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SPLICEDWire is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jeffrey M. Anderson, Rob Blackwelder.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/4
The Portrait of a Lady (1996) Rob Blackwelder Throughout Portrait there is a nagging sensation that makes one want to ask, "But where is all this going?"
Posted Oct 26, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Anna (1993) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Apr 04, 2011  Edit critic review
2/4
Ghost Rock (2003) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
1.5/4
House of D (2004) Rob Blackwelder
Posted May 27, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Don't Move (2004) Rob Blackwelder
Posted May 27, 2006  Edit critic review
3/4
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) Jeffrey M. Anderson One of the most delightful, family-friendly animated films in some time.
Posted Jan 07, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
A History of Violence (2005) Rob Blackwelder David Cronenberg is out of his element in A History of Violence, and it shows.
Posted Sep 23, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Dear Wendy (2005) Rob Blackwelder The film's last act almost completely self-destructs, falling into blind, metaphor-baiting machinations.
Posted Sep 22, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Roll Bounce (2005) Rob Blackwelder Director Malcolm D. Lee has a gift for finding gold nuggets of personality and comedy in the tailings of over-mined plots.
Posted Sep 21, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
Flightplan (2005) Rob Blackwelder The third act begins with another twist - but this one is so arduous, absurd and out of character for the film that the entire plot, stretching back to Scene One, is sabotaged
Posted Sep 21, 2005  Edit critic review
3/4
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) Rob Blackwelder Blessed with memorably iconic characters and a creative, if fairly predictable plot, Corpse Bride is quick, droll, and destined to be a perennial Halloween favorite.
Posted Sep 21, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
Just Like Heaven (2005) Rob Blackwelder When it comes to romantic chemistry, they never quite mesh, no matter what twinkle effect Waters puts on the screen when Ruffalo's hand touches Witherspoon's ethereal plane.
Posted Sep 15, 2005  Edit critic review
3/4
Clueless (1995) Rob Blackwelder The movie's simple yet spot-on characters and performances make the laughs timeless, no matter how firmly the film is set in 1995.
Posted Sep 09, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) Rob Blackwelder Part spine-tingling horror movie, part unorthodox courtroom drama, Emily Rose runs into trouble because it's ironically more credible as the former than the latter.
Posted Sep 08, 2005  Edit critic review
4/5
The Thing (1982) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Sep 08, 2005  Edit critic review
1/4
The Man (2005) Rob Blackwelder A boring, all-you-can-regurgitate buffet of buddy-movie/cop-movie banality, it would collapse under the weight of its own generic stupidity (without) Jackson and Levy.
Posted Sep 08, 2005  Edit critic review
4/5
The Sting (1973) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Sep 08, 2005  Edit critic review
4/5
The Candidate (1972) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Sep 08, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
An Unfinished Life (2005) Rob Blackwelder Another sleepy, sweeping soft-serve melodrama from director Lasse Hallstrom...the story arc seems to have been drawn on graph paper rather than written in a script.
Posted Sep 08, 2005  Edit critic review
3/5
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Sep 02, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
The Alzheimer Affair (2003) Rob Blackwelder The only thing that prevents The Memory of a Killer from seeming 100-percent Hollywood is the characters' speaking in subtitled Dutch.
Posted Sep 02, 2005  Edit critic review
0.5/4
A Sound of Thunder (2005) Rob Blackwelder A catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and conspicuously cheap special effects that can't even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next.
Posted Sep 01, 2005  Edit critic review
0.5/4
Transporter 2 (2005) Rob Blackwelder Few bad movies are more aggravating than a sequel that betrays everything which made its predecessor entertaining.
Posted Aug 31, 2005  Edit critic review
3/4
The Constant Gardener (2005) Rob Blackwelder A preachy but gripping socio-political thriller...directed by Fernando Meirelles with the same unblinking, sweaty, ground-level grittiness he brought to City of God.
Posted Aug 30, 2005  Edit critic review
1/4
Pretty Persuasion (2005) Rob Blackwelder Puerile social satire, stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated wit and overwhelming smugness are painful to sit through.
Posted Aug 26, 2005  Edit critic review
1/4
Undiscovered (2005) Rob Blackwelder Can somebody tell me why we're supposed to care about these one-dimensional MTV-spawned caricatures? Writer John Galt and director Meiert Avis sure haven't offered any clues.
