|
.5/5
|
6%
|
Dream House (2011) |
"
The real mystery here is how this mess of a movie got such a stellar cast."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2011
|
|
.5/5
|
2%
|
Disaster Movie (2008) |
"
I half expected to see the spoof-making team in direct address, explaining the supremacy of the tentpole uber-alice, perhaps while backed by Emperor Palpatine."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 29, 2008
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Yogi Bear (2010) |
"
Besides the fire works disaster that followed Yogi's stunt, what could prevent Ranger Smith from making Yogi the attraction that saves the park? Inquiring minds sort of wonder. "
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Short Order (2008) |
"
While the aesthetic is charming, colorful and full of whimsy, Anthony Byrne's partial musical Short Order is wildly uneven and tragically underdeveloped."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 16, 2008
|
|
1/5
|
——
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The Cry (La Llorona) (2008) |
"
La Llorona is a great, powerful and meaningful myth, and you'd be hard-pressed to find better inspiration for a horror film. Sadly, this isn't the film that does the subject matter justice."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 2, 2008
|
|
|
8%
|
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"
The sheer spectacle of the film makes it an easier sell on the big screen than on DVD"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2008
|
|
|
48%
|
The Tree of Life (2008) |
"
There's a strange sort of vacuousness to Tre, Eric Byler's newest installment on relationships amidst directionless twentysomethings."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2008
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|
|
——
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Finding Kraftland () |
"
Interesting as a catalogue of one man's collection of pop-culture memorabilia, Finding Kraftland doesn't really stretch to become anything more."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
25%
|
Killer Elite (2011) |
"
Killer Elite has plenty of killing, but the only thing elite about it is the cast."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
——
|
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur (2008) |
"
Tries to match the book's poetics but gets mired in celebrity conjecture about the writer."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 30, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
19%
|
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) |
"
The animation is very hard to overcome. Even if one doesn't go in expecting Pixar production values, it's hard to see past the mechanical quality of the characters' movements -- which, by the way, makes the robots in the film look great."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 14, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
17%
|
Six Sex Scenes and a Murder (2008) |
"
Ultimately, the only thing holding this film together is its dedication to its thesis of a title, which it follows to the letter. Very little in the film seems relevant."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 6, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
63%
|
Super High Me (2007) |
"
Though the point of the film is somewhat obscured by its unwieldy structure (stoned director? high editor?), the project overall has the potential to be the stoner's Rocky Horror Picture Show."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
7%
|
Shutter (2008) |
"
Its PG-13 rating and basic lack of gore seem designed to be uncontroversial, but of course the result of all this anti-controversy is a really dull film."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
A Thousand Words (2012) |
"
It suffers from being too broad."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 10, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
26%
|
Project X (2012) |
"
Like the weaker cousin of Superbad."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
7%
|
The Devil Inside (2012) |
"
The mother/daughter drama should have played a bigger part in this film as the 87-minute runtime passes quickly and leaves us feeling utterly short-changed."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
OKA! (2011) |
"
OKA!, like the mysterious horn the characters hunt, is a real find."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Violet & Daisy () |
"
The balance of naivete and insularly sweet exchanges are pleasing and comical but the film's painfully derivative."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
76%
|
The Help (2011) |
"
A chick flick for do-gooders, The Help suffers from a malady common to the discrimination drama: its treatment of inequality is more condescending than the prejudice it aims to remedy."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Monte Carlo (2011) |
"
Next to all this totally awesome glitz, it's "be happy with who you are" philosophy is as convincing as Selena Gomez's British English."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 30, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
The Rite (2011) |
"
Father Lucas is too practical for his job; he eschews pomp and circumstance and has a sex appeal that makes you skeptical of his celibacy."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
Little Fockers (2010) |
"
To say the franchise is coasting along on fumes suggests it once ran on a full tank."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
The Red Baron (Der rote Baron) (2008) |
"
One can see how its overtly soapy, lowest-common-denominator antics would play comfortably in various climes."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
The only thing really worth seeing in the film is Butler in his one moment of partial nudity. Otherwise, it's a bit of a slog."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) |
"
Lurches along with just the right mix of discovery and dry-obsession that it has the potential to reach the hearts of its poster manic, indie band loving constituency."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
