ROTTEN TOMATOES: Peter Bradshaw

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Sicko
4/5	John Waters: This Filthy World
3/5	The Singer
2/5	Hatchet
1/5	The Kingdom
0/5	The Game Plan

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Man on Wire
5/5	The General
5/5	Mean Streets
5/5	Gone With the Wind
5/5	No Country for Old Men
5/5	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
5/5	The Sacrifice
5/5	All About Eve
5/5	Sicko
5/5	Dead of Night
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	The Game Plan
0/5	Boat Trip
1/5	The Clone Wars
1/5	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
1/5	Make It Happen
1/5	Elite Squad
1/5	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
1/5	Fool's Gold
1/5	Mister Lonely
1/5	Demonlover
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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2/5	"This is a silly, crass comedy about a badass Israeli commando who secretly longs to be a hairdresser specialising in 1980s stylings." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 15, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
2/5	"All amiable enough, but still a bit tame compared to, say, Clueless, or Lindsay Lohan's Freaky Friday remake." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 15, 2008	Wild Child (2008)	20%
1/5	"The sheer, brain-frazzling pointlessness of it all predominates. Why? Why do this again? At 64, Lucas is surely not too old to have a crack at creating a movie that has nothing to do with Star Wars at all." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	18%
1/5	"McDormand is frankly bland and unresponsive in a role she clearly couldn't care less about; Adams's wide-eyed ingenue routine is on autopilot, and the whole thing looks like a sub-prime American TV movie." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 15, 2008	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	77%
4/5	"Demme's fascinating documentary shows Carter on a US tour to promote the book. Perhaps Carter - and Demme himself - imagined this would be as trouble-free as Al Gore promoting environmentalism." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 15, 2008	Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)	78%
3/5	"I can't help feeling that this is a slight misstep from this director, and can't decide whether his film has at its centre a mystery or a muddle." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Banishment (2007)	56%
1/5	"Its just as cheesy and just as icky, but calamitously fails to offer any high-octane dance to ease the pain." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 8, 2008	Make It Happen (2008)	17%
2/5	"The twee, simpering voiceover is annoying, and what dialogue there is has been badly dubbed." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 8, 2008	The Fox & the Child (2008)	47%
1/5	"Here is the biggest, fattest, dampest squib of the week: perhaps the most disappointing film ever to have won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 8, 2008	Elite Squad (2008)	58%
3/5	"An intelligent film for grown-ups." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 8, 2008	Elegy (2008)	71%
2/5	"The movie is over-schematic, slow-moving and over-furnished. It never seems to come alive with any believable interplay of characters; the movie locks itself into a watertight tank of a premise, and the handcuffs won't come off." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 8, 2008	Death Defying Acts (2008)	46%
2/5	"There are some nice surreal touches, such as getting enormous adults to play two of the eight-year-olds. But I can't forgive Chow for a misjudged and frankly offensive ending, which is culpably evasive about the reality of life and death." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 8, 2008	CJ7 (2008)	52%
3/5	"Walker's ending is fudged both in terms of the narrative and the issues, and she seems to come down, a little feebly, on the "heartwarming" side of things. But what an amazing, and bizarre, story." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 8, 2008	Blindsight (2008)	98%
1/5	"The Mummy franchise now really is dead, dead, dead. It is so dead, it could win gold at the Dead Olympics, establishing a new British and Commonwealth record in the 400m decomposition event." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 8, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	11%
3/5	"Bad-taste material, delivered with an insouciance that looks easy until you see lesser comics trying it, is what she does best: killer gags about seven-year-old lesbians and Jews killing Jesus." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 1, 2008	Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)	65%
3/5	"A well-acted but lugubrious noir, which is somehow not quite thrilling enough to be a thriller, and not quite profound enough to be a character study." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 1, 2008	Married Life (2008)	58%
5/5	"What Marsh shows us is Petit's childlike innocence and almost transcendental faith: faith in himself, faith in his leadership abilities, faith that the escapade would be a success, and faith that he would not fall." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 1, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
3/5	"Myers' shtick isn't for everyone, but I laughed. Looking around, however, I saw that my fellow critics were enjoying themselves as much as Gordon Brown on the beach at Southwold." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
4/5	"The new length gives a clearer view of the civil war context: a nightmare of panic as the south flees before the Union's advance." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	98%
2/5	"It is a bit better than many recent lipsmacking movies on similar subjects... but there's still the same self-serving, self-sentimentalising macho nonsense." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 1, 2008	Cass (2008)	50%
4/5	"Ozu's familiar combination of melancholy regret and buoyant comic gaiety is beguilingly in evidence." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 28, 2008	Floating Weeds (1959)	95%
2/5	"It is very difficult, to say the least, to believe in any of the characters." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 25, 2008	Paris (2008)	62%
