ROTTEN TOMATOES: Frank Swietek

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A-	The Edge of Heaven
B+	Constantine's Sword
B	Roman de Gare
B-	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
C+	Iron Man
C	Before the Rains
C-	What Happens in Vegas
D+	Redbelt
D	Made of Honor
D-	Speed Racer
F	Frontier(s)

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Taxi to the Dark Side
A	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A	No Country for Old Men
A	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A	Ratatouille
A	Into Great Silence
A	Nurse Betty
A	United 93
A	Neil Young - Heart of Gold
A	Brokeback Mountain
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	House
F	The Haunting of Molly Hartley
F	Saw V
F	Filth and Wisdom
F	Surfer, Dude
F	Death Race
F	Frontier(s)
F	88 Minutes
F	Pathology
F	Prom Night
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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D-	" Junk, pure and simple...Stevenson [is] a beefy, taciturn fellow with all the charisma of Steven Seagal and an emotional range that goes from A to somewhere just shy of A-." Posted Dec 4, 2008	Punisher: War Zone (2008)	15%
C	" Not just long and extravagant but woozy and ultimately rather silly...Luhrmann might have been aiming, Selznick-like, for a new Gone With the Wind, but his picture ends up feeling more like a second Duel in the Sun." Posted Nov 26, 2008	Australia (2008)	52%
N/A	" Interview with Danny Boyle" Posted Nov 25, 2008	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	92%
A-	" Easily ranks as one of the best biographical movies in years...topped by a grand performance by Sean Penn." Posted Nov 25, 2008	Milk (2008)	93%
D	" Eurotrash...a splashy but tedious retread that suggests the franchise has totally run out of gas." Posted Nov 25, 2008	Transporter 3 (2008)	36%
C-	" One Christmas movie too many...three parts crude farce, with plenty of comic violence and sexual innuendo, followed by a final reel awash in sappy, supposedly uplifting sentiment." Posted Nov 25, 2008	Four Christmases (2008)	24%
B+	" An exhilarating experience that transcends the cuteness and contrivance of its basic premise through the sheer bravura of its filmmaking." Posted Nov 24, 2008	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	92%
D	" So bad that you might expect it's intended as a campy send-up of its source...the worst-case scenario is that it's a truly faithful reflection of the quality of the novel." Posted Nov 20, 2008	Twilight (2008)	44%
B-	" No classic but not a dog in spite of being about one." Posted Nov 20, 2008	Bolt (2008)	84%
B+	" A moodily effective thriller that shows that there's life in the undead yet." Posted Nov 18, 2008	Let the Right One In (2008)	98%
N/A	" Interview with Robert Pattinson" Posted Nov 18, 2008	Twilight (2008)	44%
N/A	" Interview with Mark Herman and John Boyne" Posted Nov 11, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	64%
B-	" Has a rather anonymous feel...but it's certainly a well-oiled action machine, delivering the high-adrenaline goods even though the cheeky style that made the series distinctive is gone." Posted Nov 11, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	65%
F	" *Calling Extreme Makeover: HE. Your intervention is sorely needed at this disastrous would-be horror movie...from the same folks who gave you the awful Thr3e." Posted Nov 7, 2008*	House (2008)	0%
D+	" Crude and unfunny...less fitting tribute than major disappointment." Posted Nov 6, 2008	Soul Men (2008)	44%
B-	" One of those films one has to admire for what it's attempting, even if it doesn't quite succeed in achieving it." Posted Nov 5, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	64%
C	" A bit more imagination and sharper execution could have made this a winner. Instead it's a near-miss...a movie that plods along rather than taking off." Posted Nov 5, 2008	Role Models (2008)	75%
C	" Looks marvelous--the animation really is superb--but it's not even up to the standard of the initial installment in any other significant respect." Posted Nov 5, 2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)	62%
C	" Superior to a lot of the bigger-budgeted, starrier-cast romantic comedies that come out of Hollywood...but too lightweight and rough around the edges to amount to anything more than a harmless time-waster." Posted Nov 4, 2008	The Other End of the Line (2008)	29%
D+	" When a picture asks you to puzzle through a chain of ambiguous clues to a surprise solution, you have a right to expect something better than watered-down Shyamalan." Posted Nov 2, 2008	Passengers (2008)	17%
F	" Even for the holiday, this stinker is a maladroit trick rather than any kind of Halloween treat." Posted Oct 31, 2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)	3%
C	" There's lots of sizzle...but in the end very little to chew on." Posted Oct 31, 2008	RocknRolla (2008)	58%
