ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stephanie Zacharek

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	Marley & Me
	Gran Torino
	Cadillac Records
	Frost/Nixon
	Transporter 3
	Twilight
	Quantum of Solace
	High School Musical 3: Senior Year
	The Duchess of Langeais
	The Secret Life of Bees
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	Bride Wars
	The Spirit
	Yes Man
	Seven Pounds
	Doubt
	The Reader
	Australia
	Bolt
	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
	Role Models
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

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	" Even if you can get past the boneheaded premise, the picture feels halfhearted in its construction." -- Salon.com Posted Jan 9, 2009	Bride Wars (2009)	11%
	" The movie is ultimately less about the pain of loss than about the way families often take shape around a pet." -- Salon.com Posted Dec 29, 2008	Marley & Me (2008)	59%
	" The style is willing. But the spirit is weak." -- Salon.com Posted Dec 29, 2008	The Spirit (2008)	15%
	" With Yes Man, Carrey has bled the well dry, doing everything he knows how to do, over and over again, just to prove that he still knows how to do it." -- Salon.com Posted Dec 19, 2008	Yes Man (2008)	42%
	" *As holiday heartwarmers go, Seven Pounds* is so unintentionally ghoulish, it makes Black Christmas look like It's a Wonderful Life.*" -- Salon.com* Posted Dec 18, 2008	Seven Pounds (2008)	28%
	" *Nothing in Doubt* -- which Shanley directed, adapting his own Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play -- is certain, definitive or clear. Least of all the filmmaking.*" -- Salon.com* Posted Dec 11, 2008	Doubt (2008)	76%
	" Gran Torino, whatever its flaws are, is a movie about what America looks like now, and it posits that the work of living amicably together is sometimes hard but always worth it." -- Salon.com Posted Dec 11, 2008	Gran Torino (2008)	75%
	" The Reader comes off as a movie that doggedly follows some dull, preordained text. It's Winslet who dares to read between the lines." -- Salon.com Posted Dec 9, 2008	The Reader (2008)	60%
	" Martin, who also wrote the script, takes liberties with the Chess story, most notably dispensing altogether with Phil Chess. But "Cadillac Records" is such an exhilarating, spirited piece of work that its embellishments and omissions cease to matter." -- Salon.com Posted Dec 5, 2008	Cadillac Records (2008)	65%
	" Howard has made a picture for grown-ups, a well-constructed entertainment that neither talks down to its audience nor congratulates it just for showing up." -- Salon.com Posted Dec 5, 2008	Frost/Nixon (2008)	90%
	" *The Transporter* movies are considered by many to be a guilty pleasure, and maybe I'd feel that way, too, if I ever felt any guilt at the movies.*" -- Salon.com* Posted Nov 26, 2008	Transporter 3 (2008)	36%
	" Calling a Baz Luhrmann movie a crazy mess isn't necessarily a damning statement. But it isn't an automatic compliment, either." -- Salon.com Posted Nov 26, 2008	Australia (2008)	54%
	" Twilight is, by its very nature, all about unfinished business, the story of a brooding, caring romantic hero and the woman who cannot -- although she wants to -- yield to him. Only his eyes penetrate her. For now, that's enough." -- Salon.com Posted Nov 21, 2008	Twilight (2008)	50%
	" Bolt, with its numerous winks and nudges, reminds us how attuned we are to the falseness of pop culture, which isn't the same thing as connecting us with its truths." -- Salon.com Posted Nov 21, 2008	Bolt (2008)	85%
	" Quantum of Solace is best when director Marc Forster allows his star the latitude to explore emotions that, until Craig stepped into the shoes of the character, we didn't know Bond had." -- Salon.com Posted Nov 14, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	65%
	" Not everything in life, or in history, needs to be framed in terms of things children can relate to. I'm not talking about shielding kids; I'm just saying that some ideas are so horrific that they shouldn't be framed in childish terms." -- Salon.com Posted Nov 7, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	63%
	" The equivalent of trying to sneak an issue of Newsweek into the house, rolled up inside a copy of Mad magazine." -- Salon.com Posted Nov 7, 2008	Role Models (2008)	76%
	" The only good reason to see the otherwise dismal comedy Soul Men is to have a look at the late actor and comedian Bernie Mac in one of his final screen roles." -- Salon.com Posted Nov 7, 2008	Soul Men (2008)	44%
	" The jokes are forced, almost mechanical, in their crudeness. They're so carefully placed that they feel a little precious rather than spontaneous, which ends up defying that impulsive, animal thing inside us." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 31, 2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	65%
	" Synecdoche, New York strives to be a work of greatness. But Kaufman's overarching vision is a lot less interesting than the small insights he gathers along the way." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 24, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	63%
	" Normally, Jolie is an actress capable of both intensity and subtlety, but her performance here is too amped up to register as anything more than a star turn. Did nobody notice that the real Angelina had been snatched?" -- Salon.com Posted Oct 24, 2008	Changeling (2008)	59%
	" Since when shouldn't it be fun to spend 90 minutes or so watching good-looking young people, singing and dancing relatively well?" -- Salon.com Posted Oct 24, 2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)	67%
	" Maybe even Rivette himself is a little too delicate for this ferocious, intensely focused pair. But he's fascinated by them, and ultimately, he loves them." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 18, 2008	The Duchess of Langeais (2008)	67%
	" Latifah is, as always, pure pleasure to watch." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 16, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	56%
