|
0/5
|
0%
|
Pinocchio (2002) |
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted May 2, 2009
|
|
D
|
17%
|
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"
The audience is left in a state of detachment, outside looking in on the Campbell family ordeal."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Mar 29, 2009
|
|
D
|
22%
|
Fired Up (2009) |
"
It's often an excruciating experience, entirely reliant on obvious stereotypes and unfunny verbalizing for its humor"
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Mar 13, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
You fidget and squirm, watching with absolute disinterest that morphs into total disgust. I can't remember the last time I felt so detached from a movie."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
Sandler's drag act becomes so excruciatingly unpleasant that it inspires involuntary shudders and post-traumatic nightmares."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Nov 12, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
58%
|
Red State (2011) |
"
A simplistic, poorly-constructed exercise in low-rent genre moviemaking. It's as if Kevin Smith made the movie just so he could promote it."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
25%
|
Apollo 18 (2011) |
"
The film is so difficult to watch, and it's such a chore to discern a sense of place and perspective, that it sits onscreen like a big, dead weight."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Sep 4, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
6%
|
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011) |
"
With terrible acting, a narrative on autopilot and chaotic blurs passing for action scenes, it's a direct-to-DVD caliber sojourn through the dregs of comic book adaptation."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Apr 30, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
15%
|
Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
It's an obscenity, hopefully a death knell for a franchise that should go gracefully into that good night. "
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted May 31, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
David Lynch might have made something subversive out of these off-putting elements. Winterbottom has no idea what to do."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 1, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
18%
|
Dance Flick (2009) |
"
The Wayanses have made a movie that elicits a few chuckles and a lot of long, awkward silences"
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted May 22, 2009
|
|
D+
|
16%
|
Crossing Over (2009) |
"
Crossing Over gets so wrapped up in its quest for topical resonance that it forgets some of the basic rules of narrative filmmaking."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Mar 12, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Tonight You're Mine (2012) |
"
If you're after an interesting cinematic experience about convincing characters facing some sort of meaningful human dilemma, it'd be best to keep on looking."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
22%
|
Darling Companion (2012) |
"
The predictably fine acting can't save the movie from the insipid writing, which is centered on the less-than-illuminating insight that some people really love their dogs. "
—
amNewYork
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
33%
|
Intruders (2012) |
"
It's impossibly labored and dull, a case study in the wrong way to make a horror movie."
—
amNewYork
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
26%
|
Project X (2012) |
"
Project X flops, principally because its characters basically have a great time partying. There's no real danger, or regret, just bacchanal."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
40%
|
The Big Year (2011) |
"
One of the blandest imaginable comedies, a PG-rated flick that's so nice and so harmless it's like inhaling pound after pound of flavorless tofu."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Oct 14, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
The Undefeated (2011) |
"
This Sarah Palin hosanna is done in by the simple fact that its director needs to go back to film school."
—
The Atlantic
Posted Jul 15, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
20%
|
Peep World (2011) |
"
There's no arc to what's on screen, because the film essentially begins right before the real story's climax, draws things out for 90 minutes and ends with a thud."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Mar 28, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
A ridiculous teenybopper-geared retooling of the fairy tale."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Mar 11, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
58%
|
Kaboom (2011) |
"
The movie's hot, bathed in an erotic glow, but horribly empty."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Jan 30, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
10%
|
Season of the Witch (2011) |
"
Not only bad in predictable ways, it's obscenely lazy."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Jan 6, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
4%
|
Hemingway's Garden of Eden (2010) |
"
A soft-core, Jazz Age skin flick masquerading as high art."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Dec 14, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
37%
|
Burlesque (2010) |
"
A brain dead construct that trades in absurd clichés and obvious stereotypes."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Nov 24, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
47%
|
The A-Team (2010) |
"
In his quest to bring the best of '80s action to the big screen, Carnahan nails the homoeroticism but forgets the fun."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Jun 12, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
41%
|
Letters to Juliet (2010) |
"
Love is a commodity in the world of Letters to Juliet, to be processed and marketed as another studio might a G.I. Joe or a Transformer."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 14, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
18%
|
The Tooth Fairy (2010) |
"
'Dreams are good,' the Rock learns, 'for everyone.' True, maybe, but never more so than for filmmakers armed with a conceit, lots of PG hijinks and a hunger for your wallet."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Jan 21, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
A halfhearted collection of scenarios and characters that would be more at home in a sitcom."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Nov 11, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
25%
|
Fame (2009) |
"
This is not, in any sense, an accurate depiction of life at an arts school. It's a giant MTV VMAs performance."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Sep 26, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
The Burning Plain (2009) |
"
The film cuts back and forth over more than a decade, weaves its way through two settings and winds up at a place heavy on symbolism and melodrama but empty on ideas."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
7%
|
Post Grad (2009) |
"
The film seems predisposed to come across as dated and nonspecific as possible."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Aug 24, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
Homecoming (2009) |
"
The movie takes a premise that might have served as the basis of a weepy romantic drama and turns it into something very different, but no less insulting."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Jul 17, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
47%
|
Death in Love (2009) |
"
The story of miserable people living miserable lives without redemption, humor or hope."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Jul 16, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
20%
|
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"
Quickly collapses into unmitigated big-budget tedium, all dressed up with nowhere to go."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Jun 24, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Whatever Works (2009) |
"
A superficial bit of cultural warfare that pits New York as the epitome of all things grand and cultured and those from the South as simple minded, impressionable bumpkins."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Jun 18, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
26%
|
The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"
When the movie is not immersed in the main character's subconscious it's almost unspeakably bad."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 2, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
43%
|
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"
Jim Jarmusch disappears so thoroughly into his elliptical style that he's made an impossibly obtuse, arid film."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Apr 29, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
The Informers (2009) |
"
[Features] a ludicrously concocted, thoroughly unconvincing narrative and the pervading sense of style supplanting substance."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Apr 19, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
12%
|
The Unborn (2009) |
"
Full of cheap thrills that mostly consist of people popping up out of nowhere and dialogue comprised largely of theological gobbledygook."
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted Mar 13, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
94%
|
Last Seduction (1994) |
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted May 2, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
Bad Boys (1995) |
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted May 2, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
94%
|
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) |
—
Critic's Notebook
Posted May 2, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
90%
|
Polisse (2012) |
"
It's filled with shocking dialogue and disturbing content, but treats it all in a strangely facile way."
—
amNewYork
Posted May 18, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
Lockout (2012) |
"
What could have been a smart Kubrickian enterprise, or at the very least a top-of-the-line sci-fi piece, instead aspires to little more than stock C-grade action schlock."
—
amNewYork
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
It's short of that essential added spectacle, the visceral, tumultuous event that really shakes up the characters and creates a journey worth taking."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Mar 16, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) |
"
The movie gleefully pushes boundaries, but it's a collection of a few worthy skit ideas and lots of non-starters in search of a unified whole."
—
amNewYork
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
This Means War (2012) |
"
It's an absurdly bright, peppy affair that's clearly been test-screened to death in order to find the "perfect" balance of action and romance. "
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
12%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
If it's not quite the unholy mess that the reviews have promised, there's no question that this is a sloppy, hubristic affair."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
33%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
If you should find yourself trapped at this diva show and are willing to give in to its heightened stupidity, you'll get your money's worth in a perverse sort of way. "
—
Film School Rejects
Posted Jan 14, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
5%
|
Beneath The Darkness (2012) |
"
This mediocre movie should have bypassed theaters and gone straight to Netflix."
—
amNewYork
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
67%
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