ROTTEN TOMATOES: Steve Simels

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4.5/5	Cradle Will Rock
4/5	Calle 54
3/4	Restaurant
3.5/5	Sleepy Hollow
3/5	Hamlet
2.5/5	Erin Brockovich
2/4	Dudley Do-Right
2/5	Dinosaur
1.5/5	Where the Heart Is
1/5	Glitter

BEST REVIEWED
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4.5/5	Cradle Will Rock
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	The Transporter
1/5	The Country Bears
1/5	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
1/5	Life or Something Like It
1/5	The Sweetest Thing
1/5	Glitter
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

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2.5/5	" Scattershot, often beautiful to look at and just as often earnest to the point of self-parody." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2008	Whaledreamers (2008)	50%
2/5	" Gives the word "forgettable" a bad name." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2008	Forever Strong (2008)	27%
2.5/5	" Easier to admire than actually enjoy." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 19, 2008	Fraulein (2008)	67%
2.5/5	" Reasonably affecting despite uneven performances and a certain overfondness for familiar stock characters." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 15, 2008	Greetings from the Shore (2008)	63%
2.5/5	" Chris Smith's low-key coming-of-age film/slice of contemporary Indian life takes forever to get where it's going, which turns out to be pretty much nowhere." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 3, 2008	The Pool (2008)	97%
2.5/5	" The real problem, of course, is that Fish isn't all that interesting a protagonist." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 19, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	39%
3/5	" Insufferable, endearing, pretentiously arty, bracingly direct, humorless, hilarious, oddly distant and strangely touching, but always compulsively watchable -- in other words, a fabulous contradictory mess, much like Smith herself." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 8, 2008	Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)	64%
2.5/5	" A low-budget but stylish recreation of the brief life and times of a pioneering LA punk band, What We Do Is Secret is fast and funny enough to make you overlook the fact that you've seen variants of this story before." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 8, 2008	What We Do Is Secret (2008)	44%
	" Low-budget but visually stunning." -- Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 18, 2008	Othello - The Lost Masterpiece (1952)	90%
2/4	" Why in the wide, wide, world of sports would anybody make a big-budget feature film from a decades-old, animated cartoon parody of Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald movies?" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 20, 2008	Dudley Do-Right (1999)	14%
3/4	" Parents can relax: Ron Howard's version of Dr. Seuss' tale of the Christmas-napping Grinch is a smartly stylized hoot." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Feb 5, 2008	How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)	53%
3/4	" Brody, who has the lean-and-hungry charisma of a skinny young De Niro, turns his potentially cliched, tortured artist character into somebody from whom you'd actually want to buy a drink." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 17, 2007	Restaurant (1998)	75%
4/5	" Most of the music is as fine and fierce as you could want." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2003	Only the Strong Survive (2003)	64%
2.5/5	" A surprisingly likeable farce." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 18, 2003	Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)	30%
1.5/5	" *This Adam Sandler/ Jack Nicholson vehicle spends a long 105 minutes spinning a witless sitcom variation on The Game." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Apr 11, 2003	Anger Management (2003)	43%
2/5	" After about an hour ... the film undergoes a precipitous decline marked by absurdity and Victorian sentiment." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Feb 20, 2003	Gods and Generals (2003)	8%
1.5/5	" It's hard not to wonder whether most of the principal actors shouldn't start thinking seriously about switching agents." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 16, 2003	Kangaroo Jack (2003)	8%
3/5	" The performances are uniformly excellent, first-time director Washington keeps things moving with admirable efficiency." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Dec 20, 2002	Antwone Fisher (2002)	79%
1.5/5	" *If this deeply lame Cinderella story, apparently the result of an unholy tryst between Pretty Woman* and Working Girl, had an original idea in its head, that idea would swiftly die of loneliness.*" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Dec 13, 2002	Maid in Manhattan (2002)	40%
2/5	" Nothing about this movie is terribly fresh." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 1, 2002	I Spy (2002)	15%
2.5/5	" A reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 31, 2002	The Santa Clause 2 (2002)	56%
1.5/5	" Really dumb but occasionally really funny." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 28, 2002	Jackass: The Movie (2002)	49%
