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.5/4
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13%
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The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"
The movie's horror angle also reminds us of Vampire in Brooklyn, the last in a string of Murphy flops before The Nutty Professor saved his screen career in 1996. With this listless foray, Eddie is twice bitten."
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USA Today
Posted Nov 26, 2003
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1/4
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13%
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"
Remarkably, the plot has much in common with Hellboy II: The Golden Army, yet that bundle of fun has enough vision to make even its Barry Manilow interlude seem appropriate."
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USA Today
Posted Aug 1, 2008
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1/4
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47%
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Hoodwinked (2005) |
"
Why would a distributor suddenly yank an animated family film from its intended wide December opening until mid-January? Could it be that the advance word of mouth wasn't very good-winked?"
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USA Today
Posted Jan 12, 2006
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6%
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Yours, Mine & Ours (2005) |
"
Yes, this groaner retreads the ground of the middling-at-best 1968 movie of the same name."
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USA Today
Posted Nov 23, 2005
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|
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46%
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Rent (2005) |
"
Stage original Taye Diggs, playing an erstwhile friend turned evictor, actually made a stronger screen impression in Malibu's Most Wanted."
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USA Today
Posted Nov 23, 2005
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1/4
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30%
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Waiting (2005) |
"
As in waiting for it to be over."
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USA Today
Posted Oct 7, 2005
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1/4
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6%
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Underclassman (2005) |
"
That sound you hear is from jet engines gassing up, about to zoom Underclassman to DVD-ville."
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USA Today
Posted Sep 1, 2005
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1/4
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6%
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Supercross (2005) |
"
The movie's biggest drawback is a failure to deliver what's promised."
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USA Today
Posted Aug 17, 2005
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1/4
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14%
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The Honeymooners (2005) |
"
Cedric and Epps have none of the team chemistry Gleason shared with Art Carney, and Epps' Norton displays none of Carney's eccentricities."
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USA Today
Posted Jun 9, 2005
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1/4
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25%
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House of Wax (2005) |
"
When the cast starts wondering where the roadkill is, someone says, 'Follow the smell.' Good tip: That's how you'll know where Wax is playing."
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USA Today
Posted May 6, 2005
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1/4
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6%
|
Son of the Mask (2005) |
"
Icky and incompetent (special effects aside) in equal parts, this groaner makes 1994's The Mask look like something you'd study in a film graduate course at NYU."
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USA Today
Posted Feb 17, 2005
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|
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30%
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Flight of the Phoenix (2004) |
"
There's nothing like dumbing down a movie grown-ups love so it can be 'sold' to teens who aren't going to go anyway."
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USA Today
Posted Dec 16, 2004
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1/4
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0%
|
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) |
"
One of the worst comedies ever."
—
USA Today
Posted Aug 26, 2004
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1/4
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21%
|
Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
"
Another spooky-doo comedy for tykes who think Scooby's doo-doo is funny."
—
USA Today
Posted Mar 25, 2004
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|
1/4
|
22%
|
Taking Lives (2004) |
"
From the opening credits, Lives seems bound to recapture the queasy mood of 1995's Seven. But it's too dull to even pull off quease until a notably unpleasant climax."
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USA Today
Posted Mar 18, 2004
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1/4
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11%
|
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"
The young actors are irredeemably bland, and two of the adults are hammy enough to make James Brown seem controlled."
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USA Today
Posted Feb 6, 2004
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|
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71%
|
Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"
Schwarzenegger still looks spectacular, but the script is short on deadpan zingers, and his heart doesn't seem in it."
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USA Today
Posted Jul 2, 2003
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1/4
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13%
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Chasing Papi (2003) |
"
Imagine a movie so broadly conceived that it was written, directed and all parts were played by Charo."
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USA Today
Posted Apr 15, 2003
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1/4
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31%
|
The Hunted (2003) |
"
Here we go again with Tommy Lee Jones chasing a fugitive, right out of ... what was that movie called?"
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USA Today
Posted Mar 13, 2003
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|
1/4
|
0%
|
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"
For years, people have joked about an action movie that might eliminate plot altogether and simply cut to the pyrotechnics. Someone has finally done it."
—
USA Today
Posted Sep 20, 2002
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|
1/4
|
3%
|
Rollerball (2002) |
"
Missing a few key elements: a script, a reason for being and maybe a few Britney Spears ads strategically placed throughout to break up 98 minutes of solid tedium."
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USA Today
Posted Feb 8, 2002
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|
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27%
|
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"
Goo oozes without mercy."
—
USA Today
Posted Jan 25, 2002
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1/4
|
22%
|
Impostor (2001) |
"
Unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction, Impostor is opening today at a theater near you."
—
USA Today
Posted Jan 6, 2002
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|
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34%
|
I Am Sam (2001) |
"
Reduces Penn, one of the best screen actors working today, to a mugging embarrassment."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 28, 2001
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|
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67%
|
Ali (2001) |
"
Ali is no disgrace, but it's not much of a performer, especially considering that it is one of the few hyped year-end releases that coulda been a contender."
