ROTTEN TOMATOES: Xan Brooks

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4/5	Withnail and I
3/5	Beyond the Gates
2.5/5	Very Bad Things
2/5	The Bourne Identity
1/5	Yours, Mine, & Ours

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Blade Runner - The Final Cut
5/5	Pather Panchali
5/5	Ratatouille
5/5	The Sorrow and the Pity
5/5	McCabe & Mrs. Miller
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	Free Jimmy
1/5	Taken
1/5	Botched
1/5	Pathfinder
1/5	Eagle Vs. Shark
1/5	Snow Cake
1/5	Yours, Mine, & Ours
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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3/5	" At times Special People feels hobbled by the very political correctness it wants to poke fun at; still, it's nicely observed and crisply played, gently confounding a gaggle of prejudices during the course of a svelte 81-minute run." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008	Special People (2007)	89%
2/5	" Good news for those who missed the Spanish zombie horror [REC] when it opened here a few months back. Here comes the inevitable fast-tracked Hollywood remake, which covers the same ground without the burden of all those subtitled hysterics." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008	Quarantine (2008)	60%
3/5	" For all its flaws and fumbles there is a certain guilty pleasure in Choke." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
2/5	" Body of Lies is big and bombastic, confused and irritable - a 20th-century blockbuster struggling to adapt (too little, too late) to a 21st-century terrain." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	41%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Kenny (2008)	100%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Mouth to Mouth (1995)	33%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	City of Men (2008)	76%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	19%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Prom Night (2008)	7%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Anche Libero Va Bene (2006)	n/a
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004)	63%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Jules And Jim (1962)	97%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Puffball (2007)	0%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Winter Soldier (1972)	100%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	Assembly (2008)	n/a
2/5	" As it is, Mandy Lane feels bogus and compromised: an unreconstructed horror romp in the guise of a nerdish intellectual." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 18, 2008	All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2008)	55%
1/5	" Free Jimmy is a sledgehammer Norwegian animation that metes out all manner of cruelty to dumb animals, not least the ones in the audience." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 17, 2008	Free Jimmy (2006)	10%
3/5	" Richard McGuire's contribution is a small gothic masterpiece in which a guttering candle picks out half-glimpsed horrors inside an old dark house." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 3, 2008	Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)	74%
2/5	" Does The Fall amount to anything more than a vast sugar-frosted folly? I'm not convinced it does, although its wanton extravagance is not without charm. Singh has money to burn and he builds a pretty bonfire." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 3, 2008	The Fall (2008)	59%
1/5	" What a slick, dubious, morally bankrupt movie this is." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Taken (2009)	50%
2/5	" It gets a little wearing, hanging out with these lions, but there's no denying the beauty of the landscape, with its fluttering avalanches, plumes of powder and vertiginous, zigzagging descents." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Steep (2007)	51%
2/5	" Ejiofor remains a supremely assured, charismatic presence, though he has his work cut out here. He is pitted against a film with a black belt in pomposity and a gold medal in preening self-regard." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	69%
2/5	" Once out of the starting grid, the film proceeds to edit the action so dementedly that one struggles to work out whose car just exploded, who flipped over and who's driving the one with the missile-launcher on the roof." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Death Race (2008)	42%
2/5	" They require a bigger stage, a sharper script and a more rigorous director. Without these, the long-awaited De Niro/Pacino show amounts to nothing so much as a novelty bout, a celebrity sparring session. Its sound and fury signifies very little." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 26, 2008	Righteous Kill (2008)	21%
3/5	" This ill-starred four-piece are the heroes of a flawed, fascinating documentary, shot on digital video by two excitable gonzo-esque journalists from Vice magazine." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 12, 2008	Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)	81%
4/5	" The acting is heartfelt, but the film carries a heaped cargo of conceits that has it wavering between the stark and the sentimental, the nuanced and the schematic." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	64%
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)	42%
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 (2008)	63%
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)	96%
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)	35%
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)	37%
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)	35%
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)	94%
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)	96%
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%

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