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8/100
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7%
|
Dragonfly (2002) |
"
I'm alone and distraught."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jun 13, 2002
|
|
D
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3%
|
Bless the Child (2000) |
"
Any minute now, I expect the National Association for the Permanent Advancement of Lucifer's Minions (NAPALM) to protest its release, on the grounds that it portrays Satan-worshippers as complete idiots."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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18/100
|
51%
|
In Praise Of Love (Éloge de l'amour) (2002) |
"
Impenetrable pseudo-philosophical gibberish."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 3, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
Firewall (2006) |
"
Part of the problem is that first-time screenwriter Joe Forte-potentially ironic name!-keeps squandering terrific ideas."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Feb 14, 2006
|
|
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47%
|
Spring Fever (Chun feng chen zui de ye wan) (2010) |
"
I think there's meant to be a tender love story buried somewhere in all this remote melodrama, but none of the five major characters makes the slightest impression."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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82%
|
Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009) |
"
The movie as a whole-which runs nearly two-and-a-quarter hours-has no sense of rhythm or flow whatsoever."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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45%
|
Air Doll (Kűki ningyô) (2009) |
"
This follow-up, despite having been in the works for years, feels a tad rushed."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
I'm just having trouble comprehending the fuss being made in other quarters, because this film is awfully familiar-basically just a contemporary gloss on the classic British kitchen sink/angry young (wo)man drama."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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33%
|
Ne Te Retourne Pas (Don't Look Back) (2009) |
"
Don't Look Back leans hard on a conventionally atonal musical score and cheap shock cuts, as well as some dubious special effects."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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71%
|
Tetro (2009) |
"
Youth Without Youth may have been messier and more risible (though the climactic twist here is pretty damn dumb), but I'll take its dazzingly surreal middle third over this film's endless declamatory hooey."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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53%
|
The Thorn in the Heart (2010) |
"
The title raises expectations of angst a-plenty, but the tone throughout is one of warm regard; you could make a documentary about some random octogenarian plucked off the street and have a good shot at stumbling onto a more eventful and interesting life."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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49%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
Demetri Martin makes little impression as Tiber, and the rest of the cast tends to indulge stale '60s stereotypes."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
|
82%
|
Bright Star (2009) |
"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but a thing of plodding inevitability is just two hours of my time amiably wasted."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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67%
|
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"
A cautionary eco-doc so earnest and moth-eaten it should properly be seen on filmstrip during fourth-period social studies."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2007
|
|
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71%
|
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (Bowie '73 with the Spiders from Mars) (1973) |
"
The entire movie, save for a handful of stolid backstage interludes, looks as if it had been shot by a determined group of fans perched on the shoulders of their buddies."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jul 9, 2002
|
|
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96%
|
The Pianist (2002) |
"
I understand that this story needs to be told again and again and again -- but really, must it be told in quite so pedestrian a fashion?"
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jun 29, 2002
|
|
|
85%
|
About Schmidt (2002) |
"
Reasonably entertaining while it was in front of me, but it's leaving a sour aftertaste."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jun 29, 2002
|
|
|
3%
|
Rollerball (2002) |
"
McTiernan's loud, dull remake of the 1975 James Caan vehicle appears to have been trimmed to the bone since last summer's disastrous test screenings."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jun 22, 2002
|
|
|
95%
|
Monsoon Wedding (2002) |
"
A little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment, not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama, Monsoon Wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the Bollywood films."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jun 13, 2002
|
|
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39%
|
Hannibal (2001) |
"
An emotional and thematic void."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jun 13, 2002
|
|
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63%
|
For Ever Mozart (1997) |
"
A dense thicket of ideas in which all but the most hardy and tenacious travelers are bound to become lost and frustrated. As Austin Powers would say, this kind of thing ain't my bag, baby. If it's yours, don't mind me."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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80%
|
Private Parts (1997) |
"
True, it's not at all the movie I would have expected from Stern, but a little warmth and a structure borrowed from Annie Hall do not a modern classic make."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
71%
|
Hamlet (2000) |
"
This Hamlet hits its key dramatic marks, but inspiration seems in short supply."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
79%
|
Live Flesh (Carne trémula) (1998) |
"
One of those competent, not unpleasant films that leaves virtually no impression on you whatsoever."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D+
|
——
|
Pater () |
"
I didn't get it, and neither did any other American I spoke to, but the French were applauding madly throughout, apparently in response to policy statements."
