ROTTEN TOMATOES: Derek Smith

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Alphaville
95/100	2001: A Space Odyssey
93/100	Contempt
92/100	Belle de Jour
91/100	Once Upon a Time in America
90/100	The Conversation
89/100	Yi Yi
88/100	The Shop Around the Corner
3.5/4	Salesman
87/100	Russian Ark
86/100	The Atomic Cafe
85/100	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
83/100	The Kid Stays in the Picture
82/100	Amarcord
81/100	The King of Comedy
80/100	School of Rock
79/100	The Moderns
78/100	Salton Sea
77/100	All I Desire
76/100	Go Tigers!
75/100	Fighter
3/4	The 13th Letter
74/100	Sexy Beast
73/100	1969
72/100	Murderous Maids
71/100	Remember the Titans
70/100	All the Pretty Horses
69/100	Iron Monkey
68/100	Donnie Darko
66/100	Le Divorce
65/100	The Diary of Anne Frank
64/100	Heartbreak Ridge
2.5/4	City of God
61/100	Gremlins 2 - The New Batch
60/100	Liberty Stands Still
59/100	The Photographer
58/100	One Night at McCool's
57/100	Houseboat
56/100	The Aviator
54/100	Extremities
52/100	Exit to Eden
50/100	Casper Meets Wendy
2/4	Perfect Blue
48/100	The Shipment
47/100	Forbidden Relations
46/100	What Girls Learn
40/100	The Fast and the Furious
38/100	Honeybee
1.5/4	Naqoyqatsi
32/100	Hwal
31/100	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - The Secret of the Ooze
25/100	You Are Here*
15/100	Delirious
9/100	Wuthering Heights

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	This Land is Mine
4/4	Bitter Victory
4/4	Down by Law
4/4	The Seventh Continent
4/4	Top Hat
4/4	The New World
4/4	Funny Ha Ha
4/4	The World
4/4	Grizzly Man
4/4	Nouvelle Vague
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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9/100	Wuthering Heights
15/100	Delirious
25/100	You Are Here*
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

