ROTTEN TOMATOES: Elias Savada

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Shrek
4.5/5	Transamerica
3.5/4	Panic
4/5	The Woodsman
3/4	Wonderland
3.0/4	The Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2.5/4	Permanent Midnight
2/4	The Minus Man
2.5/5	Overnight
2/5	Flight of the Phoenix
1.5/4	Vertical Limit
1/4	The Legend of Drunken Master
1/5	Hide and Seek
0.5/4	Mercury Rising
.5/4	Tape
.5/5	Darkness
0/4	The Mod Squad

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Station Agent
4/4	In America
4/4	Finding Nemo
4/4	Bowling for Columbine
4/4	Bloody Sunday
4/4	Importance of Being Earnest
4/4	Hearts in Atlantis
4/4	Shrek
4/4	The Truman Show
4/4	Gods and Monsters
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Grind
0/4	The Master of Disguise
0/4	Kung Pow!
0/4	Out Cold
0/4	Company Man
0/4	Phantoms
0/4	Species 2
0/4	Disturbing Behavior
0/4	What Dreams May Come
0/4	Idle Hands
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

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4.5/5	" Very enjoyable debut feature...Popper's camera captures the angst of the grassroots crusade in its massive slog for integrity on the campaign trail." -- Film Threat Posted Sep 20, 2006	Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? (2006)	83%
N/A	" Chattin' with Duncan Tucker, Part 2" -- Film Threat Posted Dec 20, 2005	Transamerica (2005)	76%
N/A	" Chattin' with Duncan Tucker, Part 1" -- Nitrate Online Posted Dec 20, 2005	Transamerica (2005)	76%
4.5/5	" This unlikely director-writer has managed to show us something many of his Hollywood peers can't--how truth hurts, and that once confronted it ultimately builds a better sense of self-dignity." -- Film Threat Posted Dec 20, 2005	Transamerica (2005)	76%
N/A	" Elias Savada Calls Best and Worst of 2004" -- Film Threat Posted Feb 23, 2005	2004 Year-in-Review (2004)	n/a
1/5	" *[Director John] Polson offers up a few chilling scares, but the underwritten screenplay really does show off [Hide and Seek's] weaknesses." -- Film Threat* Posted Jan 30, 2005	Hide and Seek (2005)	13%
.5/5	" horrific and horrible" -- Film Threat Posted Jan 29, 2005	Alone in the Dark (2005)	1%
.5/5	" *If you're alive, please avoid White Noise. The dead will never forgive you for wasting your time, money, and psychic energy on it." -- Film Threat* Posted Jan 8, 2005	White Noise (2005)	8%
4/5	" Here's a year-end "for your award consideration" release that does have a chance, at least in positioning Bacon for acting award kudos" -- Film Threat Posted Jan 6, 2005	The Woodsman (2004)	86%
.5/5	" *Simply put: Darkness* fails. It's about as chilling as an unplugged refrigerator.*" -- Film Threat* Posted Jan 1, 2005	Darkness (2003)	4%
2/5	" Fighter Pilot is a mere snippet of entertainment, enlightening in the oversized format, but underwhelming as a thrill ride." -- Film Threat Posted Dec 27, 2004	Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (2005)	56%
2/5	" Toy planes might fly at Christmas, but "Flight of the Phoenix" got stuck halfway down the chimney. Ho, Ho, No..." -- Film Threat Posted Dec 19, 2004	Flight of the Phoenix (2004)	29%
2.5/5	" A cautionary time excursion into another standard-issue rise and fall scenario, about making movies and recording albums." -- Film Threat Posted Dec 15, 2004	Overnight (2004)	79%
3.0/4	" ...a nostalgic merry-go-round. It's quaint, charming, and often entrancing. You're riding the best horse on the ride. And the music couldn't be better." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jul 20, 2004	The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)	88%
3/4	" It is not a film�which unflinchingly captures a still festering wound on humanity�you are likely to forget." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jun 18, 2004	S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2004)	97%
3/4	" K�ri's deadpan humor instills the film's emptiness with a warm glow." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jun 7, 2004	Noi (2004)	88%
3.5/4	" All hail Harry Potter!" -- Nitrate Online Posted Jun 7, 2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	89%
3.5/4	" The Clay Bird is a incredibly humbling experience that you'd be a fool to miss." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jun 7, 2004	The Clay Bird (2004)	89%
1/4	" The only way anyone in the audience will win is if they walk out on the film, seek out management, and ask for their money back." -- Nitrate Online Posted May 24, 2004	Games People Play: New York (2004)	36%
N/A	" Jean-Paul Rappeneau helps warm up American audiences to his new historical farce." -- Nitrate Online Posted May 24, 2004	Bon Voyage (2004)	77%
3/4	" ...a film drenched in rich character and drunk with the buffoonery of life amid chaos and circumstance. It's a rousing Gallic gem." -- Nitrate Online Posted May 24, 2004	Bon Voyage (2004)	77%
2.5/4	" If the film is a humanist's vision, it is also is a genealogist's dream come true�of spiritual and historical discovery despite insurmountable odds." -- Nitrate Online Posted Apr 5, 2004	Hiding and Seeking (2004)	90%
1/4	" This is the True Gibson Story version of the death of Christ, in all is re-created gory." -- Nitrate Online Posted Mar 9, 2004	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	50%
