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Critics / Stephen Holden / Worst
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    STEPHEN HOLDEN

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

    Publications: New York Times

    Critics' Group: New York Film Critics Circle

    Total Reviews: 2177

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    Rotten
    0/5

    Rotten
    4%

    Dirty Love (2005)

    " Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, Dirty Love clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage."

    Posted Sep 23, 2005

    Rotten
    0/5

    Rotten
    1%

    Alone in the Dark (2005)

    " This horror film, spun off from an old Atari video game, is so inept on every level, you wonder why the distributor didn't release it straight to video, or better, toss it directly into the trash."

    Posted Jan 27, 2005

    Rotten
    0/5

    Rotten
    49%

    Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

    " A nostalgic fiasco so shameless it makes movies like Simon Birch and Frequency seem as austere as the work of Robert Bresson."

    Posted Sep 28, 2001

    Rotten
    0/5

    Rotten
    15%

    Dracula 2000 (2000)

    " A thudding, suspense-free montage of unshocking shock effects and more severed heads than toppled during the French Revolution."

    Posted Dec 24, 2000

    Rotten
    0/5

    Rotten
    13%

    Whipped (2000)

    " The dirty talk is so painfully forced and emphatic it lacks any comic spontaneity."

    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    10%

    Slackers (2002)

    " So lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun."

    Posted Jan 31, 2002

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    37%

    Beautiful Creatures (2001)

    " Loathsome as any mindless, blood-drenched Hollywood action-adventure yarn."

    Posted Apr 6, 2001

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    42%

    The Amati Girls (2001)

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    Posted Feb 7, 2001

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    19%

    The Next Best Thing (2000)

    " The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality."

    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    13%

    Screwed (2000)

    " Danny DeVito is the only cast member who succeeds in making something out of the movie's nothing of a screenplay."

    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    16%

    The Art of War (2000)

    " Ludicrous, impenetrable and headache-inducing: the newest Wesley Snipes film, The Art of War, is all that and more."

    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    26%

    Bait (2000)

    " Numbingly incoherent."

    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    15%

    Beautiful (2000)

    " The movie is so nasty to its mostly female characters that it feels harshly misogynist."

    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    33%

    Ice from the Sun (1999)

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    Posted May 10, 2001

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    9%

    The Pest (1997)

    " When Mr. Leguizamo isn't doing third-rate ethnic parody, he is wallowing in scatological jokes that are so poorly prepared and executed that they make similar antics by Mr. Carrey play like classic routines."

    Posted Aug 30, 2004

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    46%

    Everybody's Fine (2009)

    " False to the core."

    Posted Dec 4, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    6%

    Old Dogs (2009)

    " This imbecilic, mean-spirited farce, which sneers at adults, leaves you wondering: where are the Three Stooges when we really need them?"

    Posted Nov 25, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    18%

    The Fourth Kind (2009)

    " May be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare."

    Posted Nov 6, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    22%

    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)

    " A mediocre gross out movie that barely pushes the envelope."

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    23%

    Sorority Row (2009)

    " Sorority Row is an interminable mess of a film that juggles more characters and undeveloped subplots than it can handle and even manages to bungle the setup."

    Posted Sep 14, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    16%

    I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)

    " You might blame Nora Ephron, whose screenplay for When Harry Met Sally established the formula that I Hate Valentine’s Day runs into the ground. Compared with this, Ms. Ephron is Chekhov."

    Posted Jul 3, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    8%

    The Skeptic (2009)

    " I'll take a bunch of teenagers terrorized by chain-saw-wielding zombies any day."

    Posted May 1, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    19%

    Obsessed (2009)

    " Obsessed, a clanking, low-rent imitation of Fatal Attraction, lacks both the original film’s imagination and moral ambiguity."

    Posted Apr 27, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    18%

    New in Town (2009)

    " The flat romantic comedy New in Town has no idea of how to play its cards."

    Posted Jan 30, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    21%

    Passengers (2008)

    " Passengers is a supernatural thriller so mechanically inept and lacking in suspense that it doesn't even pass muster as lowbrow Halloween-ready entertainment."

    Posted Oct 30, 2008

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    13%

    The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

    " The third installment of the Mummy franchise, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, is by far the weakest."

