Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Exists squarely on that most comfortable rung of the American corporate ladder: the mediocre middle." — Examiner.com Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
Adventureland stays strictly on the games side of the amusement park, happily ambling along with no real dips or climbs." — Examiner.com Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
It's really, really funny" — Examiner.com Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
for its core audience and for those who have been counting down the days and hours to its release, 'Watchmen' will probably be enthralling. For the rest of us: Watch Out." — Examiner.com Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| Last Chance Harvey (2008) | "
Elevated considerably by fine lead performances from Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson." — Examiner.com Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 12%
| Bride Wars (2009) | "
excruciating, pointless, spectacularly unfunny, sometimes offensive, hapless stab at a chick flick" — Examiner.com Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Bolt (2008) | "
With its vibrant look, frisky attitude and sweet lesson about loyalty and friendship, Bolt is solid, fresh family-friendly entertainment." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 49%
| Twilight (2008) | "
Twilight is a self-selecting movie if there ever was one. Those who want to see it, will see it and love it. Others are warned away." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | "
It's a masterpiece, and that's my final answer." — Examiner.com Posted Nov 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 64%
| Quantum of Solace (2008) | "
As an action movie, Quantum of Solace is passable ... As a Bond movie, it's a mess." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 41%
| Kicking and Screaming (2005) | "
As the coffee-fueled Phil lurches further and further over the edge of soccer coach impropriety, you can sense Ferrell struggling to break through the lame script" — Lowell Sun Posted May 12, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 68%
| Hitch (2005) | "
James comes crashing nervously into the movie like a fat guy who went through the wrong door and ended up on the fashion show catwalk. He's perfect." — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 45%
| Constantine (2005) | "
It just so happens that I always had a theory on how to visit hell, too: Sit in a chair and watch a Keanu Reeves movie." — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 29%
| Be Cool (2005) | "
There's some fun to be had here, but measured against Get Shorty, the movie doesn't fare so well." — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 73%
| The Upside of Anger (2005) | "
though it's easy to poke fun at Costner, here is a movie that, for the first time in a long time, allows him to display his goofy affability." — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 43%
| Guess Who (2005) | "
the movie is little more than an interracial riff on Meet the Parents, but it's consistently funny, and it's enough of a riff to make it feel fresh." — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 89%
| Kung Fu Hustle (2005) | "
an overload of giddy action and physical comedy" — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 16%
| XXX: State of the Union (2005) | "
As for female characters, in the xXx franchise, there are only two types of women: the ones with big breasts, and the ones with even bigger breasts." — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 16%
| XXX: State of the Union (2005) | "
As for female characters, in the xXx franchise, there are only two types of women: the ones with big breasts, and the ones with even bigger breasts." — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 39%
| Kingdom of Heaven (2005) | "
The Crusades may seem like a strange source for such an entertaining summer blockbuster, but it's refreshing to see Scott going for something a bit more meaningful." — Lowell Sun Posted May 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 58%
| The Interpreter (2005) | "
No doubt there have been more intriguing tales played out in its halls than the passable whodunit the movie provides, but this one does have its moments" — Lowell Sun Posted Apr 21, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| Fever Pitch (2005) | "
at its best when it offers brief, boisterous glimpses into the strange relationship between fan and team" — Lowell Sun Posted Apr 7, 2005 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 77%
| Sin City (2005) | "
Strange, surreal, dazzling" — Lowell Sun Posted Mar 31, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 9%
| White Noise (2005) | "
For [Keaton], a forgettable flick like this one is like a rehab stint in A ball for a big league pitcher" — Lowell Sun Posted Jan 7, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| The Aviator (2004) | "
[A]n empathetic, supremely entertaining portrait of a tortured man; DiCaprio’s is one of the best screen performances in many a moon." — Lowell Sun Posted Dec 21, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 52%
| The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) | "
[C]inematic flotsam that drifts quickly out of mind." — Lowell Sun Posted Dec 21, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 38%
| Meet the Fockers (2004) | "
Stiller — by starring in Meet the Fockers, one of the year’s final releases — pulls into a buzzer-beating tie with Jude Law as the most-overexposed actor of the movie year." — Lowell Sun Posted Dec 21, 2004 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 82%
