ROTTEN TOMATOES: Philip French

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	Floating Weeds
	Metropolitan
	The Wild Thornberrys Movie
	Kill Bill Vol. 1
	Goldfinger
	The Italian Job
	Narc
	The Killers
	The General
	Mean Streets
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	S.W.A.T.
	Jackass: The Movie
	Star Trek: Nemesis
	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
	The Transporter
	Bridget Jones' Diary
	Training Day
	The Passion of the Christ
	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
	Demonlover
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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	"This is a vibrant movie, one of his few in colour, and touches on universal themes through the story of a middle-aged actor and his young mistress coming with a second-rate kabuki company to a small coastal town." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jul 28, 2008	Floating Weeds (1959)	95%
	"It's wearing surprisingly well, yet is touchingly dated." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jul 18, 2008	Metropolitan (1990)	92%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Observer [UK] Posted May 29, 2008	Sunshine (2007)	76%
	"A lively, mindless police thriller." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 20, 2008	S.W.A.T. (2003)	48%
	"The Jackass boys show little interest in observing anyone else but themselves." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 20, 2008	Jackass: The Movie (2002)	49%
	"The film's draughtsmanship is more than adequate, the voicing of the characters excellent, and the songs are way above average for such fare." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 20, 2008	The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)	79%
	"A thinly plotted, anonymously directed film." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)	36%
	"*I didn't leave the cinema aching to see Volume Two* (out in February), though I'm interested to learn how things work out.*" -- Observer [UK]* Posted May 7, 2008	Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)	85%
	"Goldfinger is a crucial work in the development of the Bond legend." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 6, 2008	Goldfinger (1964)	96%
	"Gary Gray's version is tauter, better made but insufficiently idiosyncratic to attract a cult following." -- Observer [UK] Posted May 6, 2008	The Italian Job (2003)	73%
	"Inevitably, given a bigger budget, it lacks the cheap, raw quality of the earlier film that, along with George Romero's outfit in Pennsylvania, showed you could make profitable exploitation shockers on an independent basis far from Hollywood." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 16, 2008	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)	34%
	"*Chases and choreographed fights set to rock music take up most of the running time and the movie is like To Catch a Thief* remade by a hack follower of John Woo.*" -- Observer [UK]* Posted Apr 16, 2008	The Transporter (2002)	53%
	"The filmmakers are uncritically in love with their heroine and her milieux and have romanticised them to an almost laughable degree." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 15, 2008	Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)	80%
	"Carnahan shows flair and confidence." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 9, 2008	Narc (2002)	83%
	"The movie moves rapidly, is extremely violent and not entirely plausible." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 9, 2008	Training Day (2001)	72%
	"It's a classic by a supreme exponent of that genre, German emigre Robert Siodmak." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 8, 2008	The Killers (1946)	100%
	"Among the finest comedies of all time, it wears its greatness lightly." -- Observer [UK] Posted Apr 2, 2008	The General (1927)	91%
	"[I] commend it without reservation." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 31, 2008	Mean Streets (1973)	98%
	"It's highly enjoyable and well acted, with the Iago figure better motivated than in the original play, no single line of which has been retained except for the odd echo." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 25, 2008	O (2001)	63%
	"The movie is an indictment of systems that perpetuate oppression and exploitation by making the administrators believe their every cruel act is justified and by compelling complicity in victims and bystanders." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 11, 2008	The Magdalene Sisters (2003)	90%
	"The two-dimensional drawings with the characters usually in profile look like folk art and have the feel of a children's book." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 10, 2008	Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)	96%
	"*I emerged from The Passion of the Christ* depressed and spiritually bruised.*" -- Observer [UK]* Posted Mar 5, 2008	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	50%
	"The sets and special effects are near flawless." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 5, 2008	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	92%
