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Rachel Deahl

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:: Ace Weekly (Lexington, KY) , Baltimore City Paper , Boxoffice Magazine , Fast Forward Weekly (Calgary) , Filmcritic.com , Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) , Orlando Weekly , Pulse Weekly

Total Reviews:: 72

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
.5/5	0%	State Property (2002)	" A dull, simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs, death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 19, 2002
	17%	The Perfect Score (2004)	" The Perfect Score is amenable, enjoyable and as quickly forgotten as all those tricks you learned in your SAT prep class." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Apr 16, 2004
	27%	Paycheck (2003)	" Coming up short on just about everything - from the casting and dialog to the action sequences - Woo rides the high of a strong story into the ground." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Jan 8, 2004
	60%	Stuck On You (2003)	" ...Winds up trying to tug at your heart strings more than strike your funny bone" — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Dec 18, 2003
	15%	Gothika (2003)	" ...ultimately reduced to a barrage of unintentionally hilarious one-liners." — Fast Forward Weekly (Calgary) Posted Nov 25, 2003
	36%	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)	" ...Although the story's high on gore and low on almost everything else, Leatherface still inspires a hell of a lot more fear than Freddy or Jason." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Nov 5, 2003
	48%	S.W.A.T. (2003)	" Played out like a cop show that should have been cancelled seasons ago, S.W.A.T. is nothing if not boring." — Pulse Weekly Posted Aug 13, 2003
	24%	Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)	" Although Jolie is perfect in the lead with her cartoonishly provocative figure, the comely starlet can't make this shoddy story work." — Pulse Weekly Posted Aug 13, 2003
	71%	Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003)	" The amusing freshness of T2 is unsuccessfully recycled in this less superior carbon copy." — Pulse Weekly Posted Aug 13, 2003
	11%	Alex & Emma (2003)	" The tepid lead characters, housed by actors who don't even share any chemistry, finally have nowhere to go in a film as flat as its interior dime-store novel." — Pulse Weekly Posted Aug 13, 2003
	30%	Hollywood Homicide (2003)	" ...a buddy cop picture looking for a punch line and a plotline." — Pulse Weekly Posted Aug 13, 2003
	36%	2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)	" A crude, sloppy, four-wheeled extravaganza; the best thing about this sequel is that it's not quite as bad as its ridiculous title indicates." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Jun 6, 2003
	28%	Daddy Day Care (2003)	" ...doesn't offer much beyond cute faces and forgettable poop jokes." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted May 14, 2003
	34%	The Real Cancun (2003)	" At best [The Real Cancun] is 90 minutes spent with a group of mind-numbingly uninteresting exhibitionists who would have served themselves, and America, better with a half-hour on The Jerry Springer Show." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Apr 24, 2003
	43%	Anger Management (2003)	" Coming off of roles in which they both brilliantly played against type, Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler...return to form with this standard comedy." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Apr 11, 2003
	26%	Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)	" With too little Li and too much DMX, Cradle would have been better served if these players had been allowed to stick to what they do best, with Li fighting and DMX singing." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Mar 7, 2003
	34%	Bringing Down The House (2003)	" In this ill-conceived comedy of errors...racial stereotypes and bottom-of-the-barrel humor abound." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Mar 7, 2003
	39%	Maid in Manhattan (2002)	" Writhing under dialogue like 'You're from two different worlds' and 'Tonight the maid is a lie and this, this is who you are,' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Dec 13, 2002
	50%	Jurassic Park III (2001)	" Returning to Jurassic Park a second time wasn't the most fruitful journey ... it's no surprise that the third trip back to the dinosaur-ridden island borders on the offensive." — Baltimore City Paper Posted Nov 18, 2002
	74%	Songcatcher (2001)	" Though writer/director Maggie Greenwald wraps her story around a wincingly trite yarn ... she keeps her film afloat by focusing on the music. But, when the tunes stop, so does the magic." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2002
	71%	Baby Boy (2001)	" An unfortunate hybrid of Oedipal and Peter Pan complexes, Singleton's film is a mishmash of half-cocked ideas and unrealized sentiments." — Baltimore City Paper Posted Nov 18, 2002
	41%	The Four Feathers (2002)	" Black Hawk Down by way of English imperialism, The Four Feathers delivers a compelling, if unsatisfactory, statement about the heroism of soldiering without condemning the diplomacy behind it." — Ace Weekly (Lexington, KY) Posted Oct 29, 2002
	13%	Ghost Ship (2002)	" Aside from its jarring opening sequence -- imagine The Love Boat crossed with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -- Ghost Ship is a fairly rote ghoulish tale." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Oct 29, 2002
	37%	Sweet Home Alabama (2002)	" A romantic comedy, sans much of the comedy, this clunky Reese Witherspoon vehicle glows with the powerful allure of its shiny, irresistible young star but little else." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Oct 24, 2002
