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Frank Lovece

Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Publications:: Film Journal International , Hollywood Reporter , Newsday , TV Guide's Movie Guide

Total Reviews:: 391

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
F	11%	Captain America (1990)	" The movie isn't merely wrong for kids -- it's just all wrong." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 21, 2011
0.5/4	63%	Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)	" For all its ADD editing, it's a joyless slog." — Newsday Posted Apr 17, 2009
1/5	27%	Analyze That (2002)	" Harold Ramis's 1999 hit Analyze This was filled with chuckles and sitcom appeal; this sequel is charmless and sour." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Dec 6, 2002
1/5	15%	The Trumpet of the Swan (2001)	" This adaptation of E.B. White's classic novel doesn't even live up to the Hanna-Barbera Charlotte's Web, let alone 1999's Stuart Little." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 11, 2001
1/5	43%	Someone Like You (2001)	" Chick flicks have a set of genre rules and expectations all their own, just like big, dumb action pictures for men." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 30, 2001
1/5	17%	The Wedding Planner (2001)	" A bridal train wreck." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 25, 2001
	20%	Red Alert: The War Within (2010)	" Even charismatic star Suniel Shetty can't generate interest or excitement in this earnest drama of India's internal conflict with the Maoist "Naxalite" movement." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 8, 2010
	87%	Cropsey (2010)	" Documentary of a spate of child kidnappings/killings in Staten Island, New York, in the 1970s, tied thematically to the titular Hudson Valley boogeyman myth." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 8, 2010
	0%	Raajneeti (2010)	" More pulpy than political, this Godfather-ripoff Hindi electoral drama is a candidate for oblivion in U.S. theatres." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 7, 2010
	49%	Holy Rollers (2010)	" Low-key, low-budget drama based on a real-life 1990s drug-smuggling ring involving Hassidic Jews trudges along with a simplistic, heavy-handed message." — Film Journal International Posted May 24, 2010
	83%	Daddy Longlegs (2010)	" Handmade New York indie about a disheveled, divorced dad on his annual two-week time with his kids was likely cathartic for the sibling filmmakers, but the movie shambles as much as its protagonist." — Film Journal International Posted May 12, 2010
	67%	Date Night (2010)	" Intermittently amusing action comedy with two deservedly well-liked stars whose ad-libs unfortunately aren't as funny as they think." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 12, 2010
	——	Falling for Grace (2007)	" Romantic comedy of a first-generation Chinese woman, played by the writer-director, and her old-money WASP beau is no My Big Fat Greek Wedding." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 7, 2010
	23%	Repo Men (2010)	" Sci-fi mishmash about a conscience-stricken repo man for an artificial-organ company who finds himself hunted by his partner." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 19, 2010
	58%	She's Out of My League (2010)	" Remarkably good performances by the supporting cast give this beauty-and-the-beast romantic comedy some laughs and warmth, but finding chemistry between the leads proves out of its league." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 12, 2010
	73%	Children Of Invention (2010)	" Heartfelt but dramatically tepid tale of two kids who must fend for themselves after their single mom goes missing." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 11, 2010
	——	Love Impossible (2010)	" Well-directed if predictable Bollywood romantic company sinks under the weight of writer-producer-star Uday Chopra, a charmless leading man with a finger-wide range of expressions." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 20, 2010
	56%	It's Complicated (2009)	" Some farcical baubles sparkle, but this have-it-all women's fantasy otherwise plods along with uneven acting, padded direction and inch-deep characters. Thank goodness for John Krasinski." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 28, 2009
	60%	Paa (2009)	" This would-be tearjerker without the musical numbers of typical Bollywood fare is for die-hard Amitabh Bachchan fans only." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 14, 2009
	78%	The End of the Line (2009)	" Sundance-screened documentary about the global depletion of fish stocks takes a premise both valid and shocking and delivers the bad news as a bombastic harangue." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 18, 2009
	——	Munde U.K. De ()	" Unexceptional romantic comedy won't turn any U.S. cineastes into Punjwood aficionados, and lacks the production values and star power Indian-American audiences have come to expect." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 17, 2009
	8%	The Skeptic (2009)	" Bardwell writes and directs carefully though without inspiration, leaving open the question of whether the house is really haunted." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 1, 2009
	55%	17 Again (2009)	" Zac Efron is charming, Sterling Knight is a great young find, and second-chance comedies of grownups in teen bodies are timeless, so to speak. So why is this movie so creepy and pervy-seeming?" — Film Journal International Posted Apr 15, 2009
	18%	The Cross(The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story) (2009)	" Heartfelt but pedestrian, so to speak, documentary of an evangelist who for decades carried a 12-foot wooden cross around the globe to spread the gospel." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 30, 2009
	50%	American Swing (2009)	" Repetitive, narratively fractured, and padded with more hardcore inserts than hardcore facts, this amateurish documentary about the disco-era Manhattan sex club Plato's Retreat skimps on context and basic information. It's a fan site on celluloid." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 26, 2009
