ROTTEN TOMATOES: Cole Smithey

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Nanking
A+	There Will Be Blood
A-	Taxi to the Dark Side
B+	U2 3D
B	Margot at the Wedding
B-	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
C+	Billy the Kid
C	The Savages
C-	The Golden Compass
D+	Son of Rambow
D	One Missed Call
D-	Postal
F	The Signal

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Religulous
A+	Trouble the Water
A	Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer
A+	The Dark Knight
A	The Exiles
A	WALL-E
A	Elegy
A	Man on Wire
A	Encounters at the End of the World
A	Mongol
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Towelhead
F	The Signal
F	Southland Tales
F	The Hills Have Eyes II
F	The Devil's Rejects
D-	Hounddog
D-	Henry Poole Is Here
D-	Postal
D-	The Reaping
D-	Wild Hogs
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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C-	"Piecemeal and earnest to a fault, this remake of George Cukor's 1939 film relies so much on the elite world of humorless, filthy rich New York women that it excludes most of its would-be target fans." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Sep 4, 2008	The Women (2008)	n/a
C-	"Boring, meandering, and painfully self-important, "Mister Foe" is writer/director David Mackenzie's follow-up to his much better effort "Young Adam" (2003)." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Sep 4, 2008	Mister Foe (2008)	79%
F	""Towelhead" is the most disgusting, ethically reprehensible, and irresponsible film to come out of the 21st century's first decade." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Sep 4, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	71%
B+	""Battle In Seattle" is a poignant depiction of a dire fight for justice that found traction over a period of several days, in a story that was misrepresented by the American media. Here then, is a closer view of those events and motivations of the people" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Sep 3, 2008	Battle in Seattle (2008)	75%
C-	"The film's message is that all of society is corrupt, so it doesn't matter who gets killed. It's a propaganda movie that shows no empathy for its characters or for its audience." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Sep 3, 2008	Elite Squad (2008)	52%
B	""Choke" is the most assertively anti-mainstream film of the year, and to that end it succeeds as a positive form of cinematic/social rebellion." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Sep 2, 2008	Choke (2008)	83%
C-	"Although writer/director David Kaplan attempts to elevate his amateur narrative attempt with the same rotoscoping animation technique that Richard Linklater used to great effect with "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly," the effect comes across as overwro" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Sep 2, 2008	Year of the Fish (2008)	53%
B+	"The fish-out-of-water story shows the potential for a specific environment to transform an individual's consciousness, while never glamorizing or preaching the influence of marijuana. It's a gem of a film rooted in the reality of familial bonds and shifti" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Sep 1, 2008	Humboldt County (2008)	n/a
D	"Fans of Eugene Holtz may get a brief charge from his Ukrainian-inflected irony that saturates every word he utters, but all others should beware of giving this sloppy film the time of day." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 30, 2008	Filth and Wisdom (2008)	n/a
D	"As a boring exercise in youthful debauchery, this "College" is no place you'd ever want to go." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 29, 2008	College (2008)	8%
B	"Japanese suspense maestro Takashi Miike pays homage to the spaghetti western genre with a story born of Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars," which was originally inspired by Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo."" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 29, 2008	Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)	68%
D-	"An exploitation movie about people lacking even a modicum of common sense--in this case '50s era Southerners--writer/director Deborah Kampmeier's "Hounddog" is an insult to its audience and to the actors that signed on for her abysmal experiment." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 24, 2008	Hounddog (2008)	17%
A	""Religulous" (rhymes with ridiculous) is a funny, debate-provoking movie that dares to question fundamental beliefs that have been foisted on societies in order to enable brutality and prejudice in the name of a higher power. It's a call for humanity to g" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 24, 2008	Religulous (2008)	n/a
C-	"Although based on Maurice George Dantec's sci-fi novel "Babylon Babies" "Babylon A.D." comes across as an undercooked retooling of Alfonso Cuaron's much better 2006 film "Children of Men." Even the most forgiving sci-fi fans will have a hard time making s" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 23, 2008	Babylon A.D. (2008)	6%
A-	""Traitor" is an intense and highly politicized film that dares to look at more than a few sides of an ideological battle that rages throughout the world." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 21, 2008	Traitor (2008)	53%
D+	"Directed by Fred Durst (of the band "Limp Bizkit"), "The Longshots" is a cookie-cutter feel-good kid's movie that seems like it was made by some faulty gadget stuck on auto-pilot." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 21, 2008	The Longshots (2008)	38%
B+	"Satire and spectacle are balanced perfectly in this cynical and sexy thrill ride." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 20, 2008	Death Race (2008)	40%
A-	"Writer/director Jiri Menzel's ambitious filmic adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's picaresque novel about a diminutive Czech waiter with dreams of becoming a millionaire and of owning his own hotel, is a rich black comedy steeped in wartime experience and sexu" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 13, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	88%
D-	""Henry Poole is Here" is not a movie, but rather a sketch for a screenplay that was never written. If ever there was a cinematic impetus to give up all hope for humanity and free expression, it is this patronizing, condescending, and vacuous waste of cell" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 13, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	37%
B-	"This old-school throwback to '80s era horror movies takes pride in the teen screams extracted by its goo-spurting, tentacled monster and his newly minted henchmen as they attack an unfortunate group of young college students." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 12, 2008	Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008)	65%
A+	"Gut-wrenching, infuriating, hopeful and unlike any other documentary ever made, "Trouble the Water" is a very specific view of two powerful human beings whose humble heroism and instincts for survival put to shame that of the authorities purported to prov" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 6, 2008	Trouble the Water (2008)	96%
B-	"Here's a sweetly mannered sports movie with heart, that's ideal for introducing baseball traditions and vocabulary to kids." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 3, 2008	The Perfect Game (2008)	n/a
B	"The soul of one of rock's true poets is examined in an appropriately abstract way in Steven Sebring's black and white documentary that could have benefited from more of Patti Smith's songs and another pass in the editing room." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 3, 2008	Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)	63%
