NEW YORK, Jan 14 — Critics loved a love-struck robot and a tightrope-walking Frenchman in 2008. The sci-fi romance “WALL-E” and the documentary “Man on Wire” took top honours from the 10th annual Golden Tomato Awards.
The awards honour the best-reviewed films of the year as determined by the website RottenTomatoes.com, which compiles reviews from critics to measure the percentage of favourable critiques.
“WALL-E” won the Golden Tomato for wide-release with a “Tomatometer” score of 96 per cent. “Man on Wire”, a film that recalls Philippe Petit’s tightrope feat between the World Trade Centre towers in 1974, scored 100 per cent and won the Golden Tomato for limited-release films.
“Man on Wire” is only the second film in the first decade of the Golden Tomatoes to earn a perfect score. Pixar’s “Toy Story 2” is the other.
“WALL-E” is the fifth Pixar film to rank above all others. “Ratatouille” was the best-reviewed film of 2007, along with the lauded Irish romance “Once”. “Toy Story 2”, “Finding Nemo” and “The Incredibles” are Pixar’s other Golden Tomato winners.
“Pixar has won more Golden Tomatoes than anyone else,” said Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief Matt Atchity. “They’re not quite batting a thousand, but they’re pretty close. Ever since ‘Toy Story 2’ came out — which is still one of the highest-rated films of all time on Rotten Tomatoes — they’ve just had this series of really critically loved films.”
The Moldy Tomato — given to the worst-reviewed film of the year — was awarded to the horror film “One Missed Call”. That movie had the unfortunate distinction of not finding a single positive review, earning a goose egg on the Tomatometer.
Affleck, Garner name daughter Seraphina
- NEW YORK: Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have named their newborn daughter Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck.
Affleck’s spokesman, Shawn Sachs, confirmed the name yesterday. Garner gave birth to her second daughter last week.
Garner and Affleck, both 36, were married in June 2005. They welcomed daughter Violet in December 2005.
Garner and Affleck co-starred in “Daredevil”, and they began dating in 2004. — AP
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