—
AV Club
Posted May 18, 2011
|
|
29/100
|
75%
|
Seom (The Isle) (2000) |
"
Its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 19, 2002
|
|
C-
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
There's a disconnect here between concept and execution -- a sort of desultory, moment-to-moment clumsiness -- that makes Melancholia feel like therapy poorly disguised as drama."
—
AV Club
Posted May 18, 2011
|
|
C-
|
73%
|
Remember the Titans (2000) |
"
Annoying."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
35/100
|
38%
|
Ted Bundy (2002) |
"
An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 16, 2002
|
|
38/100
|
72%
|
Pipe Dream (2001) |
"
A singularly off-putting romantic comedy."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 30, 2002
|
|
39/100
|
71%
|
Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el sexo) (2002) |
"
So ridiculously overstuffed with rhymes, symbols, metaphors and mystical coincidences that you frequently feel as if you shouldn't be watching it so much as graphing it."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jul 9, 2002
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
World Trade Center (2006) |
"
Only the magnitude of the tragedy gives the film dramatic weight ..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Aug 11, 2006
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Poseidon (2006) |
"
Even with a less irritating protagonist, though, it's hard to imagine how Poseidon could have succeeded."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
41/100
|
72%
|
Auto Focus (2002) |
"
Combines the least appealing aspects of the biopic (episodic narrative, lack of imagination) with the least appealing aspects of the junkie's-downward-spiral genre (wearying repetition, lofty condescension)."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Oct 14, 2002
|
|
42/100
|
77%
|
Tadpole (2002) |
"
Emotions remain tidy and controlled, while potentially farcical situations are handled with an unapologetic clumsiness that would give Feydeau a duodenal ulcer."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jul 20, 2002
|
|
42/100
|
34%
|
The Weight of Water (2001) |
"
Makes its belated arrival sporting the bloated, pruny appearance of something that's been floating aimlessly for longer than anybody cares to remember."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jun 13, 2002
|
|
C
|
60%
|
Mekong Hotel () |
"
It's not painful to endure or anything (in part because it's so short), but to borrow the title of one of last year's celebrated Cannes premieres: This is not a film."
—
AV Club
Posted May 20, 2012
|
|
C
|
30%
|
After The Battle (Baad El Mawkeaa) () |
"
Despite its topical urgency, After the Battle plays like a daytime soap, with characters taking turns shouting on-the-nose dialogue at each other..."
—
AV Club
Posted May 18, 2012
|
|
C
|
50%
|
Any Given Sunday (1999) |
"
FOOTBALL! MEN! TESTOSTERONE! COLLIDING BODIES! HIGH-DECIBEL PACINO! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE! CUT! CUT! CUT!"
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
C
|
51%
|
Waking the Dead (2000) |
"
Yadda-blah."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
C
|
80%
|
He Got Game (1998) |
"
Whenever Lee turns to the strained, maudlin relationship between father and son, however, it's involuntary-head-nodding time."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
C
|
67%
|
American Psycho (2000) |
"
Ultimately it all feels as hollow as its subject's ostentatiously avaricious lifestyle."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
C
|
82%
|
Love and Basketball (2000) |
"
[An] eminently predictable, indifferently shot after-school special."
—
Man Who Viewed Too Much
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
43/100
|
53%
|
Blood Work (2002) |
"
A perfectly competent potboiler, made with Eastwood's usual professionalism, that ultimately feels rather anemic."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 6, 2002
|
|
44/100
|
51%
|
Simone (S1m0ne) (2002) |
"
In the real world, an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like "Girl in Bar #3.""
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 19, 2002
|
|
45/100
|
48%
|
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) |
"
Too silly to be frightening, too stolid to be funny, it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star, David Arquette."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jul 16, 2002
|
|
46/100
|
58%
|
The City of Lost Souls (Hyôryű-gai) (2001) |
"
An empty, incoherent exercise in frenetic style, interesting primarily for its cosmopolitan flavor."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 5, 2002
|
|
46/100
|
72%
|
Happy Times (2002) |
"
A mawkish, implausible platonic romance that makes Chaplin's City Lights seem dispassionate by comparison."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jul 23, 2002
|
|
47/100
|
57%
|
Corpus Callosum (2002) |
"
Sometimes feels uncomfortably like a 93-minute Photoshop demonstration."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 26, 2002
|
|
47/100
|
68%
|
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Riri Shushu no subete) (2002) |
"
For all its impressive craftsmanship, and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos, Lily Chou-Chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jul 9, 2002
|
60%
——
97%
