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Kevin Lally

Kevin Lally

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
Film Journal International , Hollywood Reporter
Total Reviews:
268

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
53% Knight & Day (2010) " Slick and energetic action-comedy showcase for Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz has nothing on its mind but pure escapism." — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 23, 2010
69% Shutter Island (2010) " Frantic psychological thriller is beautifully crafted but suffers from a surfeit of plot ingredients." — Film Journal International
Posted Feb 18, 2010
32% 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
78% 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
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
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
63% 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
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
66% O Homem Que Copiava (The Man Who Copied) (2005) " Ultimately produces a ragged facsimile of film noir clichés." — Film Journal International
Posted Feb 26, 2007
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
57% Confetti (2006) " A textbook example of what happens When Improv Falls Flat." — Film Journal International
Posted Feb 22, 2007
44% Lucia, Lucia (La Hija del caníbal) (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
56% Irreversible (2002) " For all the virtuosic technique on view, the schematic nature of the project is too glibly nihilistic." — Film Journal International
Posted Feb 22, 2003
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
14% Swimfan (2002) " Late-summer flotsam from the shallow end of the genre movie pool." — Film Journal International
Posted Oct 2, 2002
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
63% The Powerpuff Girls - The 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
47% Hollywood Ending (2002) " Essentially one long, belabored gag." — Film Journal International
Posted May 4, 2002
62% The 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
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
41% Big Bad Love (2001) " 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
48% Russian Doll (2001) " This Doll has all the allure of a factory reject." — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 2, 2001
20% Monkeybone (2001) " Wildly inventive but woefully unfunny." — Film Journal International
Posted Apr 2, 2001
47% 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
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
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
27% Hollow Man (2000) " Will Paul Verhoeven ever make a good film again?" — Film Journal International
Posted Jan 1, 2000
24% Loser (2000) " A flat, unfunny comedy with the all-too-apt name of Loser." — Film Journal International
Posted Jan 1, 2000
34% 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
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
45% 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
57% 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
51% 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
45% 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
37% 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
51% Waking the Dead (2000) " For a grand romantic drama, Waking the Dead is often curiously chilly." — Film Journal International
Posted Jan 1, 2000
24% 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
—— Full Speed (1998) " 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
51% 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
70% The Idiots (Idioterne) (Dogma 95) (2000) " 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
3/5 70% 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
62% Salt (2010) " Angelina Jolie again proves her action bona fides in this fast-paced but ultimately silly thriller about Russian sleeper agents targeting America." — Film Journal International
Posted Jul 21, 2010
93% The Kids Are All Right (2010) " Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo give award-caliber performances in this funny and poignant comedy about a lesbian couple whose teenage children seek out their biological father." — Film Journal International
Posted Jul 6, 2010
78% The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2010) " What makes Ecstasy essential viewing for any pop-music fan and any student of celebrity pathology is the interview itself." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 30, 2010
99% Toy Story 3 (2010) " Enormously entertaining third chapter in the computer-animated series that started it all. Delighted audiences will ensure a long shelf life for Pixar's iconic toy collection." — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 18, 2010
81% Solitary Man (2010) " Sparkling showcase for Michael Douglas as a disgraced businessman attempting a comeback but brought down by his libido. A strong supporting cast and a witty script almost compensate for a facile finale." — Film Journal International
Posted May 24, 2010
96% Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) " The mysterious Banksy makes his film debut with this provocative and entertaining look at the world of street artists and one very eccentric disciple." — Film Journal International
Posted Apr 15, 2010
46% Everybody's Fine (2009) " Low-key family drama showcases a different side of star Robert De Niro." — Film Journal International
Posted Dec 2, 2009
84% The Princess and the Frog (2009) " Disney's return to 2D animation, starring its first African-American lead, offers a flavorful gumbo of entertainment for holiday family audiences." — Film Journal International
Posted Nov 30, 2009
53% Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) " Robert Zemeckis turns the classic Dickens tale into a 3D performance-capture spectacle, abetted by the versatility of Jim Carrey as skinflint Scrooge and his ghostly visitors." — Film Journal International
Posted Nov 6, 2009
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