3/5	"Reed's unmistakable lilting groan has real pain in it, hinting at a real but undisclosed personal story behind the music." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 25, 2008	Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)	76%
2/5	"The film is fervently acted and well shot, and Das provides a powerful, emotional force, but there is something a little clanky about the whole project..." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 25, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	46%
4/5	"Watching the first dizzying, vertiginous overhead shot of the glittering skyscrapers and minuscule streets, I literally forgot to breathe for a second or two, and found myself teetering forward on my seat..." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 25, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
3/5	"Enjoyable and amiable in its daft way." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 25, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	62%
2/5	"Despite the genuine excitement, and one blinding flash of the old genius, this new Indy film looks like it's going through the motions." -- Guardian [UK] Posted May 18, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
2/5	"This left-field, futuristic film is a tad too indulgent to be a true homage to the silent movie." -- Guardian [UK] Posted May 16, 2008	The Aerial (2007)	60%
2/5	"Despite the convulsively jittery address to the role, [Downey] is never in the smallest degree engaging in the way director Jon Favreau appears to think." -- Guardian [UK] Posted May 2, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
2/5	"Intense and very involving drama by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	Private Property (2006)	69%
2/5	"There's plenty of empty bravura, and Reeves is fundamentally blank and uninteresting." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
4/5	"Farrell has brought his A-game to this cracking little comedy-noir written and directed by Martin McDonagh. He is absolutely superb." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	80%
1/5	"Matthew McConaughey, whose continuing Hollywood career deserves a separate chapter in any future book by Richard Dawkins on the non-existence of God, is reunited for this romcom caper with Kate Hudson, herself uncompromisingly abysmal in everything." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	11%
4/5	"In the factory-farmed blandness of the movies, Happy-Go-Lucky has a strong, real taste." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 18, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	94%
5/5	"Spectacular chases, fires and explosions are captured with fluid camerawork. There are no stunt doubles for Keaton and of course no digital effects." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 2, 2008	The General (1927)	91%
5/5	"The movie's blazing energy is still astounding; the v�rit� street-scenes are terrific and Scorsese's pioneering use of popular music is genuinely thrilling." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 31, 2008	Mean Streets (1973)	98%
4/5	"Andersson is radically different from anyone else, with a technical, compositional rigour that puts other movie-makers and visual artists to shame." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 28, 2008	You, The Living (2007)	100%
4/5	"With terrific poise and the crispest, cleanest cinematography imaginable, the 27-year-old French director C�line Sciamma has given us a very provocative and stylish drama set in the world of teenage girls' synchronised swimming." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 14, 2008	Water Lilies (2007)	78%
3/5	"Nice performances from Shearsmith and Serkis, and some outrageous ketchupy grossout, though I have to say The Cottage has nothing like the rigour, originality or power of Williams's debut." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 14, 2008	The Cottage (2008)	71%
1/5	"Harmony Korine's new film is a whimsical, lazily conceived tragicomedy about lookalike impersonators, and it is so pointless and irritating that after a while I literally found it difficult to breathe." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 14, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	44%
2/5	"Just weeks after U2's 3D concert movie comes another shameless cash-in." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 14, 2008	Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)	74%
2/5	"Too contrived and self-reflexive for my tastes." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 14, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	79%
3/5	"Legendary screenwriter Joe Eszterhas brings his sledgehammer touch to this heartfelt movie about Hungary, the embattled country of his forebears." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 14, 2008	Szabads�g, Szerelem (2006)	90%
2/5	"Roland Emmerich's great big CGI blockbuster lumbers along like one of the woolly mammoths that roam across the screen." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 14, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
0/5	"A barf-inducer. A hurl-promoter. A projectile-vomit-stimulator." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 7, 2008	The Game Plan (2007)	27%
2/5	"The opening news-report sequence is very strong. But from there on in ... well, what more is there to say about the zombie genre and its metaphors for our undead society?" -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 7, 2008	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	60%
3/5	"It is absurd yet enjoyable, and playing fast and loose with English history is a refreshing alternative to slow and tight solemnity; the effect is genial, even mildly subversive." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 7, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	42%
1/5	"Flatulent, conceited and very, very confusing." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 2, 2008	Demonlover (2003)	48%
3/5	"This new variation on the theme isn't bad, in a gruesome and horrible way, and features a strong performance from Diane Lane as an FBI agent." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 29, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
2/5	"In some ways, I enjoyed this movie more than any of his features, and yet it's sad that he has drawn in his horns so much." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Feb 29, 2008	The Boss of it All (2007)	73%

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