	"The special effects are remarkable, yet somehow numbing, and the film only partly lives up to the promise in the title of Lucas's company, Industrial Light and Magic." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 5, 2008	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)	67%
	"It's fun for a while, but gets steadily more opaque, elliptical and annoying." -- Observer [UK] Posted Mar 2, 2008	Demonlover (2003)	48%
	"An extremely interesting film." -- Observer [UK] Posted Feb 26, 2008	Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2007)	88%
	"Bernstein's music, Sondheim's lyrics and Robbins's choreography are great, but as a movie it falls short of the truly inspired cinematic musicals." -- Observer [UK] Posted Feb 19, 2008	West Side Story (1961)	94%
	"It is the product of numerous accidents, all of them happy, and I laugh, cry and have my better instincts appealed to whenever I see it." -- Observer [UK] Posted Feb 19, 2008	Casablanca (1942)	98%
	"*Martin Scorsese's masterly Taxi Driver* both encapsulates and transcends its times.*" -- Observer [UK]* Posted Feb 12, 2008	Taxi Driver (1976)	100%
	"Neil LaBute is among the more interesting cinematic talents to emerge these past half-dozen years." -- Observer [UK] Posted Feb 12, 2008	The Shape of Things (2003)	65%
	"A tapestry of loose ends." -- Observer [UK] Posted Feb 8, 2008	Swimfan (2002)	15%
	"*Entirely filmed in a Californian warehouse, The Dead* features the greatest Irish cast ever assembled on screen.*" -- Observer [UK]* Posted Feb 5, 2008	The Dead (1988)	91%
	"Joseph L Mankiewicz's wonderfully literate 1950 classic drama of the theatrical life, All About Eve, is back in the cinema, to be savoured for its language, performances, psychological insights and proof that all the world's a stage." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jan 30, 2008	All About Eve (1950)	100%
	"I found it beautiful, exotic and virtually incomprehensible." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jan 16, 2008	Opera Jawa (2006)	100%
	"The most forceful contribution is by Ken Loach." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jan 15, 2008	September 11 (2003)	77%
	"A superb noir thriller." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jan 11, 2008	Le Corbeau (1943)	86%
	"The Mothman Prophecies is the kind of solemn, credulous junk that Men in Black so cleverly sent up." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Mothman Prophecies (2002)	52%
	"The film is the work of an admirer, but not an uncritical one." -- Observer [UK] Posted Jan 9, 2008	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	88%
	"It's an amusing, sophisticated movie, true to its times, cheerfully erotic, and played with unselfconscious conviction by its three young actors." -- Observer [UK] Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Dreamers (2004)	61%
	"Anderson packs an extraordinary amount of incident and observation into a mere 90 minutes." -- Observer [UK] Posted Dec 1, 2007	The Darjeeling Limited (2007)	67%
	"Disconcertingly lubricious." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 27, 2007	Love Actually (2003)	64%
	"Here he strikes a perfect balance between social commentary and melodrama, while nudging his actors to turn potentially stereotypical figures (eg, a virginal waif, a golden-hearted whore, a philosophical Chinese) into three-dimensional people." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 27, 2007	Dirty Pretty Things (2003)	94%
	"Blanchett and the film powerfully embody the range of Elizabeth's mind and the force of her intellect, along with the necessary balance between moral scruple and realpolitik." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 17, 2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)	34%
	"A fine British cast is wasted on feeble material." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 17, 2007	Death at a Funeral (2007)	63%
	"The film is simultaneously simple and opaque, and what it lacks is anything that illuminates the world we live in." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 15, 2007	The Weeping Meadow (2004)	65%
	"A didactic, audacious, tendentious, highly original movie that justifies its great length." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 15, 2007	The Travelling Players (1974)	82%
	"For a picture about the fantastic and supernatural, it's a surprisingly flat and unmagical affair." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 12, 2007	The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)	50%
	"The result is like a formation dance performed at the speed of a chess game." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 12, 2007	Va Savoir (2001)	85%
	"The movie is a time capsule that is worth opening up to sniff the mood of its age." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 12, 2007	Paris Belongs to Us (1959)	89%
	"As good a film as I've seen this year." -- Observer [UK] Posted Nov 7, 2007	The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)	80%

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