Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Disney's The Kid (2000) | With its PG rating and a kid as one of its stars, The Kid is being marketed to children, but it's too long, too talky and too drab to have much appeal for them. — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Divided We Fall (2001) | "
Says that people are more important than politics." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 28, 2001 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 81%
| Divine Intervention (2003) | "
While its deadpan comedy recalls Jim Jarmusch, and its deep humanity might remind you of Abbas Kiarostami, Divine Intervention is calmly unsettling in a way that feels entirely new." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted May 2, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 44%
| Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) | "
Even more than most books, Divine gets dented in the transition to the screen." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 6, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 69%
| Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) | "
Truly a team effort, and it's a winning one." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 17, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 0%
| Dorm Daze (2003) | "
Once the whole thing begins to play out, the movie's inventiveness drags." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Sep 26, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 12%
| Double Take (2001) | A smart, stylish, funny film about how deceiving appearances can be. — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jan 12, 2001 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| Down and Derby (2005) | "
It's too predictable and TV-movie generic to appeal to anyone older than, say, 5." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Apr 14, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 19%
| Down to Earth (2001) | Down to Earth suggests that politics and comedy are two methods of initiating social change and that, in context, both are equally effective. — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Feb 15, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Down to You (2000) | Aimless! — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| Down With Love (2003) | "
It's so faithful that it's mummified and, because the movie has nothing to add to what '60s films already gave us, we begin to wonder what the point is." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted May 15, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) | "
The sequel to Dr. Dolittle repeats the mistake of the first one." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 21, 2001 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) | "
Horton is mostly up to the challenge of adapting Seuss' brief, deceptively simple books to the 90-minute format of kids' movies." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 12%
| Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003) | "
It's not exactly the story you love, but at least it's a story you'll recognize." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Nov 21, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Dr. T and the Women (2000) | About as much fun as a Pap smear. — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 48%
| Driving Lessons (2006) | "
Veers all over the place in tone, especially in the scenes with Linney, who seems so much like a part of a different movie that I almost feel like she should only be mentioned in a different review." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Nov 9, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Drumline (2002) | "
Drumline ably captures the complicated relationships in a marching band." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Dec 13, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) | A strenuously unfunny movie, weak even by the low standards of a genre that, one hopes, has finally emptied its stomach of all of its contents. — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Dec 18, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Duets (2000) | Because Giamatti is so good and the rest of Duets is so only-OK, it feels lop-sided. Kind of like a duet between Whitney Houston and me. — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 10%
| Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) | "
It's gleeful, unembarrassed idiocy and darned if it isn't pretty funny." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 13, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Duplex (2003) | "
There's something missing." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Sep 26, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 43%
| DysFunKtional Family (2003) | "
When [Griffin's] target shifts to the deeply odd family that gives the movie its title, the jokes are original and uproarious." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Apr 3, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 54%
| Eagle Vs. Shark (2007) | "
Long story short: Although I didn't care for Eagle vs. Shark, I'd be eager to see whatever [director] Cohen makes next." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jul 5, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 51%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
Easy Virtue would like us to sympathize with the fresh-faced American, but the bitter, insult-spewing Brits are so much more entertaining that I was rooting for them." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 16%
| Eating Out (2005) | "
The way these characters are written tells us nothing about them and everything about the guy who wrote and directed this movie, whose name is Q. Allen Brocka and who may be the only person who will actually find it amusing." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted May 19, 2005 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 47%
| Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006) | "
No one who saw the wretched Eating Out was demanding a sequel, but it's here and it's a lot better." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Dec 7, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 48%
| Eight Legged Freaks (2002) | "
The laugh-laugh-scare- laugh-laugh-scare formula is so predictable there's something comforting about it, maybe because it connects us to a favorite old movie genre we haven't seen in a while and that we're glad to have back." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jul 17, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| Elf (2003) | "
Genuine awe and wonder, two crucial ingredients missing from most recent holiday comedies, are what makes Elf so much fun." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Nov 6, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 50%
| Ella Enchanted (2004) | "
A fractured fairy tale as bright and bouncy as an ABBA song." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Apr 8, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 84%
| Elling (2002) | "
There is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film Oscar: Make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging, life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 27, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 21%
| Employee of the Month (2006) | "
Employee borrows Office Space's crushing-boredom-of-the-workplace vibe, but it's sunnier because these guys realize they don't hate their jobs as much as they thought." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Oct 5, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 6%
| Envy (2004) | "
If Ben Stiller and Jack Black switched parts in Envy, it'd be more interesting. Not good, mind you, but more interesting." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Apr 29, 2004 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 93%
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | "
It's a beautiful, sad, profound film and, although parts of it may remind you of other works of art ... it is like nothing you've ever seen." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Mar 18, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 46%
| Eurotrip (2004) | "
The movie doesn't push its outrageousness hard enough to give us that I-can't- believe-I'm- laughing-at- that feeling." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Feb 19, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 24%
| Evan Almighty (2007) | "
The effects are so gargantuan and so distractingly cheesy that the movie loses track of the idea that this is a normal guy who has to do strange things that seem crazy to his friends and wife." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 21, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 46%
| Everybody's Fine (2009) | "
Throughout the film, writer/director Kirk Jones doles out information piecemeal, so we're ultra-conscious of someone behind the scenes who is manipulating us. And not doing a very good job of it." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Evolution (2001) | "
Evolution seems designed to kill screen time rather than tell a story." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Jun 7, 2001 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Trust me, there are some very big laughs, and they're made even funnier by the actors' ability to pretend they don't know they're being funny." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 25%
| Failure to Launch (2006) | "
There are so many diversions in Failure to Launch, it's as if the movie is bored by its own story." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Mar 9, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 32%
| Fanboys (2009) | "
The tone seems as uneven as the pacing." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 59%
| Find Me Guilty (2006) | "
Entertaining because it's a good, old-fashioned yarn." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Mar 16, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 35%
| Finishing the Game (2007) | "
There's about five minutes of funny in Finishing the Game, which leaves 83 minutes of "Oh, that same joke again, huh?"" — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Nov 1, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 9%
| First Daughter (2004) | "
A better movie than [Chasing Liberty] but one more likely to appeal to parents than kids." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Sep 23, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 10%
| Fool's Gold (2008) | "
A comedy with no jokes is more like a dulledy." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
— | Rotten 35%
| Fools Rush In (1996) |
Click here to read article — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 50%
| For Your Consideration (2006) | "
For Your Consideration, better than anything I've ever seen, articulates my own feelings about the Oscars: Yeah, they're stupid, meaningless and almost always wrong, but how can you not get caught up in their goofy self-seriousness?" — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Nov 16, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 84%
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) | "
A clever script and likable performers sell Marshall, even though Stoller's clunky pacing and drab camerawork (it can't be easy to make Hawaii look so ugly) are like a weight around their necks." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 26%
| Formula 51 (2002) | "
A slapdash, witless, bloody action comedy." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Oct 18, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 25%
| Four Christmases (2008) | "
The cynicism may not hold up as we get closer to the holiday itself, but with a little distance between us and the reason for the season, they did make me laugh." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Freaky Friday (2003) | "
The remake of Freaky Friday is pretty freakin' good." — St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted Aug 6, 2003 |
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