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Film Reviews by Jen Yamato

A movie fiend on a mission

Jen Yamato

Jen Yamato is a walking, popcorn-eating contradiction: she loves all kinds of cinema, from art films to schlocky B-movies, French New Wave to the paperboy musical Newsies. From week to week, she watches all the new releases so she can tell you which films are excellent, which will be your new guilty pleasures, and which you should avoid watching at all costs.

Jen grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she studied among the hippies of UC Berkeley before moving to Hollywood as senior editor at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes. She has covered all the major film festivals including Sundance, Toronto, and Cannes; her work has appeared on websites including Rotten Tomatoes, AOL/Cinematical, and FEARnet. Jen is a member of The Alliance of Women Film Journalists and currently resides in Los Angeles. Tweet her your movie-related thoughts at Twitter.com/jenyamato.

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Showing all Jen's Reviews
Movie Title Rating Release Date
Takers 2.0 The Italian Heat Job for Dummies 08/27/2010 Aug 27, 2010
The Switch 1.5 A formulaic feminist nightmare. 08/20/2010 Aug 20, 2010
Step Up 3D 3.0 Laser fingers in your face! 08/06/2010 Aug 06, 2010
The Spy Next Door 0.5 Possibly the worst Jackie Chan film ever made. 01/15/2010 Jan 15, 2010
Splice 2.5 Weird science, bad parenting. 06/04/2010 Jun 04, 2010
The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2.5 The Sorcerer's Meh-prentice 07/14/2010 Jul 14, 2010
Somewhere 4.0 Sad Dad Redemption 12/22/2010 Dec 22, 2010
The Social Network 3.5 The Citizen Kane of social networking. 10/01/2010 Oct 01, 2010
Skyline 1.5 Brains not included. 11/12/2010 Nov 12, 2010
A Single Man 5.0 Gay grief, Gucci-style. 12/11/2009 Dec 11, 2009
Shutter Island 3.5 Who says every film has to be a masterpiece? 02/19/2010 Feb 19, 2010
She's Out of My League 3.0 Silly, harmless Apatow Lite. 03/12/2010 Mar 12, 2010
Sherlock Holmes 4.0 Robert Downey Jr. stars in CSI: Victorian London. 12/25/2009 Dec 25, 2009
Sex and the City 2 2.0 More middle-aged women complaining in couture. 05/27/2010 May 27, 2010
Secretariat 2.0 Horses for Jesus! 10/08/2010 Oct 08, 2010
Season of the Witch 1.5 A moronic medieval mash-up. 01/07/2011 Jan 07, 2011
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 4.0 An ADD classic for the Nintendo generation. 08/13/2010 Aug 13, 2010
Saw: The Final Chapter 0.5 Pure torture. 10/29/2010 Oct 29, 2010
Salt 1.0 Beware the deadly shoe-knife. 07/23/2010 Jul 23, 2010
The Runaways 3.0 Twilight starlets on a rock roller coaster. 04/09/2010 Apr 09, 2010
Robin Hood 3.0 Needs more Bryan Adams. 05/14/2010 May 14, 2010
Resident Evil: Afterlife 1.5 Cheap thrills and zombie kills in 3D. 09/10/2010 Sep 10, 2010
Remember Me 3.0 Angsty RPattz without the sparkle. 03/12/2010 Mar 12, 2010
RED 3.0 Satisfactory senior spy games. 10/15/2010 Oct 15, 2010
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 4.0 Badder Santa 12/03/2010 Dec 03, 2010