B+	"A heady blend of outrageous Grand Guignol comic set pieces and fast-twitch dialogue, "Tropic Thunder" walks a fine line of dangerous satire that straddles gallows humor and bawdy pop-culture inflected slapstick." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 2, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	84%
C-	"The movie does little to elucidate the experiences and suicidal personality of a singer who was more of a poseur than a musician." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 2, 2008	What We Do Is Secret (2008)	44%
A	"You come away from the documentary impressed by a fiercely individualistic and beautiful woman who lived by her own rules with a fluid mastery of music that few musicians ever attain." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 2, 2008	Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008)	100%
A-	"Pineapple Express draws on stylistic and plot elements from '70s martial arts movies, shock horror films, and Tarantino set pieces to generate a new type of irreverent comic cinema in touch with the candid loyalty of a new generation." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 2, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
D	"Director Paul Weiland ("Made of Honor") co-wrote the tone-deaf screenplay for this cinematic abortion that features the ever-lousy Stephen Rea adding his specific brand of stench to a pasted-together movie that is predictable and boring as it is depressin" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 2, 2008	Sixty Six (2008)	63%
B+	"Anyone who doubts for a second that the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential elections were stolen by the Republicans using a methodical process of illegal machinations, should see this nightmare-inducing documentary on the subject." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Aug 2, 2008	Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008)	50%
C-	"Director Courtney Hunt's drama of poverty, illegal immigration and American Indian dystopia suffers from an underdeveloped script and amateur performances." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 27, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	85%
A-	"Hawaii's role in the transformation of surfing from what many considered to be a pastime for drug-crazed counter-culture rebels to a multi-billion dollar sport is examined in debut director Jeremy Gosch's documentary about the group of Australian and Sout" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 27, 2008	Bustin' Down the Door (2008)	64%
B-	"There's enough innocent charm and dumb optimism here to pad the movie's lighthearted pokes at humor." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 27, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	35%
C	"*For all of the fan hullabaloo around its plotline, The X-Files: I Want to Believe* is little more than an extended if atmospheric version of the former television show.*" -- ColeSmithey.com* Posted Jul 23, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
B	"Goofy, bawdy, and full of slapstick physicality "Step Brothers" takes advantage of the natural comic chemistry between Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly to generate a coming of age comedy that's funnier than any of Will Ferrell's recent outings." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 21, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	53%
A+	"The Dark Knight packs in at least two films worth of action, suspense, spectacle, horror, and nuanced social commentary. You�ll want to see it more than twice." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
B	"Former stuntman Rick Waugh turns writer/director to make a compelling and gritty drama that is as much a commentary on America's failed justice/prison system as it is about the devastation suffered by an honest family man imprisoned for killing a burglar" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 15, 2008	Felon (2008)	59%
D	""The Doorman" is a thinly written indie comedy--it's only 79 minutes long--that will have you kicking yourself for wasting whatever time and money you spent to watch it." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 14, 2008	The Doorman (2008)	25%
B+	"Once it gets past its high-pitched squeals of estrogen-fueled excitement in the opening sequences, director Phyllida Lloyd's screen adaptation of the popular Broadway play based on Abba songs, settles into a harmonically pleasing comedy set amid the extra" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 12, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	54%
A	"Director Brent MacKenzie's black-and-white documentary/narrative genre blender about urbanized Native Americans in 1961 Los Angeles is a cold glass of cinematic water drawn from the same well as Joseph Strick's "The Savage Eye" (1960)." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 12, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	89%
C	"Guy Pierce's performance is perhaps the worst researched role of the year, and Catherine Zeta-Jones never connects to her character's lower class milieu." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 11, 2008	Death Defying Acts (2008)	46%
C-	"Breslin is the best thing about this myopic comedy that doesn't even get any humorous traction from the stereotypes it presses through its low-fidelity independent film filter." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 11, 2008	Harold (2008)	23%
C-	"Lush cinematic compositions, locations, and costumes compensate for some of the story's lacking impact, but not enough to recommend it as anything more than a guilty pleasure." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 6, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	78%
B	"A visually delightful movie packed with plenty of goofy character elements that keep it entertaining." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 5, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	89%
B	"A breathtaking adaptation of Jules Verne's classic sci-fi novel, filled with eye-pleasing gags and sudden shocks of surprise that fall under the spell of strong performances from its terrific three-person cast." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jul 5, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	61%
A-	"You'll come for the action; you'll enjoy it more because of James McAvoy." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jun 30, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
B-	"For all of its illumination of one of the most enigmatic figures in American literature, "Gonzo" mistakenly paints Hunter S. Thompson as a writer whose star burned out decades before his long foreshadowed suicide in 2005." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jun 29, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	89%
B+	"Screenwriter/director Jonathan Levine makes a remarkable sophomore film with a deceptively simple story of urban romance set in Manhattan's final pot-friendly days of the mid-'90s before Rudolph Giuliani's Disneyfication took its stranglehold on the city." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jun 29, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	67%
A	"*Drawing on science fiction epics like 2001: A Space Odyssey* and Star Wars, Wall-E may be the first truly dystopian animated movie for kids.*" -- ColeSmithey.com* Posted Jun 29, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	97%
B-	"For a robust action story about three people from very different backgrounds attempting to make a positive influence on their world, "Hancock" is a step in the right direction." -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jun 24, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
N/A	"Icelandic Beauty ExportAnita Briem Makes a 3-D DebutBy Cole Smithey" -- ColeSmithey.com Posted Jun 23, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	61%

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