Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 49%
| My Blueberry Nights (2008) | "
Jones displays some acting chops, but the character she creates with Wong has all the personality of a museum tour guide." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Apr 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Enchanted (2007) | "
The results look something like an overscaled Muppet movie (which ain't such a bad thing in itself)." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 21, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Fred Claus (2007) | "
The satire on globalism and downsizing is also as old as the Clinton administration, but that doesn't stop director David Dobkin from selling it like fresh goods." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| Martian Child (2007) | "
There is something disingenuous and calculating about the work of his director and composer." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Slipstream (2007) | "
Slipstream ultimately winds up an avant-garde film that just ain't all that avant." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| 30 Days of Night (2007) | "
Whatever power the original comic had, this film adaptation lost it in translation." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| Mr. Woodcock (2007) | "
Mr. Woodcock is often as juvenile and predictable as its title suggests. Yet, this dark comedy about a self-help author plotting revenge on his sadistic former gym coach gets honest laughs because of performances that ring universally true." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| 3 Strikes (2000) | 3 Strikes is depressing and grim, but not in any useful or interesting way. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| A Map of the World (1999) | "
Much of A Map of the World is comparable to the work of Fritz Lang, Paul Schrader or any other filmmaker skilled at evoking panic and self-loathing." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| American Pie (1999) | American Pie stirs the adolescent heart and groin! — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Analyze This (1998) | "
Harold Ramis' Analyze This is the mob parody Billy Wilder or Preston Sturges might have made if they'd had access to Robert De Niro and the F-word." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 52%
| Angela's Ashes (1999) | "
The young actors playing Frank at various ages (Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge) are all excellent." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Arlington Road (1999) | Offensively phony and unintentionally hilarious! — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 35%
| Blue Streak (1999) | Entertaining and never sluggish. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Bringing Out the Dead (1999) | "
Schrader shows the Tarantino punks how it's done." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Chill Factor (1999) | "
Ulrich and Gooding just don't click as comic antagonists / buddies." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Down to You (2000) | "
Down to You has cute boys, cute girls and little else." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| End of Days (1999) | "
End of Days is definitely in the top two or three worst studio films of the year." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | "
It's Kubrick telling a tediously elaborate joke at a party, using his eccentric genius and charisma to keep you captivated against all odds." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Fight Club (1999) | Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in what may be the performances of their careers. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998) | "
Jonathan Taylor Thomas is completely out of his element as the smooth-talking operator." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| In Too Deep (1999) | "
While the film has some interesting shifts in pace, mood and structure, it has nothing new or interesting to say." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Lake Placid (1999) | "
An ideal summer movie!" — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Liberty Heights (1999) | "
A pretty brave and ambitious feat." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Life (1999) | "
Hilarious!" — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Light It Up (1999) | "
The exposition that rushes us into the police standoff is so painfully forced and phony that the only way to keep watching the movie is to take it as either dark comedy or one of those cheap Die Hard knockoffs." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Man on the Moon (1999) | "
Man on the Moon captures the mood of Kaufman's stand-up act while paying loving tribute to the late comic." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| Molly (1999) | Beautiful as she is, Elisabeth Shue is simply impossible to watch without cringing whenever she tries to do autistic. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Mumford (1999) | The Mumford character requires an actor who doesn't try too hard, and Loren Dean doesn't. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Rear Window (1954) | "
Sunlight, light bulbs, lenses and shadows are more than suspense window-dressing in this one -- in many instances, they are the suspense." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Ride with the Devil (1999) | "
Ride With the Devil works on the simple level of action and classic drama." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Rush Hour (1998) | The opening credit sequence in Rush Hour outdoes anything that follows it. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) | "
The force is gone and George Lucas apparently has no idea where he left it!" — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Stigmata (1999) | A film this dramatically inept doesn't test your faith in the Papacy nearly as much as it troubles your faith in movies. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Supernova (1999) | "
Most reminiscent of certain old Star Trek episodes, the especially horny ones in which Kirk spent most of his time in his quarters with some busty alien." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The 13th Floor (1999) | "
The dialogue isn't aware it's cliched and hilarious; the soundtrack thinks it's backing an intense urban thriller." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 33%
| The 13th Warrior (1999) | "
A widescreen epic adventure so beautifully designed and performed that it doesn't have to make a bit of sense." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| The Astronaut's Wife (1999) | It's definitely not capable of being rescued. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| The Best Man (1999) | "
Lee has an incredible comic touch, and he pulls a solid performance from his entire cast." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| The Bone Collector (1999) | "
The Bone Collector blows its budget on helicopters, fleets of cop cars, gory effects and the charisma of Denzel Washington to bring this pointless hackwork to theaters." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| The Cider House Rules (1999) | "
Warm, thoughtful entertainment." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| The Corruptor (1999) | The movie's percussive action scenes hardly mask its lack of inspiration. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| The End of the Affair (1999) | "
Fiennes' and Moore's performances are strong enough to carry this film through even the slightly preposterous turn that puts the movie on the path to that conclusion." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| The Haunting (1999) | Although The Haunting gets funnier, dumber, and less suspenseful as it goes on, it never loses the power to frighten, because it never had it. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Limey (1999) | "
Soderbergh, screenwriter Lem Dobbs and star Terence Stamp make a cool team." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The Love Letter (1999) | "
Charming as it is, the film is too thin to justify carfare and ticket money." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The Other Sister (1999) | The surprises are interesting, but not enough to save the film from itself. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| The Prince of Egypt (1998) | The story has been so abbreviated and riddled with songs that there's no sense of climax. — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Sixth Sense (1999) | "
One of the greatest horror film of the '90s!" — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| The World Is Not Enough (1999) | "
At over two hours, it's too much junk food for one sitting." — Citysearch Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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