C	" Feels self-consciously naughty rather than truly edgy, an adolescent exercise that's not only behind the curve...but never make[s] the tastelessness more than mildly amusing." Posted Oct 30, 2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	64%
F	" There's really nothing new here, and what's old is not good." Posted Oct 24, 2008	Saw V (2008)	14%
B-	" Whatever the flaws, it's lively and colorful enough to satisfy the target audience as a fitting close to the ultra-popular series." Posted Oct 23, 2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)	67%
D	" *Pretentiously convoluted...in the case of Synecdoche, New York--to garble Plato's version of Socrates--the examined life is not worth watching." Posted Oct 23, 2008*	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	64%
F	" For there to be balance in the universe, good movies must alternate with bad ones. This is obviously one of the latter." Posted Oct 23, 2008	Filth and Wisdom (2008)	27%
C+	" A moody, melancholy period drama that's beautifully crafted but very subdued and obvious in its effects." Posted Oct 23, 2008	Changeling (2008)	59%
C	" *Covers territory that would be familiar even if We Own the Night* hadn't taken us there just a year ago, to equally boring effect.*" Posted Oct 21, 2008*	Pride and Glory (2008)	34%
B+	" A wonderfully life-affirming tale of a woman who always looks on the bright side of things...[which avoids] either comic caricature or teary treacle." Posted Oct 21, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	94%
C+	Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008	Mission: Impossible II (2000)	57%
D-	Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008	Shutter (2004)	40%
N/A	" Interview with Mark Wahlberg and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges" Posted Oct 17, 2008	Max Payne (2008)	18%
D-	" *Given the effect Max Payne* has, by the close you may feel that they've misspelled the hero's last name.*" Posted Oct 17, 2008*	Max Payne (2008)	18%
C	" A picture skewering the inanities of the filmmaking system needs more sharpness and bite than this one provides." Posted Oct 16, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	53%
C	" Isn't really a good movie, but compared to the usual line of junk in this genre, it's comparatively tolerable--except for that awful trailer scene, that is." Posted Oct 16, 2008	Sex Drive (2008)	40%
C+	" Neither satire nor drama but a sort of stream-of-consciousness rumination on Bush past and present, Stone's film is little better than a stunt, and a fairly toothless one at that." Posted Oct 16, 2008	W. (2008)	57%
C-	" A fable of black and female liberation in the sixties south so drenched in sugar that watching it may make your teeth hurt." Posted Oct 16, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	56%
C-	" A cluttered cinematic hullabaloo that seems more interested in music acts, dance routines and long-winded, impromptu speeches than in fashioning an effective dramatic arc." Posted Oct 11, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	88%
C-	" Grows increasingly repetitious and tedious as the same cinematic tricks are played over and over...the effect is suffocating rather than enjoyably spooky." Posted Oct 11, 2008	Quarantine (2008)	60%
C	" *For youngsters used to more exciting fare even on the small screen, City of Ember* is likely to be more like City of Slumber.*" Posted Oct 9, 2008*	City of Ember (2008)	49%
C+	" An uplifting--and poignant--tale...but it's told...in very broad strokes that make their point as obviously as any TV movie would." Posted Oct 9, 2008	The Express (2008)	61%
C	" Curiously lightweight...escapes neither the slick histrionics of a typical studio blockbuster nor the clumsiness that afflicts movies with political messages." Posted Oct 9, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
C	" The performers are amiable, but the material is only mildly amusing." Posted Oct 7, 2008	Allah Made Me Funny (2008)	54%
B	" While not one of the director's best works, it's a classy, sophisticated entertainment with a typically rich subtext." Posted Oct 7, 2008	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	82%
B-	" A Maher riff that's amusing enough, but hardly profound--one that's unlikely to alter your views on religion, whatever choir you're in." Posted Oct 6, 2008	Religulous (2008)	71%
N/A	" Interview with Michael Cera and Kat Dennings" Posted Oct 4, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	71%
B-	" Compared to the best doggie flicks, it may be the runt of the litter, but like most mutts it grows on you." Posted Oct 2, 2008	Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)	41%
C	" Earnest but artless...not only exhibits no signs of genius but barely registers on the competence gauge." Posted Oct 2, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	57%
D-	" Stylistically fussy and dramatically confused...a what-if story that's become a pointless so-what movie." Posted Oct 2, 2008	Blindness (2008)	41%

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