1.5/5	" Even generally sympathetic adults may eventually find their minds wandering, if only because of the characters' continual, annoying hopping; being vegetables, they have no legs, you see." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 13, 2002	Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)	65%
1/5	" Almost everything about the film is unsettling, from the preposterous hairpiece worn by Lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 11, 2002	The Transporter (2002)	53%
3.5/5	" Silberling's script is a feast of cornucopian proportions for the talented cast, and the acting is, without exception, world class." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Sep 27, 2002	Moonlight Mile (2002)	65%
3/5	" A psychological thriller that doesn't really hold up if you think about it too much, but is nonetheless highly entertaining in a low-budget, David Lynch-ian way." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Sep 26, 2002	Crazy As Hell (2002)	50%
2.5/5	" The film's center will not hold." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Sep 19, 2002	The Four Feathers (2002)	41%
2.5/5	" Isn't terribly original, but it does have the refreshing virtue of showing people smacked around by tsunami-sized waves that, for a change, are mostly not computer generated." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Aug 16, 2002	Blue Crush (2002)	62%
1/5	" *An unintentionally surreal kid's picture ... in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a VH1 Behind the Music* episode.*" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Jul 25, 2002	The Country Bears (2002)	27%
1.5/5	" A harmless, if ultimately inane, fantasy-comedy vehicle for youngsta-rapper Lil' Bow Wow." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 3, 2002	Like Mike (2002)	56%
2.5/5	" On its own staggeringly unoriginal terms, this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 20, 2002	Juwanna Mann (2002)	9%
2/5	" An amiable if inconsistent send-up of and tribute to blaxploitation flicks of the early 1970s." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 30, 2002	Undercover Brother (2002)	76%
1/5	" *Think The Lion King* redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by Bryan Adams, the world's most generic rock star.*" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted May 23, 2002	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)	68%
1/5	" An uneasy mix of four-hankie tearjerker and surreal romantic comedy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 25, 2002	Life or Something Like It (2002)	27%
1/5	" It's hard to overstate just how awful this movie is, despite the efforts of the appealing cast." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 12, 2002	The Sweetest Thing (2002)	25%
2.5/5	" While not for every taste, this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the National Lampoon film franchise, too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 5, 2002	National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)	18%
2.5/5	" The cast is uniformly excellent ... but the film itself is merely mildly charming." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 21, 2002	Very Annie Mary (2001)	30%
2.5/5	" A smart and witty romantic farce that mixes sweet and sexy with surprising aplomb." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 1, 2002	40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)	38%
2.5/5	" *A surprisingly funny and much-smarter -than-it- needs-to-be, Animal House-style ensemble comedy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Feb 15, 2002	Super Troopers (2002)	36%
1.5/5	" Needless to say, the dramatics that follow are utter hooey." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 25, 2002	A Walk to Remember (2002)	27%
	" Quirky, original, and often very funny." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 24, 2002	Waydowntown (2002)	70%
	" If this is the Danish idea of a good time, prospective tourists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war, perhaps." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 17, 2002	Italian for Beginners (2002)	88%
	" Let's face it: 'To thine own self be true' is not exactly late breaking news." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Dec 20, 2001	Joe Somebody (2001)	19%
2/5	" *A hip-hop Cheech and Chong picture crossed with Animal House* that's about as cheerfully vulgar as you might expect.*" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Dec 20, 2001	How High (2001)	27%
2.5/5	" A charming, low-key ensemble comedy that recalls the films of both John Cassavetes and Woody Allen." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 20, 2001	Sidewalks of New York (2001)	56%
1.5/5	" Often painfully unfunny fish-out-of-water saga." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 20, 2001	Black Knight (2001)	13%
2/5	" Something of a cop-out, lacking the courage of its convictions." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 9, 2001	Shallow Hal (2001)	50%
2/5	" Episodic, pretentious, and more than a little silly." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 1, 2001	Happenstance (2001)	64%
1.5/5	" Let's be blunt: Bass can't really act." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 25, 2001	On the Line (2001)	18%
2/5	" An uneasy mix of comedy and soap-opera bathos, only partly redeemed by some strong performances." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 18, 2001	Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)	48%

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