	9%	Stealing Harvard (2002)	" Seemingly a vehicle to showcase the Canadian's inane ramblings, Stealing Harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former Mr. Drew Barrymore." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Oct 23, 2002
	20%	History Lessons (2000)	" A one-note experience, more memorable for what it sets out to accomplish than what it actually does." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 28, 2001
	30%	The Animal (2001)	" The one running joke in The Animal becomes familiar and predictable all too soon." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 4, 2001
	10%	What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)	" Answers its own eponymous question time and again by straddling the unamusing and the offensive." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 4, 2001
2/5	71%	Virgil Bliss (2001)	" Shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 14, 2002
2/5	43%	Center Stage (2000)	" Ultimately the story line here is as stupid as the final 'rock' ballet." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 1, 2000
2.5/5	63%	Unknown Pleasures (2003)	" While there are some beautifully shot, subtle moments in the film that encapsulate the desperation and degradation of the characters, the director ends up alienating his audience in an attempt to display the alienation of his characters." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2003
3/5	95%	Ripley's Game (2003)	" An unusually smart entry into the thriller/mystery genre." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2003
3/5	82%	Derrida (2002)	" It's incredibly enjoyable to watch Derrida pick apart, and fight against, the very process and premise of making a film about someone, particularly him." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2002
3/5	86%	El Hijo de la novia (Son of the Bride) (2002)	" A somewhat disappointing and meandering saga." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 22, 2002
3/5	100%	Yana's Friends (2001)	" Amusing with one unforgettable gag, Kaplun's film does a passable job of portraying the hardships endured by immigrants but is more notable for placing a light-hearted tale in a decidedly heavy time and place." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 23, 2001
3.5/5	72%	Power and Terror - Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)	" The kind of film that you hope makes it onto the TV screens of every high school class in the country." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2002
3.5/5	65%	Brown Sugar (2002)	" Manages to deliver the familiar boy-meets-girl story in a fresh way." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2002
3.5/5	81%	Biggie and Tupac (2002)	" Broomfield seems to uncover a massive scoop here, revealing the multitude of people involved and the possible motivations behind the killings of his titular subjects." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 30, 2002
3.5/5	49%	The Price of Milk (2001)	" The Price of Milk is a surprisingly winning fable of misguided love." — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 14, 2001
3.5/5	76%	Winter Sleepers (1997)	— Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 1, 2000
	22%	Taking Lives (2004)	" With its French Canadian setting and strong (rather, strong-looking) cast, Taking Lives is elevated above its genre cliches." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Apr 16, 2004
	64%	Starsky & Hutch (2004)	" ...Director Todd Phillips (Road Trip, Old School) proves once again that he has a hand for feel-good comedies." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Apr 16, 2004
	71%	Cold Mountain (2003)	" ...It does achieve, if only intermittently, the aching feelings of love and loss, for both country and countrymen, that Frazier depicted so unforgettably in his novel." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Jan 8, 2004
	94%	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	" The Return of the King delivers the same awe-inspiring visuals as Jackson's two previous films without ever coming off like it's simply 'more of the same.'" — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Dec 23, 2003
	92%	School of Rock (2003)	" ...With School of Rock director Richard Linklater delivers a warm-hearted and irresistible valentine to the music he loves. " — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Nov 5, 2003
	61%	Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)	" ...Some unexpectedly good subplots and beautiful scenery make this fluff particularly palatable." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Oct 1, 2003
	82%	Matchstick Men (2003)	" Matchstick Men ultimately plays its audience for the fool. And while the sting is well orchestrated and enjoyable, the effect is fleeting." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Oct 1, 2003
	79%	Open Range (2003)	" Thankfully the director who made Dances With Wolves shines through here, mostly overshadowing that guy who gave us Waterworld and The Postman." — Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Posted Aug 20, 2003
	55%	American Wedding (2003)	" Luckily the creative minds behind the third installment in this teen trilogy haven't run out of things for their young stars to hump..." — Pulse Weekly Posted Aug 13, 2003
	79%	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	" Clocking in at a shockingly long two and a half hours, this campy Evil Dead homage from director Gore Verbinski is nonetheless giddy fun." — Pulse Weekly Posted Aug 13, 2003

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