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1/5
|
——
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A Broken Sole (2007) |
"
Boringly staged tableaus of self-involved yuppies and sentimentalized white working-class ethnics struggling to connect."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 4, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
The Comebacks (2007) |
"
One of those parody movies that presume that merely making reference to another film constitutes a joke."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 20, 2007
|
|
|
0%
|
Strange Wilderness (2008) |
"
Underachieving even by the standards of stoner comedies, Strange Wilderness is so inert that it doesn't so much unreel on screen as loiter there, giggling at its own outrageousness."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 2, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
18%
|
Chapter 27 (2007) |
"
Any film that dares attempt a nonjudgmental portrait of John Lennon's assassin would most likely be accused of tastelessness, but in the case of Chapter 27 the charges are justified."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
Doomsday (2008) |
"
Doomsday is frenetic, loud, wildly imprecise and so derivative that it doesn't so much seem to reference its antecedents as try on their famous images like a child playing dress-up. Homage without innovation isn't homage, it's karaoke."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 16, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
3%
|
Witless Protection (2008) |
"
In Witless Protection, Larry the Cable Guy plays a small-town deputy, fantasizing about becoming an F.B.I. agent. Sitcom wackiness ensues."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 25, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"
The performers have little to do besides spill and drink blood in this tedious, inconsequential B picture. The sun doesnâ(TM)t rise nearly fast enough."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 19, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
10%
|
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007) |
"
The result plays like a half-baked tribute to Wings of Desire."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 15, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
20%
|
Death Sentence (2007) |
"
A tedious, pandering time-waster."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 31, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
13%
|
September Dawn (2007) |
"
The maudlin, grotesque western September Dawn apes Schindler's List in hopes of creatinga Christian Holocaust picture."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 24, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
45%
|
Cashback (2007) |
"
Beware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters. The result may be a crock like Cashback."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 20, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
13%
|
Miriam (2006) |
"
The events recounted in the World War II drama Miriam are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 8, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
11%
|
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) |
"
One man-versus-mutant dust-up ends with a sledgehammer to the groin. Enough said."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 2, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
20%
|
The Hitcher (2007) |
"
Like the same-titled 1986 cult favorite, this remake is a crash-and-burn action horror with intellectual pretensions."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 20, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
4%
|
Happily N'ever After (2006) |
"
Despite self-aware touches, this is another tired kidsploitation product in which a wasp-waisted ingénue and a shallow beau drive the plot and live happily ever."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 5, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
The Ruins (2008) |
"
More disgusting than scary, The Ruins is the latest in a long line of horror films about upper-middle-class travelers being terrorized in unfamiliar environments."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 7, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) |
"
The hyperactive sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets sends its archaeologist hero on a globetrotting quest that might have been devised after a long night of Wikipedia surfing."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 21, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
Choking Man (2007) |
"
Choking Man is harsh and intermittently affecting but oppressively contrived and mostly pointless."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) |
"
The third installment in the video-game-derived series of films is not exactly dull but never interesting either."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 24, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
The Brothers Solomon (2007) |
"
Three gags miss for every one that hits."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 22, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Mr. Woodcock (2007) |
"
Between Mr. Thornton's wry performance and Tami Reiker's nuanced wide-screen photography, you half-expect Woodcock to deliver more than formulaic laughs."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
Summer '04 (Sommer '04) (2007) |
"
Summer '04 is so plainly the product of meticulous forethought that the shooting script might have been etched on marble slabs."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Laura Smiles (2006) |
"
Part domestic drama, part thriller, Laura Smiles is so ambitious that its ultimate failure is more depressing than anything in its dark script."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 27, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
One to Another (2006) |
"
If this is art, Cinemax is the Louvre."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 14, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Vitus (2007) |
"
This was Switzerland's entry for the 2006 Oscars, and you can see why. Like most award-seeking crowd-pleasers, it places uncomfortable impulses in opposition then dramatizes them in the most unchallenging way imaginable."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 4, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Good-Bye Momo (2007) |
