ROTTEN TOMATOES: Erik Childress

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Hot Fuzz
3.5/4	Grindhouse
4/5	3:10 to Yuma
3/4	Blades of Glory
2.5/4	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres
3/5	Self-Medicated
2/4	Fracture
2/5	Private Property
1.5/4	Perfect Stranger
1/4	The Reaping
1/5	Day Watch
0.5/4	Across the Universe
0/4	Evening

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Frost/Nixon
4/4	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
4/4	Synecdoche, New York
4/4	The Dark Knight
4/4	WALL-E
4/4	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
4/4	Juno
4/4	Stephen King's The Mist
4/4	Beowulf
4/4	No Country for Old Men
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Soul Men
0/4	The Lucky Ones
0/4	The Happening
0/4	Sex and the City - The Movie
0/4	What Happens in Vegas
0/4	The Bucket List
0/4	I Know Who Killed Me
0/4	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
0/4	Evening
0/4	Broken Bridges
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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1.5/4	" David Fincher was simply not the right man for the job and it shows at every turn in a film that is a complete and utter failure at everything it set out to tackle." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 24, 2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	72%
1.5/4	" Accompanied by one of the worst scores I've heard in some time, Seven Pounds follows its lead by continually trying to bury its final note under another one and constantly sounding like the composer missing the beat over and over and over again." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2008	Seven Pounds (2008)	28%
2/4	" Much like the self-help guru it enables, it exists solely to get your money like a good little follower and then ask you to ignore the doubt that comes with having plunked down exorbitant theater prices for a barely average comedy." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2008	Yes Man (2008)	42%
2/4	" And you thought Walt was kidding when he told his son early on that people would show up after the funeral because he 'suppose they heard there's gonna be a lot of ham.'" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2008	Gran Torino (2008)	75%
1.5/4	" An overall lame piece of science-fiction and an even lamer parable that fails to distinguish its own ironies of what's worth saving when filmmakers like Derrickson pee all over something so many of us cherish." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2008	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)	20%
2.5/4	" Doubt ends on a note so ridiculous, so heavy-handed and over-the-top that it would have been right at home during some cartoon parody of pretentious Oscar do-gooders trying to shout its message towards your 6-D glasses." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2008	Doubt (2008)	76%
2/4	" In the spirit of teaming up franchises, if Lions Gate were to continue reviving hope with The Punisher, maybe the next time around he can protect the winner from VH-1's Scream Queens against the other Jigsaw in Saw VI." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 4, 2008	Punisher: War Zone (2008)	23%
4/4	" Without George W. Bush, the Frost/Nixon conversations may have become just another anecdote of remembering when - instead of confronting audiences with the ironies of two wartime Presidents not owning up to the mistakes that were made." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 4, 2008	Frost/Nixon (2008)	90%
1/4	" By unnecessarily extending the film (and shortening what should have formed its crux), Australia manages the almost unfeasible feat of becoming a less honest film than Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 25, 2008	Australia (2008)	54%
3/4	" Skirting somewhere in-between his bombastic, arms-flailing work in the disasterous All the King's Men remake and the man-child of I Am Sam, Penn goes well past impersonation and commands each and every scene with sympathy and determination." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 25, 2008	Milk (2008)	92%
3/4	" It will be curious to see how Casino Royale enthusiasts react to Quantum of Solace. Their action palette will certainly be quenched but they may be thirsty again immediately after." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 13, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	65%
0/4	" If the Weinsteins had any soul themselves they would take this film and bury it along with every other film they seem to these days instead of trying to cash it in as some misbegotten tribute to Bernie Mac's legacy." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2008	Soul Men (2008)	44%
3/4	" David Wain's Role Models can both stand proudly alongside the recent spate of vulgar R-rated comedies and provide definitive proof why we no longer laugh at Sandler's films." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2008	Role Models (2008)	76%
4/4	" Dear Zachary is not just Oscar-worthy material, but Oscar-requisite. If the Academy's documentary branch can't find a way to nominate this film (and then promptly reward it) then there's more than one corruption of justice that needs to be investigated." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 28, 2008	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)	93%
4/4	" It's an intricate piece to the puzzle of self-examination that began in Adaptation and continues into one of the most challenging, exasperating and beautiful works to hit theaters since probably Eternal Sunshine." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 23, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	63%
2.5/4	" Changeling is no escape, but more of a two-hour plus trap that never springs on us; a story of three parts that is thematically as absentee as the child himself." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 23, 2008	Changeling (2008)	59%
3/4	" Albeit ambitious in its fairness to the man at times and centered by an award-worthy performance by Josh Brolin, there's an irony that Stone's rush to judgement prevented him from creating a film with a more lasting legacy." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 17, 2008	W. (2008)	58%
2.5/4	" After Ridley's less-than-stellar stretch including Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year and American Gangster, expectations are medium at best and Body of Lies does nothing to raise them." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 9, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
2/4	" Many critics will make some quip on the film's title doing precisely that to the audience looking for a little inside baseball, but there's so much general familiarity going for it already, why add to it?" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 3, 2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	38%
0/4	" With one head-gnawing plot contrivance after another, it may think it's the wacky Iraq version of Easy Rider but is more like this year's Around the Bend or Diamonds." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
3/4	" The Kubrickian Hitchcock elements are out front and personal, but D.J. Caruso keeps things nicely slick and swift so the film reminds you, maybe not of those legends, but certainly of someone like John Badham at his 1983 peak." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
2.5/4	" Arriaga's attempt with poignant reconnections at the end can't strike the emotional footnote it wants at the fade as he's muddled it up trying to get us to make all the obvious connections from the previous 100 minutes." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	The Burning Plain ()	20%
