|
0/5
|
50%
|
Parents (2000) |
"
the movie is an intense comedy about psychological abuse that will repulse as many viewers as it pleases. The only reaction it will likely not instill is nonchalance."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
0/5
|
0%
|
Homer and Eddie (1989) |
"
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, whose concept of subtlety most people would mistake for a sledge hammer or pneumatic drill."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 10, 2005
|
|
0/5
|
54%
|
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah - Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidorâ: Daikaijû sôkôgeki) (2001) |
"
It is for desperate fans only and is pretty bad even by the loose standards of the genre. It concerns a little boy learning about bravery by dreaming about Godzilla and Godzilla's baby. Godzilla's baby also talks to the boy, who then foils the plans of tw"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Oct 14, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
The Dentist (1996) |
"
There are lots of gory in-the-mouth close-ups, showing teeth being destroyed, needles being jammed into the gums and other graphic indignities"
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DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
League of Gentlemen - The Complete Series 1 (2000) |
"
Set in a remote village where bizarre characters do bizarre things, the humor is often shrill or strained."
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DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
75%
|
Morning Glory (1933) |
"
it is a lousy movie and Hepburn's performance, after some strikingly enigmatic opening moments, is embarrassingly bad."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 14, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
67%
|
Flesh And Bone (1993) |
"
the whole movie rests on the interaction of the two characters and the appeal of the stars who embody them"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 14, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
40%
|
Days of Thunder (1990) |
"
The film's whole narrative structure begins to disintegrate on the second viewing, if it hasn't already done so on the first."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jul 21, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
Jingle All the Way (1997) |
"
The film is rescued by a strong third act, but getting there is torture."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jul 21, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Gator (1976) |
"
the film's pace is deadly slow and aimless"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jul 21, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
The Groove Tube (1974) |
"
The jokes seem flat and desperate."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 10, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
57%
|
Kafka (1991) |
"
the film has a shallow, sophomoric earnestness"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 10, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
Impulse (1984) |
"
Asking the viewer to believe more than the normal share of impossible things for a single day"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 10, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
83%
|
The Enchanted Cottage (1945) |
"
some viewers will inevitably be charmed by it."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 10, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
61%
|
I'll Do Anything (1994) |
"
Lengthy stretches of the program are not entertaining and are painfully uncomfortable"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Dec 3, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
33%
|
Crimes of Passion (1984) |
"
The satire is too awfully confused about the differences between sex and love to be making profound or ironic statements about the nature of romance."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Nov 6, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
53%
|
The Loved One (1965) |
"
its humors are unorganized and it can easily seem desperate and dumb"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Nov 6, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Beethoven's 3rd (2000) |
"
From a dramatic standpoint, there is not even the level of emotional depth achieved by the second Beethoven film, but as basic and unimaginative as the slapstick often is, it delivers to its target audience."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Oct 14, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
Murphy's Law (1986) |
"
It takes seven minutes for the credits to finish appearing during the opening and once they are over, so is the suspense."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Oct 14, 2004
|
|
|
27%
|
The Ewok Adventure (Caravan of Courage) (1990) |
"
The characterizations aren't strong enough to carry it, and the children who are attracted to the Ewoks-at-home sequences will probably be scared to death by the effects work."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Aug 13, 2008
|
|
|
74%
|
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) |
"
In attempting to straddle dramatic realism, Richardson tried hard to avoid moralizing on the hypocrisies of adults or exaggerating the experiences of youth, but in striving for the middle ground, he also strive for mediocrity."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Aug 4, 2008
|
|
|
60%
|
American Flyers (1985) |
"
Scriptwriter Steve Tesich returns to bicycle racing, but he's forced to throw in a subplot about an incurable movie disease to make the thing work."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Aug 4, 2008
|
|
|
65%
|
Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter) (1974) |
"
People can read artistic significance into anything and lots of people have read gobs of it into this, but it is a silly movie with lots of perverse sex and no redeeming values, artistic or otherwise."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jul 16, 2008
|
|
|
22%
|
Harry & Son (1984) |
"
Produced, directed and even partially scripted by Newman, the story about a man suffering from a heart condition is hardly exciting or rewarding material."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 17, 2008
|
|
|
——
|
Going Overboard (1994) |
"
When a star becomes really successful, the public is inundated with every scrap of celluloid he ever worked on as he learned his craft, and such is the case with this Adam Sandler vehicle."
—
DVDLaser
Posted May 22, 2008
|
|
|
18%
|
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997) |
"
Works a little better than the first Power Rangers movie but will not extend its appeal beyond the show's fan base."
