ROTTEN TOMATOES: Xan Brooks

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	Babylon A.D.
	WALL-E
	The Killers
	Blade Runner - The Final Cut
	A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
	Pather Panchali
	Princess
	Once
	The Counterfeiters
	Ratatouille
	more...

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	Triangle
	Ben X
	Flashbacks of a Fool
	Botched
	Fade to Black
	Rambo
	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
	Kilometro 31
	Southland Tales
	A Very British Gangster
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

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2/5	"The filmic equivalent of pass-the-parcel on Triangle, a convoluted crime caper about a mysterious gold coin and the luckless bozos on its trail." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2008	Triangle (2007)	36%
2/5	"The next it has cast all narrative sense to the winds as it grabs desperately at a triumphant (even feel-good) ending. So much good work, undone at a stroke." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2008	Ben X (2007)	65%
3/5	"You don't need to have a grudging affection for Vin Diesel to appreciate this dunderheaded comic-book adventure - although, obviously, it helps." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2008	Babylon A.D. (2008)	7%
4/5	"Does Andrew Stanton's film amount to much more than a brilliant aesthetic exercise? I'm not convinced it does." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 18, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	97%
2/5	"It's like an awkward (and how could it not be awkward?) marriage of The Cement Garden and Beaches; an intriguing bit of driftwood, an exotic wreck." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)	45%
1/5	"Botched is bungled - irredeemably, at times even enjoyably, so." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	Botched (2007)	14%
4/5	"A near-classic of 40s film noir." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 8, 2008	The Killers (1946)	100%
2/5	"On paper this must have looked a neat idea: a wildly fictionalised account of a skid-row Orson Welles, up to his neck in political skulduggery while shooting a third-rate picture in post-war Italy." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 7, 2008	Fade to Black (2006)	29%
2/5	"At times there is something weirdly comforting about the film's no-frills, fundamentalist zeal." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 22, 2008	Rambo (2008)	36%
2/5	"You'd have to be a Scrooge to take against this, though it could use a little more Roald Dahl-ish bite, and a little less of the Hoffman twinkle. Needless to say, it all ends happily." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 14, 2007	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)	36%
2/5	"So what bit of this stylishly made, relentlessly silly horror film is "based on real events", exactly?" -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 7, 2007	Kilometro 31 (2006)	71%
2/5	"Frustrating and finally rather pointless." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 7, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	34%
2/5	"As ever, you sense that MacIntyre is half-seduced by the hard-man lifestyle, flattered to be included and content to peddle excitable gangland tourism in the guise of a criminal expose." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 7, 2007	A Very British Gangster (2008)	67%
5/5	"Blade Runner, in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 23, 2007	Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)	97%
2/5	"Like most guitar solos, the film doesn't quite know when to quit." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 9, 2007	Air Guitar Nation (2007)	83%
3/5	"A horribly enlightening documentary." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 9, 2007	A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006)	79%
5/5	"Fresh as a daisy after all these years, Satyajit Ray's 1955 spellbinder comes underpinned by a tumultuous Ravi Shankar sitar and paints a ground's-eye portrait of life in an impoverished Bengali village." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 24, 2007	Pather Panchali (1954)	97%
3/5	"Princess remains technically brilliant and never less than compelling, albeit in a queasy, troubling fashion. Its images rattle in the memory like unclean ghosts." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 19, 2007	Princess (2007)	55%
4/5	"A soulful valentine to music, friendship and the joys of honest hard graft, played out in the bedsits and recording studios of a deglamourised Dublin." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 19, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
3/5	"The moral implications of this scheme are so charged and turbulent that they defy neat resolution. If the film's inhabitants are walking a tightrope, it occasionally seems that that its writer-director is too." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 12, 2007	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
5/5	"I loved Ratatouille. I was even tempted to drop the odd bit of popcorn, like tipping the waiter after a particularly good meal." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 12, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	95%
5/5	"The film is so boldly conceived, richly textured and beautifully paced that its marathon running time feels more like a sprint." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 6, 2007	The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)	100%
2/5	"Big, stupid and nonsensical" -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 5, 2007	Day Watch (2007)	63%
4/5	"Check your cynicism at the door: Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 22, 2007	The Sound of Music (1965)	83%
1/5	"*Imagine a heavy metal album cover come suddenly to life and you pretty much have the measure of Pathfinder." -- Guardian [UK]* Posted Sep 22, 2007	Pathfinder (2007)	11%
3/5	"Krzysztof Krauze's droll, unassuming little biopic stands as a fitting memorial to a life on the fringes." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 14, 2007	My Nikifor (2004)	86%
2/5	"If only the characters were a little less stock and the script more waterproofed. Halfway through our journey, the cliches start seeping in." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 14, 2007	True North (2006)	75%
3/5	"Form and content in perfect harmony." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 8, 2007	Reprise (2008)	86%
4/5	"It is at once a coming-of-age comedy and a fond farewell to an era." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 8, 2007	Withnail and I (1988)	96%
3/5	"A pungent ghost story, evocatively played out in a creaking haunted house." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 17, 2007	Fissures (2007)	73%
1/5	"You don't have to be a schoolyard bully to find yourself longing to administer swift, vicious wedgies to the nerdish inhabitants of this kitsch Kiwi excursion." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 17, 2007	Eagle Vs. Shark (2007)	55%
3/5	"It looks tired, slightly soft in the middle, and yet there is a raw, hard-won honesty here that puts most contemporary US movies to shame." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 10, 2007	The Walker (2007)	52%
2/5	"Cranked out to an hour and a half, it had me flapping my arms in irritation." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 10, 2007	Surf's Up (2007)	77%
5/5	"If anything, Robert Altman's self-styled "anti-western" looks even richer, stranger and more daring than it did when it first appeared back in 1971." -- Guardian [UK] Posted May 4, 2007	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)	89%
2/5	"Here is a big, handsome shyster of a legal thriller, pleading with the viewer to stick with its preposterous twists and turns on the guarantee that the crowning revelation will blow our socks off. In this, as in all things, the film is not to be trusted." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 20, 2007	Fracture (2007)	71%
	"Smart, subtle and excruciatingly honest." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 16, 2007	Funny Ha Ha (2005)	89%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 10, 2007	Duelist (2005)	40%
2/5	"Despite the whimsical voice-over and gloopy, sentimental tone, it's a hard film to dislike." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 27, 2007	Sixty Six (2008)	63%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 27, 2007	Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)	23%
3/5	"A vivid portrait of a town in crisis." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 27, 2007	Right at Your Door (2007)	69%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 30, 2006	Mischief Night (2006)	n/a
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 30, 2006	Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)	40%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 28, 2006	Johanna (2006)	n/a
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 14, 2006	Stick It (2006)	30%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Pulse (2006)	12%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Beerfest (2006)	39%
3/5	"Unconscious is relentlessly wacky but robustly performed..." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Unconscious (2007)	85%
1/5	"If Rickman these indignities like a man with his mind on other things, he's probably just shell-shocked by the antics of his co-star. Weaver's performance is so extravagantly awful, you can't take your eyes off it." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Snow Cake (2007)	66%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water (2005)	n/a
2/5	"Had Tarkovsky ever felt the urge to shoot a perfume commercial, it would probably look a lot like Allegro, this super-stylish, pungently pretentious sci-fi romance from Danish director Christoffer Boe." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Allegro (2005)	60%

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