|
1/5
|
67%
|
Love Crime (2011) |
"
It disintegrates into a trashy mess of conflicting tones and silly setups that quickly sink its stock value."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
24%
|
What's Your Number? (2011) |
"
When it comes to numbers, this is the movie's mathematical formula: 20 hookups multiplied by a hoary script equals countless loathsome scenes that even Faris can't save. "
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 24, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
24%
|
Serious Moonlight (2009) |
"
Can anything be more torturous than getting tied to a chair by your vengeful ex-wife? Just try watching this unbearable mess of a film."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Dec 3, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Homecoming (2009) |
"
Purées every hackneyed psycho fan/girlfriend/BFF cliché, swallows them with Pepto-Bismol and regurgitates it all on screen"
—
Metromix.com
Posted Jul 16, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
68%
|
Rubber (2011) |
"
A ludicrous joyride for about 10 minutes before quickly becoming a road to nowhere."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
23%
|
The Smurfs (2011) |
"
Size isn't the only thing that comes up short in this bland, uninspired redo that's short on laughs and long on outsize kiddie-movie clichés more pandering than entertaining. "
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
53%
|
I'm Still Here (2010) |
"
Not too different from the vomitous glut of "real" housewives, moronic celebutantes or rehabbed D-listers we're already subjected to; this one just happens to have an Oscar nomination attached."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Sep 9, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
67%
|
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010) |
"
An overeager, plodding mash of plot twists that push the limits of absurdity."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Jun 24, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
23%
|
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) |
"
Tries so hard to canonize its saints as legit action heroes that all those put-on sneers become more camp that cult"
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 29, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
One Day (2011) |
"
Hathaway and Sturgess inconceivably cancel out each others' magnetism in unconvincing scenes of love and longing that feel more tacked-on than lived-in."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) |
"
Like a messy post-toddler kitchen floor covered in spilled pancake syrup, Does It is drenched in a sticky-sweet residue that trips up the very deep and real dilemmas that the story seeks to spotlight."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
Like its firebrand director, Melancholia is all pomp and operatics, but it's ultimately a hollow, indulgent exercise in wringing perceived meaning and substance out of its wild end-of-the-world premise. "
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 24, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Eagle (2011) |
"
It's a Channing Tatum movie. Asking for anything more than gruff posturing is like asking Sylvester Stallone to pull a Brando."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Feb 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
I Love You Phillip Morris (2010) |
"
Attempts a whippersnapper caper tale dolled up as a gonzo love story, but devolves into a yawn of a comedy littered with Carrey's unshakable antics."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Dec 1, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
65%
|
Tamara Drewe (2010) |
"
All politesse without punch -- you quickly forget what transpired a few scenes before."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 6, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
4%
|
Twelve (2010) |
"
At best, it's a trashy pastiche of storylines about people you probably didn't care about to begin with."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Aug 4, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
Boogie Woogie (2010) |
"
Overall effect is a canvas splattered with too many irritating, forgettable characters."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Dare (2009) |
"
In trying to jam each character's storyline into a tight whole, it doesn't allow any of them to breathe and develop organically"
—
Metromix.com
Posted Dec 3, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
Bronson (2009) |
"
Lots of screaming, lots of pummeling, lots of bullying and lots of posturing."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 8, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
Spinning Into Butter (2009) |
"
The movie hinges on whether you buy Parker as a dean. You don't."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Apr 2, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
73%
|
Tokyo! (2008) |
"
The result isn't 'ah!' It's a resounding 'eh?'"
