ROTTEN TOMATOES: David Fear

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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6/6	There Will Be Blood
5/6	Manda Bala
4/6	Hannah Takes the Stairs
3/6	The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun
2/6	Frozen River
1/6	Finishing the Game

BEST REVIEWED
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6/6	Celine and Julie Go Boating
6/6	Letter from an Unknown Woman
6/6	The Cranes Are Flying
6/6	There Will Be Blood
6/6	There Will Be Blood
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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1/6	Fly Me To The Moon
1/6	88 Minutes
1/6	Backseat
1/6	Penelope
1/6	How to Rob a Bank
1/6	The Heartbreak Kid
1/6	Revolver
1/6	The Bucket List
1/6	Rails & Ties
1/6	Reservation Road
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 59% of the time.

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4/6	"Trouble the Water�s political-made-personal power to invoke both Anderson Cooper levels of rage and the sense that hope springs eternal rests solely with its main subjects." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 21, 2008	Trouble the Water (2008)	92%
2/6	"[T]his attempt to explain the nation�s fiscal crises in an entertaining and enlightening way ends up in the red." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 21, 2008	I.O.U.S.A. (2008)	80%
5/6	"For a young filmmaker whose previous movie, The GoodTimesKid, suggested he was a precocious talent, this moody, pitch-perfect ode to immaturity ironically proves he�s finally grown up." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 21, 2008	Momma's Man (2008)	86%
2/6	"Goes from mere bad choice to embarrassing clunker...Community-college theater troupes have rendered broad burlesques with more skill." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008	Romance of Astree and Celadon (2008)	76%
3/6	"The pacing has a tendency to downshift from deliberate to meandering at crucial moments, and though the trio of actors is on point—especially Magimel, a master at smug menace -- Chabrol’s digs feel frustratingly halfhearted." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	77%
1/6	"It'd be nice to imagine, however, that after enduring this attempt at selling fourth-rate 3-D animation as entertainment, ripped-off toddlers would react properly and take to the streets en masse." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008	Fly Me To The Moon (2008)	17%
2/6	"Tropic Thunder is nothing but mild vulgarity mixed with explosions and entitlement, a piss take on Hollywood excess that doubles as an example of it." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
4/6	"The cultural time capsule doubles as a testament to the joys of outsiders bonding, with interviewees emphasizing how they finally felt like they belonged somewhere after years of asphyxiating alone on the fringe." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 6, 2008	Beautiful Losers (2008)	62%
2/6	"There�s a rich narrative to be mined from this historical moment. Until that movie gets made, however, we�ve got Randall Miller�s pandering take." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 6, 2008	Bottle Shock (2008)	48%
3/6	"Casual filmgoers may wonder why they’ve just sat through what’s simply a decent episode writ large." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 31, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
2/6	"Regrettably not that deep." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 31, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	79%
2/6	"Weiland�s decision to enliven a predictable film � clef with Tim Burton�esque flair makes for a promising start, at least until the absurdo-fantastic gestures slip into gratuitousness." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 31, 2008	Sixty Six (2008)	58%
4/6	"Wisely, John Crowley embeds the mulling of social issues within a character study, albeit one that stylistically straddles Loachian realism and lad-movie flashiness." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	Boy A (2008)	88%
4/6	"It lacks the punch of Shiota�s previous explorations of traumatized teen spirits, but the film still leaves bruises in all the right places." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	Canary (2008)	67%
4/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	Late Bloomer (2004)	n/a
4/6	"This microcosmic look at race relations is a great reminder that, even in the year of Obama, we remain a nation divided between black and white." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	The Order of Myths (2008)	100%
5/6	"Armed with the standard operating tools of documentary filmmaking, James Marsh leads audiences through Petit & Co.�s preparation and execution of this incredible feat of performance art." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
4/6	"It’s [star Tatsuya] Nakadai who makes this impressive yet flawed screed worth your time commitment." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008	Human Condition, The - Pt. 1 - No Greater Love (1958)	80%
2/6	"Pearce�s boys-adventure take on the vaudeville legend is a hoot, though not nearly as laughable as the dialogue or Zeta-Jones�s pitiful attempts at basic emoting." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008	Death Defying Acts (2008)	46%
4/6	"[DirectorAssarat�s] raw, poetic sensibility turns this posttraumatic parable into something both dreamy and oddly disturbing." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008	Wonderful Town (2008)	91%
3/6	"Visually impressive, but any hack can do a halfway decent job with trailer-ready tangents. Not everyone can push the genre forward, and the fact that Nolan's padded popcorn flick isn't the streamlined masterpiece it could have been is a real buzzkill." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 15, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
2/6	"Burstyn can do maternal strength and strife in her sleep, but Kari Skogland�s hardscrabble weepie is still indistinguishable from any number of similar memory-lane melodramas." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	The Stone Angel (2008)	47%
3/6	"The movie says nothing about the period and everything about the power of the pout." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	Eight Miles High (2007)	42%
