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Duane Dudek

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Total Reviews:: 1260

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" While the teasing cliffhanger of an ending is intended to make fans hungry for more, the truth is the franchise is already running on fumes. Fans may care, but casual viewers won't." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 19, 2009
1/4	48%	Lucky Break (2002)	" If The Full Monty was a freshman fluke, Lucky Break is [Cattaneo] sophomore slump." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 17, 2002
	80%	The Royal Tenenbaums (2002)	" Its stubborn unconventionality is more selfishly childish than generously childlike." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 4, 2002
	56%	The Shipping News (2001)	" The tale of family being rebuilt is sporadically affecting but never cumulatively uplifting because of the episodic nature of the storytelling." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 25, 2001
	40%	Vanilla Sky (2001)	" A jumble of spiritual and musical references that is either self-indulgent or daring, but a little creepy in both cases." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 14, 2001
	14%	Black Knight (2001)	" Connecticut Yankee has a funnier blank flyleaf than Black Knight has screenplay." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 20, 2001
	38%	Novocaine (2001)	" Is never broad enough to be funny nor stylish enough to satisfy its film noir aspirations." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 16, 2001
	57%	From Hell (2001)	" Half-baked and frozen over." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 19, 2001
	52%	The Last Castle (2001)	" A mundane and predictable amalgam of prison movie cliches and archetypes." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 19, 2001
	49%	Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)	" Something is being said about the lifelong relationship between parents and children, but it is too faint to be understood very well." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 19, 2001
	6%	Corky Romano (2001)	" Some adult supervision might have helped." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 12, 2001
	65%	Bandits (2001)	" It is so busy rollicking that it never gets rolling." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 11, 2001
	24%	Don't Say a Word (2001)	" It's not without merit as a diversion, but it never takes you anywhere beyond the edge of your seat." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 27, 2001
	29%	Jackpot (2001)	" These appealing characters wear out their welcome at about the same time it becomes apparent they're going nowhere slowly and that the teasing promises made by the story's fractured sensibility will be modestly realized at best." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 21, 2001
	46%	Greenfingers (2001)	" Greenfingers is choked with the cliches that represent the Britcom at its most cloying and under-fertilized in the areas that elevate the best of them." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Aug 31, 2001
	45%	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)	" It resembles busy work or the tic of someone who fills the lull in any conversation with meaningless if entertaining chatter." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Aug 24, 2001
	53%	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)	" Smith is a smart guy with more ideas than directorial skills, which accounts for the scattershot quality of his work." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Aug 24, 2001
	21%	Ghosts of Mars (2001)	" In space, no one can hear you groan, since sound does not carry in a vacuum. Theaters showing Ghosts of Mars will not have this advantage, so the film's inanities will be audible and visible." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Aug 23, 2001
	84%	The Others (2001)	" Everything is designed to service a finale more complex than what preceded without it." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Aug 9, 2001
	54%	Everybody's Famous! (2001)	" Deruddere muddles the film by not allowing much variation in mood." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Aug 2, 2001
	12%	Original Sin (2001)	" Whodunit is the last thing on this period thriller's mossy little mind. But motive is everything, and that's where it fails." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Aug 2, 2001
	52%	Rush Hour 2 (2001)	" A film without any surprises or new ideas." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Aug 2, 2001
	31%	America's Sweethearts (2001)	" Often funny but not that engaging." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jul 19, 2001
	43%	Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (2001)	" While the action is convincing, the story is garbled and its which-way-is-up climax is too scrambled." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jul 10, 2001
	11%	Bride of the Wind (2001)	" It seems merely a cardboard copy of a fertile and febrile time." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jul 5, 2001
	19%	Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001)	" A disappointingly joyless romp with none of the self deprecating we-know-this -is-stupid-but-it's -kind-of-fun drollness that can make such films bearable." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jun 14, 2001
	49%	Atlantis - The Lost Empire (2001)	" Predictable, overwrought and without the emotional intimacy of the studio's more sentimental fare." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jun 14, 2001
	63%	Time and Tide (Shun liu Ni liu) (2001)	" It reinvents action film cliches ... but mostly through overkill." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jun 14, 2001
	65%	Bread and Roses (2001)	" Has a sort of straw-man quality." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jun 7, 2001
	26%	Swordfish (2001)	" A film that is too clever by half and is without the common sense God gave a game fish." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jun 7, 2001
	34%	The Center of the World (2001)	" It fails to bring fresh perspective to a variation on the oldest story in the world." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 31, 2001
	53%	The Golden Bowl (2000)	" Feels like a museum-quality reproduction of a time, place and style that is an acquired taste at best." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 25, 2001
	25%	Pearl Harbor (2001)	" While the scale is mostly grand, the scope often feels cramped." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 24, 2001
	58%	A Knight's Tale (2001)	" For the most part, the movie is without a sense of scope or curiosity about daily life in the larger society, and is otherwise devoid of things that go bump in the knight." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 11, 2001
	47%	The Mummy Returns (2001)	" It is hard to feign real enthusiasm for something virtually entertaining." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 3, 2001
	13%	Town & Country (2000)	" Makes Ishtar seem like the good old days." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 26, 2001
	11%	Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)	" You don't expect much from a film called Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles and, not surprisingly, you don't get much. But even lowered expectations don't quite prepare you for this thin third entry in the franchise." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 19, 2001
	14%	Company Man (2001)	" The story is thin, and the film looks as if it was thrown together on a whim." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 12, 2001
	33%	Just Visiting (2001)	" Makes one wish government inspectors were as diligent in keeping it out of the country as they are in monitoring diseased livestock." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 5, 2001
	63%	The Brothers (2001)	" Films such as The Best Man and The Wood have gone over this terrain before, with considerably more style and humor." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 23, 2001
	56%	The Gift (2000)	" Unlike What Lies Beneath, whose slick style revived the derivative tale, The Gift is a leaden narrative unrelieved by the heavy application of theatrics or atmospherics." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 19, 2001
	74%	Finding Forrester (2000)	" Its intentions are honorable, but its portrait of youth, urban, academic and literary culture is Mesozoic." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 24, 2000
	75%	Quills (2000)	" As film, it feels as cramped as de Sade's cell. As metaphor, it is ham-fisted." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 24, 2000
	42%	Miss Congeniality (2000)	" Once again, Bullock is willing but the material is weak." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 21, 2000
	63%	Chocolat (2000)	" Unfortunately, Chocolat is missing the bitter spices that give chocolate its soul. It melts in your mouth, but not in your mind." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 21, 2000
	53%	The Family Man (2000)	" It is the peculiar generic cinematic gag gift of the season." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 21, 2000
	85%	The Emperor's New Groove (2000)	" Every new Disney film comes with a ton of baggage, and begs to be compared with the high standards of the studio's roster of animated classics. By this perhaps unfair assessment, it falls short." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 15, 2000
	54%	What Women Want (2001)	" The fact that normally competent women need [Gibson's] advice is as condescending as the revelation that what is on their minds is really no different from what was on the mind of his former playboy self." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 14, 2000
	40%	Proof of Life (2000)	" I've seen Casablanca, and Proof of Life is no Casablanca." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 8, 2000
	52%	Angela's Ashes (1999)	" It is an anecdotal, nostalgic, crowd-pleasing coffee-table book of a film, neither shocking nor challenging." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 1, 2000

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