ROTTEN TOMATOES: Kevin Thomas

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	The Conformist
4.5/5	The Tunnel
4/5	Venom
3.5/5	Roll Bounce
3/5	Hellbent
2.5/5	Thumbsucker
2/5	Just Like Heaven
1.5/5	Just Friends
1/5	My Big Fat Independent Movie

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Tuya's Marriage
5/5	Noriko's Dinner Table
5/5	Race You to the Bottom
5/5	Journey From The Fall
5/5	Tears of the Black Tiger
5/5	The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
5/5	Gabrielle
5/5	Three Times
5/5	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
5/5	The Conformist
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Matando Cabos
0/5	Sex, Politics, & Cocktails
0.5/5	The Singing Forest
0.5/5	Dragonfly
0.5/5	The Glass House
0.5/5	Gossip
0.5/5	Where the Heart Is
0.5/5	Bless the Child
0.5/5	Supernova
0.5/5	Whipped
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 63% of the time.

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4.5/5	"An impeccably made classic Japanese period picture in which a nobility of spirit is tested amid the most beautiful of settings, revealing the harshness and hypocrisy of a feudal society of the utmost formality and rigidity." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 5, 2008	Love and Honor (2008)	83%
2/5	"The new film is so leisurely paced and overly long that what means to be at once charming yet darkly satirical lapses into tedium and barely comes alive." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 29, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	87%
1.5/5	"[Director] Stephens' stabs at contrasting pathos come off as merely maudlin. Tired cameos by drag queens RuPaul and Lady Bunny and other celebs don't help." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 29, 2008	Another Gay Sequel (2008)	20%
4/5	"*The filmmakers don't solve any riddles but rather pose them in richly varied ways: Ten Nights of Dreams* is in the grand, exquisite tradition of the Japanese cinema of the supernatural.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Aug 22, 2008	Ten Nights of Dream (2008)	n/a
4/5	"It has been beautifully crafted in the finest tradition of Poland's venerable and distinguished cinema." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 8, 2008	Retrieval (2006)	100%
4/5	"A Jihad for Love is a courageous documentary on the plight of gays in the Muslim world, and it reveals how the devout attempt to reconcile their sexual orientation and their faith." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 1, 2008	A Jihad for Love (2008)	80%
4.5/5	"Deeply affecting and darkly amusing." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 1, 2008	Beauty in Trouble (2008)	74%
4/5	"As a love story, it could scarcely be more tempestuous and as an expos� of class differences and sexual hypocrisy it could hardly be more scathing -- or, more important, entertaining." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	No Regret (2008)	63%
4.5/5	"A love of unspoiled countryside and its sturdy people suffuses this film, which unfolds with subtlety, humor and affection -- and becomes in the process a pure enchantment." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Grocer's Son (2008)	82%
2.5/5	"Lacks a fresh point of view and its people lack individuality." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Garden of Allah (1936)	44%
4/5	"Everyday incidents trigger in Irena alternately sweet and horrific memories, and these become like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that is completed only when the film concludes, at last revealing its full meaning." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	62%
4/5	"Bahrani celebrates those who never give up, no matter how badly their dreams are shattered." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	Chop Shop (2007)	95%
3/5	"Bonneville is scarcely original and in no way earthshaking, but its notable cast is a pleasure to behold." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	Bonneville (2006)	41%
4/5	"*Shot mainly in New York's meanest, murkiest streets, Sangre de Mi Sangre,* is intricately and imaginatively structured, building to a powerful climax of complex irony.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 23, 2008	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	83%
5/5	"Tuya's Marriage is thoroughly gratifying in its consistent inventiveness and has a grasp of human nature so universal that there's no feeling of the exotic about the film and its people." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 23, 2008	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	90%
4/5	"This is a resolutely tough-minded, beautifully crafted film so compelling as to make bearable watching the nearly unbearable." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Blind Mountain (2008)	76%
3/5	"The film benefits from solid performances by its four stars, but it is overly didactic and drawn-out as its comic tone grows darker and darker." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	Lost in Beijing (2008)	47%
3.5/5	"*Whereas Umbrellas of Cherbourg* has become timeless in its depiction of romance, Love Songs strikes a strongly contemporary note in its calm acceptance of the fluidity of desire and emotion.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 4, 2008	Love Songs (2008)	67%
4/5	"The plot may be murky, but actress Asia Argento is a clear and commanding force throughout." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 28, 2008	Boarding Gate (2007)	26%
4/5	"After more than 50 years of idiosyncratic filmmaking, Rivette, who turns 80 on Saturday, is as intense and rigorous an artist as ever." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 29, 2008	The Duchess of Langeais (2008)	68%
	"*Pal Sandor's sentimental comedy Noah's Ark* doesn't travel quite so well.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Feb 8, 2008	Noah's Ark (2007)	n/a
4/5	"Krisztina Goda's film could just as easily have been made in Hollywood and set in Manhattan -- and with luck, it will connect with moviegoers in the same way as quality films made here at home." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	Just Sex and Nothing Else (2005)	n/a
