ROTTEN TOMATOES: Nell Minow

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NELL MINOW

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% 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, Kansas City Star, Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 1670
Total QuickRatings: 943

Location: Just outside of Washington DC

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Rotten F	Rotten 24%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" This is not just a bad film; it is a despicable one." — Beliefnet Posted Oct 15, 2009
Rotten F	Rotten 22%	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
Rotten F	Rotten 4%	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
Rotten F	Rotten 14%	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
Rotten F	Fresh 61%	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
Rotten F	Rotten 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
Rotten F	Rotten 30%	Waiting... (2005)	" Endlessly, tediously, mind-meltingly worthless. " — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Oct 6, 2005
Rotten F	Rotten 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
Rotten F	Rotten 4%	The Whole Ten Yards (2004)	" Could it BE any more atrocious?" — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Apr 8, 2004
Rotten F	Rotten 46%	Eurotrip (2004)	" 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
Rotten F	Rotten 8%	My Boss's Daughter (2002)	" Everyone associated with this movie should appear under a pseudonym, and that includes Carmen Electra." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Aug 22, 2003
Rotten F	Rotten 48%	Jackass: The Movie (2002)	Click here to read article — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Mar 29, 2003
Rotten D-	Rotten 11%	Catch That Kid (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
Rotten D-	Rotten 8%	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
Rotten D	Rotten 6%	Old Dogs (2009)	" endlessly, excruciatingly un-funny non-comedy" — Beliefnet Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" We just keep wishing they would get out of the way and let us enjoy the pretty scenery." — Beliefnet Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 6%	All About Steve (2009)	" Somewhere, like the pea in the bed of the princess, is an idea that could be interesting. Unfortunately, it's smothered in 20 mattresses of awful and 20 more of dumb." — Beliefnet Posted Sep 3, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 14%	The Ugly Truth (2009)	" There is little chemistry between co-stars Katherine Heigel and Gerard Butler in this charmless war of the sexes story, but there is even less between its two genres." — Beliefnet Posted Jul 23, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 15%	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)	" Takes the tiredest and most predictable elements,wrings out any authentic or appealing detail, and then drags out every single set-piece to the agonizing breaking point." — Beliefnet Posted Jul 9, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" I think the screenplay is punchdrunk." — Beliefnet Posted Apr 24, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 33%	Knowing (2009)	" It is predictable hogwash, and it gets even hogwashier until it arrives at an ending that manages to be inevitable, uninspired, and preposterous." — Beliefnet Posted Mar 19, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 13%	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" I have seen taxidermy livelier than this moribund mess which further sullies the reputation of everyone associated with this unwelcome sequel." — Beliefnet Posted Feb 5, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 55%	Step Brothers (2008)	" Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay founded the acclaimed "Funny or Die" website. On this movie, I vote "die."" — Beliefnet Posted Jul 26, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 10%	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)	" The movie itself is an example of design by faith and emotion rather than intelligence, defined as rationality grounded in proof." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 18, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 13%	College Road Trip (2008)	" [The] plot would make even the lightweight storylines of "That's So Raven" seem literary. It would make the lightweight storylines of a Bazooka Joe comic strip seem literary." — Beliefnet Posted Mar 6, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 5%	The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)	" This pea-brained vanity production does not have the energy to remember from one scene to the next what it is about or why it is on screen. It is attention-deficit film-making." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 7, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 15%	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	" starts out badly, gets much worse, and then after it is just dull for a while, it veers off into a whole new category of awful." — Beliefnet Posted Jan 31, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 5%	Good Luck Chuck (2007)	" It is the audience who will feel cursed." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Sep 21, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 13%	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	" Instead of ending, it all just gives up with a sort of "never mind" ending that even Mr. Woodcock would have to call a foul on. Indeed, that is the best possible assessment of the movie as a whole." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Sep 13, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 1%	Daddy Day Camp (2007)	" A lot of wet stuff flies toward the screen and there are many, many intended-to-be-hilarious gags (in both senses of the word) about things that smell bad." — Beliefnet Posted Aug 8, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 18%	The Ex (2007)	" A clunky, lead-footed disaster, the stunning incompetence of its script and direction only exceeded by the shocking array of talented and successful performers who struggle in it as though they are going down for the third time. In quicksand." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted May 10, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 11%	Perfect Stranger (2007)	" In the Ashley Judd role we have Halle Berry, whose post-Oscar choices have included the notorious duds Catwoman and Gothika. Whoever told you to make this movie should be...sentenced to have to watch it." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Apr 13, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 9%	The Reaping (2007)	" What once held some promise of being a clever film explodes into a mess of trite plot devices and sad attempts to explain the rapidly degenerating vision of the filmmakers, who seem hell-bent (pardon the pun) on imparting some sort of religious lesson." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Apr 5, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 8%	Premonition (2007)	" One reality Bullock unfortunately can't change is the ineluctable trudge toward the appallingly boneheaded ending." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Mar 15, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 14%	Wild Hogs (2007)	" A last-minute appearance by a surprise guest star may save the day for the four friends, but it comes nowhere near saving the movie." — Beliefnet Posted Mar 1, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 9%	Norbit (2007)	" Eddie Murphy has taken his love for playing multiple roles, Jerry Lewis, crude humor, himself, and -- to be charitable -- his deeply conflicted feelings about women, and made a movie that is disgusting, unfunny, dull, and an appalling waste of talent." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Feb 8, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 5%	Because I Said So (2007)	" Are there not... Two points in the adventure of the diver: This movie manages to be offensive and yet dull and predictable, as phony as a Kate Spade sidewalk knock-off bag and as unoriginal as the ready-for VH1 soundtrack." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Feb 1, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 15%	Turistas (2006)	" more sick than scary, more revolting than revealing, more twisted than tantalizing." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Nov 30, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 6%	Deck the Halls (2006)	" Another year, another cheesy, hypocritical movie about how the true meaning of Christmas gets lost in the madness of Christmas. Except that this movie is, in itself, Exhibit A in the Christmas Madness category." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Nov 21, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 15%	The Wicker Man (2006)	" The gimmicky horror-flick conventions ultimately drag the film to a screeching halt." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Sep 1, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 4%	Material Girls (2006)	" There's a happily ever after ending complete with cute new boyfriends. But on the way there, the movie has a surprising number of inapprpriate and ugly choices considering the target audience and the PG rating. " — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Aug 19, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 33%	The Break-Up (2006)	" The whole movie is a game of one-upsmanship, as each one tries to make the other more miserable. It gets increasingly ugly and painful. Then it ends." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Jun 3, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 23%	RV (2006)	" Jokes that don't work the first time are dragged out interminably and then repeated. And the syrupy little lessons about the importance of family values are forced and synthetic." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Apr 28, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 12%	The Benchwarmers (2006)	" These guys should have stayed on the bench." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Apr 7, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 23%	Pink Panther (2006)	" This is less like Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards and more like "Ernest Goes to Paris." " — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Feb 9, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 16%	Underworld: Evolution (2006)	" An incoherent mess covered in sticky, goopy blood without one interesting action scene or fresh stunt. " — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Jan 20, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 13%	Boogeyman (2005)	Click here to read article — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Mar 14, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 20%	Rumor Has It... (2005)	" One of the very worst ideas for a movie since they decided to try to make a horror movie about rabbits." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Dec 23, 2005
Rotten D	Rotten 45%	The Ice Harvest (2005)	" This is a rancid lump of coal in the toe of the Christmas stocking of the holiday movie season." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Nov 22, 2005
Rotten D	Rotten 43%	Just Friends (2005)	" Much humiliation and mayhem, all of it either teeth-grindingly tedious, heart-sinkingly crude, or just plain boring, often all three at once." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Nov 22, 2005

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