2/6	"There�s neither brilliance nor bite to this look at innocence lost. Next time, go Nathanael West, young man." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	Garden Party (2008)	11%
3/6	"No one expected a Baudrillard essay on the perils of sim cities, but such a heady subject deserves more than a skim job." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	74%
2/6	"Great, just what we needed: another rote exercise in indie-feely humanism." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 2, 2008	Diminished Capacity (2008)	28%
3/6	"You sense that Jacobs�s exhumation requires either the punch of a short or the contemplative scope of a 14-hour video installation to properly work its avant-magick." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2008)	83%
3/6	"Balancing the political and the personal is a smart idea, though the resulting togglethon ends up being the uneasiest of marriages." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	76%
2/6	"The film keeps artificially pumping your adrenal glands with mindless, malnutritional sensations, only to leave you crampy and cranky minutes later." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
2/6	"Both Patric and Morton give brazenly fearless performances, yet these talents are left tangoing to a tune that�s nowhere near worthy of them." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 18, 2008	Expired (2008)	60%
4/6	"Forman�s career pivot point between Prague�s film-school halls and the Oscars podium is still a prime example of the way a foreign director can apply an outsider�s perspective to something like Nixon�s Amerikkka and draw blood." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 18, 2008	Taking Off (1971)	100%
2/6	"If you needed to find something -- anything -- redeeming about Carlos Brooks�s ridiculous romantic thriller, you can at least credit it for not sticking to the paths most traveled." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	66%
4/6	"...makes for fascinating anthropology despite the film�s flaws; Herzog�s take on the exterior landscapes may lack focus, but the keen attention he pays to interior geographies is perfect compensation." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	94%
6/6	"Jacques Rivette�s free-form dissertation on the interzone between performance and spectatorship is the ideal filmgoing experience, even as the 'story' transcends all long-standing rules of narrative engagement." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Celine and Julie Go Boating (1976)	95%
3/6	"If Nelson�s aim was simply to give this bull a stage on which to rage, he�s succeeded; if the director is also trying to advocate the importance of Ellison as a man of letters, he�s wildly off the mark." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)	93%
3/6	"That old Argento black magic, literally and figuratively, is still AWOL." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	49%
3/6	"Given that Eric Guirado�s drama sticks to a predictable arc, it�s less the tale that matters than the telling." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	The Grocer's Son (2008)	79%
3/6	"Shorts programs require a gambler�s mentality -- roll the dice, take your chances -- and thankfully, this collection of French snippets has two that offset a sense of 'comme ci, comme �a' curating." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	"L'Origine de la tendresse" and Other Tales (2008)	n/a
3/6	"Tornatore is unable to sustain tension once the heroine�s agenda is revealed halfway through, and what follows veers between ploddingly dull and unintentionally risible." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	62%
4/6	"Jean-Luc Godard�s fourth film is a heartfelt, headstrong attempt to push his own concept of a deconstructed cinema even further into the stratosphere." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	My Life to Live (1962)	90%
4/6	"Bertino�s cat-and-mouse chase is genuinely terrifying. If the director learns how to make what happens once the mouse is caught just as interesting, he�ll have a long, prosperous future ahead of him." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	42%
2/6	"Both a musty throwback and a mushy example of contemporary knee-jerk humanism." -- Time Out New York Posted May 21, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	27%
2/6	"All this proves is that watching a poorly executed scene from 19 perspectives is worse than watching it once in an unbroken frame." -- Time Out New York Posted May 14, 2008	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	40%
3/6	"Though the film attests that the director can masterfully dredge up metaphysical dread, it also proves that he needs to learn to avoid easy ways out." -- Time Out New York Posted May 14, 2008	Yella (2008)	78%
2/6	"What Eigeman needs is a stronger sense of style and storytelling if he wants to elevate the material past the stock indie-miserabilism mark." -- Time Out New York Posted May 8, 2008	Turn the River (2008)	75%
4/6	"Long before Wong Kar-wai perfected his dreamy, ennui-infused aesthetic (or got hopelessly stuck in blueberry goo), he made a name for himself with this warhorse tale of small-time hoods on the road to ruin." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2008	As Tears Go By (1988)	71%
3/6	"Though Lelouch has toned down his penchant for putting pretty pictures ahead of plot, there�s still a nagging sense of disposability." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
4/6	"Standard Operating Procedure never offers concrete answers; it lets the perpetrators explain themselves straight into the camera, and we�re left to sift through the testimonies." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
2/6	"Uncomfortable moments and near�nervous breakdowns transition into Oxygen-channel cuteness, which we�re supposed to read as some sort of approximation of�messy real life? Not quite." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	55%
3/6	"The subject is never less than fascinating, though the film�s repetitive format and reiteration of the same points ad infinitum will wear you down before the paint can dry." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Bomb It (2008)	87%

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