| Finding Neverland (2004) | "
There’s a simple word to describe Finding Neverland, but it’s one that too few movies can qualify for these caustic days: lovely." — Lowell Sun Posted Nov 17, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 34%
| Shark Tale (2004) | "
Not even the eye candy animation is all that great. The film has a flat look that matches it comedic tone." — Lowell Sun Posted Sep 30, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 72%
| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) | "
[A]mazing to look at but not as much fun as it should be to watch." — Lowell Sun Posted Sep 16, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 56%
| Mr. 3000 (2004) | "
Bernie Mac is effortlessly funny and constantly likable, even when he’s acting like a jerk, and that’s what saves Mr. 3000 from the scrap heap of broken baseball movie dreams." — Lowell Sun Posted Sep 16, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| Cellular (2004) | "
It isn’t terrible, even if there are too many moments that rely on the central characters being either extremely stupid or unforgivably forgetful." — Lowell Sun Posted Sep 10, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 15%
| Without A Paddle (2004) | "
wholly undignified." — Lowell Sun Posted Aug 26, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Collateral (2004) | "
[Mann] has unimpeachable visual flair ... spinning through camera angles to aptly demonstrate the disconnected, disjointed feel of L.A." — Lowell Sun Posted Aug 6, 2004 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 10%
| Catwoman (2004) | "
You gotta be kidding me." — Lowell Sun Posted Jul 23, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 81%
| The Bourne Supremacy (2004) | "
[F]antastic, a whiz-bang follow-up that far surpasses the original as it breathlessly zigs and zags all over the globe." — Lowell Sun Posted Jul 22, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 58%
| I, Robot (2004) | "
[E]nough breathtaking visuals to make you forgive the movie its plot holes and its tendency to lapse into product placement parody.
" — Lowell Sun Posted Jul 16, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 10%
| A Cinderella Story (2004) | "
just about the same exact movie as all those other trifles aimed at the tween girl demographic that have been unleashed upon the unsuspecting moviegoing masses this year" — Lowell Sun Posted Jul 16, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 65%
| Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) | "
it seems like Ferrell can take just about any idea, however threadbare, and make it funny." — Lowell Sun Posted Jul 8, 2004 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 15%
| Sleepover (2004) | "
Unless you’re an extremely undiscriminating 14-year-old girl, sleeping through Sleepover is the only way to escape unscathed." — Lowell Sun Posted Jul 8, 2004 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Before Sunset (2004) | "
Emotionally, it's a high-wire act as dazzling as any of the CGI effects that pack all those big budget blockbusters.
" — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 30, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 49%
| De-Lovely (2004) | "
Director Irwin Winkler and screenwriter Jay Cocks know that Porter's songs are his story, and so they take care to weave his tunes seamlessly into their movie's structure." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 30, 2004 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Spider-Man 2 (2004) | "
Might just be the most perfect summer popcorn flick since Raiders of the Lost Ark." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 29, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 52%
| The Notebook (2004) | "
The movie believes that Alzheimer’s can take away everything but love. I don’t know if that’s true, but I don’t see any harm in believing it is." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 24, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 84%
| Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) | "
What’s startling about the controversy that surrounds the movie’s release is how little of its information and how few of its allegations against Bush are new." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 24, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | "
A few minutes in, we know all the punchlines." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 21, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 30%
| Around the World in 80 Days (2004) | "
...a pleasing mix of martial arts and madcap comedy, with a string of big-name cameos thrown in for good measure." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 21, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 69%
| Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) | "
There haven’t been so many shots of guys getting hit where-it-counts since the heyday of America’s Funniest Home Videos." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 21, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| The Stepford Wives (2004) | "
Let’s just do everyone involved with The Stepford Wives a favor and wipe it from the slate." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 11, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) | "
[Cuaron's] dark touch gives the latest chapter a fresh bolt of energy and - at last! - a rush of inspiration." — Lowell Sun Posted Jun 4, 2004 |
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