4/5	"A sophisticated cautionary tale on the dangers of placing more importance on art than life." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	Men in the Nude (2006)	n/a
	"Remains one of cinema's glorious enigmas, endlessly compelling and intriguing." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 1, 2008	Last Year at Marienbad (1961)	93%
4/5	"Santouri the Music Man, a harrowing account of a greatly gifted artist's slide into heroin addiction, is another sweeping yet incisive film from Dariush Mehrjui, one of Iran's most accomplished and courageous filmmakers for four decades." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 25, 2008	Santouri (2007)	n/a
3/5	"It's arty, murkily plotted and derivative of too many other movies." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 25, 2008	Undoing (2007)	29%
3.5/5	"A straightforward documentary on the assassination of President Kennedy." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	Oswald's Ghost (2007)	74%
4/5	"Made with wit and humor, this French stunner abounds in the go-for-broke spirit of a first film made by a talented, nervy director." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 30, 2007	Diva (1981)	95%
4.5/5	"Expertly constructed and beautifully photographed, Badland easily sustains its 160-minute running time, and the portrayals of Draven, a British actor, and 9-year-old Fulton can stand alongside the year's best." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 30, 2007	Badland (2007)	20%
3/5	"The delightful, sometimes humorous yet thoughtful result of [Gabel's and Hahn's] efforts is Anthem, in which they talk to nearly 30 people, some famous, some obscure, to find out what�s on their minds." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 24, 2007	Anthem (1997)	80%
2.5/5	"Ruiz is terrific in evoking a heady atmosphere of ornate fin de siecle decadence, and Malkovich is ideally cast as a coolly intellectual, free-thinking, free-living aesthete..." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Klimt (2006)	29%
4/5	"The writer-director brilliantly juxtaposes the personal and the political, bookending a stirring coming-of-age drama with the provocative opening and an equally affecting end sequence." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 2, 2007	This Is England (2007)	93%
4/5	"What sets it apart is all that's so effectively left unsaid." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 26, 2007	One to Another (2007)	47%
3.5/5	"Audacious and impressive, but challenging work, requiring steadfast concentration." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 19, 2007	Ten Canoes (2007)	98%
5/5	"Noriko's Dinner Table embraces [suicidal] tendencies with gusto and striking originality. The film is a boldly fragmented and tantalizing saga." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 5, 2007	Noriko's Dinner Table (2007)	64%
	"Bamako is an attack on globalization that is endlessly cogent, confrontational -- and, best of all, as captivating as it is illuminating." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 1, 2007	Bamako (2006)	84%
4.5/5	"Poison Friends is at once a sly satire on the pretensions and aspirations of academia and an intellectual suspense-thriller that builds and builds but never loses credibility." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 24, 2007	Poison Friends (2007)	88%
4.5/5	"Private Fears in Public Places, a masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its wintry yet warm perspective is suffused with the wisdom and experience of a great filmmaker who turns 85 on June 2." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 4, 2007	Private Fears in Public Places (2007)	79%
3.5/5	"*The actors are well cast and effective. As a film, Sing Now, shot on location, is as attractive as its cast." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 27, 2007	Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (2007)	23%
4/5	"The film is sustained effortlessly by the charismatic Watling and Tosar, who are among Spain's most popular movie stars." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2007	Unconscious (2007)	85%
4.5/5	"A spellbinding, intelligent thriller that takes its time to get where it's going but is well worth the trip." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2007	Red Road (2007)	89%
3/5	"[Director] Brisseau calculatedly offsets the silliness of the surreal elements and the earnestness applied to the sex by savoring the overall absurdity." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2007	Exterminating Angels (2007)	47%
3/5	"... a solid first film ..." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 9, 2007	Fighting Words (2003)	n/a
4.5/5	"Everything here is top-notch -- on-the-money ensemble cast, apt locations, Alice Brooks' gleaming camerawork, Joe Kraemer's intense score and Kalman Alexander's razor-sharp editing. It's a class act financed on a shoestring." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 29, 2007	Ten 'til Noon (2005)	70%
5/5	"An illuminating glimpse into some of the more challenging complications that contemporary relationships can present." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 29, 2007	Race You to the Bottom (2007)	50%
2/5	"Its premise is promisingly daffy but would require a Mel Brooks to pull it off." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 23, 2007	Idol (2006)	n/a
5/5	"An example of sophisticated, impassioned filmmaking involving mainly people who lived through the harrowing experiences so unsparingly depicted, Journey From the Fall powerfully illustrates the refugee/immigrant experience." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 23, 2007	Journey From The Fall (2007)	92%
4.5/5	"Jodorowsky loves to confront the viewer with endless brutality and grotesque decadence and degradation, but here he expresses it with a rich, densely visual imagination." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 16, 2007	The Holy Mountain (1973)	82%
1.5/5	"A dreary, protracted exercise in sadomasochism." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 16, 2007	El Topo (1970)	74%
3/5	"A mishmash of religious and Freudian symbolism amid torrential bloodshed topped with Fellini flourishes." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 16, 2007	Santa Sangre (1990)	74%

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