Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) | "
Stylistic but ultimately unsatisfying." Posted Apr 9, 2008 |
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) | "
This boy-meets-girl movie is a chore to sit through." 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 |
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 |
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| XXX (2002) | "
Pitifully written, with flagrant disregard for reality in the fashion of a spoof." Posted Aug 5, 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Importance of Being Earnest (2002) | "
Where Husband was light on its feet and congenial, Earnest never gets off the ground." Posted May 14, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Blackwoods (2002) | "
Two-bit potboiler." Posted May 10, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| A Night at the Golden Eagle (2002) | "
One just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters." Posted May 2, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Jason X (2002) | "
May offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor." Posted Apr 25, 2002 |
Rotten
| N/A | Gentleman Bandit (2000) | "
Amounts to minimal entertainment with nothing to recommend it." Posted Mar 21, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Blade 2 (2002) | "
Sickening and utterly pointless, when it's not just outrageously tweaked for shock value, the film is soulless and caters to the darkest of human instincts." Posted Mar 19, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Panic Room (2002) | "
Tedious when it should be tight and borderline silly when it should be freezing one's spine." Posted Mar 19, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Resident Evil (2002) | "
A generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive." Posted Mar 12, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 3%
| Rollerball (2002) | "
Little more than the skin and bones and ear-flaying soundtrack of a dubiously fleshed-out premise that seemed dated 27 years ago." Posted Feb 8, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| American Adobo (2002) | "
A big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on." Posted Feb 6, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Slackers (2002) | "
Slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by." Posted Jan 25, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| The Mothman Prophecies (2002) | "
Jaded moviegoers will probably swat away this less-than-engrossing supernatural thriller." Posted Jan 21, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Orange County (2002) | "
A teen laugher that has no redeeming qualities -- not its filmmaking, performances or short running time." Posted Jan 8, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Happenstance (2001) | "
Not nearly as fun or profound as it might have been." Posted Dec 28, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Not Another Teen Movie (2001) | "
Teen is nothing more than the timelessly crude throwaway project it wants to be." Posted Dec 14, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Shadow Glories (2001) | "
A confusing mess where the characters' actions make little sense and the finale is particularly noxious." Posted Oct 12, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 5%
| Corky Romano (2001) | "
A wobbly cinematic vehicle." Posted Oct 12, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Megiddo: The Omega Code II (2001) | "
In the final analysis, it's just too damn funny to take seriously." Posted Sep 28, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Glitter (2001) | "
Another of what have become far too common lately: unintentional laughfests." Posted Sep 24, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| China: The Panda Adventure () | "
Gives only glimpses of the potential for dynamic storytelling many have longed for in an Imax film." Posted Sep 20, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| The Glass House (2001) | "
Unfolds as a quasigeneric chiller that degenerates into hokum." Posted Sep 14, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Hardball (2001) | "
Aims for the gut but instead beans the viewer with a wildly unbelievable yarn." Posted Sep 11, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Piņero (2001) | "
Complex but often disengaging." Posted Sep 7, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| The Musketeer (2001) | "
As for the action that greatly reimagines 17th century sword fighting, genre fans will be seeing nothing much new." Posted Sep 7, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| American Outlaws (2001) | "
The bizarre result of another in a long line of westerns tailored for rising actors, who no one really takes seriously in such projects." Posted Aug 22, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| All Over the Guy (2001) | "
Another movie about relationships, but not an especially successful, original or involving one." Posted Aug 10, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Pearl Harbor (2001) | "
Mostly tests one's patience with unseaworthy dialogue and performers drowning in oily cliches." Posted Jun 7, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| What's The Worst That Could Happen? (2001) | "
Struggles to keep one amused as the premise tries to work in kooky supporting players with fitful success." Posted May 31, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| The Animal (2001) | "
Neither one for the dogs nor the cat's pajamas." Posted May 30, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Sordid Lives (2001) | "
Shrill and punishingly unfunny." Posted May 16, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Nora (2001) | "
A muddy tale of sex, love, obsession, jealousy, cruelty and abandonment that can keep one at a distance." Posted May 11, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| The King is Alive (2001) | "
A high-minded project that never lifts off as intended despite all the right elements seemingly coming together." Posted May 2, 2001 |
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