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Jen Yamato

Jen Yamato

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Biography:
Born in the Bay. Raised in the Bay. Likes the French New Wave; She-Ra, Jem and the Holograms, and Barbarella; burritos, and dark chocolate; New Jack Swing; and the 1970s. Left ACL is torn. Wears contact lenses.
Favorites:
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Band of Outsiders, L'Avventura, Pulp Fiction, Newsies, Spaceballs, Barbarella.
Publications:
AWFJ Women on Film , Cinematical , Movieline , Movies.com , Rotten Tomatoes
Total Reviews:
106
Location:
Los Angeles

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0.5/5 10% Saw 3D (2010) " Incomprehensible story, cheesy dialogue, poor execution, cheap production value - Saw 3D hits for the cycle of bad filmmaking." — Movies.com
Posted Oct 28, 2010
0.5/5 8% Furry Vengeance (2010) " The end credits cast sing-along to a cover of 'Insane in the Brain' completes the litany of idiotic filmmaking choices that made the whole thing so unwatchable to begin with." — Movies.com
Posted Apr 30, 2010
1/5 21% Gulliver's Travels (2010) " Crass and careless, irresponsible and inappropriate, Gulliver's Travels also features the worst on-screen death of the year. " — Movies.com
Posted Dec 23, 2010
1/5 86% Unstoppable (2010) " Every shred of true story credence becomes lost in a flurry of facepalm-worthy character decisions, headache-inducing edits and stupid, preposterous action." — Movies.com
Posted Nov 11, 2010
1/5 62% Salt (2010) " Beware the deadly shoe-knife." — Movies.com
Posted Jul 21, 2010
1/5 13% Jonah Hex (2010) " The most chopped up, stitched together Frankenstein job in recent memory. " — Movies.com
Posted Jun 18, 2010
1/5 16% When in Rome (2010) " One step forward for Kristen Bell, one giant leap backward for womankind." — Movies.com
Posted Jan 29, 2010
1.5/5 10% Season of the Witch (2011) " It's The Seventh Seal meets Get Him to the Greek meets Lord of the Rings as if filtered through Uwe Boll's hack-tastic brain." — Movies.com
Posted Jan 7, 2011
1.5/5 14% Yogi Bear (2010) " Yogi Bear is aggressively average, but it isn't the kind of children's movie you need to fear. " — Movies.com
Posted Dec 23, 2010
1.5/5 10% Little Fockers (2010) " ...and then Ben Stiller sticks a needle into Academy Award winner Robert De Niro's drug-induced boner. No cineaste should have to watch the mighty fall so low." — Movies.com
Posted Dec 23, 2010
1.5/5 90% Tangled (2010) " For all the girl power messaging in Tangled's marketing campaign, this updated Rapunzel is a fairly terrible role model for little girls. " — Movies.com
Posted Nov 24, 2010
1.5/5 42% Faster (2010) " Empty, fleeting stuff that resonates only long enough for the next car chase/fight scene/shoot-out to come along." — Movies.com
Posted Nov 24, 2010
1.5/5 51% The Next Three Days (2010) " The Next Three Days is a popcorn thriller through and through. Unfortunately, it's also painfully boring. " — Movies.com
Posted Nov 19, 2010
1.5/5 16% Skyline (2010) " A mess of a movie that reaches a completely ridiculous and unexpected (but not in a good way) conclusion." — Movies.com
Posted Nov 12, 2010
1.5/5 39% Due Date (2010) " Basically Planes, Trains and Automobiles with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, minus the earned sentiment and John Hughes cred." — Movies.com
Posted Nov 5, 2010
1.5/5 51% The Switch (2010) " Perverse gender politics are at play here in this insemination fantasy about a man hijacking a woman's uterus in a long play to win her heart. " — Movies.com
Posted Aug 20, 2010
1.5/5 6% The Last Airbender (2010) " The good news for those eagerly anticipating this live-action, big budget adaptation is that the 3D isn't horrible. The bad news? Just about everything else is. " — Movies.com
Posted Jun 30, 2010
1.5/5 10% Grown Ups (2010) " An hour and 40 minute long, five-way, PG-13 roast with more lame jokes than actual laughs." — Movies.com
Posted Jun 25, 2010
1.5/5 50% The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010) " It's a BYOBB film: Bring your own barf bag." — Movies.com
Posted Apr 30, 2010
4/10 30% The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) " By the time my seatmate was filling up her second Human Centipede II barf bag, we had to call an ambulance to the theater. Thank goodness for practical swag? " — Movieline
Posted Sep 24, 2011
2/5 55% Morning Glory (2010) " Blows a noisy raspberry in the face of old media while the mocking warble of a Natasha Bedingfield song plays over the end credits. " — Movies.com
Posted Nov 11, 2010
2/5 46% Hereafter (2010) " Wastes its earnest poignancy with a script reliant on corny storytelling clichés." — Movies.com
Posted Oct 21, 2010
2/5 27% Takers (2010) " A slick thriller comprised of equal parts pretty actors, urban crime drama clichés, and cheesy lines... The Italian Heat Job for Dummies." — Movies.com
Posted Aug 27, 2010
2/5 4% Vampires Suck (2010) " In the long, miserable history of Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg's joint film making career, Vampires Suck is a definite improvement." — Movies.com
Posted Aug 20, 2010
