Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| A Decade Under the Influence (2003) | "
A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film" Posted May 25, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Hart's War (2002) | "
A solid film...but more conscientious than it is truly stirring." Posted Feb 14, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Final (2001) | "
A lifeless vacuum." Posted Jan 18, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Impostor (2001) | "
What 'Blade Runner' would’ve looked like as a low-budget series on a UHF channel." Posted Jan 3, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| Monster's Ball (2001) | "
an Oprah-mistic movie in which people overcome a lifetime’s worth of bad habits by 'opening up.'
" Posted Dec 25, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| Ocean's Eleven (2001) | "
The man who helped spark the indie revolution is now making pictures that bow and scrape before the most depleted Hollywood conventions." Posted Dec 7, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Joy Ride (2001) | "
...begins evaporating in your mind before it’s even over." Posted Oct 4, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Broken Vessels (1998) | "
weighted down by conventional morality and predictable storytelling" Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| Following (1998) | "
...offers more pleasure as a jigsaw puzzle than it does as a movie.
" Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Arlington Road (1999) | "
...could have been a superb dark fantasy, but takes its own malarkey seriously." Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 78%
| Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | "
...more rewarding to analyze than it is to see." Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| The Haunting (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| The Blair Witch Project (1999) | "
...the movie isn’t half as diabolical as its marketing plan.
" Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| The Minus Man (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 94%
| Three Kings (1999) | "
After wooing the likes of Hawks, Peckinpah, and Pontecorvo, 'Three Kings' decides in the end to go steady with Ron Howard." Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 66%
| The Third Miracle (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Orphans (1997) | "
...a kitchen-sink drama that’s full of old dishwater." Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Treasure Island (1999) | "
...all of the bad things that make up what we call 'independent film.'" Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Gladiator (2000) | "
...a two-ring circus that fails as entertainment and stinks as a sermon.
" Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| 8 1/2 Women (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Entrapment (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Planet of the Apes (2001) | "
Cheesy but not much fun, and it never reaches the level of pulp poetry." Posted Jul 27, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| The Score (2001) | "
affable but disastrously clichéd" Posted Jul 12, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Pearl Harbor (2001) | "
...diminishes what happened on December 7, 1941." Posted May 23, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Baise Moi (2001) | "
The world needs this movie the way it needs a comeback of the plague." Posted Apr 30, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| One Night at McCool's (2001) | "
Throws jokes at the audience like alms for the poor; unfortunately, they’re all pennies." Posted Apr 26, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Blow (2001) | "
...a sanctimonious and doughy look at a man who in the end just isn’t very interesting." Posted Apr 5, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| The Caveman's Valentine (2001) | "
Nothing in The Caveman's Valentine feels properly grounded or set up." Posted Mar 1, 2001 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 45%
| Deterrence (1998) | "
Only in Hollywood is ineptitude and crassness rewarded so richly." Posted Feb 14, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Dick (1999) | "
The film gets off on the wrong foot and never recovers." Posted Feb 14, 2001 |
Rotten 3/10
| Fresh 77%
| The Pledge (2001) | "
So logy and doom-laden that watching it feels like a hike through waist-deep snow." Posted Jan 18, 2001 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 32%
| All the Pretty Horses (2000) | "
A series of emotionally stillborn incidents." Posted Dec 26, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| A Map of the World (1999) | "
The result of what happens when a pedestrian director shoots a tone-deaf script." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 3/10
| Fresh 66%
| American Psycho (2000) | "
American Psycho has all the trappings of a thoughtful film except profundity -- it's a swimming pool without a deep end." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 3/10
| Fresh 94%
| Best in Show (2000) | "
You keep waiting for the movie to start. It never does, though." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Committed (2000) | "
Combines what seems like every indie cliché into a single motion picture." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 3/10
| Fresh 83%
| Erin Brockovich (2000) | "
Jimmy Stewart in a see-through blouse." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Eye of the Beholder (1999) | "
So hyper-conscious of its own movie-ness that it’s hard to care very much about the characters moving listlessly through its scenery." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 25%
| Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) | "
Gone in 60 Seconds goes so stale in its last 10 minutes that it makes The Rock look like some experimental flick." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Magnolia (1999) | "
The biggest disappointment of the year." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 57%
| Mission: Impossible II (2000) | "
A coy and hollow parody." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Mystery, Alaska (1999) | "
...its emotions are so counterfeit that the Treasury Department should be alerted." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) | "
Snow Falling on Cedars falls victim to its own reverential attitude: it forgets to include some human beings in its passionate defense of them." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Summer of Sam (1999) | "
Lee sabotages his material by overloading it with splashy visual effects." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 19%
| The Beach (2000) | "
...an epic for pipsqueaks." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| The Bone Collector (1999) | "
What is Denzel Washington doing in trash like this?" Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 45%
| The Cell (2000) | "
Singh has concocted a flick for people who think that mere sensation can sustain a movie, and who don’t require any more coherence than what can be gotten from flipping through a fashion magazine." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 6/10
| Rotten 42%
| The Ninth Gate (1999) | "
Painful to watch The Ninth Gate’s meticulous tone and rhythms go for naught in its final half-hour." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 48%
| The Way of the Gun (2000) | "
A threepenny opera of lurid plot turns, oceanic bloodletting, and
pseudo-existential dialogue." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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