd�s script has more than its share of clever, witty ideas, but the film still feels the need to descend way too often to Police Academy-style heroes-dress-up-like-idiots sequences." -- Empire Magazine* Posted May 20, 2008	Dragnet (1987)	48%
4/5	"Mad, but highly watchable." -- Empire Magazine Posted May 16, 2008	Head (1968)	73%
4/5	"A number of decent performances and a gritty realistic view of London makes this little sci-fi spin-off still worth a look." -- Empire Magazine Posted May 14, 2008	The Quatermass Experiment (1955)	80%
4/5	"It has a comic strip premise which is neverthless wholly credible in a sick sort of way." -- Empire Magazine Posted May 6, 2008	Death Race 2000 (1975)	82%
4/5	"Extremely gory. Horror fans should delight." -- Empire Magazine Posted May 6, 2008	Phantasm (1978)	67%
4/5	"A clever and enjoyable wrapping-up of the time-travelling adventures." -- Empire Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	Back to the Future Part III (1990)	74%
3/5	"Arguably the most imaginative of the horror franchise, with a fair number of truly resonant scenes." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2008	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors (1987)	71%
2/5	"Mildly titillating, but not very good." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
3/5	"Even thought it's the third such effort to employ handheld camera in a zombie flick, this has more than enough shocks to hold its own." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 11, 2008	[Rec] (2007)	93%
5/5	"Al Pacino delivers a powerful performance in this compelling biopic of a cop and a city's police force." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2008	Serpico (1973)	94%
3/5	"Originating the genre of 'dedicated teacher reaches troubled kids in a ghetto school', this is still affecting although heavy-handed." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2008	Blackboard Jungle (1955)	76%
4/5	"This gets progressively nastier and winds up with an impressive hellfire finish." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2008	Elmer Gantry (1960)	96%
3/5	"It's mental but charming, so that's OK." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 6, 2008	I'm A Cyborg (2006)	80%
5/5	"Lemmon and Mathau's finest hour." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 1, 2008	The Odd Couple (1968)	100%
4/5	"Still sounds great, and looks as good as ever through Ray-Bans." -- Empire Magazine Posted Apr 1, 2008	The Blues Brothers (1980)	76%
3/5	"It's an enjoyable family film." -- Empire Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2008	Maverick (1994)	70%
3/5	"Towards the end you wish they'd just get it over with, but this film usually overcomes even the most cynical viewer's resistance." -- Empire Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2008	Forget Paris (1995)	53%
3/5	"The remake/parody sequences are outstanding, but Black�s all-over-the-place mania and Mos Def�s bland orphan hero don�t quite tie the rest of the picture together. Still, it has heart." -- Empire Magazine Australasia Posted Mar 20, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	67%
4/5	"This is a respectful and complex work of fiction around the concepts of the biblical character and his life." -- Empire Magazine Posted Mar 19, 2008	The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)	81%
4/5	"Letter-perfect performances from Day-Lewis and Postlethwaite do a lot more than a dozen editorials to make an unforgettable point about the miscarriage of justice." -- Empire Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2008	In the Name of the Father (1993)	95%
4/5	"At once realistic and idealised, this is a rare attempt to make drama of ordinary people doing the right thing." -- Empire Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2008	The Snapper (1993)	97%
4/5	"*Simply put, no Akira, no Matrix. It's that important." -- Empire Magazine* Posted Mar 10, 2008	Akira (1988)	88%
3/5	"Some okay thrills with good performances and some smarts. But the last reel plunge spoils things. " -- Empire Magazine Posted Mar 7, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	35%
4/5	"A raw, vivid despatch from the frontline, this melds content with frights in classic Romero style. An outstanding exercise in showing the kids how to do it." -- Empire Magazine Posted Mar 7, 2008	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	60%
4/5	"This Rodney Dangerfield vehicle is a lot better than it should be." -- Empire Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2008	Back to School (1986)	87%
4/5	"If you�ve got the stomach for strong scenes of torture, and the heart to take part in an uncomfortable debate about human nature, this intelligent horror is well worth your time..." -- Empire Magazine Posted Feb 22, 2008	WAZ (2007)	77%
4/5	"Kurosawa is always worth a look but this is a particular classic that has influenced so much to come, it's almost essential." -- Empire Magazine Posted Feb 21, 2008	Rashomon (1950)	100%
3/5	"*There�s just enough whimsical good humour to carry Be Kind Rewind, but Michel Gondry�s latest does tend to keep crashing into �oh come on now, what were you thinking?� self-indulgence." -- Empire Magazine* Posted Feb 20, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	67%
4/5	"Deserving to be seen and remembered for so much more than that kiss, this is old school drama of the highest order." -- Empire Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2008	From Here to Eternity (1953)	89%
5/5	"Painfully sincere and uncompromising look at alcoholism for a film released in 1945, with a superb central performance." -- Empire Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2008	The Lost Weekend (1945)	96%
3/5	"Ambiguous and intriguing." -- Empire Magazine Posted Feb 11, 2008	Poison Ivy (1992)	46%
4/5	"Whether horror fans are ready for high-notes or musical buffs will appreciate Dario Argento levels of gore is an open question, but this is a rich, demented experience." -- Empire Magazine Posted Jan 24, 2008	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
2/5	"Strays slightly from the formula and therefore loses some of its mindless fun credentials." -- Empire Magazine Posted Jan 14, 2008	Rambo III (1988)	34%
2/5	"This just can�t compete in an arena with the likes of The Departed - which at least makes a point of its contrived storyline - let alone the high watermark set for cops vs. drugs drama by the TV series The Wire." -- Empire Magazine Posted Dec 13, 2007	We Own The Night (2007)	55%
2/5	"Not quite a complete write-off, but basically a folly." -- Empire Magazine Posted Dec 11, 2007	Youth Without Youth (2007)	29%
3/5	"A standard shudder picture, with an impressive, chilling apparition." -- Empire Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2007	Kilometro 31 (2006)	71%
3/5	"Director Allan Moyle travels a quirky road too often trod by aspirant indie pics." -- Empire Magazine Posted Nov 14, 2007	Weirdsville (2007)	56%

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