ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stephen Himes

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4.5/5	The Hours
9/10	Once
4/5	Bowling for Columbine
8/10	Knocked Up
3.5/5	Adaptation
7/10	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
6/10	Forgetting Sarah Marshall
3/5	Catch Me If You Can
5/10	Hairspray
2.5/5	Head of State
4/10	Get Smart
2/5	The Emperor's Club
1.5/5	Solaris
1/5	The Life of David Gale
2/10	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
.5/5	Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
0/5	Bringing Down the House

BEST REVIEWED
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10/10	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
9/10	The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
9/10	Once
4.5/5	Team America: World Police
4.5/5	Before Sunset
4.5/5	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4.5/5	Girl with a Pearl Earring
4.5/5	Spellbound
4.5/5	A Mighty Wind
4.5/5	Three Kings
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	New York Minute
0/5	Marci X
0/5	Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde
0/5	Bringing Down the House
0/5	The Sum of All Fears
0/5	Jason X
.5/5	Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
.5/5	Mr. Deeds
2/10	Wanted
2/10	Fred Claus
	more...

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

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4/10	"In its relentless sermonizing about voting, the movie treats the audience like we're Bud Johnson--who the movie also calls a 'dumbass.'" -- Flak Magazine Posted Aug 6, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	39%
5/10	"Del Toro seems to use this movie as batting practice for The Hobbit." -- Film Snobs Posted Jul 22, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	89%
2/10	"Never has a mainstream movie made more of a fetish from splattered brains." -- Film Snobs Posted Jul 22, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
4/10	"Shyamalan's religious ideas are a lot like Bush's: Nearly theology free." -- Film Snobs Posted Jul 10, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
5/10	"'Chinese' in the way that Springfield-style cashew chicken is 'Chinese.'" -- Film Snobs Posted Jul 10, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
3/5	"Hancock suggests the Colin Powell 'Pottery Barn' argument, but before it gets really interesting, veers wildly off course." -- Film Snobs Posted Jul 10, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
4/10	"Hollywood has no idea what to do with Steve Carell." -- Film Snobs Posted Jul 3, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
5/10	"You sense that if Lucas had his way, Harrison Ford would have measured Shia LeBeouf's midiclorian levels." -- Flak Magazine Posted Jun 3, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
8/10	"The brillance of Downey's performance is that Tony Stark is more of an impenetrable, unstoppable force than Iron Man." -- Film Snobs Posted Jun 3, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
6/10	"If you're really, really high, you might think that H&KEfGB suggests that we are only truly free when we transcend our own racial identities." -- Film Snobs Posted May 8, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
6/10	"The difference between Apatow and Hornby is that Hornby has written at least one compelling female character." -- Flak Magazine Posted May 8, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
5/10	"Clooney tries to Flags of Our Fathers if directed by Preston Sturges." -- Film Snobs Posted Apr 16, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	52%
4/10	"Jackie Moon is every other Will Ferrell character in John Stockton shorts." -- Film Snobs Posted Apr 16, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
5/10	"The metaphysical angle is too awkward: Horton comes off like a Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster." -- Film Snobs Posted Apr 16, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
6/10	"Like "Terabithia," willfully darker than most children's fare." -- Film Snobs Posted Feb 26, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
6/10	"Will Hayes' only flaw is that he's too idealistic--in the same way that John Edwards cares too much for poor people." -- Film Snobs Posted Feb 26, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
5/10	"Like your high school's production of "Grease": A musical about sex with a chastity belt strapped to its waist." -- Film Snobs Posted Dec 11, 2007	Hairspray (2007)	91%
2/10	"Paul Giamatti is forced to play Santa like a socially awkward version of Vince Vaughn" -- Film Snobs Posted Dec 11, 2007	Fred Claus (2007)	22%
7/10	"Even Martin Sheen is keepin' it real." -- Film Snobs Posted Dec 11, 2007	Talk to Me (2007)	81%
4/10	"Nicole Kidman hasn't been in a movie this bleak since "Dogville."" -- Film Snobs Posted Dec 11, 2007	Margot at the Wedding (2007)	51%
2/10	"Completely inauthentic in every detail--the cinematic equivalent of an apple pie from Perkins." -- Film Snobs Posted Dec 11, 2007	Waitress (2007)	88%
9/10	""When We Were Kings" for dorks." -- Film Snobs Posted Dec 11, 2007	The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)	97%