2/4	" We already had one Other Boleyn Girl this year, but even as the occasional blip of droll humor breaks up the monotony and 'tell me something I don't know' developments, it's still quite a dullard's affair." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	60%
3/4	" Maher's holy trinity comes in the form of the words 'I don't know' and it's the lesson he wants to shout from the pulpit, even if there's some arrogance in believing that he knows everyone else is wrong." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	Religulous (2008)	71%
3/4	" The bullets may not be comparable to the Yuma remake or Kevin Costner's underrated Open Range, but the men holding the guns are still the same. So what if they're just a little bit different?" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 18, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
2.5/4	" Lakeview Terrace waves bye-bye much earlier on than it should and that's a shame because it would have been so nice to see such lofty reflections getting along in a thriller for mass consumption." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 18, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	49%
2.5/4	" Whenever Christian McKay is on screen, it's transportive. So it's a shame that Linklater didn't see the egotistical irony in the title and just make a film all about Orson Welles. It's what he would have wanted." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 16, 2008	Me and Orson Welles (2008)	n/a
2/4	" The film's tone between dark comedy and creepy psychodrama just never works and alternates with such mellowness that it's impossible to get a grasp on how we should feel about either 'victim.'" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 16, 2008	Four Nights with Anna (2008)	n/a
3/4	" You wish there was a little less grumbling and more of the Before Sunrise/Sunset feel that we get in the final half hour which is quite special. Put Michael Cera and an escalator in your climactic scene and somehow magic is born." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 16, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2.5/4	" The pacing isn't quite as screwy as the premise and it winds up with the occasional lag while it chases too much of any particular subplot" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 16, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
3.5/4	" I [have] a little crush on Ghost Town and I'll stand by it as one of the best surprises of 2008." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 12, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	83%
3/4	" If Rian Johnson took a page from Raymond Chandler for Brick, then it's one of Wes Anderson's eyes he's plucked out for his latest." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Brothers Bloom (2009)	73%
0.5/4	" We're in for a bumpy ride on Anderson's Bi-polar express where the line between homage and ripoff is never as blurry as his action sequences. His Ben-Hur chariot race would have needed nothing more than one set of horses, a couple human heads and a wheel." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 21, 2008	Death Race (2008)	42%
2.5/4	" Despite its breezy quality and occasional big laugh, The Rocker just never completely clicks as A-side material." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	39%
3.5/4	" Stiller has rediscovered the subversive humor from the best moments of his career and created a near-classic that is his funniest film since the remake of Meet the Parents." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 12, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
3/4	" While the pot comedy genre has strived more on memorable characters (Spicoli, Cheech & Chong, Harold & Kumar) than memorable movies, Pineapple Express is the rare exception." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 5, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
3/4	" Neither are merely satirizing the late '80s string of age reversal comedies. Instead in their own bizarro way have a charm that results in their commitment to the premise." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 24, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
4/4	" The most brilliantly complex, perfectly paced, nerve-jangling, moral-wrangling film ever based on a graphically detailed literary work and, dare I say, one of the most important American films to be made in years." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
3/4	" It's an all-ages type of show, doesn't cost much, you'll laugh a few times and smile even more. Then when he makes his way around again to DVD and onto cable, you may just be inclined to take in another matinee." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Great Buck Howard (2009)	86%
3/4	" Light as a feather, but never boring, Journey 3-D, brought me back just a little to my days as a youth watching adventures and for 90 minutes it was a welcome spelunk." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	61%
3/4	" May have an indie budget but equally evokes the rich landscapes of early Terrence Malick and the grimy grindhouse tales of the '70s, converging poetically into its heartmashing climax." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 1, 2008	All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2008)	55%
2/4	" By the expedited conclusion it all feels less like a Peter Berg film and just another chapter in Will Smith's tentpole history of major creative failures." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 30, 2008	Hancock (2008)	39%
1.5/4	" When we, the audience, are confronted directly at the end and asked "what the #$!% have you done lately?" at least you can readily answer, "well, I sure didn't make a film as crappy as Wanted."" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
4/4	" Not since Titanic will you have heard two prospective partners cry out each other's names with as much longing (and frequency) and if there's any karma, fate, or pure love out there to believe in than WALL-E will equal its attendance and then some." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
0/4	" The greatest excuse yet to get that anti-M. Night petition started. The last thing we want is a future of Shyamalan films with the knowledge that we all could have done something sooner." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
1.5/4	" If you can clock a feature film by its transformations (25-&-50) style and still wish that you could skip through the commercials in-between, precisely how far removed are you from what's come before." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
3/4	" Dreamworks is bringing old school to the new school with Kung Fu Panda, which quietly lumbers around in its first half before proving itself a worthy master of the art in its action-packed second." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
3/4	" A film to unnerve us enough to either buy some extra deadbolts or kill the next bastard who walks across our lawn." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 29, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	44%
0/4	" Having the story of Cinderella play a significant role in the feature introduces the deadpan irony that this version is told through the eyes of the stepsisters like a big screen version of Wicked only without the happy ending." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 29, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	50%
4/4	" To all of the wannabes, imposters and posers out there � it�s time to go back to school and learn how a real adventure picture is made." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 19, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%

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