Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Another Day in Paradise (1998) | "
A well-executed scene can be followed by another where Clark shows no sense of the tone of which he'd just been in such tight control." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 2%
| Baby Geniuses (1999) | "
If the remainder of this century will bring a lamer film than Baby Geniuses, may I please be in Estonia when it comes." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Topsy-Turvy (1999) | "
If you are a Gilbert and Sullivan buff, you will be in heaven. If you are not, the first thing you will need to know is that the film is nearly three hours long." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| All the Little Animals (1999) | "
Odd and banal." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Cruel Intentions (1999) | "
You sometimes have to giggle at this movie the way you do when you catch 4-year-olds playing dress-up in front of Mom's closet." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Analyze This (1998) | "
What De Niro ends up doing is simply burlesquing himself, much as he would do if he were guest-hosting Saturday Night Live." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| eXistenZ (1999) | "
It's good art direction in search of an idea." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Idle Hands (1999) | "
Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) | "
Neither Trey Callaway, who wrote the script, nor Danny Cannon, who directed the sequel, bring any new ideas to the genre. Cut 'em some slack: That surely was their marching orders." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The 13th Warrior (1999) | "
The film is fascinating to watch, but I can hardly say what it's about, other than people killing each other." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| 20 Dates (1998) | "
Berkowitz is a rather annoying person." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Eye of the Beholder (1999) | "
Remove the directorial flash and filigree, and its narrative would be easier to track." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Jawbreaker (1998) | "
The producers of this film, which depicts teen-age girls as an assemblage of negative stereotypes, are female. Can females practice misogyny?" Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| 8MM (1998) | "
Want to know what happens when an A-list director and A-list movie star attach themselves to a direct-to-cable screenplay? This." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Escape From L.A. (1996) | "
The special effects vary from OK to lame to very lame." Posted Jul 5, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| 54 (1998) | "
The party never gets started." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Any Given Sunday (1999) | "
Action largely undifferentiated." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) | "
Even at its best, it's not very funny." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Beautiful Thing (1996) | "
If Beautiful Thing were any more sensitive, it would faint." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Beverly Hills Ninja (1996) | "
The humor the premise throws off is supposed to be funny. It just isn't." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Black Sheep (1996) | "
Yeah, I giggled a couple of times. But I suspect you will giggle more if you are male, age 15-27ish." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Blue Streak (1999) | "
Blue Streak falls victim to bad cliches." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Chain Reaction (1996) | "
The narrative is very complex, but what's on the screen is little more than generic, non-narrative-specific, guy-being-chased stuff." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Chill Factor (1999) | "
The comedy is lame, the action tired, tired, tired." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) | "
If Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo were required to take a standardized test, its IQ would plot out lower than Jose Lima's ERA." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Dogma (1999) | "
When Smith's not practicing the humor of outrage, he's preaching to a choir highly likely to be perplexed." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Double Jeopardy (1999) | "
Beresford's straight-ahead approach to the material, as a heart-tugger, is 180 degrees wrong." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| End of Days (1999) | "
This is of interest only to the hard core of Schwarzenegger's army." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| Good Burger (1997) | "
The vast majority of me -- which is not 11 -- wanted several times to run screaming into the lobby and plunge my head into the nacho hot-cheese cauldron." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Heavy (1994) | "
Even at 80 minutes, Heavy would have been weighted with redundancies. So you can imagine what happened on the way to making it 105 minutes long." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 36%
| I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) | "
The payoff is less effective. It involves several teen-scream modules, such as the $1.98 Startle Effect; the Hand on the Shoulder; and the Is He Dead Yet? gambit." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| In Too Deep (1999) | "
Plot not deep enough." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Irma Vep (1996) | "
Movies about making movies are never quite as interesting as the people who make them think they're going to be." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Isn't She Great (2000) | "
Only funny if you enjoy going out and paying for the kind of comedy writing you can stay at home and get free on sitcoms." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Jakob the Liar (1999) | "
The film leans from the comedic to the near-mawkish." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Kansas City (1996) | "
Let's just say that if you find it arbitrary and more an expression of Altman's feelings about class than the outcome of his story, then we are in agreement." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Kundun (1997) | "
Kundun is ceaselessly lovely to look at. But it is also exquisitely, meticulously, intently (gulp) ... dull." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Man on the Moon (1999) | "
The problem with this film is that the filmmakers want Kaufman to emerge as a kind of innocent while their biographical due diligence indicates that Kaufman was a head case." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Mary Reilly (1996) | "
Director Frears seems more interested in the atmosphere than the narrative." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 3%
| McHale's Navy (1997) | "
I didn't laugh once, not even giggle." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) | "
Reminds us of other films that used similar devices better." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Most Wanted (1997) | "
Quite simply, Most Wanted is hack work, from every word of Wayans' screenplay to every exposed frame of David Glenn Hogan's direction." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Mr. Magoo (1997) | "
Here's where I'm supposed to suggest how the film might be better. But I can't think of anything to say other than to make the film again, with different writers and a new director." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Music of the Heart (1999) | "
For its first three laps, this inspirational - teacher movie moves too slowly, even with the head start I give inspirational - teacher movies." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Mystery, Alaska (1999) | "
Overpopulated with characters." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Next Stop Wonderland (1997) | "
There's not much to stop for in Wonderland." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Outside Providence (1999) | "
I must admit I didn't hear every word. Some were muffled by my groans." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Pink Flamingos (1972) | "
Waters works best with some restrictions on his license. He's much better as a subversive than he is an anarchist." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Pitch Black (2000) | "
The screenplay, credited to Twohy with Jim and Ken Wheat, for a scary movie hasn't a scary idea on any of its pages." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Play it to the Bone (1999) | "
OK for laughs but less OK for emotional investment with the characters, who feel more like comic constructs than the real-feeling guys." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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