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3.5/4	" The only Ang Lee film where he shows even a modicum of originality in his direction or any real personality or interesting visual flair." -- Apollo Guide Posted Jan 16, 2008	Hulk (2003)	61%
3.5/4	" The only Ang Lee film where he shows even a modicum of originality in his direction or any real personality or interesting visual flair." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jan 16, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	41%
4/4	" It moves along like a well-oiled machine until the devestating final act ties all of the smaller stories together, making it's point without being overbearing or obvious." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Dec 30, 2006	This Land is Mine (1943)	71%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 30, 2006	Lessons of Darkness/Fata Morgana (1971/1992)	100%
1.5/4	" [Its] moralizing is dishonest and at times offensive. No matter how effectively a story is told, it's hard to buy into one that so often deceives its audience." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 30, 2006	How Green Was My Valley (1941)	88%
4/4	" There is a sense that while the men here are well-versed in the theories of war, they are clueless about the realities of combat." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 30, 2006	Bitter Victory (1957)	80%
4/4	" Its soul is the same as all Jarmusch films, but here he digs a bit deeper into the roots of his own methodology and that to which he is opposed." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Sep 25, 2006	Down by Law (1986)	88%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 26, 2006	To Be or Not to Be (1983)	82%
2.5/4	" With A Prairie Home Companion, Robert Altman has once again showcased his talent for creating complex, insular worlds for his characters to inhabit." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 19, 2006	A Prairie Home Companion (2006)	81%
2/4	" [An] nime thriller [that] often plays as an examination of identity and celebrity, but ultimately gets so lost in its own complex structure that it doesn't end up saying much at all." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 19, 2006	Perfect Blue (1997)	64%
4/4	" A stunning examination of the effects of emotional isolation and the inability to communicate in the modern age." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 19, 2006	The Seventh Continent (1989)	67%
3/4	" Similar to The Seventh Continent, this film's objective is to analyze and deconstruct the effects rather than senselessly guess their causes" -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 19, 2006	Benny's Video (1992)	40%
3/4	" Carpenter's ability to fuse the bawdy humor and action with an intelligent script make for a genre film that is both thoughtful and entertaining" -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 19, 2006	They Live (1988)	89%
1.5/4	" It remains stuck in a limbo state that more and more indie films find themselves these days, because of its non-committal attitude." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 19, 2006	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	92%
4/4	" Top Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jun 24, 2006	Top Hat (1935)	100%
32/100	" A painful experience that no amount of eye candy can make up for." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 28, 2006	Hwal (2005)	n/a
3.5/4	" One of the great films about the mysterious allure of the female form and the destructive power of the male gaze that's inflicted upon it." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 28, 2006	Pandora's Box (1928)	91%
4/4	" A melancholy revery of a time when nature provided a spiritual sustenance that could not be replaced by religious or social order." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 28, 2006	The New World (2005)	60%
70/100	" A jarring exploration of the male psyche and the devastating consequences of pride and uncontained machismo in a society where men's lives have lost meaning." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 28, 2006	The Firm (1988)	n/a
3.5/4	" Functions as both a tribute to their work ethic and a condemnation of the system that considers such a profession a healthy route to the American dream." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 28, 2006	Salesman (1968)	100%
4/4	" One of the most accurate portrayals of post-collegiate disillusionment" -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 28, 2006	Funny Ha Ha (2005)	89%
4/4	" The World is less a condemnation of the current state of the world than an attempt to explain and come to terms with it." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 4, 2006	The World (2005)	69%
71/100	" its tongue-in-cheek humor effortlessly gives way to poignant drama and period musical pieces throughout." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Dec 6, 2005	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)	78%
59/100	" A delightfully seedy mystery who's joy lies only in the journey." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Dec 6, 2005	Where The Truth Lies (2005)	39%
38/100	" shocks audiences with its blatant racism yet remains one of the defining films of the silent era." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Sep 24, 2005	The Birth of a Nation (1915)	100%
4/4	" Offers the best that non-fiction films have to offer, where the filmmaker is able to interact with, rather than simply react to, his subject..." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Sep 24, 2005	Grizzly Man (2005)	93%
65/100	" Downfall takes on the unenviable task of portraying [Hitler] as a man, rather than a caricature or parody as the norm has dictated." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 24, 2005	Downfall (2005)	91%
83/100	" Van Sant again sidesteps all of the typical narrative trappings and here his style clearly justifies itself." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 24, 2005	Last Days (2005)	60%
65/100	" Walks a thin line between sincerity and pretension, but ultimately deals with enough issues head-on to make the occassionally excessive quirkiness forgivable." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 5, 2005	Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)	84%
40/100	" It's amazing how little we end up knowing about the specific schools and the environment where these kids come from and how much time we're left watching them look cute." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 1, 2005	Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)	83%
73/100	" The dancing, which at first may seem purely ridiculous, becomes an expression of their tortured souls" -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 1, 2005	Rize (2005)	83%
90/100	" A vivid portrait of class barriers, overbearing social mores and the torrid, forbidden love affair that is effected by it." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 1, 2005	Miss Julie (1950)	n/a
82/100	" A vibrant discussion of the nature of the image and how they come to define our reality." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	Ici Et Ailleurs (1970)	n/a
73/100	" The great tragedy is that the hypocrisies that Newland and Olenska work to reveal are the very same ones that ultimately destroy everything passionate and human within them." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	The Age of Innocence (1993)	81%
93/100	" It is an arduous task, but the film achieves a transcendent and ethereal beauty that only the few truly great masterpieces attain." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)	96%
66/100	" It isn't one of the director's most impressive outputs, but when a solid genre entry such as this is one of your "lesser" films, it says a lot about the quality of your work." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	Air Force (1943)	100%
4/4	" Nouvelle Vague may be Godard�s most complex and layered film, but attempting to unlock its secrets makes it one of his most rewarding." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	Nouvelle Vague (1990)	67%
4/4	" Love, in Godard�s case, is indistinguishable from cinema and thus he sees the growing capitalist machine as a threat to both." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	In Praise of Love (2001)	52%
4/4	" A bold film that defies logic and the rules of screenwriting" -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	Trust (1990)	90%
72/100	" There is a distinct sense that Anderson is trying to re-invent himself with this film." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)	52%
77/100	" [It] may be the most ironic statement on the disturbing allure of 50s suburbia that Sirk ever made." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	All I Desire (1953)	n/a
3/4	" Linklater is testing the boundaries of what can be done with digital video, thematically as well as visually." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	Tape (2001)	76%
90/100	" It is a remarkably powerful, entertaining and invigorating piece of cinema that hits on more levels than seemingly possible." -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Apr 23, 2005	Heat (1995)	89%
	" 'the biggest problems lie in the simplistic nature of the characters and the reliance on quirkiness, rather than genuine, realistic emotion, to connect with its audience.'" -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Feb 5, 2005	Garden State (2004)	88%
4/4	" 'It is a new way of seeing the world around us, both life affirming in its vision and brilliant in its satire'" -- Cinematic Reflections Posted Jan 30, 2005	Playtime (1967)	100%
85/100	" The only extra on the disc is the movie trailer." -- Apollo Guide Posted Jan 20, 2005	We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)	65%
85/100	" A modest film that is surprisingly effective in its directness and fascinating for its complex portrayals of marital distress in action." -- Apollo Guide Posted Jan 20, 2005	We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)	65%
59/100	" There are no extras on the disc." -- Apollo Guide Posted Jan 20, 2005	The Photographer (2000)	n/a
59/100	" Disappoints because it�s an independent film that�s as predictable and clich�-ridden as a weak, formulaic studio picture." -- Apollo Guide Posted Jan 20, 2005	The Photographer (2000)	n/a
66/100	" No extras are included on the DVD." -- Apollo Guide Posted Jan 20, 2005	Le Divorce (2003)	38%

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