Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) | "
Stylistic but ultimately unsatisfying." Posted Apr 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures (2001) | "
Engaging but decidedly less than earth-shattering." Posted Oct 2, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Anthem (1997) | "
This is a documentary that could easily have been overly self-indulgent or fashionably irreverent but instead appeals to one’s intelligence and provides glimpses of a dynamic country cruising peacefully toward the millennium." Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| The Dogwalker (2006) | "
Rather than being self-indulgent or pretentious, however, the film comes up with many believable details and changes in direction that enrich the bittersweet central relationship of the two leads." Posted Aug 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Happy Here and Now (2002) | "
The future is quieter, emotionally subdued and grayly mysterious, at least in the small hop forward imagined by filmmaker Michael Almereyda." Posted Dec 16, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Passionada (2003) | "
Goes down smoothly thanks to the trio of lead actors, whose enthusiasm and chemistry help make up for the routine filmmaking." Posted Mar 31, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | "
A masterfully entertaining final installment." Posted Dec 8, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003) | "
The sound effects and musical choices will underwhelm some, but those previously tuned in with the TV series will be happy to see the team of bounty hunters back in action." Posted Apr 3, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 49%
| The Safety of Objects (2003) | "
With a long running time that no amount of nonlinear construction can successfully quicken, Safety does have sequences and whole story lines that are fresh and thoughtfully entertaining." Posted Mar 10, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| The Ballad of Bering Strait (2002) | "
It's a coming-out party of a project that is never less than engaging." Posted Feb 24, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| Gods and Generals (2003) | "
From the start Gods has a mighty wind of nostalgia and outright historical mythicizing that doesn't go down easily." Posted Feb 19, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 22%
| Biker Boyz (2003) | "
Not without moments of excitement, romance and rubber-burning redemption." Posted Feb 6, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| Final Destination 2 (2003) | "
A gory good show for fans of R-rated horror mayhem." Posted Jan 30, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) | "
This boy-meets-girl movie is a chore to sit through." Posted Jan 28, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Shanghai Knights (2003) | "
It's the stronger supporting players and script that make Knights a more palatable hybrid than Noon." Posted Jan 28, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| Darkness Falls (2003) | "
A dreary exercise in cheap shocks aimed at kids." Posted Jan 23, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| A Guy Thing (2003) | "
A negligible thing at best and a determinedly unfunny thing at worst." Posted Jan 16, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 8%
| Kangaroo Jack (2003) | "
There really is a nice core to the movie, and O'Connell and Anderson are equally adept at getting laughs by playing up the characters' manic drive to keep going." Posted Jan 15, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) | "
It's good to have the Next Generation crew back in action, and Patrick Stewart is still a commanding presence as Capt. Picard of the USS Enterprise." Posted Dec 10, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) | "
Stealthily thought-provoking and brashly entertaining." Posted Dec 10, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 22%
| The Hot Chick (2002) | "
Several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare." Posted Dec 10, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | "
A cinematic flood of spectacular proportions." Posted Dec 5, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Solaris (2002) | "
Pleasingly, Soderbergh does not pander much to expectations and more than once evokes Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey." Posted Nov 22, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Samsara (2003) | "
Nalin's film has excellent production values and thoroughly transports one to its far-flung world of clear skies, jagged mountains and passionate affairs of the mind and body." Posted Nov 14, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| The Business of Fancydancing (2002) | "
Where it goes wrong is in the combination of poetic sensibilities and run-of-the-mill narrative cinema." Posted Oct 25, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Knockaround Guys (2002) | "
Of interest only to male viewers who are addicts of Scorsese-meets -Tarantino gangster-life frolics." Posted Oct 11, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| The Transporter (2002) | "
Such a silly slugfest that no amount of surly attitude can hide its skeletal plot or stand in for satisfying characterizations." Posted Oct 9, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999) | "
Wears one down with a long running time and diminishing returns on its wicked premise." Posted Sep 27, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 18%
| Just a Kiss (2002) | "
Stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls." Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| American Gun (2002) | "
Getting a lot of quality cinema out of a tight budget, Jacobs (Just One Night) takes some risks in the storytelling department that result in a film that encourages one to think long and hard about the subject of guns." Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Spirited Away (2002) | "
Miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers." Posted Sep 23, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| Invincible (2002) | "
After one gets the feeling that the typical Hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here, it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of Zishe and the fiery presence of Hanussen." Posted Sep 23, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience (2002) | "
The special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original, while the Oscar-winning sound and James Horner's rousing score make good use of the hefty audio system." Posted Sep 20, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| Spun (2003) | "
Virtuoso cinema that mercilessly holds a light up to wasted lives but also comes down off its high to make us care about these lost souls." Posted Sep 18, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Heartbreak Hospital (2002) | "
Other than a mildly engaging central romance, Hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst." Posted Sep 17, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) | "
Why have a plot, characters, dialogue? Maybe the sequel will be called Simplistic: Bullets vs. Humans." Posted Sep 17, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| Stealing Harvard (2002) | "
Seems destined to flop both in theaters and in ancillary manifestations." Posted Sep 12, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Swimfan (2002) | "
The project's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger Fatal Attraction into a high school setting." Posted Sep 5, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| The Banger Sisters (2002) | "
Clunky plotting and an uninteresting character creep into a potentially funnier and more endearing scenario." Posted Sep 5, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Smokers Only (2002) | "
The leads are so unmemorable, despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes, that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's secondhand material." Posted Aug 27, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Washington Heights (2003) | "
When the film shows the awkwardness of the lead's caregiver relationship with his cranky father, De Villa finds material that's compelling, but such complications as the girlfriend's violent brother going ballistic and tragedy ensuing are rugged cliches." Posted Aug 24, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Bubba Ho-Tep (2003) | "
A zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded Elvis fans (but by no means all) will have fun with." Posted Aug 21, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| XXX (2002) | "
Pitifully written, with flagrant disregard for reality in the fashion of a spoof." Posted Aug 5, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Looking for Leonard (2002) | "
From the performances and wry dialogue to the sets and cinematography, Looking is a film with a lot of things going for it." Posted Jul 17, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Satin Rouge (2002) | "
The way Lilia loosens up and learns to dance enticingly for men in a timeless ritual that is empowering and not demeaning is Satin at its most engaging." Posted Jul 17, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Fast Runner (2002) | "
The acting, costumes, music, cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales." Posted Jun 7, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Windtalkers (2002) | "
With a weak script that makes one think that the screenwriters never read the great war books of James Jones and Norman Mailer, the characters don't have near the dimensionality required to help the movie soar above the usual bloody Hollywood balderdash." Posted Jun 7, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 10%
| Bad Company (2002) | "
It's got all the familiar Bruckheimer elements, and Schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the Hopkins/Rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas." Posted Jun 6, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Undercover Brother (2002) | "
Led by Griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm, the cast has a lot of fun with the material." Posted May 31, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| The Sum of All Fears (2002) | "
Vigorously directed by Phil Alden Robinson and tautly scripted by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne." Posted May 28, 2002 |
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