Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
Peter Jackson's elaborate visualization of the Alice Sebold best-seller fails to capture the poignant power of the original." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
Matt Damon's amusing performance in this wild true story of an unstable corporate whistleblower is compromised by Steven Soderbergh's heavy-handed direction." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 17, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 69%
| Religulous (2008) | "
Maher may see demented dogma all around him, but what's the basis of his own moral compass? We're not religulous, just curious." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Vantage Point (2008) | "
Once the full panoply of bad guys is disclosed, the movie becomes just another absurdly prolonged hot pursuit, complete with a lost little girl for a dollop of extra melodrama." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Shrek the Third (2007) | "
The energy level flags a bit as the green swamp creature copes with greater responsibilities and impending fatherhood." — Film Journal International Posted May 18, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Spider-Man 3 (2007) | "
Raimi and company have woven more graceful patterns in the past; this one simply doesn't cohere." — Film Journal International Posted May 4, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Meet the Fockers (2004) | "
Has its smattering of laughs, but the new faces bring fewer dividends than the elemental De Niro/Ben Stiller showdown of the original." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 26, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| The Man Who Copied (2005) | "
Ultimately produces a ragged facsimile of film noir clichés." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 26, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| The Producers (2005) | "
The play is everything in this uneven movie, which is alternately groan-inducing and side-splitting." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 22, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Confetti (2006) | "
A textbook example of what happens When Improv Falls Flat." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 22, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Lucia, Lucia (2003) | "
Roth, Becker and especially Álvarez-Novoa are all charming performers, but this self-consciously tricky tale of secrets, passion and intrigue doesn't linger beyond the closing credits." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 26, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Irreversible (2003) | "
For all the virtuosic technique on view, the schematic nature of the project is too glibly nihilistic." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 22, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Femme Fatale (2002) | "
De Palma, who wrote the screenplay, doesn't seem to care here about basics like non-cardboard characters, credible plotting or giggle-free dialogue." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 26, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Swimfan (2002) | "
Late-summer flotsam from the shallow end of the genre movie pool." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 2, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| The Ninth Gate (1999) | "
The material remains too trifling and ultimately ludricrous to justify the care that's gone into the production." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 9, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) | "
That frenetic spectacle [on the TV show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the Girls' big-screen blowout." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 16, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Hollywood Ending (2002) | "
Essentially one long, belabored gag." — Film Journal International Posted May 4, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Salton Sea (2002) | "
Something's missing from the center of this self-consciously hip film noir: a hero you can feel for." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 16, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Big Trouble (2002) | "
Despite its promising cast of characters, Big Trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily mean 'funny.'" — Film Journal International Posted Apr 12, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Big Bad Love (2002) | "
Howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but they're often undone by Howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 26, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Russian Doll (2001) | "
This Doll has all the allure of a factory reject." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 2, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Monkeybone (2001) | "
Wildly inventive but woefully unfunny." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 2, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) | "
Much of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me feels recycled, but audiences who dote on multiple viewings aren't likely to complain." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Deep Impact (1998) | "
The characters they've chosen to focus on are so thin and uninteresting (and sometimes downright irritating), all you're left to root for is the comet's speedy arrival." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| N/A | Full Speed (1996) | "
Feels more like a sketch for a movie than a completely formed narrative, with characters and situations that are too thin to bear the weight of the tale's ultimate tragic turns." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Hollow Man (2000) | "
Will Paul Verhoeven ever make a good film again?" — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Hope Floats (1998) | "
The first half of this Sandra Bullock vehicle is so winning and observant, it's especially disappointing when the storyline begins losing air at the midway point." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Loser (2000) | "
A flat, unfunny comedy with the all-too-apt name of Loser." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Mad City (1997) | "
Has a fairly good view of the Big Picture, but its dramatic details never come into satisfying focus." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Meet Joe Black (1998) | "
There's a decent two-hour movie buried within the three hours of Meet Joe Black, a classic instance of a filmmaker overvaluing his material beyond all good sense." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Ravenous (1999) | "
It's too arty for the genre gang, and too grim for the art crowd, and its tone wavers uncertainly between quirky comedy and blunt violence." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Ronin (1998) | "
The stunts make a considerably more vivid impression than any of the movie's potpourri of characters." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Small Soldiers (1998) | "
A charmless and often mean-spirited 'kids' movie' that no kid under eight should be taken to see." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) | "
You keep looking for the emotional center of the movie and never find it." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| The Beach (2000) | "
A big part of the problem with The Beach is that most of its characters are so thinly developed, their behavior feels completely arbitrary." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| The Idiots (1998) | "
Raises intriguing questions, but most audiences will have the same response to von Trier's weird commune: Grow up already." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| The Siege (1998) | "
The movie does deliver its share of action and spectacle, but action and spectacle are clearly not all Zwick and company had in mind with this fumbled Siege." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Waking the Dead (2000) | "
For a grand romantic drama, Waking the Dead is often curiously chilly." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Where the Heart Is (2000) | "
Aspires to be funny, poignant and inspirational, but real emotion seldom penetrates its sticky sugar coating." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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