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Rossiter Drake

Rossiter Drake's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010) 86% 3/4 EDIT “It thrives on Tucker and Dale's winning personalities, and the chemistry so evident in the shrewd coupling of Tudyk and Labine, veteran performers who rarely enjoy top billing but make the most of it here.” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 30, 2011 Full Review Moneyball (2011) 94% 3/4 EDIT “I'm still wondering how people indifferent to baseball will respond to the story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics and their smartest-kid-in-the-sandbox general manager. But I will say this - the casting is strong, and the human drama has universal appeal.” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 22, 2011 Full Review Final Destination 5 (2011) 64% 3/4 EDIT “Do the kills measure up? They do, in a fashion as laughably over-the-top as you'd expect. The movie is as thrilling as a roller-coaster ride (another instrument of death, put to sinister use in Final Destination 3) and about as profound.” – San Francisco Examiner Aug 12, 2011 Full Review The Guard (2011) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “It belongs to Gleeson, whose thickly accented growl lends a lyrical quality to McDonagh's wordplay in one of the year's funniest and most spirited offerings.” – San Francisco Examiner Aug 11, 2011 Full Review Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) 35% 1.5/4 EDIT “The runaway success of the franchise, which has long raised its middle finger at our collective intelligence, would seem to suggest otherwise, but if 'Dark of the Moon' is the final chapter of this inane trilogy, it is also the least insulting.” – San Francisco Examiner Jun 29, 2011 Full Review Cars 2 (2011) 40% 3/4 EDIT “Without the warm-hearted innocence Mater brings to screenwriter Ben Queen's madcap espionage adventure, Lasseter's sequel would be little more than a superior technical exercise, visually impressive but so slight as to seem superfluous.” – San Francisco Examiner Jun 25, 2011 Full Review Beautiful Boy (2010) 71% 3/4 EDIT “'Boy,' for all its exploitation of the sensational, is a tense affair that challenges us with questions we may never have thought to ask.” – San Francisco Examiner Jun 16, 2011 Full Review Super 8 (2011) 81% 3.5/4 EDIT “None of this is exactly fresh - '8' pays homage to venerable sci-fi clichés and revisits territory Spielberg has covered before. But what's so refreshing is how effortlessly entertaining it turns out to be. The plot's engine practically purrs.” – San Francisco Examiner Jun 9, 2011 Full Review X-Men: First Class (2011) 86% 3.5/4 EDIT “It reinvigorates the series with a sense of purpose and direction. It's exactly what the professor ordered to make the heroes of 'X-Men' seem super again.” – San Francisco Examiner Jun 6, 2011 Full Review Hobo With a Shotgun (2011) 66% 3/4 EDIT “There's nothing here that you haven't seen before in Lloyd Kaufman's Troma pictures and the grindhouse films of the '70s, save for perhaps better production values and an impressively grizzled Rutger Hauer.” – San Francisco Examiner May 8, 2011 Full Review Ceremony (2010) 38% 2.5/4 EDIT “[Angarano] and Thurman have scenes of such honesty and raw emotional energy that it's almost possible to forgive "Ceremony" its sometimes sluggish pacing and its peevish protagonist. Almost, but not quite.” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Scream 4 (2011) 61% 3/4 EDIT “It's exactly what a 'Scream' sequel should be - fun, feisty and, after 11 years out of sight and mind, both refreshed and refreshing.” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 14, 2011 Full Review The Mechanic (2011) 54% 3/4 EDIT “If Bronson moved to the cadence of a death march, a drawn-out requiem for an executioner losing his taste for the work, Statham's hurtles toward a climax that's less diabolical but more satisfying.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 28, 2011 Full Review The Company Men (2010) 67% 3/4 EDIT “'Men' is neither as gritty nor as unsentimental as David Mamet's more uncompromising assessment of office politics, 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' but that doesn't mean there is no place for Wells' vision, which has its own resonance.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 24, 2011 Full Review True Grit (2010) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “A character actor rather than a Hollywood monument, Bridges so thoroughly cloaks himself in Cogburn's darkness that he threatens to disappear altogether. The same could never be said of Wayne, but the point of 'True Grit' is not to invite comparisons.” – San Francisco Examiner Dec 22, 2010 Full Review Tron: Legacy (2010) 51% 3/4 EDIT “Buoyed by its story, sometimes convoluted but hard to resist, 'Legacy' is a worthy sequel, both in its fantastic look and its admirable sense of wonder.” – San Francisco Examiner Dec 18, 2010 Full Review Faster (2010) 41% 1.5/4 EDIT “Johnson, as WWE fans quickly learned, has charisma to spare. In person, he is sharp-witted, funny and effortlessly engaging. Those qualities translate easily to the screen, but 'Faster' never gives him a chance.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 26, 2010 Full Review Tangled (2010) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “Seventy years after Walt Disney first sent Rapunzel's story into development comes Tangled, his empire's 50th animated feature and, since Pixar ushered the studio into the digital age with Toy Story, one of its most rewarding.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 26, 2010 Full Review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) 76% 3.5/4 EDIT “Readers expecting everything plus the kitchen sink - or, in this case, seven magical Horcruxes - should not be disappointed.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 19, 2010 Full Review Skyline (2010) 15% 2/4 EDIT “If 'Skyline' never seems interested in pushing the envelope, it at least begins with enough promise to suggest a competent thriller. No such luck.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 14, 2010 Full Review Monsters (2010) 75% 3/4 EDIT “'Monsters' is no 'Jaws,' but the comparison is apt on one level: Edwards, like Spielberg, manages to sustain tension even in the absence of early or frequent payoffs.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 7, 2010 Full Review American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010) 84% 4/4 EDIT “It is more a celebration than a lament, and the emotions it evokes are as potent as the force behind Hicks' most inspired comedy.” – San Francisco Examiner Oct 26, 2010 Full Review South of the Border (2009) 53% 3/4 EDIT “The film is one-sided, but it's a side rarely seen by U.S. audiences, most of whom get their news from sources including FOX, CNN and even The New York Times. (Stone skewers the lot.)” – San Francisco Examiner Oct 26, 2010 Full Review Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) 54% 2/4 EDIT “In hindsight, Stone should have left Gekko behind bars, a casualty of his own hubris and shark-like appetites, but here he is, back on the New York streets he once owned, in 'Money Never Sleeps.' And to what end?” – San Francisco Examiner Oct 1, 2010 Full Review The Social Network (2010) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “In some ways Fincher, who has portrayed serial killers both fictional ('Seven') and real ('Zodiac'), has never presented a character as remorselessly vicious as the implacable cyberpunk.” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 30, 2010 Full Review
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