Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Hukkle (2002) | "
It's bracingly funny to see the glorious human species redefined as just another set of moving parts in a huge machine lacking any evident purpose." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Dec 5, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| El Bonaerense (2003) | "
Credit El Bonaerense with journalistic single-mindedness and, given recent Argentine history, sheer guts." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Dec 5, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Honey (2003) | "
Honey is a whole festival of bad movies, from Flashdance through Glitter." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Dec 5, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Triplets of Belleville (2003) | "
It's all très charming." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 28, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Mail Order Bride (2004) | "
This harmless nickels-and-kopecks comedy goes by the theory that if one Mafia is funny, two must be hilarious." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Nov 26, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| The Barbarian Invasions (2003) | "
If secular humanism were an actual religion, The Barbarian Invasions would be recognized as a religious masterpiece." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 21, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003) | "
Flashy but flat." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 21, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Tupac: Resurrection (2003) | "
Intriguing but ultimately frustrating." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 14, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) | "
It's an adventure movie by an artist." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 14, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003) | "
Locates the human dimension the architect never grasped." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Nov 13, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| The Singing Detective (2003) | "
Virtuoso work by Robert Downey Jr. and an unrecognizable Mel Gibson (who also produced) can't keep The Singing Detective from degenerating into sheer noise." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 24, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Radio (2003) | "
The game plan is Inspiration or Death." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 24, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Runaway Jury (2003) | "
Grossly inauthentic but authentically engrossing entertainment." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 17, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) | "
Does convey the sense of being caught in a nightmare. A stupid person's nightmare." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 17, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| House of the Dead (2003) | "
Takes out a moviegoer's limbic brain and cerebral cortex. All that's left functioning is the reptilian brain, droning: Kill The Things. Kill The Things..." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 17, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| The Flower of Evil (2003) | "
The 73-year-old Chabrol has dashed off a near-abstract but infinitely intriguing formulation on guilt, recurrence and the perpetual present." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 13, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Civil Brand (2003) | "
It's guilty of gross B-movie meltdown, but mitigating circumstances include honest anger and a scattering of vivid scenes." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 13, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| The Event (2003) | "
Fails equally as lament and celebration." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 9, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Out of Time (2003) | "
Out of Time is probably Hollywood's most seamless suspense trap since The Fugitive." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Oct 3, 2003 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) | "
Alternately helped, hindered and (best) left alone by first-time director Wells, Lane fills the screen with her perceptive presence and lifts the undramatic story as high as gravity allows." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 26, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Millennium Actress (2003) | "
This is a screen trip that actually takes you someplace -- out of the world, around the world and straight to the heart of the world." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 20, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| The Fighting Temptations (2003) | "
When Gooding and Knowles appear together, they drain off energy like batteries hooked in reverse." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 19, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 95%
| Lost in Translation (2003) | "
The old adage says that poetry is what's lost in translation, but the poetry is all that survives in Sofia Coppola's wispy art film." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 12, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Dummy (2003) | "
Pritikin's shrewd comedy-drama catches a fine flock of family emotions on the wing, and not the over-exposed ones." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 12, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Cabin Fever (2003) | "
Like much of Cabin Fever, the performances are competent and uninteresting." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 12, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) | "
Rodriguez's movie aspires to trashy grandeur, and achieves it." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 12, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Taking Sides (2003) | "
Taking Sides is a symphony played on two instruments, both somewhat out of tune." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 5, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Dude, Where's the Party? (2003) | "
An amiable city mouse/country mouse story." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Sep 5, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) | "
David Spade has two-thirds of a comic idea, and the jokes occasionally hit one of their hundred moving targets." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 5, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 51%
| Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) | "
Should Blighty stake its screen future on action-adventure? Family fun? Sex satire? Modernized music hall? Post-modern movie-movie? Meadows' answer is 'All of the above.'" — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Sep 3, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) | "
The new JC is more consistent and efficient than the first, with classier monster effects, but less compellingly weird." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 29, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| My Boss's Daughter (2002) | "
Even after sitting through it you can't swear you've seen it. It vanishes while you watch, like disappearing ink." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 25, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Marci X (2003) | "
This is the kind of movie that would leave a hopeful crowd feeling let down, but might sparkle like a tiara in a trash can for someone who discovers it by chance." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 25, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Don't Tempt Me (2003) | "
Consistently clever and inventive on a level a little below the inspired." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 22, 2003 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 18%
| The Medallion (2003) | "
A B-movie worthy of the term." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 22, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) | "
The half an idea in Erica Beeney's script is reduced by another half through the disjointed directing of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 22, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Step Into Liquid (2003) | "
With neo-rock replacing beach boyisms and new optical technology permitting crisp Steadicam close-ups of ballet-like aquabatics, Step into Liquid is state-of-the-art non-art." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 21, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Koi... Mil Gaya () | "
Even for Bollywood, this is broad, corny stuff." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 21, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| Uptown Girls (2003) | "
Yakin shuns caricature. His affection for all his feckless characters, even Fanning's narcissistic mom (Heather Locklear), is evident." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 21, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| Freddy vs. Jason (2003) | "
Will satisfy the hordes who've awaited this heavyweight matchup for a decade." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 21, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Grind (2003) | "
Among those rare films that starts at the bottom and burrows downward." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 21, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| S.W.A.T. (2003) | "
Schlocky, slam-bang fun." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 8, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Seaside (2003) | "
Touching, amusing, sometimes compelling, Seaside is ultimately little more revealing than a weekend visit. It's a sheaf of captivating postcards." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 6, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| American Wedding (2003) | "
Even suckers for the first two American Pie courses will find this third helping indigestible." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Aug 1, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Mondays in the Sun (2003) | "
Shot in lustrous, muted color with a sure sensitivity to emotional states and mood swings, it's an elegy on wasted time and waning energies." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 31, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| Hotel (2003) | "
It's a love-it-or- hate-it proposition." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 31, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Lucia, Lucia (2003) | "
A comedy-mystery that's neither funny nor mysterious." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 25, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Seabiscuit (2003) | "
Seabiscuit is resoundingly well made and emotionally satisfying." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 25, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| How to Deal (2003) | "
Promising to serve up life's complexity, Clare Kilner's movie doles it out in bite-sized, predigested portions." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 18, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Bad Boys II (2003) | "
The perverse feat of Bad Boys II is that it's formulaic enough to serve as a format-compatible sequel to half the cop buddy capers ever made." — Newark Star-Ledger Posted Jul 18, 2003 |
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