2/5 37% Eat Pray Love (2010) " Eat Pray Love only superficially advocates independence and growth while serving up a steaming pile of pseudo-spiritual hyperbole. " — Movies.com
Posted Aug 13, 2010
2/5 11% Killers (2010) " Kutcher and Heigl have such forced chemistry that it's hard to believe they'd ever fall in love, much less stay married in blissful blah-dom. " — Movies.com
Posted Jun 18, 2010
2/5 47% The A-Team (2010) " Pity the intelligent moviegoer." — Movies.com
Posted Jun 18, 2010
2/5 15% Sex and the City 2 (2010) " If only it were two and a half hours of Liza doing Beyonce numbers. Now that would be a truly fabulous two and a half hours well spent." — Movies.com
Posted May 28, 2010
2/5 28% Clash of the Titans (2010) " Not enough Bubo!" — Movies.com
Posted Mar 31, 2010
2/5 34% The Wolfman (2010) " In place of legitimate tension and suspense, The Wolfman features more cheap jump scares and loud scary noises than every J-horror film ever made put together." — Movies.com
Posted Feb 11, 2010
2/5 18% Valentine's Day (2010) " Director Garry Marshall bounces so quickly from story to story that by the time you see so-and-so shtupping so-and-so again, you've forgotten which dramarama belongs to whom." — Movies.com
Posted Feb 11, 2010
2/5 58% Edge of Darkness (2010) " Slow and silly plot notwithstanding, if you like your Mel Gibson out of control and a little bit crazy, this movie is for you." — Movies.com
Posted Jan 29, 2010
2/5 68% Youth in Revolt (2010) " If pretentious hipster kids annoy you in real life, they'll bug the hell out of you in Youth in Revolt." — Movies.com
Posted Jan 12, 2010
4/10 76% Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007) " It's Nazis, melodrama and intrigue galore as Paul Verhoeven adds his patented Verhoeven touch to this sordid tale of a Jewish girl in hiding during World War II." — Rotten Tomatoes
Posted Sep 25, 2006
4/10 —— Kabul Express () " Obliterates the poignancy it's attempting to establish by being a weird, mismatched hybrid of political drama, adventure thriller, and road comedy." — Rotten Tomatoes
Posted Sep 19, 2006
5/10 67% Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) " Paranormal Activity 3 undercuts the unsettling groundwork laid by the first two films and takes the series in a disappointing, less-satisfying direction. " — Movieline
Posted Sep 30, 2011
2.5/5 50% Tron Legacy (2010) " All digital dazzle and little substance." — Movies.com
Posted Dec 16, 2010
2.5/5 73% The Last Exorcism (2010) " Resorts to a clichéd and over-the-top ending that negates all of the effective ambiguity that made the middle third of the film so nail-bitingly tense. " — Movies.com
Posted Aug 27, 2010
2.5/5 80% Cyrus (2010) " Cyrus begins to feel exactly like all those indie movies we desperately hoped it wouldn't turn out to be like -- quirky, talky, and yawn-inducingly familiar." — Movies.com
Posted Jun 18, 2010
2.5/5 74% Splice (2010) " A must-see for sci-fi and horror nuts, even if Natali throws away a perfectly compelling first two acts in favor of the big 'Oh no they didn't' ending." — Movies.com
Posted Jun 4, 2010
2.5/5 58% Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) " It's a Shrek-derful Midlife Crisis" — Movies.com
Posted May 28, 2010
2.5/5 15% A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) " Thanks to the film's re-imagining of Freddy as accused child molester, an uncomfortable veneer of ickiness looms that makes it hard to truly enjoy..." — Movies.com
Posted Apr 30, 2010
2.5/5 49% Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) " Director Columbus never quite gets comfortable juggling the film's myriad characters, grandiose-but-stale CGI effects, and PG-friendly battle scenes, speeding headlong through endless plot points rather than taking the time to make any of them matter." — Movies.com
Posted Feb 13, 2010
2.5/5 67% Daybreakers (2010) " Makes little sense, but earns points for the operatic, slow-motion vampire equivalent of the Barf-a-Rama scene from Stand By Me." — Movies.com
Posted Jan 12, 2010
5.5/10 61% Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011) " The potential to bring Harry Shum Jr.'s sweet dance moves into the third dimension is wasted, and unlike Jon M. Chu's dynamically-lensed Justin Bieber: Never Say Never concert doc, Glee 3D feels disappointingly flat." — Movieline
Posted Aug 11, 2011
3/5 63% Jackass 3-D (2010) " The only truly new element here is the use of 3-D, which occasionally brings various stunts leaping off the screen and into your lap, whether you like it or not." — Movies.com
Posted Oct 14, 2010
3/5 85% Easy A (2010) " Stone's charisma sells her preternaturally mature character and makes the script's snarky, pop culture-referencing dialogue snap." — Movies.com
Posted Sep 17, 2010
3/5 51% Devil (2010) " Taut and slickly directed, Devil is actually one of the more solid genre movies we've seen all year." — Movies.com
Posted Sep 17, 2010
3/5 40% The Expendables (2010) " When it gets around to the righteous fightin' and killin' bits, The Expendables more than delivers on its promise to be the manliest movie ever made." — Movies.com
Posted Aug 11, 2010
3/5 46% Step Up 3-D (2010) " Two words: LASER FINGERS!" — Movies.com
Posted Aug 4, 2010
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