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 Class
A-	The Edge of Heaven
B+	Crime Spree
B	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
B-	Brick Lane
C+	The Animation Show 4
C	The Wackness
C-	Swing Vote
D+	Savage Grace
D	Hancock
D-	Meet Dave
F	Death Race

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Revolutionary Road
A	The Class
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
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Bride Wars
F	The Day the Earth Stood Still
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
	more...

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

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F	" You leave this chick flick disaster feeling like an escapee from a POW camp." Posted Jan 9, 2009	Bride Wars (2009)	12%
D-	Click here to read article Posted Jan 9, 2009	Unborn (2003)	n/a
D-	" Shouldn't have been brought to term." Posted Jan 8, 2009	The Unborn (2009)	14%
C-	" A long, obvious slog into marital melodrama." Posted Jan 8, 2009	Not Easily Broken (2009)	37%
C-	" Grapples with important themes and is expertly made, but is simply too odd and off-putting to be anything more than an almost grotesque curiosity." Posted Jan 5, 2009	Adam Resurrected (2008)	33%
B+	Click here to read article Posted Jan 2, 2009	Gomorra (2008)	100%
C	" A powerful tale, but one that's done in so old-fashioned, heavy-handed a fashion that it already seems dated." Posted Dec 31, 2008	Defiance (2008)	51%
B+	" Avoiding the conventions of gangster movies, it presents a slice of the ghastly reality of life in the crime-infested areas of Naples that has remarkably authenticity and immediacy." Posted Dec 31, 2008	Gomorrah (2009)	90%
B	" *Avoiding histrionics and overstatement, Un Secret* reveals a story about a family's past suffering that may not be unique, but in this telling is quietly powerful.*" Posted Dec 31, 2008*	Un Secret (2008)	71%
C-	" It's like watching paint dry--which isn't very exciting, however pretty the colors." Posted Dec 30, 2008	Ashes of Time Redux (2008)	80%
B+	" Has the precision and reticence of a good novella or short story...[and] an outstanding lead performance from Kristin Scott Thomas." Posted Dec 30, 2008	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	91%
A	" A bleak, bitter, brilliant portrayal of the failure of the fifties version of the American dream it so beautifully captures in period terms." Posted Dec 26, 2008	Revolutionary Road (2008)	66%
D	" An obnoxiously cute and mawkish man-and-his-mutt story...[with] one of the longest animal death watches in cinematic history." Posted Dec 26, 2008	Marley & Me (2008)	59%
A-	" A hypnotic dance with death that delivers an emotional wallop and a potent anti-war message." Posted Dec 24, 2008	Waltz with Bashir (2008)	95%
A	" Extraordinarily vivid and truthful...[an] incredibly honest and revealing film about public education in the age of multiculturalism and globalization." Posted Dec 24, 2008	The Class (2008)	97%
C	" As family fare goes...distinctly middle-grade. It won't put you to sleep, but it's not likely to enchant you either." Posted Dec 24, 2008	Bedtime Stories (2008)	23%
C+	" A slight and implausible romance that nonetheless has moments of charm, thanks to its stars. Unfortunately, that's not quite enough." Posted Dec 23, 2008	Last Chance Harvey (2008)	74%
B-	" A thoroughly respectable historical re-enactment, though lacking the epic scope and dramatic urgency that would make it a truly memorable one." Posted Dec 23, 2008	Valkyrie (2008)	57%
D-	" The ultimate geek movie...Frank Miller's take on Will Eisner's semi-spectral crime-fighter comes DOA and never springs back to life." Posted Dec 23, 2008	The Spirit (2008)	15%
C+	" Fitzgerald Gumpified...a gorgeously-made would-be tearjerker that leaves the ducts dry because of its extreme artificiality, in both plot and execution." Posted Dec 23, 2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	72%
C	" Its piecemeal character, lack of shading and lugubrious pace leave it not just incomplete but, despite the length, surprisingly shallow." Posted Dec 23, 2008	Che (2008)	58%
C+	" Intelligent and impeccably crafted but...also rather remote and chilly, the kind of film in which craft trumps heart...ultimately fails to do emotional justice to the subject it tackles." Posted Dec 22, 2008	The Reader (2008)	61%
B+	" With Clint in the driver's seat, what might have been an old clunker comes very close to being a classic." Posted Dec 22, 2008	Gran Torino (2008)	75%
D	" An incredibly sappy and manipulative dirge disguised as a deep rumination on sacrifice and redemption." Posted Dec 20, 2008	Seven Pounds (2008)	28%
B+	" Thanks to both Aronofsky and Rourke it proves an honest and moving portrait of a man in the twilight of a career that's both made and destroyed him." Posted Dec 20, 2008	The Wrestler (2008)	98%
C	" A nice-looking, respectable but oddly unsatisfying family fable." Posted Dec 17, 2008	The Tale of Despereaux (2008)	55%
D	" A sad spectacle...nothing more than a series of labored sketches in which Carrey flails about trying to recapture the zaniness of his early years." Posted Dec 17, 2008	Yes Man (2008)	42%
B	" Paints a frequently affecting snapshot of a rudderless young woman in difficult straits, [though] its homespun approach never achieves a transcendent effect." Posted Dec 15, 2008	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	84%
C	" Amiable but slight." Posted Dec 14, 2008	How About You (2008)	70%
F	" 'Klaatu barada crappo'...turns an intelligent and thoughtful film into what might be called a boys' adventure yarn if that weren't an insult to both boys and yarn." Posted Dec 12, 2008	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)	20%
B-	" Though the picture follows a well-worn path, it does so with a winning degree of warmth and humor." Posted Dec 10, 2008	Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)	49%
D-	" Less unusual than simply nutty...while it's kind of intriguing, it comes nowhere near to being satisfying." Posted Dec 10, 2008	Dark Streets (2008)	16%
C+	" Ironically, by bringing us closer to the action--or more properly, the argument--the film diminishes the play's impact, as well as accentuating the overly histrionic elements of the performances." Posted Dec 9, 2008	Doubt (2008)	76%
B+	" An enjoyable riff that engagingly mixes recreation and imagination and is elevated above stunt status by two superb performances." Posted Dec 8, 2008	Frost/Nixon (2008)	90%
C+	" There's enough material here for a television mini-series, and cramming it into less than two hours can't help but make it seem like a Cliffs Notes version." Posted Dec 7, 2008	Cadillac Records (2008)	65%
D	" Gets more and more convoluted and preposterous as it goes along, and far less fun...a movie that, despite the title, will win no prizes." Posted Dec 7, 2008	Nobel Son (2008)	25%
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)	23%
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)	54%
N/A	" Interview with Danny Boyle" Posted Nov 25, 2008	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	94%
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)	92%
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)	25%
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)	94%
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)	50%
B-	" No classic but not a dog in spite of being about one." Posted Nov 20, 2008	Bolt (2008)	85%
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)	97%
N/A	" Interview with Robert Pattinson" Posted Nov 18, 2008	Twilight (2008)	50%
N/A	" Interview with Mark Herman and John Boyne" Posted Nov 11, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	63%
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%

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