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Bob Townsend

Bob Townsend's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Film Critic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007) 49% B EDIT “The big question for fans is does Aqua Teen Hunger Force have enough gags and giggles to translate to 86 minutes on the big screen? And the answer is ... yeah, sort of, well, maybe. ...” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Apr 12, 2007 Full Review Shooter (2007) 47% C EDIT “Mark Wahlberg will only get props for balancing out the utter implausibility of [Antoine] Fuqua's new crash-boom conspiracy melodrama Shooter.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mar 22, 2007 Full Review The Last Sin Eater (2007) 22% C EDIT “If Sin Eater wasn't so laborious, it might be easier to overlook the movie's predictability. With too many slow-developing subplots, though, it finally illicits a feeling something like squirming in a hard pew during a long-winded sermon.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Feb 8, 2007 Full Review Hurricane on the Bayou (2006) 84% B+ EDIT “A convincing and entertaining argument for the importance of preserving Louisiana's wetlands.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jan 18, 2007 Full Review Stomp the Yard (2007) 27% C- EDIT “As expected, there's a final contest that resolves a whole mess of conflicts. But before that, Stomp the Yard flirts with several silly soap opera subplots while twisting its way around to a cursory touch of social consciousness.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jan 11, 2007 Full Review Children of Men (2006) 92% B EDIT “What makes Children work is that camera and the staging of all the physical insanity its lens captures.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dec 26, 2006 Full Review Night at the Museum (2006) 42% C- EDIT “Computer-generated things that go bump in the night can't cover for a thin story and less-than-inspired performances from Stiller and Williams.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dec 21, 2006 Full Review Rocky Balboa (2006) 78% B EDIT “The big surprise is that it also has just enough referential wit and nostalgic charm to keep the smiles coming through the schmaltz.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dec 19, 2006 Full Review Unaccompanied Minors (2006) 30% D+ EDIT “A Christmas lump of coal.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dec 7, 2006 Full Review The Fountain (2006) 52% D EDIT “Aronofsky's long-time-coming version of spiritual wonder is finally more mind-numbing than soul-stirring.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 21, 2006 Full Review Shut Up and Sing (2006) 89% A- EDIT “The intimate, fly-on-the-wall context is what's most winning.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 16, 2006 Full Review Fast Food Nation (2006) 49% C EDIT “What's most frustrating about Fast Food Nation is how much it promises and how little it delivers.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 16, 2006 Full Review Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) 90% A- EDIT “Hilarious, and purposefully offensive.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 2, 2006 Full Review Renaissance (2006) 49% B+ EDIT “Its dark images echo in the mind's eye. And for that alone, it's worth seeing.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Oct 12, 2006 Full Review Flyboys (2006) 34% D EDIT “Watching Flyboys, it's hard not to giggle and think of Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sep 21, 2006 Full Review Everyone's Hero (2006) 42% B EDIT “Everyone's Hero is a labor of love. And that clearly comes through in this feel-good animated feature about a 10-year-old boy, Yankee Irving, who becomes an unlikely World Series hero for the 1932 New York Yankees.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sep 14, 2006 Full Review Crossover (2006) 2% C EDIT “Compared to those prodigious in-your-face fakes, alley oops and slam dunks, the movie's trite, trash-talking dialogue and drippy do-the-right-thing message fall as flat as an airball.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug 31, 2006 Full Review Strangers With Candy (2005) 51% B EDIT “Whether you guffaw, giggle or sit stone-faced through Strangers With Candy will depend on your reaction to Sedaris as Jerri and her freak show of over-the-top bad taste.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug 6, 2006 Full Review American Blackout (2006) 77% B- EDIT “A powerful piece of political cinema that effectively documents the disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug 4, 2006 Full Review Clerks II (2006) 63% B EDIT “Clerks II brings Smith back to his roots, and his strengths as a writer-director.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jul 20, 2006 Full Review Waist Deep (2006) 28% B- EDIT “That sappy sentimentality juxtaposed with plenty of gritty gangster stuff drives both the tone and the plot of Waist Deep.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jun 22, 2006 Full Review The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) 38% C EDIT “The adrenaline-charged racing sequences have a kind of brutally modern elegance. But when their fingers slip from the nitro fuel-injection buttons and the teens are forced to say a few syllables, big chunks of the movie come to a tire-screeching halt.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jun 15, 2006 Full Review Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) 60% B- EDIT “Sitting through the film's tedious unfolding can be an interesting mental exercise.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jun 1, 2006 Full Review The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005) 88% A- EDIT “Feuerzeig was able to fashion such a thorough, engaging film partly because aficionados such as Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth shot so much footage of Johnston performing and acting out.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Apr 28, 2006 Full Review The Shaggy Dog (2006) 25% B- EDIT “A pretty fair Disney family comedy.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mar 9, 2006 Full Review
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