8/10	"To Ridley Scott, Frank Lucas is less Superfly and more David Glass." -- Film Snobs Posted Nov 28, 2007	American Gangster (2007)	79%
6/10	"Like a well-done Produce Pete sketch, Carell peels back layers of banality covering the bitterness underneath." -- Film Snobs Posted Nov 28, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	66%
8/10	"Superbad makes cultural statements that should be every bit as disturbing as blaxploitation's were." -- Flak Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2007	Superbad (2007)	87%
2/10	"Imagines what might happen if Rod and Todd Flanders grew up and decided to have a surrogate child together." -- Flak Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2007	The Brothers Solomon (2007)	16%
6/10	"A close reading of Mr. Woodcock reveals a dark, depressing film about small town decline. I think." -- Flak Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2007	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	13%
8/10	"Russell Crowe plays his role as Ethan Edwards for the post 9/11 western." -- Film Snobs Posted Oct 30, 2007	3:10 to Yuma (2007)	89%
8/10	"The story of some nice lawyers who give dozens of pro bono hours working to adopt puppies for orphans before Christmas. George Clooney plays the headmaster." -- Film Snobs Posted Oct 30, 2007	Michael Clayton (2007)	90%
4/10	"Benicio is the heroine addict with a heart of gold!" -- Film Snobs Posted Oct 30, 2007	Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)	65%
7/10	"A direct rebuke of the pro-torture "24," arguing that torture isn't just cruel to the tortured, but to those who are asked to torture." -- Film Snobs Posted Sep 3, 2007	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	93%
6/10	"Another Frank Oz comedy with a mean streak, this time with such delights as an old man defecating in his wheelchair." -- Flak Magazine Posted Sep 3, 2007	Death at a Funeral (2007)	63%
2/10	"Would be less offensive with a title like "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Flaming."" -- Film Snobs Posted Sep 3, 2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)	13%
7/10	"Gives us the most evil EPA agent in movies since William Atherton unleashed the minions of Zool on New York City." -- Film Snobs Posted Sep 3, 2007	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	90%
7/10	"Moore effectively vents our collective rage, but his Cuba is like the Buena Vista Social Club, but with better benefits." -- Film Snobs Posted Jul 16, 2007	Sicko (2007)	93%
8/10	"But how would the rat match up against Iron Chef Morimoto?" -- Flak Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	95%
7/10	"Yates' vision for Delores Umbridge is simple: She is to leave no wizard behind." -- Flak Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	77%
8/10	"For all the talk of "morals" in the American cultural dialogue, stoner Ben says the only thing that really should matter: "I just want to do right by you."" -- Flak Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2007	Knocked Up (2007)	91%
4/10	"If This Pays For Another Darfur Benefit, Then So Be It." -- Flak Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2007	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	70%
9/10	"It has a Before Sunrise vibe, but the aphrodisiac is music rather than pseudo-philosophical Gen-X ramblings." -- Flak Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
2/10	"As Captain Sparrow himself observes: "The immaterial has become.....immaterial."" -- Flak Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)	45%
2/10	"Antonio should use his Puss n' Boots voice in the Zorro sequel." -- Flak Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2007	Shrek the Third (2007)	42%
2.5/5	""Music and Lyrics" argues that pop songs are poetry, and in the tradition of Walt Whitman, the film proceeds to celebrate itself." -- Flak Magazine Posted Mar 29, 2007	Music and Lyrics (2007)	63%
3/5	"Understands that a kids movie that's "For Adults Too" means "Mature, Complex Themes," not "Fart Jokes and Sexual Innuendo."" -- Flak Magazine Posted Mar 29, 2007	Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	85%
7/10	"One of the most interesting concepts in American movies this year: The French Nascar driver who is just a compilation of American stereotypes of "Frenchness."" -- Flak Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2006	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)	73%
2/5	"This should have been an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Larry David would spark nuclear conflict." -- Film Snobs Posted Jan 20, 2006	Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)	41%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Film Snobs Posted Jul 5, 2005	Hustle (2004)	n/a
3.5/5	"*In a year where cinema played a crucial role in the Culture War, Kinsey* is the only film to dig at the roots of both sides. Best film of the year. Without a doubt.*" -- Film Snobs* Posted Dec 5, 2004	Kinsey (2004)	90%
4.5/5	"Why puppets? The form meets function." -- Flak Magazine Posted Nov 7, 2004	Team America: World Police (2004)	78%
3.5/5	"John Waters' "The Passion of the Christ."" -- Flak Magazine Posted Nov 7, 2004	A Dirty Shame (2004)	52%

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