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Nell Minow

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography:
Nell Minow writes about movies, television, the Internet, and parenting as The Movie Mom for Beliefnet and other publications. Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Family Fun, Child, Daughters, Parents, Slate, and three editions of The Practical Guide to Practically Everything. Her book, The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies was published by Avon in 1999, with a second edition in 2004. She reviews movies every week on radio stations across the US and in Canada. Her reviews appear on Beliefnet at http://blog.beliefnet.com/moviemom and you can see her Movie Mom page on Facebook or follow her on twitter. Nell is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Washington Area Film Critics Association.
Favorites:
500 of my favorite movies are reviewed in my book, but as of this writing my top 10 would have to include "The Philadelphia Story," "To Have and Have Not," "His Girl Friday," "Ball of Fire," and "Duck Soup." Ask me tomorrow and you might get a different list!
Publications:
Beliefnet , Chicago Sun-Times , Common Sense Media , Denver Post , DVDJournal.com , Kansas City Star , Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
3806
Total QuickRatings:
938
Location:
Just outside of Washington DC

Worst Reviewed Films

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F 21% Next Day Air (2009) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Feb 14, 2012
F 8% Furry Vengeance (2010) " Normally, I try to find something good to say about each movie I review. Dear readers, I am speechless." — Beliefnet
Posted Apr 29, 2010
F 25% Law Abiding Citizen (2009) " This is not just a bad film; it is a despicable one." — Beliefnet
Posted Oct 15, 2009
F 21% Next Day Air (2009) " To add insult to injury, the mindless comedy turns into a mindless shoot 'em up. Mark this package delivery refused." — Beliefnet
Posted May 7, 2009
F 5% Miss March (2009) " A smarmy premise becomes an unspeakably offensive movie in a mess that is not just disgusting but dull. I don't need a bath after seeing it; I need an exorcism." — Beliefnet
Posted Mar 12, 2009
F 15% The Love Guru (2008) " Non-stop naughty-body-part references with a level of humor more appropriate on a 4th grade bathroom wall than a Hollywood screenplay." — Beliefnet
Posted Jun 19, 2008
F 63% Jackass: Number Two (2006) " The Jackass crew uses their stunts to test their immunity -- to skull fractures, to deadly infections, to permanent damage, and, most importantly, to growing up." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Sep 22, 2006
F 7% Basic Instinct 2 (2006) " Stone, whose portrayal of mature sexiness was breathtaking in last year's Broken Flowers, is so over-the-top here that Tramell appears to be channeling Cruella De Vil. Or maybe Carol Burnett vamping as "Nora Desmond."" — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Mar 30, 2006
F 30% Waiting (2005) " Endlessly, tediously, mind-meltingly worthless. " — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Oct 6, 2005
0/5 8% An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 21, 2005
F 2% King's Ransom (2005) " I looked at the ceiling, not casting my eyes heavenward for assistance but trying to find something more interesting to look at than what was on the screen. The ceiling won." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Apr 21, 2005
0/5 4% Meet the Deedles (1998) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 20, 2004
0/5 19% The Nude Bomb (The Return of Maxwell Smart) (1980) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jul 8, 2004
0/5 81% Pink Flamingos (1972) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2004
0/5 24% RocketMan (Rocket Man) (1997) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Apr 8, 2004
F 4% The Whole Ten Yards (2003) " Could it BE any more atrocious?" — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Apr 8, 2004
0/5 —— Theodore Rex (1995) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Mar 20, 2004
F 46% Eurotrip (2003) " As dull as an offensive movie can be and as offensive as a dull movie can be. " — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Feb 19, 2004
F 9% My Boss's Daughter (2003) " Everyone associated with this movie should appear under a pseudonym, and that includes Carmen Electra." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 22, 2003
0/5 38% Revenge (1990) " Positively one of the worst movies ever made, though Stowe is, as always, luminously lovely." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 19, 2003
0/5 14% Almost Heroes (1998) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Apr 25, 2003
F 49% Jackass - The Movie (2002) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Mar 29, 2003
