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Arthur Salm

Arthur Salm's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Band's Visit (2007) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Band's Visit blends gentle comedy and softly aching pathos into a low-key, deeply affecting wonder, a sort of alternate-universe version of Aki Kaurismki's raucous 1989 hoot Leningrad Cowboys Go America.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 29, 2008 Full Review Penelope (2006) 53% 2.5/4 EDIT “Penelope is an odd concoction -- a witch's gentle brew of modern-day fairy tale, feather-light romance and slapstick comedy. It's not a knockout potion, but it goes down smoothly and is harmless enough to serve to the kids.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 29, 2008 Full Review 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) 96% 4/4 EDIT “A film of brutal, breathtaking intelligence, a work of pellucid, shimmering art without a scintilla of compromise, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is surely one of the very best films of the year. And you can pick the year.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 22, 2008 Full Review Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) 100% 4/4 EDIT “A methodically constructed, step-by-step detailing of how the Bush administration's policy of condoning torture trickled -- flowed, really; poured -- down the chain of command to inundate the largely untrained troops in the field.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 8, 2008 Full Review Untraceable (2008) 16% 1/4 EDIT “Hateful, brutalizing, inexcusable.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jan 25, 2008 Full Review Beowulf (2007) 71% 3/4 EDIT “Director Robert Zemeckis moves things along lickety-split; for such a dark, heavy tale, lit by gray, diffuse far-northern skies and golden torchlight, the film is remarkably light on its feet.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Nov 16, 2007 Full Review Next (2007) 28% 3.5/4 EDIT “Not overly ambitious, Next nonetheless keeps you thinking, guessing and entertained.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Apr 27, 2007 Full Review Perfect Stranger (2007) 9% 1/4 EDIT “A Halle Berry-Bruce Willis vehicle fresh as a Commodore 64.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Apr 13, 2007 Full Review The Number 23 (2007) 7% 1/4 EDIT “If there's any real fun to be had at all with The Number 23, it's in post-op dismantling; so little of it, in retrospect, makes any sense.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 22, 2007 Full Review Hurricane on the Bayou (2006) 84% 4/4 EDIT “[Features] a knockout soundtrack, some very impressive gators and two irresistible forces: Hurricane Katrina and 14-year-old fiddler and eco-warrior Amanda Shaw.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 16, 2007 Full Review Eragon (2006) 15% 2/4 EDIT “Been to that galaxy, done that ring.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Dec 15, 2006 Full Review Turistas (2006) 19% 1/4 EDIT “What's infuriating about Turistas is that it's slick, gorgeously shot and riddled with brilliantly crafted set-pieces.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Dec 1, 2006 Full Review Roving Mars (2006) 70% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's shot through with edge-of-your-seat excitement.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Oct 6, 2006 Full Review The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “The clips of Lennon and Ono (who appears as one of the present-day talking heads, and a most thoughtful one, at that) are every one of them fascinating.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Sep 29, 2006 Full Review Half Nelson (2006) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Too smart a film to plod along the rutted trail of the standard drug flick.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Sep 8, 2006 Full Review Scoop (2006) 42% 2/4 EDIT “Reminiscent of the short humorous fiction Allen has written for the New Yorker in recent years. They're tortured parodies of his pieces from a few decades back.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jul 28, 2006 Full Review Deep Sea (2006) 91% 4/4 EDIT “The Halls have taken an artistic leap beyond their masterful Coral Reef Adventure (2003), stripping away much of the narrative thread and allowing the film to drift to and fro on currents of sheer beauty.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jun 30, 2006 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada (2006) 75% 1.5/4 EDIT “A flat comedy that pretends to cluck its tongue at gloss and glitz and the surface tension of lives attuned only to appearances, then spends most of its time drooling over them.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jun 30, 2006 Full Review Before the Fall (2004) 67% 3.5/4 EDIT “Friedrich isn't particularly sharp, but Riemelt's wonderfully nuanced performance gives him intricate layers of feeling.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Apr 14, 2006 Full Review Firewall (2006) 19% 1.5/4 EDIT “Although there are a number of small, internal twists and turns, the outline of the plot sags from having had so many movies hung on it for so many years.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 10, 2006 Full Review Annapolis (2006) 10% 1/4 EDIT “Bulling ahead through hackneyed scene after hackneyed scene, it grinds out an hour and 48 minutes of nonstop cliche, never offering so much as a marginally clever line, never succumbing to an original thought, never veering from the rutted path.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jan 27, 2006 Full Review Hoodwinked! (2005) 46% 3/4 EDIT “A small, lightweight, enormously clever and never cloying little jewel.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jan 13, 2006 Full Review Rumor Has It ... (2005) 21% 1.5/4 EDIT “Complications ensue, but little else does.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Dec 22, 2005 Full Review Santa vs. The Snowman (2002) 80% EDIT “Fluffy, schizophrenic (there's liberal borrowing from both Care Bears and The Empire Strikes Back) and oddly annoying.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Nov 18, 2005 Full Review Two for the Money (2005) 22% 1.5/4 EDIT “Sports gambling! Big money, big games, big romance, big stars. Double down, all in. Problem is, the game's crooked.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Oct 7, 2005 Full Review
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