2.5/4	" �not a frame of film is wasted in telling its story of lives tortured, drugged, humiliated, and terrorized by fascist, pro-communist ideology." -- Nitrate Online Posted Mar 9, 2004	The Burning Wall (2002)	100%
0.5/4	" *San Francisco still belongs to 'Dirty' Harry Callahan. Twisted, this town ain't big enough for the two of you. Scram!" -- Nitrate Online* Posted Mar 9, 2004	Twisted (2004)	2%
1/4	" "No Europeans were harmed in the making of this film." Oh, that's supposed to be funny?" -- Nitrate Online Posted Mar 6, 2004	Eurotrip (2004)	46%
3/4	" The joke�is sustained fairly well�only flattening out in the middle of the film, but returning for a crazed finale. With enough room left for tapioca!" -- Nitrate Online Posted Mar 6, 2004	The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)	53%
2.5/4	" Along Came Polly is an engaging trifle, flatulently overwritten yet filled with enough eccentric characters and comic timing to make it worth the risk." -- Nitrate Online Posted Feb 2, 2004	Along Came Polly (2004)	26%
3.5/4	" Fear Factor. Survivor. Move over, you minor league adventurers. You want compelling? Climb up to Touching the Void." -- Nitrate Online Posted Feb 2, 2004	Touching the Void (2004)	93%
3/4	" ...a sight for sore eyes, but there's something missing here that would make the film a truly mesmerizing piece. A good story." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jan 4, 2004	Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)	71%
3/4	" Bello and Baldwin both provide extremely well defined characters... It's always fun watching Macy make an unlikely winner of a sympathetic loser." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jan 4, 2004	The Cooler (2003)	77%
3/4	" There's something fresh and honest here." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jan 1, 2004	What Alice Found (2003)	68%
3/4	" Tim Burton's latest flight into fantasy lands a near-solid hook, line, and sinker as a whimsical family fable�" -- Nitrate Online Posted Jan 1, 2004	Big Fish (2003)	76%
2.5/4	" *ou'll have to amble through Gloomy Sunday's less than remarkable, albeit haunting, first half (but it) swells up to a fitting bookend and zinger of a finish." -- Nitrate Online* Posted Dec 27, 2003	Gloomy Sunday (2003)	84%
4/4	" Here is a film with talent, sophistication, humor, and sensitivity rolled into a joyous, grief-cleansing, heart-lifting 90 minutes." -- Nitrate Online Posted Dec 26, 2003	The Station Agent (2003)	95%
3/4	" The Holy Land espouses love and sex and in the wrong, or right places, and doesn't flinch, even if the story wanders off into an occasional dramatic desert." -- Nitrate Online Posted Dec 15, 2003	The Holy Land (2003)	53%
1/4	" Yossi & Jagger doesn't quite translate.This military drama about relationships among a group of bored, horny soldiers lacks enough intensity to be taken very seriously." -- Nitrate Online Posted Dec 15, 2003	Yossi & Jagger (2003)	90%
4/4	" *A deeply personal, wishful film from Dublin-born and -based director-writer Jim Sheridan, In America* is easily one of the year's best features.*" -- Nitrate Online* Posted Dec 15, 2003	In America (2003)	89%
3.5/4	" Billy Ray � has crafted an entertaining film, filled it with understated performances, and delivered a small pearl." -- Nitrate Online Posted Nov 21, 2003	Shattered Glass (2003)	91%
2.5/4	" This year's spilled turkey tribute...provides an abundance of holiday stuffing/suffering in dispelling the dysfunctional family spirit." -- Nitrate Online Posted Nov 7, 2003	Pieces of April (2003)	85%
3/4	" A suffocating, bewildering journey that leaves you gasping for the comfort of your easy chair�" -- Nitrate Online Posted Oct 17, 2003	In This World (2003)	90%
3/4	" ...the best surfing film ever made." -- Nitrate Online Posted Sep 9, 2003	Step Into Liquid (2003)	82%
3/4	" ...a jolly roger rollercoaster of fun." -- Nitrate Online Posted Sep 5, 2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	79%
0/4	" Director La Scala can't direct his way out of this can of half-baked beans." -- Nitrate Online Posted Aug 30, 2003	Grind (2003)	9%
3/4	" Castle (captures) a coming-of-age story and the changing romantic and economic relationships between family, friends, and paramours. It's a diamond in the rough." -- Nitrate Online Posted Aug 30, 2003	I Capture the Castle (2003)	80%
.5/4	" It's the dumberest movie I've ever seen!" -- Nitrate Online Posted Jun 25, 2003	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)	10%
1/4	" Alex & Emma drowns any iota of movie-magic romance and uncovers a drought of comic talent." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jun 25, 2003	Alex and Emma (2003)	10%
4/4	" C'mon, it's Pixar. Would you expect anything less than perfection?" -- Nitrate Online Posted Jun 2, 2003	Finding Nemo (2003)	98%
2.5/4	" *Sure, some people are in it for the money. We're here for the fun! Go, watch The Italian Job, and on the way home pick up a six-pack of MINI Coopers. They'll fit in the closet" -- Nitrate Online* Posted Jun 1, 2003	The Italian Job (2003)	73%
2.5/4	" Manic's landscape is filled with emotional thunderstorms; don't expect a sunny sky, but you might find a ray of hope." -- Nitrate Online Posted Jun 1, 2003	Manic (2003)	69%

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