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0/5
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31%
|
Wet Hot American Summer (2001) |
"
This is supposed to be funny? It was so depressing I almost started to cry."
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Washington Post
Posted Jan 6, 2002
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|
0/5
|
18%
|
Saving Silverman (Evil Woman) (2001) |
"
Expends a moderate budget and several attractive young performers to absolutely no consequence."
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Washington Post
Posted Feb 9, 2001
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|
0.5/5
|
28%
|
Life or Something Like It (2002) |
"
Oh, please. Stop and smell the manure."
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Washington Post
Posted Apr 26, 2002
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0.5/5
|
3%
|
Rollerball (2002) |
"
Jewison's rich and provocative 1975 original has been de-metaphorized, made narrow and pointless, while remaining just as loud and violent."
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Washington Post
Posted Feb 8, 2002
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0.5/5
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72%
|
Le Pacte des loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf) (2001) |
"
A mad agglomeration of styles and traditions that ultimately results in nothing so much as a mad agglomeration of styles and traditions."
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Washington Post
Posted Jan 11, 2002
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|
0.5/5
|
42%
|
The Majestic (2001) |
"
It can't fake sincerity. It tries ever so hard, but it doesn't have a single believable second."
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Washington Post
Posted Dec 21, 2001
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|
0.5/5
|
40%
|
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"
A case of the vain leading the bland."
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Washington Post
Posted Dec 14, 2001
|
|
0.5/5
|
14%
|
The One (2001) |
"
A chaotic kung fu, sci-fi, rama-lama-dingdong on themes handled more originally by The Matrix."
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Washington Post
Posted Nov 2, 2001
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|
0.5/5
|
29%
|
Bubble Boy (2001) |
"
Certainly the meanest-spirited film ever associated with the Disney hallmark."
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Washington Post
Posted Aug 24, 2001
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|
0.5/5
|
86%
|
Sexy Beast (2000) |
"
I'm wondering what's so special about a film that has but one guilty pleasure and that's Ben Kingsley spraying saliva-lubricated variants of the F-word."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 22, 2001
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|
0.5/5
|
11%
|
Freddy Got Fingered (2001) |
"
If ever a movie testified to the utter creative bankruptcy of the Hollywood film industry, it is the abomination known as Freddy Got Fingered."
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Washington Post
Posted Apr 20, 2001
|
|
0.5/5
|
16%
|
Sweet November (2001) |
"
Who on earth could resist Charlize Theron? Well, if she's imitating Sandy Dennis, it's not all that hard."
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Washington Post
Posted Feb 20, 2001
|
|
0.5/5
|
16%
|
Beautiful (2000) |
"
It manages to find an almost pitch-perfect accumulation of ill-matched tones, sheer grotesquerie, near-heroic absurdity and self-canceling folly."
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Washington Post
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
D
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16%
|
Cursed (2005) |
"
The special effects are particularly lame, and an insult to the proud werewolf tradition of An American Werewolf in London or the even better The Howling."
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Washington Post
Posted Feb 28, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
Mr. Deeds (2002) |
"
All in all, this baby makes you ever more eternally grateful for AMC and TCM on the cable. That's where the real movies have gone to hide."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 28, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
31%
|
High Crimes (2002) |
"
Isn't worth the crayons it took to write the script."
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Washington Post
Posted Apr 5, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
7%
|
Dragonfly (2002) |
"
Probably was hatched by screenwriters watching The Sixth Sense on methamphetamines."
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 22, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
17%
|
Queen of the Damned (2002) |
"
Plays out rather drearily."
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 22, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
John Q (2002) |
"
It reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitting through it."
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 15, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
38%
|
Novocaine (2001) |
"
A coarse, witless and stunningly violent black comedy."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 24, 2001
|
|
1/5
|
53%
|
My First Mister (2002) |
"
Beautiful and so phony it makes you urp."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 12, 2001
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
American Outlaws (2001) |
"
So brainless it's a wonder it can find its own ending."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 17, 2001
|
|
1/5
|
52%
|
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"
What a portrait of young American manhood as a collective of hormone-addled schnooks -- effete, incapable, soft and doomed, a group of chuckleheads who couldn't find the sky without a sign that pointed up."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 10, 2001
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"
A pocket of infection on the skin of the American body cultural."
