|
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20%
|
Honey (2003) |
"
Honey is a whole festival of bad movies, from Flashdance through Glitter."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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|
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29%
|
Mail Order Bride (2003) |
"
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
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|
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11%
|
Dr. Seuss - The Cat in the Hat (2003) |
"
Flashy but flat."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 21, 2003
|
|
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78%
|
Tupac - Resurrection (2003) |
"
Intriguing but ultimately frustrating."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 14, 2003
|
|
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39%
|
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."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 24, 2003
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|
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36%
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Radio (2003) |
"
The game plan is Inspiration or Death."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 24, 2003
|
|
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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
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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
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|
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16%
|
Civil Brand (2003) |
"
It's guilty of gross B-movie meltdown, but mitigating circumstances include honest anger and a scattering of vivid scenes."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 13, 2003
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|
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43%
|
The Event (2003) |
"
Fails equally as lament and celebration."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 9, 2003
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|
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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
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|
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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
|
|
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63%
|
Cabin Fever (2002) |
"
Like much of Cabin Fever, the performances are competent and uninteresting."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
|
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73%
|
Taking Sides (2003) |
"
Taking Sides is a symphony played on two instruments, both somewhat out of tune."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 5, 2003
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|
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23%
|
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
|
|
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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
|
|
|
9%
|
My Boss's Daughter (2003) |
"
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
|
|
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9%
|
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
|
|
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42%
|
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
|
|
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75%
|
Koi... Mil Gaya (I Found Someone) (2003) |
"
Even for Bollywood, this is broad, corny stuff."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
|
|
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8%
|
Grind (2003) |
"
Among those rare films that starts at the bottom and burrows downward."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
|
|
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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
|
|
|
44%
|
Lucia, Lucia (La Hija del caníbal) (2003) |
"
A comedy-mystery that's neither funny nor mysterious."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 25, 2003
|
|
|
28%
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
38%
|
Legally Blonde 2 - Red, White & Blonde (2003) |
"
A self-serious streak turns the sequel a bit ... brunette."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 2, 2003
|
|
|
44%
|
Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (2003) |
"
Twice the splash and half the goofy charm of the first Charlie's Angels."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jun 27, 2003
|
|
|
11%
|
Alex & Emma (2003) |
"
The book-within -the-film is a bad light comedy inside another bad light comedy."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jun 20, 2003
|
|
|
10%
|
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) |
"
A dull and dullerer movie likely to make audiences feel numb and numberer."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jun 13, 2003
|
|
|
27%
|
Garmento (2002) |
"
Despite MacNichol's sneaky verve and Thornton's sly subtlety the lead characters swiftly fade and shrink."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jun 13, 2003
|
|
|
40%
|
Três Marias, As, (The Three Marias) (2002) |
"
At times, the filmmaker seems unsure of his mission. He should have had Filomena for his producer."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jun 3, 2003
|
|
|
16%
|
Pokemon Heroes (2003) |
"
Directors Kunihiko Yuyama and Jim Malone pull off a few striking visual effects. But it's still a Pokemon movie."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 16, 2003
|
|
|
76%
|
L'Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)(Euro Pudding)(The Spanish Apartment) (2003) |
"
Klapisch and smug narrator-hero Xavier (Romain Duris) seem certain that we requested a picture of international student life at its most superficial and eventless."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 16, 2003
|
|
|
79%
|
Washington Heights (2002) |
"
Motivations slide right off the page ... Storylines are snipped short and major characters become bystanders."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 9, 2003
|
|
|
38%
|
House of Fools (2003) |
"
The more sharply realized a dramatic moment, the more painfully fake."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 1, 2003
|
|
|
63%
|
The Dancer Upstairs (2002) |
"
Sheer wooliness undermines the sober political stance of John Malkovich's overexcited directorial debut."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 1, 2003
|
|
|
28%
|
It Runs in the Family (2003) |
"
Despite rich acting and expert direction, the two grids don't snap neatly together."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 25, 2003
|
|
|
34%
|
The Real Cancun (2003) |
"
This is a youth comedy without humor, a porn Web site without porn and reality without a trace of the real."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 25, 2003
|
|
|
30%
|
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) |
"
At its worst, Malibu's Most Wanted resembles a 10th-generation dupe of some bottom-dwelling teen comedy daubed with fake family uplift."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 18, 2003
|
|
|
77%
|
Holes (2003) |
"
[Sachar's] sprawling, shaggy-dog story snaps together as neatly on film as in print, but its artificial design is glaringly exposed."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 18, 2003
|
|
|
10%
|
Juwanna Mann (2002) |
"
Harmless."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jun 23, 2002
|
|
|
75%
|
Quills (2000) |
"
So bold, ambitious and forceful that it practically has a right to be a good movie. It's not, but it may be the year's most memorable bad one."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Dec 15, 2000
|
|
|
13%
|
Whipped (1999) |
"
Cohen's direction is as crude and cramped as his thinking. Imagine a cheesy community theater devoted to dramatizing bathroom graffiti."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
14%
|
Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew (1999) |
"
Pokemon has opened up another front in an unrelenting campaign to bankrupt parents around the world."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
54%
|
Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
"
Unlikely to inspire the kind of emotional recognition prompted by Kaysen's memoir."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
25%
|
Digimon - The Movie (2000) |
"
The movie doesn't even try for coherence. Each of its three distinct episodes is barely comprehensible in itself."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
28%
|
Gossip (1999) |
"
Gossip suits its title. It's exaggerated, untrustworthy and annoyingly hard to ignore."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1.5/4
|
40%
|
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) |
"
A daydream from a discount store."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 2, 2003
|
|
2.5/4
|
61%
|
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
|
|
2.5/4
|
18%
|
The Medallion (2003) |
"
A B-movie worthy of the term."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 22, 2003
|
67%
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