—
Metromix.com
Posted Mar 9, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
72%
|
Rio (2011) |
"
Just like a pretty pet bird: perky and chirpy, before swiftly fading into the background."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
95%
|
13 Assassins (2011) |
"
Miike devotes the film's final 40 minutes to all manner of slice/dice/stab/jab melees that soon border on ridiculous parody and undermine the impact."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
15%
|
Something Borrowed (2011) |
"
A sugary, fluffy meringue of a movie that's digestible in two bites, with a delicious-looking cast to make you forget there's not much to bite into."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
54%
|
Hesher (2011) |
"
It's like a Gregg Araki-circa-1995 movie, hijacked by Sofia Coppola in full-on fractured-family mode: sorta violent, but not quite right; sorta tender, but slightly off."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
59%
|
Yves Saint Laurent - L'amour fou (2011) |
"
More of a somber requiem than a celebratory tribute, owing mainly to languid pacing and spartan visuals that feel sharply incongruous with the dynamic vigor of the designer's clothing."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
87%
|
Submarine (2011) |
"
It's caught up in preciously self-aware tics meant to read as glibly endearing, but which instead turn into smug tirades that quickly become white noise."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
17%
|
The Art of Getting By (2011) |
"
Sweet, well-meaning and blandly unremarkable paean to high-school hipsterdom that's as disposable as last year's textbooks."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
20%
|
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2011) |
"
Wang needlessly pads the movie with heart-tugging gimmicks and canned melodrama that undercut its raw impact."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Another Earth (2011) |
"
The execution doesn't live up to the ambition. Get past the sci-fi novelty and it's yet another morose indie where characters wallow in and play up their own moroseness."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
73%
|
The Whistleblower (2011) |
"
Weisz's steadfast conviction saves the film from going completely overboard."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
33%
|
Texas Killing Fields (2011) |
"
Novice director Ami Canaan Mann dutifully sticks to the serial-killer guidebook like a student too studious to draw outside the lines."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 24, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
20%
|
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2011) |
"
Wang ... needlessly pads the movie with heart-tugging gimmicks and canned melodrama that undercuts its raw impact."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 15, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
77%
|
When We Leave (2011) |
"
The movie stays aloft because of Kekilli, an affecting actress whose emotional fluidity makes Umay's plight very palpable."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Mar 18, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
86%
|
Orgasm, Inc. (2011) |
"
Veers toward cutesy-corny graphics and oh-so-tired visual metaphors."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Feb 10, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Biutiful (2010) |
"
The gloomy movie is an incoherent affair that doesn't quite know what it wants to be."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Dec 23, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
32%
|
How Do You Know (2010) |
"
A cute but tepid mush of been-there-done-that obviousness, layered with peppy yarns that inspire more ughs that awwws."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Dec 15, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
The Company Men (2011) |
"
Impressive starpower notwithstanding, The Company Men feels like a two-hour pilot for an NBC series about corporate men of a certain age facing the second act of their careers."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Dec 9, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
40%
|
Gerrymandering (2010) |
"
Gets too swept up in its political hard-sell that it eventually resembles a glorified infomercial moonlighting as a documentary."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 14, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
86%
|
Get Low (2010) |
"
Too bad they're all working with a narrative that's ultimately too slight to deliver any real sense of satisfaction."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Jul 29, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
50%
|
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) |
"
The matricide hook is intriguing, and the film will no doubt draw curious viewers salivating over the Lynch/Herzog match-up. The payoff isn't as earth-shattering as you'd think."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Dec 10, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
80%
|
That Evening Sun (2009) |
"
Trudges along at a leisurely pace -- not really a good thing when you feel like you've grown as old as [the main character] while watching it."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Dec 3, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
27%
|
The Canyon (2009) |
"
Ends up feeling like a direct-to-video release that -- like our newlyweds -- seems to have gotten lost on the way to its actual destination."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
29%
|
Free Style (2009) |
"
Treads the same course that a gazillion other underdog sports film have before."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 8, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
17%
|
Love Happens (2009) |
"
It happens: Another predictable, syrupy Hollywood romantic drama"
—
Metromix.com
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
85%
|
Soul Power (2009) |
"
Despite the star power of artists like James Brown, who wails his way through some truly electrifying numbers, Soul Power feels strangely inert."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Jul 9, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
48%
|
La Fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco) (2009) |
"
You have an appealing ménage a trois that brings sunny energy to a movie that ultimately stumbles."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Jul 1, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Midnight in Paris (2011) |
"
Contains enough verbal and visual whimsy to provide a welcome glimmer of the Allen of Yore."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011) |
"
This is Disneyland for media junkies, offering a rarefied entrée into the Times' hallowed halls and allowing for fascinating if calculated glimpses into top-level meetings."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
Monte Carlo (2011) |
"
The froth is there, but it arrives more like a smartly portioned serving of Diet Coke rather than a bloated root beer float that threatens to whip you into a synthetic sugar high."
—
Metromix.com
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
67%
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98%
