|
0/5
|
60%
|
Spring Breakdown (2009) |
"
A very bad genre exercise starring some very good comedic actresses who really should change agencies soon."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 20, 2009
|
|
0/4
|
0%
|
Weapons (2009) |
"
What this childish wallow was doing in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance only Robert Redford's minions know."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2007
|
|
0/5
|
44%
|
Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (2003) |
"
A loud, expensive mess of a movie with no real plot but a definite formula."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 27, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
57%
|
Simon Killer () |
"
Any American distributor who bothers with this one would be well advised to book it into bondage clubs, where at least half the audience is likely to enjoy pointless, masochistic experiences."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
|
28%
|
Step Up 2 the Streets (2008) |
"
Step Up 2 has only a few points of correlation with its predecessor. It's also probably the single most racist movie that will be released by any major American studio in the first 10 years of the twenty-first century."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2008
|
|
|
82%
|
In Bruges (2008) |
"
A shaggy, not-all-that-good-but-good-enough gangster comedy...violent, intermittently amusing and very 1992."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2008
|
|
|
83%
|
A Raisin in the Sun (2008) |
"
A Raisin in the Sun is a perfectly serviceable television adaptation of the recent Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansbury's classic 1959 play, but why it got a press screening at the Sundance Film Festival is difficult to say."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 24, 2008
|
|
|
86%
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) |
"
Where previous Sweeneys have found room in the character for both anguish and exultation amidst all the faraway looks and obsessional glowering, Depp skirts along the edge of the emotional chasm without ever really diving in."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 12, 2007
|
|
|
85%
|
Wag the Dog (1997) |
"
All bark and almost no bite."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1.5/5
|
89%
|
Shadow Dancer () |
"
Noxious, reactionary and unashamedly pro-British to a startling degree."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
40%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) |
"
This movie will not find an audience. It's got likable stars, a reliable commercial genre and a decent supporting cast, but nobody will turn out to see it, even if it was a labor of love."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
21%
|
Salvation Boulevard (2011) |
"
In this case, boredom is the deadliest sin."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
74%
|
Like Crazy (2011) |
"
Protagonists Jacob and Anna are no Romeo and Juliet, despite writer/director Drake Doremus' fraudulent but manful attempts to make them seem so -- at the end of the day, their problems could be solved by a plane ticket and less self-involvement."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
13%
|
The Informers (2009) |
"
Though name actors and the involvement of a cult author may eventually get The Informers attention, there's nobody who loves the '80s enough to knowingly pay good money to suffer through all 98 minutes of this."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 24, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
38%
|
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) |
"
A nearly note-perfect anthem for virtually everything about American policy it seeks to critique."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 18, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
58%
|
Zoo (2007) |
"
Zoo is a documentary doomed to remain forever biased and incomplete until somebody figures out how to interview a horse."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 10, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
77%
|
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) |
"
In this Che Guevara t-shirt of a film, the same cliche 'them and us' shadow play that MTV and VH1 stage in everything they produce about the American 1960s is extended so excruciatingly that the era seems to occur year by year in real time."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2006
|
|
1.5/5
|
12%
|
Little Man (2006) |
"
A fitful, effects-driven and remarkably unambitious summer release about a midget jewel thief masquerading as a baby."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2006
|
|
1.5/5
|
20%
|
Rumor Has It (2005) |
"
You don't yearn for The Graduate watching this picture -- you grieve for it, mourning the lost art of its wit, its comedic daring and, above all, its rebellious vision of the human heart."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 27, 2005
|
|
1.5/5
|
61%
|
Forty Shades of Blue (2005) |
"
Despite Torn's always lively presence and a stunning performance from Russian actress Dina Korzun, this is predictable soap opera stuff, served up with such hamfisted self-importance that patience chokes on even a small portion."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
80%
|
Chicago 10 (2008) |
"
Brett Morgen's tiresome recreation of a watershed 1960s political trial shoots at fish in a barrel -- and misses."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
The Words (2012) |
"
A movie for people who buy their novels at Starbucks, made by people who write their novels at Starbucks."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Ambassadøren (The Ambassador) () |
"
a movie whose confusing narrative and at times intriguing parts are at war with each other, and never quite gel."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Red Lights (2012) |
"
Writer/director/editor Rodrigo Cortes' paranormal thriller Red Lights should not have played Sundance 2012. In its current form, it should not have played anywhere."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 24, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
87%
|
Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011) |