—
DVDLaser
Posted May 14, 2008
|
|
|
29%
|
Amazing Grace and Chuck () |
"
Intermittently entertaining and embarrassing."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Mar 24, 2008
|
|
|
75%
|
Les Enfants terribles (The Strange Ones) (1950) |
"
One must admire the talents of Melville and Cocteau while watching the film, but the strongest emotions are arch and the biggest plot turns are silly."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Mar 3, 2008
|
|
|
——
|
Rented Lips (1988) |
"
Martin Mull stars and the scenes he appears in are often humorous, but when he is not present, the movie is as bad as they come."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Feb 27, 2008
|
|
|
63%
|
Out of Africa (1985) |
"
The film runs for 161 minutes and does not have a strongly defined narrative."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jan 28, 2008
|
|
|
50%
|
Winning (1969) |
"
The film goes nowhere except in circles."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Dec 20, 2007
|
|
|
——
|
Domino () |
"
Domino is a failure because it doesn't entertain well, because its many deliberately unmatching elements never line up, and because ultimately, it doesn't escape Hollywood as much as it is pretending to."
—
Movie City News
Posted Jul 21, 2006
|
|
|
80%
|
Cinderella Man (2005) |
"
Howard may have replicated the family scenes as accurately as if he'd found film from a camera hidden in the walls of the original Braddock apartment, and yet the movie can't shake the sense that the scenes away from the boxing ring are somehow false"
—
Movie City News
Posted Jul 21, 2006
|
|
|
16%
|
Alexander (2004) |
"
the tragedy of Alexander appears to be that, like his hero, Stone has tried to go too far and has lost his way."
—
Movie City News
Posted Jul 20, 2006
|
|
|
72%
|
Open Water (2004) |
"
The narrative is too inevitable and unrelenting to really entertain a viewer, but there is that image of the man and the woman, together, alone and adrift, which communicates a very powerful and even mythic portrait of the human experience"
—
Movie City News
Posted Jul 20, 2006
|
|
|
92%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
When you've seen the movie once and can anticipate the last act, however, the film has to rely more upon its philosophical and emotional stamina to hold your attention. The impulse to duck out and avoid the heavy blows becomes greater."
—
Movie City News
Posted Jul 20, 2006
|
|
|
53%
|
A Dirty Shame (2004) |
"
On the one hand it depicts what the world might be like if women had the same constancy of sexual desire that men have, but on the other hand, it has the intelligence level of a teenage boy's dirty joke."
—
Movie City News
Posted Jul 20, 2006
|
|
2.5
|
73%
|
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) |
"
The movie has not aged well. Many of the performances are arch, playing the comedy broadly, which is blandly predictable as the film grinds on and on."
—
Movie City News
Posted Feb 15, 2005
|
|
D+
|
41%
|
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"
The fire sequences are indeed thrilling, but the oxygen just gets sucked out of the film between the action sequences"
—
Movie City News
Posted Jun 10, 2005
|
|
C-
|
48%
|
Star Trek Generations (1994) |
"
Just having William Shatner and Patrick Stewart share the screen is a fan's nocturnal emission, but the hoped-for grand finale is a fizzle."
—
Movie City News
Posted Jun 10, 2005
|
|
C-
|
36%
|
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) |
"
Tt fails to create the links to the first or even the second film that would bind a viewer in its mysteries."
—
Movie City News
Posted Nov 6, 2004
|
|
C-
|
62%
|
Hulk (2003) |
"
There are aggressive action scenes, but they contain blatant flaws that become more irritating on multiple viewings, a real no-no if that's all it's got going for it."
—
Movie City News
Posted Nov 6, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
Pretty in Pink (1986) |
"
Molly Ringwald is appealing, but the film has little else going for it."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Tokyo Babylon (1999) |
"
the narrative is competent, with some decent fantasy-action near the end, but on the whole the program didn't seem as creative or intriguing as many of the others"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
18%
|
The Locusts (1997) |
"
A pointless drama set on cattle feedlot"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (TV SHOW) () |
"
the C.S. Lewis story was made without the assistance of computer animation, the live action staging has awkward-looking cartoon inserts and people in animal costumes, which look like rejects from Cats , to fill its fantasy. On top of all this, much of th"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
Looking for Richard (1996) |
"
The film is sloppily pieced together, as Pacino appears unsure of exactly what he wants to achieve."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
57%
|
Critters (1986) |
"
A variety of modest but well-executed special effects enlivens the otherwise run-of-the-mill effort about carnivorous aliens terrorizing a farm. The farm wins."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
Soylent Green (1973) |
"
The film was a typical seventies sci-fi effort, scientifically illiterate and unimaginatively composed."
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996) |
"
Based upon a stageplay, the plot is very straightforward and predictable, and has no strong emotional payoffs, but the drama is stuffed with the feelings and confusions of grief and some viewers may find sufficient solace in that to respond to the film's"
—
DVDLaser
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
63%
——
96%
