ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stephen Whitty

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3.5/4	In the Valley of Elah
4/5	Who Is Norman Lloyd?
3/4	The Invasion
2.5/4	Stardust
2/4	Resurrecting the Champ
1.5/4	Rendition
1/4	Across the Universe
0/4	Romance & Cigarettes

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	WALL-E
4/4	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4/4	The Willow Tree
4/4	The Lives of Others
4/4	Pan's Labyrinth
4/4	Notes on a Scandal
4/4	Good Night, And Good Luck
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
0/4	Romance & Cigarettes
0/4	Shottas
0/4	They're Just My Friends
0/4	The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
0/4	Doogal
0/4	Gigli
1/4	Hounddog
1/4	Mamma Mia!
1/4	Chapter 27
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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3/4	" Happy-Go-Lucky ultimately charms -- just like its dizzy, disarming heroine." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 10, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	97%
2.5/4	" It's a little bit of Syriana, a lot of Traitor -- and an awful lot of scenes of people cursing into cell phones." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	53%
3/4	" Rachel Getting Married, [Demme's] newest feature, is a return to the low-budget, low-stress roots of Citizens Band and Melvin and Howard." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 3, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	86%
2/4	" *Although it's competently made... Flash of Genius* contains no spark of life at all.*" -- Newark Star-Ledger* Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	58%
2/4	" Dully written, ponderously paced and full of one-note characters acting exactly as we'd expect." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 3, 2008	Blindness (2008)	41%
3/4	" Nick and Norah would probably horrify the original Nick and Nora. But their great-grandchildren will probably see it twice. And then text their friends to see it, too." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2/4	" In the end, for all its genuflections towards free inquiry and rational debate, Maher is as close-minded as any of the preachers he despises." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 3, 2008	Religulous (2008)	68%
2/4	" It gets so preoccupied with all the local color and colorful locals, that it forgets about the people on this journey -- or their ultimate destination." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 26, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
2/4	" Eagle Eye is big, loud and expensive, but it's not particularly entertaining." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 26, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
2.5/4	" Ultimately, the film falters -- due to its length, some unconvincing European characters and too many turns that depend on sudden supernatural intervention." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 26, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	31%
3/4	" Ed Harris has the kind of head that would look great on a coin, but it looks even better on a movie screen, as he turns his chiseled features this way and that." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 19, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
2/4	" For all its speeches and scary graphics, Townsend's script fails to make it clear why we should care today." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 19, 2008	Battle in Seattle (2008)	55%
1/4	" The latest wallow in regional cliche and stereotype." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 19, 2008	Hounddog (2008)	16%
2.5/4	" Things unfold as neatly, and slowly, as a minuet, but there's none of the messiness of life. And that's a shame." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 19, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	61%
3/4	" Lakeview Terrace [is] an unsettling address for everyone -- black, white or 'blue'." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 19, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	42%
1.5/4	" The story is thin. The characters are slight. And pretty as the scenery is, well, summer vacation's over." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 12, 2008	Greetings from the Shore (2008)	63%
2.5/4	" The tried-and-true characters still strike sparks. And even if the best parts are warmed over, the dish is still great." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	10%
3/4	" *Extremely well-cast. Extremely well-written, too (with one of those clockwork plots -- beloved of the Coens since Blood Simple* -- in which people, fatally, act before getting all the facts).*" -- Newark Star-Ledger* Posted Sep 12, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
3/4	" *If identity is at the soul of A Secret, a tragic romance is its heart." -- Newark Star-Ledger* Posted Sep 5, 2008	Un Secret (2008)	76%
1.5/4	" Constructed out of tired jokes, vaguely familiar actors and a few forced and predictable situations, it's strictly a harmless place-filler." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 5, 2008	Everybody Wants to be Italian (2008)	0%
3.5/4	" A remarkable example of the actor at his best -- conveying wounded hurt or burning hunger with a glance." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 29, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
2.5/4	" Ultimately the film is both too contrived and too casual, both relentless in the way it manipulates its plot and sloppy in its understanding of the consequences." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 27, 2008	Traitor (2008)	53%