"
It sounds churlish to bash a film that's as bereft of bad thoughts as a tiny puppy. But when the puppy licks your face for 108 minutes, enough's enough."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 20, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
Adam's Apples (Adams æbler) (2007) |
"
Smart-aleck comedy and spirituality aren't incompatible, but in Adam's Apples they cancel each other out."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 16, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
26%
|
Daddy's Little Girls (2007) |
"
The hamfistedness of Daddy's Little Girls ultimately shatters its charms."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 16, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Constellation (2005) |
"
If earnestness equaled skill, Constellation would be a classic."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 2, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
56%
|
The Signal (2008) |
"
This three-part horror movie directed by a trio of Atlanta filmmakers is set during the collapse of Terminus, a fictional city whose citizens are being driven to rage."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 22, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
28%
|
Step Up 2 the Streets (2008) |
"
Step Up 2 the Streets posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichés aren't clichés."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
60%
|
Look (2007) |
"
Look, an unsettling, rudely funny but not entirely credible feature by the writer and director Adam Rifkin, is an ensemble narrative for the age of public surveillance."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 14, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
31%
|
Undoing (2006) |
"
Undoing, by the writer and director Chris Chan Lee, buries a potentially haunting pulp thriller beneath flashy tics."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 5, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
31%
|
Midnight Eagle (Middonaito Îguru) (2007) |
"
A personal and political melodrama with perfunctory gunplay and explosions."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 23, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
78%
|
Desert Bayou (2007) |
"
Feels less like a revelatory feature film than several shorts strung together."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 5, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
24%
|
Halloween (2007) |
"
The new Halloween has sympathy for the Devil, but not enough."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 4, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
1%
|
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"
Daddy Day Camp is a recruiting poster for kids, insisting that there's no domestic problem that military values can't solve."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
33%
|
Walking to Werner (2006) |
"
The documentary Walking to Werner is a deeply self-reflexive work, perpetually at risk of disappearing into its own iris."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 20, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Broken English (2007) |
"
The low-key comedy Broken English is a textbook example of an Indiewood film: a Hollywood fantasy wrapped in plain brown paper."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Otoshimono (Ghost Tunnel)(Ghost Train) (2007) |
"
In Takeshi Furusawa's Ghost Train, a group of high school students tries to unravel a mystery that leads the teenagers into the bowels of their city."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
14%
|
Four Lane Highway (2005) |
"
Affable but dull."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 1, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
56%
|
Civic Duty (2006) |
"
The vivid sense of time and place is the best thing about the initially promising, ultimately irritating psychological thriller Civic Duty."
—
New York Times
Posted May 4, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
20%
|
Dead Silence (2007) |
"
The film's playfully self-aware touches (like a grand old theater named the Guignol) distract from its leaden pacing, three too many final twists and various behavioral idiocies."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 18, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
69%
|
Alone with Her (2007) |
"
Writer and director Eric Nicholas's latest film, Alone With Her, is a voyeuristic thriller that is fiendishly assured yet ultimately less than the sum of its parts."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 17, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Teza () |
"
He doesn't just reject political, philosophical, sexual, racial and spiritual dogma of every sort. He seems to view dogma itself as the one true evil: the ideological armor of bullies throughout history; the enemy of freedom, of art, of happiness itself."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 2, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Planet B-Boy (2007) |
"
Still, from moment to moment, Planet B-Boy is fun, sometimes thrilling and packed with illuminating details and striking personalities"
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 24, 2008
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
Bonneville (2006) |
"
Except for Jessica Lange's silent, expressive close-ups, the women's journey in Bonneville is aesthetically and dramatically unremarkable."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Beyond Belief (2008) |
"
This documentary feature follows 9/11 widows from suburban Boston, as they try to raise money to help war widows in Afghanistan."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
3/5
|
16%
|
Revolver (2005) |
"
The movie's hit-to-miss ratio is hardly Olympic caliber, but Mr. Ritchie deserves credit for chutzpah."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Dirty Laundry (2006) |
"
Mr. Jamal's direction ranges from clumsy to competent. Fortunately, even as Mr. Jamal's characters hit notes reminiscent of a half-baked television pilot, they disclose eccentricities that his cast spins into comic gold."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
85%
78%
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