ROTTEN TOMATOES: Amy Taubin

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	"One of those failures by great artists that are more provocative to think about than to experience." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 17, 2007	Keep Your Right Up! (1987)	40%
	"A tricky, empty film adaptation of Michael Lesy's overrated 1973 book of the same name." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 29, 2001	Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)	82%
	"[Frears] limits the film by filtering it through a child's consciousness." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2001	Liam (2001)	70%
	"A stale Euro-pudding." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 11, 2001	The Musketeer (2001)	10%
	"Mindless, shoddy." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2001	Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope (2001)	40%
	"An unresolved mixture of gimmickry and good intentions." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2001	O (2001)	63%
	"*The best that can be said of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion* ... is that it's not as awful as Celebrity.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Aug 21, 2001	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)	45%
	"*The script for Session 9* is so underwritten that even such lively character actors as David Caruso, Peter Mullan, and Brendan Sexton III are left stranded.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Aug 7, 2001	Session 9 (2001)	60%
	"Since Sunny is physically unattractive, inept in bed, and a misogynist who sends his wife lottery tickets in lieu of child support, his popularity is a mystery to me." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 24, 2001	Jackpot (2001)	30%
	"The film, despite the many shots of gardens in full bloom, lacks visual distinction." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 24, 2001	Greenfingers (2001)	46%
	"Relentlessly assaultive, heavy-handed, and emotionally monochromatic." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2001	Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)	93%
	"As overproduced as a Super Bowl soft-drink commercial, so much so that even its potentially insightful moments seem like movie fakery." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 3, 2001	Crazy/Beautiful (2001)	63%
	"The script is so inherently stagy that setting the film on a real boat doesn�t pay off." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2001	Lakeboat (2001)	83%
	"Without a convincing Jody, Singleton's thesis about a son's absolute need for a father figure is never played out." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 26, 2001	Baby Boy (2001)	69%
	"An inert and inept romantic comedy." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2001	Let it Snow (2001)	53%
	"An exercise in what it critiques -- the self-involvement and self-dramatization of performers." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2001	The Anniversary Party (2001)	61%
	"The three-act structure is too predictable, and at 90 minutes, feels both draggy and hacked to the bone." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 10, 2001	Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)	80%
	"Properly picturesque but lacks subtlety and substance in blending Chinese and Western history, ideas, and cinematic conventions." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2001	Shadow Magic (2001)	71%
	"Schneebaum is a great subject; the film doesn't quite make the most of him." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 27, 2001	Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2001)	78%
	"Hackneyed material." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 27, 2001	Enemy at the Gates (2001)	59%
	"It seems like the kind of art film that might have been dreamed up by a feverish high schooler." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 1, 2001	The Caveman's Valentine (2001)	44%
	"Scottsboro is fine TV, but it suggests that too much material was left behind in the AVID storage file." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 8, 2001	Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2001)	67%
	"A particularly wearying example of a recent wave of British gangster films." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2001	Snatch (2001)	71%
	"A choppy ride." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 21, 2000	All the Pretty Horses (2000)	32%
	"The film lacks development and dramatic coherence." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Angela's Ashes (1999)	52%
	"A seriously schizophrenic work made up of two incompatible movies." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Bamboozled (2000)	50%
	"The film suggests that moon 'n' maul is the standard sexual approach of Latino men to any and every woman." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Boricua's Bond (2000)	11%
	"Another middle-aged male-crisis opus, it begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Breakfast of Champions (1999)	25%
	"Too often she substitutes petulance for the curiosity and determination the role requires." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)	33%
	"As [a] romantic comedy, it falls flat." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Committed (2000)	46%
	"Despite scrupulous attention to expository detail, Lee fails to dramatize the conflict within Jen, or any of the characters." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999)	97%
	"Either they had something on [Nick Gomez] or he needed the money." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Drowning Mona (2000)	28%
	"Keeping the Faith's hipness is limited to a couple of one-liners. Its exploration of faith and love is skin deep." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Keeping the Faith (2000)	68%
	"One of the director's weakest films." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Mississippi Mermaid (1969)	78%
	"I doubt that Bergman's script would have made much of a film even if he had directed it himself, but it might have been less confused." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Private Confessions (1996)	80%
	"Attempting to ratchet up tension, Bross relies on forced crosscutting and stagey clich�s." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Restaurant (1998)	75%
	"At first, the breakneck pace is entertaining (all these people knocking themselves out for our pleasure), but it soon becomes evident just how inane a film this is." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Shakespeare in Love (1998)	93%
	"*Plays like a combination of The Blue Lagoon* and a video game.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Beach (2000)	19%
	"A sub-sitcom stretched to an interminable 85 minutes." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Big Tease (1999)	56%
	"As paternalistic, puffed-up, and dull as a congressional debate about abortion rights." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Cider House Rules (1999)	72%
	"More mushy than mystical." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999)	42%
	"A failed attempt at frivolity." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Swindle (1997)	68%
	"It's a sign of how watered-down the movie is that only the supporting actors have any bite." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)	82%
	"*Everything Figgis tries to do in Time Code, Warhol did three decades ago." -- Village Voice* Posted Jan 1, 2000	Timecode (2000)	66%
	"Trades in sitcom stereotypes and crosscuts predictably from family to family as if under the misapprehension that equal time is a dramatic principle." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	What's Cooking? (2000)	52%
	"*Paul Newman idles gracefully through Where the Money Is, a caper film hardly worthy of his presence." -- Village Voice* Posted Jan 1, 2000	Where the Money Is (2000)	44%
	"Extremely stupid and incompetent." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	Wild Wild West (1999)	21%
	"So timid and clumsy in its deployment of picture, sound, and editing that you have to wonder if executive producer Martin Scorsese bothered to give notes." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000	You Can Count on Me (2000)	95%

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