0/5 2% Baby Geniuses (1999) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Feb 7, 2003
0/5 6% Exit to Eden (1994) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Oct 3, 2002
D- 11% Catch That Kid (Mission Without Permission) (2004) " A child bank robber heartlessly manipulates her two best friends and risks the lives of her friends, her baby brother, and everyone else. What were they thinking?" — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Feb 6, 2004
D- 9% Darkness Falls (2003) " The terrible acting, the awful pacing, and laughable special effects make the horror of watching this movie all too unintentional." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jan 27, 2003
D —— Dennis the Menace Strikes Again (1997) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Feb 14, 2012
D 51% The Next Three Days (2010) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Feb 14, 2012
D 6% All About Steve (2009) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Feb 14, 2012
D 20% The Invasion (2007) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jan 24, 2012
D 14% Zookeeper (2011) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Dec 31, 2011
D 24% What's Your Number? (2011) " Even the delectable Anna Faris cannot get us to root for the character she plays in this charmless, distasteful dud. " — Beliefnet
Posted Sep 29, 2011
D 38% Flightplan (2005) " It's always a bad sign in a thriller when the big reveal is greeted by hoots of derisive laughter." — Beliefnet
Posted Sep 1, 2011
D 78% Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) " The movie is going for a wistful romanticism. For me it was more like a pervy sociopathy." — Beliefnet
Posted Jul 29, 2011
D 14% Zookeeper (2011) " Yet another slacker no-effort film, with another soundtrack filled with 80′s songs just because that's the last time producer Sandler listened to the radio. " — Beliefnet
Posted Jul 7, 2011
D 44% Bad Teacher (2011) " Are you a fan of comedy based on the sole premise that it is funny to see a beautiful woman make outrageously crude and narcissistic statements? Go watch Sara Silverman. " — Beliefnet
Posted Jun 23, 2011
D 37% Mars Needs Moms (2011) " Important note: if you are going to make a film whose moral is that mechanical objects can never replace people (or Martians), try not to make exactly that mistake." — Beliefnet
Posted Mar 13, 2011
D 11% Red Riding Hood (2011) " Oh, Grandmother, what a big, bad movie you have. " — Beliefnet
Posted Mar 10, 2011
D 19% Just Go with It (2011) " It wastes its premise, insults its characters, and shows an attitude toward the audience somewhere between neglect and contempt, sometimes both. " — Beliefnet
Posted Feb 11, 2011
D 21% Gulliver's Travels (2010) " The flaccid torpor of the script shows utter contempt for its audience in every line. " — Beliefnet
Posted Dec 24, 2010
D 51% The Next Three Days (2010) " Paul Haggis loses his way in a labored prison escape drama that never recovers from a serious miscalculation midway through and then goes completely off the rails. " — Beliefnet
Posted Nov 19, 2010
D 39% Due Date (2010) " It is such a thoroughly unpleasant journey that it forced me to reconsider my previously firm conviction that I would happily watch Robert Downey, Jr. in anything." — Beliefnet
Posted Nov 4, 2010
D 43% Dinner for Schmucks (2010) " Despite Carell's best efforts, Barry is not a character. He is just an engine for creating humiliating experiences for Tim." — Beliefnet
Posted Jul 29, 2010
D 6% The Last Airbender (2010) " I am truly sorry to say that this movie is a big, dull, dud and a failure in almost every category." — Beliefnet
Posted Jul 1, 2010
D 10% Grown Ups (2010) " An excruciating mess of gross-out humor, eww-inspiring vulgarity, and soppy sentimentality." — Beliefnet
Posted Jun 24, 2010
D 11% Killers (2010) " This is not a bad movie. It is three bad movies. "Killers" is trying to be a romantic action comedy and it fails all three times." — Beliefnet
Posted Jun 9, 2010
D 47% MacGruber (2010) " A one-joke "SNL" skit based on a television series that ended in 1992 has been turned into a no-joke movie that ended 99 painful minutes after it began." — Beliefnet
Posted May 21, 2010
D 19% The Back-up Plan (2010) " Just another boneheaded replay of the dumbest sitcom pregnancy and parenting cliches. They scrape the bottom of the barrel and then they dig a little deeper. " — Beliefnet
Posted Apr 22, 2010
D 14% Our Family Wedding (2010) " As wilted as last weekend's bridesmaid bouquet, "Our Family Wedding" manages to be offensive to African-Americans, Latinos, women, men, and sentient life forms of any kind." — Beliefnet
Posted Mar 11, 2010
D 42% Brooklyn's Finest (2010) " Make a list of every police movie cliche and you will find them all here." — Beliefnet
Posted Mar 4, 2010
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