2.5/4	" It has some hilariously humiliating jokes (Coogan really has no fear) and some surprisingly pointed real-life humor (Elisabeth Shue, you are a genuine sport)." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 22, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
2.5/4	" Its charms, however slight or familiar, are present and its family-friendly characters and dialogue are refreshing." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 22, 2008	The Longshots (2008)	38%
3/4	" *If you're a fan of Gone in 60 Seconds* or The Fast and the Furious, you won't look at your watch while the movie is going on, and you won't feel conned out of your money when it's over.*" -- Newark Star-Ledger* Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	43%
3/4	" If this isn't the laugh riot of the year, it's still a pleasant surprise, particularly for teen audiences. And in comedy seasons like this one, that's sometimes more than enough." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	36%
3/4	" It is often very funny, and wittily on-target about the fine madness of moviemaking." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
2/4	" What had once seemed like a fresh alternative to the usual tween-girl movie has begun to fray." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 7, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
2/4	" The sloppy script (which Rogen co-wrote) aspires to nothing more than old Cheech and Chong routines, built around frustrating, circuitous conversations." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 6, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
2.5/4	" Even the crudest punk rocker learned three chords (Smith brags of having five) before they plugged in an amp. Steven Sebring would have done better to have had a few lessons in editing and structure before picking up his camera." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 6, 2008	Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)	68%
2/4	" This movie wasn't so much created as calculated." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	13%
3/4	" *Thompson (and another great veteran, Michael Gambon, who shows up as her estranged husband) and Waugh's wit are reason enough to revisit this Brideshead." -- Newark Star-Ledger* Posted Jul 25, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	63%
3.5/4	" For adults, it's also, possibly, a wake-up call. Do we really put that much pressure on our children? Are we really that insensitive?" -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 25, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
2.5/4	" Although the comedy is a little messed-up and childish itself, it still delivers a few good laughs." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
1/4	" Even minor elements like sound editing and makeup are botched, a sure sign of carelessness, or cluelessness. Early scenes show characters forgetting to lipsynch to their prerecorded songs." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
3.5/4	" It's a hugely entertaining bit of eye-candy." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 15, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
3/4	" It has a just-rebellious-enough kid, just-goofy-enough hero, a cute competent heroine and plenty of bumper-car chase scenes and house-of-shocks surprises." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	62%
3.5/4	" The funniest movie I've seen this year." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 10, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	88%
	" It's del Toro telling stories in the language of Hollywood. And I miss the language of his dreams." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 10, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	88%
1.5/4	" With great power comes great -- irresponsibility." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
4/4	" WALL-E is a surprisingly moving parable of what we waste, and what we should cherish -- and wrapped in a romance so absurdly moving it could wring a tear or two even from Gort and Robby the Robot. Or a parent and child." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
3/4	" It's a goofy, giddy bit of escapism." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
2.5/4	" It has the old lines, and the funky props that fans remember. But it also has some decent new ideas, too. And thanks to Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway, a bit of a new vibe." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
	" He [Herzog] is cinema's poet of the empty spaces." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jun 13, 2008	Encounters At the End of the World (2007)	93%
1.5/4	" *If Shyamalan's ever going to do something different then he should have made something manic, dark and twisted. But that's not Happening." -- Newark Star-Ledger* Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	18%
2/4	" The gore is simply midnight-movie disgusting. And the ending is rushed and flat -- as if it had been tacked on by another hand." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jun 6, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	48%
2/4	" It's a little pat and shallow." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
3/4	" A relatively harmless bit of animated fun." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	89%
1.5/4	" The direction by Dennis Dugan is flabby and dull -- like most of the hacks-for-hire who end up bringing a Sandler opus to the screen, and whose chief qualification seems to be the ability to shout 'Great, Adam! Great!'" -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	35%
2.5/4	" An absurd joke." -- Newark Star-Ledger Posted May 30, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	50%

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