|
D
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68%
|
Rubber (2011) |
"
People talk about the line between laughing with or at a movie. You don't laugh with or at Rubber. It laughs at you."
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IFC.com
Posted Mar 29, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
Gone (2012) |
"
Siblings aren't the only things missing from Gone: Suspense, scares and common sense are all likewise MIA."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Feb 26, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
Underworld Awakening (2012) |
"
Also missing... most of the so-called Lycans who, their appearance in a few respectable action sequences notwithstanding, are now nearly extinct. So is this franchise."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 1, 2012
|
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1/5
|
7%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
It all adds up to a celebrity-obsessed city symphony played on one painfully flat note."
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Time Out New York
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
27%
|
Colombiana (2011) |
"
Colombiana has one true asset -- the seminude sight of its star, Zoe Saldana -- and milks it for everything it's worth."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
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1/5
|
14%
|
Zookeeper (2011) |
"
Fans of the sight of James falling over will get a big kick out of Zookeeper, but this deranged comedy will leave everyone else scratching their heads."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011) |
"
This movie is dire, soul-crushing stuff."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
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0%
|
They're Just My Friends (2006) |
"
For such a poorly made autobiopic to earn a theatrical release, Nwamu must have some friends in high places."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 19, 2006
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——
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Satellite (2006) |
"
Nice low-budget cinematography and authentic New York City locations aside, there's little to engage viewers over the course of 100 wandering minutes."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 8, 2006
|
|
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33%
|
Mad Cowgirl (2006) |
"
It's safe to say there will not be another movie this year like Mad Cowgirl. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on your tolerance for copious bloodletting, hardcore pornography, and C-SPAN."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 18, 2006
|
|
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35%
|
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) |
"
Tokyo Drift is a subculture in search of a compelling story line, and Black's leaden performance makes you pine for the days of Paul Walker."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 20, 2006
|
|
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0%
|
Kiss Me Again (2006) |
"
More trashy dialogue like that (and a more favorable nudity-to-sex-scene ratio) could have transformed Kiss Me Again into a guilty pleasure."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 2, 2006
|
|
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57%
|
Kinky Boots (2006) |
"
Why are movies 'inspired by a true story' always the most contrived?"
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 11, 2006
|
|
|
78%
|
Doing Time for Patsy Cline (2006) |
"
Claims to run 95 minutes but feels more like 25 to life."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 28, 2006
|
|
|
9%
|
When a Stranger Calls (2006) |
"
This version is a thin, protracted study in shifting Hollywood strategies."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 13, 2006
|
|
|
64%
|
Film Geek (2005) |
"
Westby never provides a reason you should pay to spend 70 minutes with Scotty, but he offers at least a dozen compelling ones not to."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 7, 2006
|
|
|
56%
|
Glory Road (2006) |
"
The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 17, 2006
|
|
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47%
|
Hoodwinked (2005) |
"
Finally, a Rashomon for the whole family. This cartoon version of 'Little Red Riding Hood' tells and retells its story from a variety of perspectives, all of them boring."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 10, 2006
|
|
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6%
|
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005) |
"
[A] shrill family comedy."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2005
|
|
|
26%
|
The Legend of Zorro (2005) |
"
It's Zorro, the domesticated blade!"