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Washington Post
Posted Jul 5, 2001
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Swordfish (2001) |
"
Nobody really cares about the plot, least of all the filmmakers."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 8, 2001
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Town & Country (2000) |
"
The whole thing is too big, too loud, too expensive and has too much Diane Keaton."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 27, 2001
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
Coyote Ugly (2000) |
"
A simpering love story."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1/5
|
21%
|
Wild Wild West (1999) |
"
The Wild, Wild West is a rambling wreck from computer tech and a helluva souvenir - that is, for those interested in artifacts representing the American movie at its worst."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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41%
|
The Rocker (2008) |
"
If only the movie had some bite, some edge, some anger, some insight. Instead it's generic, staying far away from the darker temptations of the rock scene."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 20, 2008
|
|
|
78%
|
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) |
"
The tweener girls for whom it is aimed deserve better. A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 2, 2008
|
|
|
40%
|
Hancock (2008) |
"
The problem is that director Peter Berg, aided and abetted by Smith and Theron and third banana Jason Bateman, seem to have made it literally, not realizing its out-of-whack tonalities and grotesque plot twists were meant to be played for laughs."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 2, 2008
|
|
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72%
|
And When Did You Last See Your Father? (When Did You Last See Your Father?) (2008) |
"
The movie is slick and treacly and goes nowhere that hasn't been gone before."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 26, 2008
|
|
|
37%
|
Savage Grace (2007) |
"
The movie just sloshes along in a heavy, slightly overdone way."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
|
18%
|
The Happening (2008) |
"
The Happening stutter-steps its way in this direction and that to a disappointing ending."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
|
37%
|
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"
In the end, the movie feels as if it exists only to display the Sandler's biceps."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 5, 2008
|
|
|
45%
|
The Strangers (2008) |
"
I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal. It's a fraud from start to finish."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 30, 2008
|
|
|
38%
|
Zombie Strippers (2008) |
"
I stayed to the bitter end out of some romantic sense of professional obligation. Don't make that same mistake!"
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 24, 2008
|
|
|
5%
|
88 Minutes (2008) |
"
Not merely Pacino's over-mannered, near-histrionic performance, but the movie itself could be characterized as busy, busy, busy. It's so full of plot twists and revelations and exploding sports cars that its very perkiness comes to seem comic."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 18, 2008
|
|
|
38%
|
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) |
"
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? is so infantile you expect the answer to be, 'Not at my house!'"
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
|
|
|
70%
|
The First Saturday in May (2008) |
"
It's pretty much for people who know the game well and want their perceptions massaged, not challenged."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
|
|
|
26%
|
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"
This film features what look like living plush toys."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 14, 2007
|
|
|
42%
|
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"
The movie simply delivers too many colorfuls for its own good, none of whom establish a true emotional identity, and thus it isn't moving, it's busy."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 6, 2007
|
|
|
74%
|
The Mist (2007) |
"
There's a glib twist at the end, which seems out of character, and the movie could easily lose 20 minutes, maybe 40."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 21, 2007
|
|
|
37%
|
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) |
"
The movie means to approach the creepy wonder of Roald Dahl but gets only the creepy part right."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 15, 2007
|
|
|
53%
|
Romance and Cigarettes (2007) |
"
The movie comes on as a novelty item, meaning it's so full of disparate parts and so unable to approach coherence, it just sits there and burns out."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 8, 2007
|
|
|
95%
|
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
I just don't like it very much."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 8, 2007
|
|
|
21%
|
Fred Claus (2007) |
"
Vaughn's con-man jive doesn't get much play in this one; he spends most of his time as a bitter creep, and the writing (by Dan Fogelman) isn't sharp enough to make the hipster-at-the-North-Pole theme pay off in any meaningful way."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 8, 2007
|
|
|
66%
|
Wristcutters - A Love Story (2007) |
"
Teenage suicide isn't that funny, and nothing in this movie changed my mind."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 1, 2007
|
|
|
64%
|
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"
Things We Lost in the Fire veers away from the real and hard and toward the fantastic."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 19, 2007
|
|
|
36%
|
Reservation Road (2007) |
"
You know exactly where the story is going, and, dang, that's exactly where it goes."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 19, 2007
|
62%
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