	" If truth is stranger than fiction, it's also, quite often, a lot more boring." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 16, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	54%
	" Stone may not lead the charge against George W. Bush as viciously as he might have. But he doesn't misunderestimate him, either." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 16, 2008	W. (2008)	58%
	" A picture so seemingly light that it might be hours (or even days) before you realize how deep and rich it really is." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 10, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	94%
	" Aronofsky pulls all the usual strings in The Wrestler. But in the end the movie works, maybe because the best things about it are things that Aronfsky isn�t even conscious of." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Wrestler (2008)	98%
	" Body of Lies is excessively intricate and extremely dull, the latest example of a filmmaker giving us a disjointed, overlong movie that�s unnecessarily confusing to follow." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
	" It's like a lumpy, overworked, useless 'objet' that someone who doesn't know you very well might give you as a gift, a thing that sits around the house serving no unearthly purpose other than reminding you, none too subtly, that it's completely hollow." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 9, 2008	RocknRolla (2008)	58%
	" With Rachel Getting Married, Demme has once again scaled back, making a picture that has some of the ease and warmth of his earlier movies." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 3, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	87%
	" The movie around them may not have enough shape, contrast and texture. But at least these characters are always moving forward, even if the only sure thing they've got to look forward to is dawn." -- Salon.com Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
	" A lovely, exhilarating work about the ways in which failure and frustration can open the pathways through which we make sense out of life." -- Salon.com Posted Sep 26, 2008	The Class (2008)	97%
	" The movie around Lane and Gere is unreal, a tortured construct, but they open a breathing space in its center." -- Salon.com Posted Sep 26, 2008	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	30%
	" *At the very least, Eagle Eye* gives us two principals who are appealing enough to keep us interested in them.*" -- Salon.com* Posted Sep 26, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
	" Knightley is up to the task. Her Georgiana is history with a human face." -- Salon.com Posted Sep 19, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	60%
	" Leoni and Gervais are wonderful together, as much for the ways in which they wobble against each other as for the ways they ultimately mesh." -- Salon.com Posted Sep 19, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	83%
	" It's high time for the western to be resuscitated as a genre; a picture that just pokes along amiably isn't enough to get the job done." -- Salon.com Posted Sep 17, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
	" Traitor is an earnest, efficient, serviceable thriller that makes a valiant effort to untangle some of the moral complexities of the post-9/11 world." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 27, 2008	Traitor (2008)	55%
	" The House Bunny gets the difference between being openhearted and empty-headed." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 22, 2008	The House Bunny (2008)	40%
	" No matter how many jokes you pack around it, arrested development doesn't make for a very compelling dramatic arc." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 22, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
	" Death Race is cartoonishly brutal and pleasantly disreputable." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	42%
	" The movie gets more cluttered and confused as it moves along, though it's dotted with so many generic battle scenes and paint-by-numbers light-saber combat sequences that you can see how it's at least attempting to mimic the illusion of excitement." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	18%
	" Tropic Thunder is ridiculous and deeply enjoyable, but it also flashes a mercilessly polished mirror at the "prestige" products that the movie business so glibly feeds us in order to reflect glory back on itself." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
	" The movie is so wayward and fuzzy that, for the unbaked, at least, there's very little pleasure to be had in trying to follow it. The thing is so desultory and aimless that it seems like work to try to laugh at it." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 6, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
	" It's a relief to go to the movies and see teenage girls acting like teenage girls, as opposed to grown women acting like teenage girls." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 6, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
	" Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is more of the same -- and yet less." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	14%
	" Stern and his lead actor do manage to pull it all together at the end." -- Salon.com Posted Aug 1, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	36%
	" Carter doesn't try to meet or exceed fans' expectations so much as create an intimately scaled dramatic universe for his fiercely beloved characters, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, to inhabit, circa 2008." -- Salon.com Posted Jul 25, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	32%
	" *Stupid, crude and hilarious, Step Brothers* works by sneaking past our better judgment.*" -- Salon.com* Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%

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