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2005
|
|
|
81%
|
The Last Mogul (Life and Times of Lew Wasserman) (2005) |
"
Avrich's Wasserman is less a man than a list of accomplishments, a Kane without a hint of a Rosebud and nary a whiff of significant criticism."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2005
|
|
|
——
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Rooms for Tourists (Habitaciones para turistas) (2000) |
"
The scenario is absurd enough to play as satire, but no."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 18, 2005
|
|
|
21%
|
Into the Blue (2005) |
"
Any potential guilty pleasure is washed away in a sea of icky sermonizing."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 4, 2005
|
|
|
38%
|
A Tale of Two Pizzas (2003) |
"
Innocuous but forgettable."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 4, 2005
|
|
|
45%
|
The Thing About My Folks (2005) |
"
Falk isn't given anything funny to say or do, but his performance is littered with beautiful touches, tiny oases of brilliance in an entertainment desert."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 13, 2005
|
|
|
51%
|
Transporter 2 (2005) |
"
Besson doesn't fiddle with the first movie's formula -- impossible car chases punctuated by impossible martial arts sequences."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 6, 2005
|
|
|
62%
|
Kamikaze Girls (2004) |
"
If you value plausibility in movies, skip Kamikaze Girls."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 6, 2005
|
|
|
6%
|
Supercross (2005) |
"
Director Steve Boyum, a former motocross driver, hacks his racing footage to incomprehensible pieces and, from the looks of the meager, jumpy narrative, did the same to the script."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 23, 2005
|
|
|
17%
|
Now & Forever (2001) |
"
At least the title's accurate: This is a viewing experience that feels like it will never end."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 23, 2005
|
|
|
59%
|
Oyster Farmer (2005) |
"
Writer-director Anna Reeves seems to expect an audience already proficient in marine biology and never clarifies any of the indecipherable mollusk jargon. Aw, shucks."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 26, 2005
|
|
|
27%
|
Fantastic Four (2005) |
"
Before the inevitable and surprisingly anticlimactic battle with Doom, we are treated to two extreme-sports demonstrations, several training montages, [and] an ill-advised love triangle."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 12, 2005
|
|
|
0%
|
Sex, Politics & Cocktails (2002) |
"
Comparing Sex to a student film is an insult to the American education system; even film students can make title cards without typos."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 28, 2005
|
|
|
5%
|
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"
Like a Nike commercial without a shot of the sneakers."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 21, 2005
|
|
|
13%
|
Slutty Summer (2004) |
"
First-timer Casper Andreas approaches his subject with the subtlety of a wrecking ball."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 7, 2005
|
|
|
42%
|
Kicking & Screaming (2005) |
"
Even the intermittent laughs undermine Kicking and its winning-isn't-everything message. According to the plot, competition makes Phil insufferable. According to Ferrell's performance, it makes him hilarious."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 10, 2005
|
|
|
0%
|
A Man's Gotta Do () |
"
The only thing more inexplicable than the loathsome score is the story's determination to impregnate all its major female characters."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 3, 2005
|
|
|
84%
|
The Tunnel (Der Tunnel) (2001) |
"
It's distressing to learn how much German television looks like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2005
|
|
|
60%
|
Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control () |
"
Director Barry Alexander Brown never reconciles the outlandish premise with the screenplay's schmaltzy dialogue."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2005
|
|
D+
|
61%
|
Griff the Invisible (2011) |
"
I'm all for ambiguity in films, but it doesn't feel like writer/director Leon Ford left Griff and his underlying issues vague on purpose."
—
IFC.com
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
3/10
|
33%
|
Intruders (2012) |
"
Intruders was either the victim of reshoots and postproduction meddling or it desperately needed some."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
C-
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Less of a movie than a showcase for Streep."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
C-
|
16%
|
Bunraku (2011) |
"
What do Hartnett and Geckt want with Perlman? Mostly, I think, they're just looking for excuses to get into elaborate kung fu fights."
—
IFC.com
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
C-
|
44%
|
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) |
"
As bland as as plate of frontier beans."
—
IFC.com
Posted Jul 29, 2011
|
|
C-
|
26%
|
Arthur (2011) |
"
A strained Russell Brand is not a funny Russell Brand."
—
IFC.com
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
C-
|
29%
|
Take Me Home Tonight (2011) |
"
If you're going to set your comedy in the same universe as the classic '80s comedies of John Hughes, you better make sure your movie is good enough to withstand the comparison."
—
IFC.com
Posted Mar 4, 2011
|
|
C-
|
36%
|
Casino Jack (2010) |
"
Sadly, Casino Jack just doesn't measure up to its own yardstick of success."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
4/10
|
22%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
Ideally, four times the protagonists should yield four times the entertainment value; here it only seems to result in four times the clichés."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
4/10
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
The problem with The Lucky One isn't the material's familiarity; it's its lifelessness. "
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/10
|
44%
|
Casa de mi padre (2012) |
"
One of the most admirably strange movies by a major Hollywood star in recent memory, though not an entirely satisfying one."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Gnarr () |
"
It's easy to see what endeared Gnarr to Reykjavík voters, but it's tougher to find things to endear Gnarr, the documentary about his campaign, to American audiences."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
63%
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96%
