ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mark Holcomb

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/6	Iraq in Fragments
4/6	Crossing the Line
3/6	Blood and Chocolate
2/6	Blood Diamond
1/5	Running with Scissors
1/6	Because I Said So

BEST REVIEWED
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/6	Into the Wild
1/6	Because I Said So
1/5	Running with Scissors
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

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2/6	"The setup has been trotted out a million times before, and the movie�s novel SoCal Chinese-American milieu only partially excuses the familiarity." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 4, 2008	Ping Pong Playa (2008)	62%
2/6	"Confessions like "God and art saved the Reverend Albert" beg for more interrogation than director Thomas G. Miller seems to have in him." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008	One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008)	67%
2/6	"Overlong by half and upbeat to a fault." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008	A Man Named Pearl (2008)	70%
4/6	"Pulls off what may be the best evocation of contemporary alienation in a movie so far this year." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 2, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	88%
2/6	"As bland and effortless to consume as a Fig Newton (sickly sweet goo included), this rote entry in the dysfunctional-family-gathers-at-a-funeral genre makes no demands on its viewers beyond a limp appeal to the tear ducts." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Red Roses and Petrol (2008)	0%
4/6	"Despite its omissions, the movie is as quietly gaga as its human protagonist and as gently stimulating as its agricultural one." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	All In This Tea (2008)	82%
4/6	"It captures the absurd dimensions of romance with immediacy and unexpected compassion." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	77%
4/6	"A blunt, bitterly ironic snapshot of cultural misinterpretation and personal hubris, Nina Davenport�s Operation Filmmaker slyly plumbs the motivations of indie Hollywood do-goodism for uncomfortable parallels to blinkered neocon nation-building." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
2/6	"No amount of lingering shots of nature�s rich pageant can make up for its lack of human involvement." -- Time Out New York Posted May 8, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	46%
4/6	"Visually and intellectually brisk, the movie is as lively as its subjects� gumption is humbling." -- Time Out New York Posted May 8, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	94%
5/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted May 2, 2008	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%
4/6	"Just in time for China�s (sometimes warranted) resurgence in the press as global bogeyman, Arthur Dong�s survey of Chinese-Americans� prickly relationship with Hollywood is a fascinating exploration of the intricacies of cultural assimilation." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2008	Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)	100%
2/6	"Grafting moral uplift on to a slapstick caper with mixed results, this nevertheless captures some of the giddy eccentricity of the Ealing comedies it haphazardly resembles." -- Time Out Posted Mar 28, 2008	First Sunday (2008)	14%
4/6	"*Despite its charged historical backdrop, [director] Luchetti keeps My Brother* light and snappy without sacrificing narrative tension.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Mar 27, 2008	My Brother Is An Only Child (2006)	86%
3/6	"Donaldson builds enough tension and draws enough humor from the situation to cover such lapses." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 6, 2008	The Bank Job (2008)	79%
4/6	"By accentuating the humor and humanity of people stuck in desperate circumstances instead of fetishizing the violence that surrounds them, City of Men serves as a belated corrective to its predecessor." -- Time Out New York Posted Feb 28, 2008	City of Men (2008)	76%
3/6	"What more could one ask of a nostalgia trip?" -- Time Out New York Posted Feb 21, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
3/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 31, 2008	Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2007)	60%
3/6	"Thankfully, the clarity of the impressions the actors vocalize withstands the gimmickry." -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 31, 2008	Nanking (2007)	98%
3/6	"An effective, surprisingly controlled psychological thriller. All that�s required to fully enjoy it is a cast-iron stomach for gore and a pitch-black view of human nature." -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 24, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
4/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Primo Levi's Journey (2007)	84%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Trade (2007)	27%
3/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Dec 13, 2007	Meeting Resistance (2007)	76%
2/6	"All the film seems capable of proving is that performance art makes a dubious vehicle for social change, and sustaining a joke past its breaking point is no less stultifying in the service of good." -- Time Out New York Posted Nov 29, 2007	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)	61%
4/6	"*Goran Dukic's Shaggy yet assured Wristcutters* manages to draw humor and warmth from [its] premise, while finding pathos in what could’ve been a vapid, high-concept lark.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Oct 18, 2007	Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)	65%