"
Imagine, if you can, a film about Chopin containing precious little of his music but a large number of people telling you how wonderful his compositions are and you have some idea of the frustrating central flaw here."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
The Ledge (2011) |
"
Noteworthy in that the doomed love triangle at its center also attempts to be a tug of war over faith and devotion of both the secular and spiritual kinds."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
The Art of Getting By (2011) |
"
Homework is an epitome of the quirky, coming of age trend at Sundance, a hollow but likable enough comedy headed for modest box office."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Howl (2010) |
"
A film at odds with its own message."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
53%
|
Green Zone (2010) |
"
An exercise in commercial cowardice masquerading as a thriller about political bravery."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 5, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
72%
|
Enter the Void (Soudain le vide) (2010) |
"
Technique is almost all this movie has to offer."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
94%
|
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) |
"
A fun and energized documentary about a neglected era of exploitation cinema, but it suffers from a couple of pretty critical sins of omission."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
66%
|
Dead Snow (Død snø) (2009) |
"
Trust me, either this isn't your kind of movie at all or you've seen everything here done better and with fewer metaphoric quotation marks hovering over it."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
96%
|
Revanche (2009) |
"
Goetz Spielmann's overpraised Austrian Oscar submission Revanche is a slight film masquerading as a significant one, and a work whose style and substance are irreconcilably at odds with each other."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 11, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
80%
|
It Might Get Loud (2009) |
"
It Might Get Loud doesn't really offer enough comparative analysis to lead to a fully educated guess about why such passionate players are so awkward and reserved with each other when given a chance to measure their skills against the best."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 6, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
Absurdistan (2008) |
"
Full of whimsy but almost devoid of charm."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 5, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
When You're Strange (2010) |
"
The mystery of Jim Morrison's early death has at last been solved: he died so he wouldn't have to watch Tom DiCillo's tedious, reductive and factually erratic version of the story of his life."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 20, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Taking Chance (2009) |
"
Does this really tell us much that isn't patently obvious to anybody with a brain and a heart?"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 20, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Saw V (2008) |
"
It ain't scary, folks."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 27, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
American Teen (2008) |
"
Burstein or an apologist would probably say that in the YouTube era, overt and even manipulative mediation is a fact of teen life, and that her movie is a reflection of that reality. If so...YouTube is better at being YouTube than American Teen is."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
Hounddog (2008) |
"
Aimless plotting and stock Southern characters combine to make this movie less than expected."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
Munich (2005) |
"
Given its pedigrees and incendiary subject matter, Steven Spielberg's Munich is a shockingly mediocre and schematic movie."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
18%
|
Suspect Zero (2004) |
"
The laziest and least inspiring of movie genres has gone self-referential."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 27, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) |
"
AVP isn't very satisfying as a monster match-up, in that both the Aliens and the Predators are horde concepts rather than individualized creatures."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
The Village (2004) |
"
There will be worse movies this summer than The Village, but few ultimately as silly."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999) |
"
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a movie with absolutely nothing to say."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2.5/5
|
89%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
Margin Call's rigorously modulated tone, while it gives the actors time to breathe, also gives the audience more than enough time to lose interest."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 24, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
American Teacher (2011) |
"
There is a passionate, combative and riveting documentary to be made about the plight of the American schoolteacher, but unfortunately the well-meaning, unfailingly decent and overly slack American Teacher isn't it."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
81%
|
Higher Ground (2011) |
"
Higher Ground is a weird film with some very nice moments, but its odd and offbeat combination of comic touches, serious spiritual subject matter and occasional surrealist interludes never quiet gels."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 24, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
65%
|
The Music Never Stopped (2011) |
"
The Music Never Stopped isn't exactly good, but it's definitely better than you fear it is when you reach the halfway mark."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
57%
|
Douchebag (2010) |
"
Director Drake Doremus' Douchebag -- a black comedy lacking somewhat in both blackness and comedy-isn't a bad film, exactly, but it is undistinguished, in the sense that its ideas and emotional payloads are both safe and small."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2010
|
62%
——
97%