94%
|
Home (2009) |
"
The intimacy between Harden's poetess mother and her wistful and willful daughter is palpable and the film's strongest moments owe much to their chemistry."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 7, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
7%
|
Waiting For Dublin (2007) |
"
[It's] aiming at pleasantly diverting, and can't seem to hit that reasonably located target."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 12, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
Let Them Chirp Awhile (2008) |
"
The film ends up feeling like even creative inspiration and apotheosis is hopeless because all that can ever emerge from these characters is derivative of some earlier work. When you look at it this way, Chirp can't help seeming like a time capsule..."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 5, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
65%
|
The Universe of Keith Haring (2008) |
"
It's hard to say Clausen's done anything original here."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
Saving Marriage (2006) |
"
The problem here is that, while this seems like a story rife with the drama of ages, it's also a story mired by the drudgery of bureaucracy."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
1000 Journals (2007) |
"
Though the film is short, the subject it tracks is somewhat unwieldy, and you can almost feel the hands of writer/director/producer Andrea Kreuzhage stretching to fit it all in -- a Herculean task."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
7%
|
Red Roses and Petrol (2008) |
"
Mired by cliché and oddly beset by a sense of false Irishness."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 27, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Hancock (2008) |
"
I'm not so sure Berg is losing faith that his audience can follow along...but in the face of so many comic book films entering theatres, it seems a poor choice to differentiate yours by way of tacky TV-level antics."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 26, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Dalai Lama Renaissance (2007) |
"
Aesthetically, Dalai Lama Renaissance is well intended, but--like the conference it depicts--in need of more thorough (self) realization."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 23, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
The War on Democracy (2007) |
"
While this diligently researched film cogently moves from Latin American nation to Latin American nation, explaining the strangely predictable cycle of uprisings among these countries, it's ultimately hard to identify the audience it addresses."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 2, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
Planet B-Boy (2007) |
"
Utilitarian documentary about international breakdancing championship in Germany proves lackluster in its depiction of inventive choreography and culture."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
52%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
It's got the schmaltz and grandeur of the 80s Clash of the Titans but little of the warm wonder that made that spectacle such an addiction."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
69%
|
Horrible Bosses (2011) |
"
Director Seth Gordon gives us few thrills, little danger and no growth-potential."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Chut doi seung giu (Nobody's Perfect ) (2008) |
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 27, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
100%
|
Modern Love Is Automatic () |
"
A jagged little jawbreaker made by and for aggressive youth-culture addicts."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
15%
|
Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
Each in different stages of their well preserved-and well heeled-lives, the "Fab Four's" dramadies continue for the audiences who love them. Trouble is the surrounding story and its supposedly fun sojourns are as embarrassing as granny panties."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
73%
|
NoBody's Perfect (2008) |
"
[This film is] imperfect and still does quite a lot."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
78%
|
Behind The Burly Q (2010) |
"
For the ex-burlesque dancers director Leslie Zemeckis interviews here, themes like iniquity and demoralization seem altogether too personal to dig through."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
14%
|
Our Family Wedding (2010) |
"
It's not toppling Father of the Bride for status in the canon of wedding movies but for a film that gently negotiates the tensions of family and race, it's not too bad."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
34%
|
Knowing (2009) |
"
A strange blend of apocalypse fantasy and Christian uplift, Alex Proyas' follow up to I, Robot is every bit as beautiful as we'd expect, though not quite as tasteful."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 18, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
25%
|
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) |
"
This exercise in capitalist wish fulfillment is not unlike a Depression Era Studio Fantasy."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 11, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
30%
|
Forgiveness (2006) |
"
The film's laudable attempts to encompass the far-reaching quagmire of Jewish tribal identity, politics and psychology could have a profound effect on the audiences who do find it."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
68%
|
CSNY Déjà Vu (2008) |
"
One can't help finding it funny that the most poorly positioned elements in the film are musical ones, yet the uniquely raw and under-produced sound of the band does find itself a comfortable home in this raw and under-produced doc."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
17%
|
Sleepwalking (2008) |
"
It's apparent some meaningful visuals are being approached here, but it seems like the film keeps missing its mark."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2008
|
63%
——
97%