    Posted Aug 1, 2008

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    12%

    Slow Burn (2007)

    Slow Burn is a wooden police thriller that is as dull as it is impenetrable and ultimately beyond ludicrous.
    Posted Apr 16, 2007

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    11%

    The Architect (2006)

    ... much of what's on the screen feels like a creaky, tone-deaf classroom exercise in mechanical contrivance.
    Posted Nov 30, 2006

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    26%

    The Omen (2006)

    When all else fails, pump up the thunder and lightning. That seems to be an operating principle behind the supremely unnecessary remake of the 1976 horror fest.
    Posted Jun 6, 2006

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    0%

    Perception (2006)

    If it weren't for the fact that several of its characters die, Irving Schwartz's twisted, laugh-free comedy Perception might be the pilot episode of a low-rent imitation of the television series Arrested Development.
    Posted Jan 19, 2006

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    38%

    A Good Woman (2005)

    This misbegotten adaptation of Oscar Wildes 1892 comedy Lady Windermeres Fan lacks Wilde's high-toned repartee.
    Posted Feb 2, 2006

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    30%

    Waiting... (2005)

    A witless farce about working at a chain restaurant that belongs in a circle of gross-out hell somewhere below Porky's and slightly above Jenny McCarthy's Dirty Love.
    Posted Oct 6, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    53%

    MirrorMask (2005)

    " If MirrorMask is a marvel of visual ingenuity, its monochromatic panoramas are too busy and flat to yield an illusion of depth or to convey a feeling of characters moving in space."

    Posted Sep 29, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Fresh
    63%

    Saint Ralph (2005)

    " This crude, inspirational tear-jerker is as sweet as a bowl of instant oatmeal smothered in molasses."

    Posted Aug 4, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    4%

    Modigliani (2005)

    " The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist."

    Posted Jun 30, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    5%

    The Perfect Man (2005)

    " The flimsy new Hilary Duff comedy toys with the notion of mother-daughter role reversal."

    Posted Jun 16, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    4%

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2005)

    " How bad could a movie be that features talent as serious as Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham and Geraldine Chaplin? That bad, alas."

    Posted Jun 13, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    29%

    Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

    " There's no escaping that Dominion is finally an act of commercial scavenging."

    Posted May 19, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    2%

    King's Ransom (2005)

    " The desperately unfunny kidnapping farce King's Ransom is the cinematic equivalent of trampled chewing gum on a subway platform."

    Posted Apr 25, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    40%

    D.E.B.S. (2005)

    " A heat-free pseudo-lesbian spoof of Charlie's Angels by way of Heathers."

    Posted Mar 24, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    35%

    Hostage (2005)

    " A pile of blood-soaked toxic waste dumped onto the screen in an attempt to salvage Bruce Willis's fading career as an action hero."

    Posted Mar 10, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Fresh
    80%

    Dear Frankie (2005)

    " A fraudulent yarn riddled with plot holes and improbabilities and topped by a cynical final twist that pulls the rug out from under the story."

    Posted Mar 3, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    51%

    Côte d'Azur (2004)

    " Watching the featherweight French farce Côte d'Azur provides the oxymoronic sensation of looking at a pornographic movie with no real sex."

    Posted Sep 9, 2005

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    29%

    Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

    " A moth-eaten stranded-in- the-desert yarn so manipulative that the involuntary jolts of adrenaline it produces make you feel like a fool."

    Posted Dec 16, 2004

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    48%

    Straight - Jacket (2004)

    This featherweight spoof of closeted, Red-baiting Hollywood in the mid-1950's is played as such an exaggerated cartoon that its political outrage is dissipated by its stridency.
    Posted Dec 13, 2004

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    14%

    L.A. Twister (2004)

    " The barely watchable buddy comedy L.A. Twister is so sloppily put together it bungles its recycled movie-within-a-movie conceit."

    Posted Dec 9, 2004

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    43%

    National Treasure (2004)

    " With its ludicrous frisson of patriotism and a nod to The Da Vinci Code, a more cynical grab for Hollywood gold is hard to imagine."

    Posted Nov 18, 2004

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    19%

    After the Sunset (2004)

    " Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek play partners-in-crime in a jewel-heist frolic so stale it feels like a retread of a retread."

    Posted Nov 11, 2004

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    15%

    Without A Paddle (2004)

    " The homosexual panic instilled by Deliverance fuels the running joke driving the uneasy laughs evoked by this loathsome comedy."

    Posted Aug 19, 2004

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    22%

    Little Black Book (2004)

    " Offering few laughs and a climactic scene of breathtaking cruelty, this sour comedy draws you against your will into its malignant force field."

    Posted Aug 5, 2004
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