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USA Today
Posted Dec 25, 2001
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|
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37%
|
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) |
"
The pop-soundtrack bombast of the too-infrequently somber Behind Enemy Lines ... sometimes reduces a mediocre pursuit movie with capable action to 'Rockin' Bosnia.'"
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USA Today
Posted Nov 30, 2001
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|
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56%
|
Sidewalks of New York (2001) |
"
Such a negligible romantic comedy that its main distinction is fleeting shots of the World Trade Center in the background."
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USA Today
Posted Nov 21, 2001
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|
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8%
|
The Wash (2001) |
"
No one will claim it steals that famous old MGM motto: 'More Stars Than There Are in Heaven.'"
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 16, 2001
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|
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65%
|
Heist (2001) |
"
Passable but never exciting."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 8, 2001
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|
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51%
|
Shallow Hal (2001) |
"
The only crudeness here is in the uninspired filmmaking and a washed-out look."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 8, 2001
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|
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77%
|
Tape (2001) |
"
Linklater's movie of a Stephen Belber play is for half its length a dull, two-character drama crying out for fresh blood."
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USA Today
Posted Nov 2, 2001
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|
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14%
|
The One (2001) |
"
Fans of The Matrix will hold their noses, as will those who put down sparring Arnold Schwarzeneggers in The 6th Day (now looking better)."
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USA Today
Posted Nov 2, 2001
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12%
|
Thirteen Ghosts (13 Ghosts) (2001) |
"
Ghosts is too distinctive-looking to dismiss out of hand, but it would help to be able to look through a magic viewfinder (or maybe magic eraser) and make its script disappear."
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USA Today
Posted Oct 26, 2001
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|
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22%
|
Bones (2001) |
"
If grossness gives you the giggles, at least a couple of the movie's effects indeed put a little 'wow' in this cinematic bowwow."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 24, 2001
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|
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56%
|
Focus (2001) |
"
It's small -- and, worse, heavy-handed -- though its leads make a formidable impression."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 18, 2001
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|
|
80%
|
Waking Life (2001) |
"
It's like being in a college bar and listening to your companion blathering on about the secrets of the world."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 17, 2001
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|
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6%
|
Corky Romano (2001) |
"
It's no compliment to note that with very little tinkering, Corky Romano could be a Martin Lawrence picture."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 11, 2001
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|
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74%
|
Joy Ride (2001) |
"
Not nearly as speedy as it is silly."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 4, 2001
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|
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24%
|
Don't Say a Word (2001) |
"
The movie's narrative -- which covers 10 years and several initially unrelated characters -- is confusing at first, then just irritating."
—
USA Today
Posted Sep 27, 2001
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|
|
60%
|
Haiku Tunnel (2001) |
"
It wouldn't seem very funny even if 1999's Office Space ... didn't exceedingly outpace it in laughs."
—
USA Today
Posted Sep 13, 2001
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|
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11%
|
The Musketeer (2001) |
"
If this is Dumas, there's a 'b' in the middle and an extra 's' at the end."
—
USA Today
Posted Sep 6, 2001
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|
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77%
|
La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins) (2001) |
"
The characters never engage our interest, and the relentless violence grows monotonous."
—
USA Today
Posted Sep 6, 2001
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|
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45%
|
Jeepers Creepers (2001) |
"
Jeepers Creepers is no big-screen keeper, but it does survive its 40-minute test drive before turning into a lemon."
—
USA Today
Posted Aug 30, 2001
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|
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55%
|
An American Rhapsody (2001) |
"
No filmmaker would build a story this unusual from scratch and then treat it so reverently without any style, humor or, at least, idiosyncratic observations."
—
USA Today
Posted Aug 10, 2001
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|
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84%
|
The Others (2001) |
"
A stylish attention-getter, the movie eventually wears you out without offering that much."
—
USA Today
Posted Aug 9, 2001
|
|
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12%
|
Original Sin (2001) |
"
The actors have so little chemistry delivering tired dialogue that the sluggish direction by Michael Cristofer ... is merely the final insult."
—
USA Today
Posted Aug 2, 2001
|
|
|
52%
|
Rush Hour 2 (2001) |
"
Even the addition of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's spunky Zhang Ziyi to the cast can't get Rush Hour 2 out of the sequelitis quagmire."
—
USA Today
Posted Aug 2, 2001
|
|
|
50%
|
Jurassic Park III (2001) |
"
A lot of stagnant storytelling trapped underneath prehistoric footprints."
—
USA Today
Posted Jul 18, 2001
|
|
|
43%
|
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (2001) |
"
Moviegoers accustomed to Hollywood action probably won't find this contemplative adventure so appealing."
—
USA Today
Posted Jul 12, 2001
|
|
|
50%
|
Lost and Delirious (2001) |
"
Pool can't avoid force-feeding us metaphors -- avian to Shakespearean -- whenever she wants."
—
USA Today
Posted Jul 6, 2001
|
60%
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