Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| 21 (2008) | "
... it seems they used Film Adaptations for Dummies and thus missed an opportunity to make a great movie with style and atmosphere." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Diary of the Dead (1976) | "
GEORGE ROMERO REALLY HAD NOWHERE to take his zombie franchise after 2005's Land of the Dead -- but he made this year's Diary of the Dead anyway." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Fool's Gold (2008) | "
IF THERE IS A ROMANTIC-COMEDY HELL, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson surely stand at the gates waving people in." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Fool's Gold (1967) | "
IF THERE IS A ROMANTIC-COMEDY HELL, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson surely stand at the gates waving people in." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Weirdsville (2007) | "
If there was more vision on the front end, with more thought put into shot composition and less adherence to trendy, attention-deficit filmmaking, Weirdsville might have been an innovative indie gem" — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| The Bucket List (2007) | "
doesn't a by-the-numbers Rob Reiner buddy movie about dying just about say it all? This is for the hardcore Nicholson and Freeman fans who don't mind considering the mortality of their idols." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Margot at the Wedding (2007) | "
a dysfunctional family portrait that, at best, shows how far sisterly bonds can stretch without breaking. At worst, it demonstrates what happens when a writer with nothing to say continues to produce after his supply of bio fuel is exhausted" — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) | "
a perfect storm of incompetent idiocy that might kill off mockumentaries altogether." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| The Perfect Holiday (2007) | "
Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard just show up enough in The Perfect Holiday to either pick up a paycheck or return some kind of mysterious unpaid debt to writer-director Lance Rivera." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Grace is Gone (2007) | "
the mood is as overcast as the sky that follows the Phillips' as they head for Florida and the inevitable moment of revelation. Grace Is Gone is a downer worthy of a super-sized box of Kleenex" — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) | "
Seeing WWJB? in a theater is not necessary, although seeing him and the choir hijacking a mall in person would be better than Beowulf in IMAX." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) | "
Never read García Márquez and still waiting for a sequel to The Notebook? There's something here for you." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| Sleuth (2007) | "
By the time the film ends on a flat note, it is long past the point of failing to effectively showcase a meeting of minds between two great actors." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Dec 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| The Heartbreak Kid (2007) | "
The elements with which the Farrellys transcend mere gross-out -- pacing, inspired and quirky performances, good writing with an underlying heart -- are missing here, which exposes the underlying creepiness at the heart of the film." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Nov 15, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Resurrecting the Champ (2007) | "
Success, adulation, temptation, disgrace, redemption -- it's all there, expressed mostly through the predictably non-expressive Hartnett." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Rendition (2007) | "
The film's message is still relevant, but it's already universally recognized how far the executive branch will go to get its latest war on." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Being Julia (2004) | "
While I'm glad that Annette Bening gets a juicy role in István Szabó's Being Julia, I don't find her character sympathetic or charismatic whatsoever." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Nov 18, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Undertow (2004) | "
The substance doesn't live up to the style. Green was trying to create a thriller, and, although all of the elements are in place, Undertow doesn't thrill." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Nov 18, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Birth (2004) | "
After building anticipation throughout most of the film, Glazer fizzles out near the end. ... Once again, a brilliant filmmaker falls victim to the sophomore slump." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Oct 29, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Shaun of the Dead (2004) | "
The main problem is that Shaun feels like a high-budget, season-ending, extended-length TV episode. Once the situation itself is milked for laughs, the film falls flat." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Sep 24, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 66%
| The Door in the Floor (2004) | "
The most interesting character in the book remains 4-years-old [in the film], never growing up into the anguished heart of the novel." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Sep 3, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| The Spanish Apartment (2003) | "
There isn't enough story or character development to make this into the breathtaking escapade Klapisch seems to have aspired to." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted May 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Underworld (2003) | "
Wisemen started out with a great idea and couldn't summon the vision to make it happen." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted May 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Legend of Suriyothai (2003) | "
American audiences expect crouching tigers and hidden dragons in their Asian fare, so plodding elephants may be a little anti-climactic. This one is for the history buffs." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted May 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| The Housekeeper (2003) | "
Dequenne fills the free-spirited role of Laura adequately enough. But there's precious little chemistry or understanding as to why she's attracted to Jacques…" — Las Vegas CityLife Posted May 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Respiro (2003) | "
Crialese's stated purpose is to create a sense of magical realism, and even as he draws on an actual fable to do so, there's an incomplete feeling to the production." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted May 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| Levity (2003) | "
Why do filmmakers continue to let Billy Bob Thornton sleepwalk through their productions?" — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 78%
| Owning Mahowny (2003) | "
Watching Hoffman completely give himself over to his addiction is pretty draining. Although the film has a subtext … it's basically a ride down to the bottom with an addict." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Basic (2003) | "
McTiernan's bitten off way more than he could chew, spicing up the Usual Suspects approach with a dash of Rashomon and a little of help from A Few Good Men." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Bulletproof Monk (2003) | "
… bringing music-video director Paul Hunter was a good move for pacing, but he could use a few lessons in filming fight scenes." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Till Human Voices Wake Us (2003) | "
Petroni may have chosen to move the plot along at a snail's pace to reflect the mood of Prufrock's poem, but there isn't enough lyricism in the film to save the story." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Gerry (2003) | "
Although the images from the film are poetic and are more fondly recalled in hindsight, in this case art film for art film's sake doesn't fly very high." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) | "
Is this what we were waiting for? Now we know why Miramax took a Hattori Hanzi sword to Quentin Tarantino's latest production and divided it in two." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 15, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| The Reckoning (2004) | "
… the premise and setting that are intriguing, but the obvious foreshadowing and labored attempt to slowly unravel the facts surrounding the plot are drawbacks." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Identity (2003) | "
The characters are mostly slices of a whodunit pie, and once the real revelation that spins the story around happens, there isn't much reason to care about them anymore." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 5, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| The Eye (2003) | "
The Eye is a haphazardly constructed horror movie based on a premise that the Thailand-based brothers couldn't figure out an ending for." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Apr 5, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Demonlover (2003) | "
While Assayas is masterful at creating an eerie mood and has a far-sighted grasp of future shock, he seems to have left orbit while trying to tie up Demonlover's loose ends" — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Party Monster (2003) | "
Rule No. 1: If you use black humor in a film about real-life characters and events, make sure you have a feel for it first." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| The Gospel of John (2003) | "
Despite claims to the contrary, The Gospel does come off as a three-hour long Sunday School lesson." — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 11, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Laurel Canyon (2003) | "
'We're left with a film that doesn't create enough interest in what went on in those Laurel Canyon backyards to justify pulling over and watching.'" — Las Vegas CityLife Posted Mar 3, 2004 |
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