3/6	"The Condemned sprays its fury wide: media manipulators, political opportunists and technology-pacified couch potatoes are among the collaterally damaged. Paying audiences don�t get off so easy either." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007	The Condemned (2007)	15%
3/6	"Its running time painfully accentuates the premise�s thinness." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)	47%
3/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007	Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2007)	74%
1/6	"Penn�s entitled to his reading of McCandless�s story, of course, but envisioning it as a Stations of the Cross with a backpack is bizarre and disrespectful." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 20, 2007	Into the Wild (2007)	83%
3/6	"Weirdly captivating." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 13, 2007	King of California (2007)	62%
3/6	"It�s hard to shake the impression that this movie has the sort of penny-pinching authenticity Quentin Tarantino�s been trying for his entire career." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 30, 2007	Illegal Tender (2007)	13%
3/6	"Proof positive that life�s mundanities are even more tedious projected onto a movie screen." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 30, 2007	Quiet City (2007)	86%
3/6	"*Oz does a decent job of building up to Death�s* big laughs.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Aug 16, 2007	Death at a Funeral (2007)	63%
4/6	"Blitz gets too much mileage out of a pair of kooky (or kookily) Korean neighbors, but even that�s mitigated by his unapologetic affection for the movie�s cast of misfits, all of whom are somehow beautiful in their irredeemable f---ed-upness." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 9, 2007	Rocket Science (2007)	84%
4/6	"With a brisk narrative that blends intrigue, tension, pathos and humor, Anthony Giacchino�s absorbing look back at a New Jersey antiwar group�s early-�70s arrest and trial is closer to living history than dry, academic harangue." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 26, 2007	The Camden 28 (2007)	88%
	"The film loses some of its sting once the race narrows, but its outcome and the politically, emotionally astute fade-out are suitably devastating." -- Time Out Posted Jul 12, 2007	The Method (2005)	71%
4/6	"[A] harrowing first-person doc, which is as brazen in its call for military intervention as it is aesthetically accomplished." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 12, 2007	The Devil Came On Horseback (2007)	98%
3/6	"The story�s grasping, eager-to-displease setup never establishes enough depth to be fully engaging, let alone metaphorically significant -- and why else make a movie about a psychotic kicking hooch in order to be a better killer?" -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 23, 2007	You Kill Me (2007)	79%
4/6	"What the film mercilessly captures that his possibly too-lovely photos only imply is the stunning degree to which poor countries have become the source and cesspit for the West’s addiction to consumer crap." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 23, 2007	Manufactured Landscapes (2007)	84%
5/6	"Director Olivier Meyrou takes a potently oblique v�rit� approach, and his remarkable level of access reveals the limitations and equivocal mercies of human understanding with uncommon grace." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 16, 2007	Beyond Hatred (2005)	89%
4/6	"*Director Davis Guggenheim�s signature combination of emotional restraint and earthy visuals gives Gracie* an unexpected grandeur.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Jun 2, 2007	Gracie (2007)	59%
4/6	"Here�s something satisfying: �70s-cinema fetishism with the courage of its convictions." -- Time Out New York Posted May 19, 2007	The Wendell Baker Story (2007)	43%
4/6	"The film�s pace lags toward the end, but its grasp of manufactured fear�s dreary pervasiveness never falters." -- Time Out New York Posted May 5, 2007	Civic Duty (2007)	56%
2/6	"As hangdog and hammy as its leading man, this extra-thick slice of Canadian tragedy porn subsists on contrivances from other movies." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 28, 2007	Snow Cake (2007)	66%
4/6	"The effect is spirited rather than incriminating and, bolstered by Jonah Rapino�s contemplative score, as piercingly detailed as one of Alice�s mesmerizing portraits." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 21, 2007	Alice Neel (2007)	73%
2/6	"Airlessly insidery and only sporadically funny ..." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 7, 2007	The TV Set (2007)	65%
3/6	"It�s an impressive moving wax museum, certainly, but even metatextual follies eventually need a pulse." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 31, 2007	Color Me Kubrick (2007)	52%
2/6	"Not so much formulaic as elemental, this campy, would-be-inspirational jock weepy scrapes the barrel for life-lesson-imparting sports to exploit." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 24, 2007	Pride (2007)	46%
4/6	"The type of crazed, folkloric epic that Germany�s own De Niro�Scorsese duo usually excelled at." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 24, 2007	Cobra Verde (1987)	86%
3/6	"*By dodging cultural and political specifics in favor of a thriller-lite framework Beyond the Gates* ends up serving largely as a tribute to the virtues of hindsight.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Mar 17, 2007	Beyond the Gates (2007)	83%

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