Posted Aug 26, 2005  Edit critic review
3/5
Congo (1995) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Aug 25, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
The Brothers Grimm (2005) Rob Blackwelder A movie with a Terry Gilliam look and feel but without a Terry Gilliam soul. (The director) seems to have had his spirit broken by studio mandates and commercial constraints.
Posted Aug 24, 2005  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Elevator to the Gallows (1958) Rob Blackwelder In backwards-thinking terms, Malle was the Tarantino of his day, giving French cinema a creative, influential shot in the arm that opened new horizons in directorial thinking.
Posted Aug 18, 2005  Edit critic review
3/5
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Aug 17, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) Rob Blackwelder Since the clever, off-kilter, off-color, surprisingly character-driven guffaws just keep coming and coming, the movie is side-splitting in spite of its fundamental flaws.
Posted Aug 17, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
Asylum (2005) Rob Blackwelder A mid-20th-century bodice-ripper about sexual obsession and questionable sanity, Asylum doesn't live up to its admirable pedigree.
Posted Aug 16, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Red Eye (2005) Rob Blackwelder Wes Craven tries his hand at Hitchcockian suspense in Red-Eye, and turns in a modest B-movie thriller that's just as invigorating as it is easy to pick apart.
Posted Aug 15, 2005  Edit critic review
0.5/4
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) Rob Blackwelder I did get through it without being overwhelmed by the urge strangle myself, so the movie has that going for it.
Posted Aug 12, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
Four Brothers (2005) Rob Blackwelder Singleton fills the screen with moody darkness (but) Four Brothers falls apart completely in the last act.
Posted Aug 12, 2005  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Gold Rush (1925) Rob Blackwelder Curiously melancholy yet packed with laughs, the picture's funniest moments aren't even the famous ones.
Posted Aug 11, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
Junebug (2005) Rob Blackwelder A dreary, stagnant story about people who make no effort to think or grow.
Posted Aug 11, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
The Skeleton Key (2005) Rob Blackwelder A first-rate concept for a spine-tingling tale...rendered impotent by bland, generic execution.
Posted Aug 10, 2005  Edit critic review
3.5/4
2046 (2004) Rob Blackwelder Another achingly evocative and melancholy near-masterpiece from Wong Kar-Wai...blessed with vivid, visceral performances that burst at the seams with reserved passion.
Posted Aug 08, 2005  Edit critic review
3/4
Broken Flowers (2005) Rob Blackwelder ...has a bottomless poignancy that Jarmusch cements in quiet character moments, symbolic imagery and out-of-reach temptations that wiggle effectively into the subconscious.
Posted Aug 08, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) Rob Blackwelder Too much blah-blah, not enough 'Yeeehawww!'
Posted Aug 02, 2005  Edit critic review
3/4
November (2004) Rob Blackwelder Those who give themselves over to Harrison's compelling machinations will be rewarded with a superbly unnerving mystery.
Posted Jul 31, 2005  Edit critic review
4/5
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Jul 29, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
Must Love Dogs (2005) Rob Blackwelder The film's curdled aftertaste is so frustrating that it may be hard to remember why Must Love Dogs ever seemed so endearing and entertaining in the first place.
Posted Jul 28, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Sky High (2005) Rob Blackwelder A clich-dependent Disney cheapy that aims no higher than the unsophisticated standards of its pre-adolescent target audience -- and somehow succeeds in spite of itself.
Posted Jul 28, 2005  Edit critic review
3/5
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Jul 26, 2005  Edit critic review
1/5
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Rob Blackwelder
Posted Jul 26, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Stealth (2005) Rob Blackwelder Daisy, Daisy I'll blow you out of the sky / I'm half crazy, seen Top Gun too many times...a plumb guilty pleasure.
Posted Jul 26, 2005  Edit critic review
3/4
A Sidewalk Astronomer (2005) Rob Blackwelder If [i]A Sidewalk Astronomer[/i] can't turn you on to astronomy, I feel sorry for you.
Posted Jul 21, 2005  Edit critic review
2/4
The Island (2005) Rob Blackwelder The third act (is) so full of holes it's a wonder the film doesn't get tangled up in the projector.
Posted Jul 21, 2005  Edit critic review
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