Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Keep Your Right Up! (1987) | "
One of those failures by great artists that are more provocative to think about than to experience." — Village Voice Posted Apr 17, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) | "
A tricky, empty film adaptation of Michael Lesy's overrated 1973 book of the same name." — Village Voice Posted Dec 29, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Liam (2001) | "
[Frears] limits the film by filtering it through a child's consciousness." — Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| The Musketeer (2001) | "
A stale Euro-pudding." — Village Voice Posted Sep 11, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope (2001) | "
Mindless, shoddy." — Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| O (2001) | "
An unresolved mixture of gimmickry and good intentions." — Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Session 9 (2001) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Jackpot (2001) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Greenfingers (2001) | "
The film, despite the many shots of gardens in full bloom, lacks visual distinction." — Village Voice Posted Jul 24, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) | "
Relentlessly assaultive, heavy-handed, and emotionally monochromatic." — Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Crazy/Beautiful (2001) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Lakeboat (2001) | "
The script is so inherently stagy that setting the film on a real boat doesn’t pay off." — Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Baby Boy (2001) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Let it Snow (2001) | "
An inert and inept romantic comedy." — Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| The Anniversary Party (2001) | "
An exercise in what it critiques -- the self-involvement and self-dramatization of performers." — Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| Bridget Jones' Diary (2001) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Shadow Magic (2001) | "
Properly picturesque but lacks subtlety and substance in blending Chinese and Western history, ideas, and cinematic conventions." — Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2001) | "
Schneebaum is a great subject; the film doesn't quite make the most of him." — Village Voice Posted Mar 27, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Enemy at the Gates (2001) | "
Hackneyed material." — Village Voice Posted Mar 27, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| The Caveman's Valentine (2001) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2001) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Snatch (2001) | "
A particularly wearying example of a recent wave of British gangster films." — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| All the Pretty Horses (2000) | "
A choppy ride." — Village Voice Posted Dec 21, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Angela's Ashes (1999) | "
The film lacks development and dramatic coherence." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Bamboozled (2000) | "
A seriously schizophrenic work made up of two incompatible movies." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Boricua's Bond (2000) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Breakfast of Champions (1999) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) | "
Too often she substitutes petulance for the curiosity and determination the role requires." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Committed (2000) | "
As [a] romantic comedy, it falls flat." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 97%
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Drowning Mona (2000) | "
Either they had something on [Nick Gomez] or he needed the money." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Keeping the Faith (2000) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Mississippi Mermaid (1969) | "
One of the director's weakest films." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| Private Confessions (1996) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Restaurant (1998) | "
Attempting to ratchet up tension, Bross relies on forced crosscutting and stagey clichés." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| Shakespeare in Love (1998) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| The Beach (2000) | "
Plays like a combination of The Blue Lagoon and a video game." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| The Big Tease (1999) | "
A sub-sitcom stretched to an interminable 85 minutes." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| The Cider House Rules (1999) | "
As paternalistic, puffed-up, and dull as a congressional debate about abortion rights." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999) | "
More mushy than mystical." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| The Swindle (1997) | "
A failed attempt at frivolity." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Timecode (2000) | "
Everything Figgis tries to do in Time Code, Warhol did three decades ago." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| What's Cooking? (2000) | "
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Where the Money Is (2000) | "
Paul Newman idles gracefully through Where the Money Is, a caper film hardly worthy of his presence." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Wild Wild West (1999) | "
Extremely stupid and incompetent." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 95%
| You Can Count on Me (2000) | "
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 |
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