	5%	Miss March (2009)	" Gross-out comedy starring two members of The Whitest Kids U'Know is one of the Worst Movies U'll See. Two buddies take a road trip to the Playboy mansion, defecating all the way. How apropos, since the movie is crap." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 13, 2009
	33%	Delhi 6 (2009)	" An Indian drama with music, rather than a typical Bollywood musical, this ambitious story of a first-generation Indian-American discovering his roots in Delhi loses focus amid plots about patronizing Yanks, Muslim/Hindu relations and a media-fed legend of" — Film Journal International Posted Feb 20, 2009
	42%	He's Just Not That Into You (2009)	" Romantic roundelay adapted from a self-help book tries to make a statement about dating in the new millennium, but gets mired in a labyrinthine soap opera of doormats and dudes." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 6, 2009
	12%	Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" Successor to the 2006 revival of the farcical franchise has inspired individual scenes, but a once-sublime subversion of French policiers has devolved into kiddie movies with all the cosmopolitan cach�t of Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 5, 2009
	50%	Notorious (2009)	" A hagiography of the late hip-hop star Christopher Wallace a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., this overlong biopic glosses over so much detail and avoids the real man so much, it's a fan-magazine profile gone B.I.G.-screen." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 16, 2009
	33%	Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)	" You'd better shop around%u2014you could probably find an unfunny comedy with an unappealing hero and clumsily shot action choreography for much less than retail price. Maybe the straight-to-DVD bin?" — Film Journal International Posted Jan 16, 2009
	52%	Yonkers Joe (2009)	" Heartfelt, well-acted but overly sincere drama of a smalltime hustler and the 20-year-old Down's syndrome son he's barely known." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 9, 2009
	11%	Bride Wars (2009)	" You couldn't give this Bride away. Pedestrian comedy of friends at war balances on a petty framework, with shallow, unlikeable and archaic characters." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 8, 2009
	25%	Bedtime Stories (2008)	" A great idea gets lost amid unfunny, obnoxious antics and more mugging than in 1970s New York in this ham-fisted children's comedy from Adam Sandler." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 29, 2008
1/4	14%	The Spirit (2008)	" Gorgeous cinematography and design can't mask the hollow core and bizarre ugliness of this mishandled comics adaptation." — Newsday Posted Dec 24, 2008
	56%	The Tale of Despereaux (2008)	" Computer-animated, painterly adaptation of the Newberry Award-winning children's novel is a blunt sword of moral lessons with a character more insufferable than inspiring." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 19, 2008
	12%	Delgo (2008)	" Admirable attempt at independent feature animation is undercut by videogame-quality CGI, cardboard characters and a bludgeoningly allegorical, unimaginative story of tribal conflict and teenagers in love." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 12, 2008
	25%	Four Christmases (2008)	" A star-studded cast way too talented for the material plod through a painfully rote holiday rom-com." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 26, 2008
	——	Roadside Romeo (2008)	" Stray dogs sing, dance, find love and confront a gangster mongrel on the streets of Mumbai. India's first major computer-animated feature, a co-production of Disney and Bollywood giant Yash Raj Films, makes for an inauspicious debut." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 28, 2008
	20%	Passengers (2008)	" She sees dead people, maybe. Stealth movie starring Anne Hathaway as the world's worst trauma counselor slipped into a few theatres without warning. Now you've been warned." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 27, 2008
	35%	Pride and Glory (2008)	" Dark, violent and unfocused New York City police drama of two detective brothers, their uniformed brother-in-law, and the price of loyalty in the face of homicidal corruption." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 23, 2008
	19%	Fly Me to the Moon (2008)	" G-rated, 3D animated adventure of three plucky young flies who hitch a ride on Apollo 11 plods rather than soars. And maggots with faces aren't cute." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 13, 2008
	14%	My Best Friend's Girl (2008)	" A raunchy vehicle for Dane Cook fans? A sprightly romance for Kate Hudson fans? A genial underdog comedy for Jason Biggs fans? The correct answer is: a big, steaming pile of horse manure." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 8, 2008
	31%	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	" It's the film of a Lifetime...cable network." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 8, 2008
	37%	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	" Toothless, fact-based comedy about a socially inept entertainment journalist and his misadventures at a Vanity Fair-like magazine." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 8, 2008
	10%	Hell Ride (2008)	" Very little makes sense in Hell Ride." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 7, 2008
	32%	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (The X Files 2) (2008)	" Neither suspenseful nor scary nor action-packed, it's also a poor police procedural." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 24, 2008
	78%	Bustin' Down the Door (2008)	" Will likely be of interest to surfers and surfing fans only." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 24, 2008
	71%	Wanted (2008)	" Wes encapsulates the tone of this whole misfired production with a single line: "We get our orders from a loom." That pretty much hits the bull's-eye." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 26, 2008
	69%	The Wackness (2008)	" Earnest but insufferable, The Wackness is like some movie version of a New York magazine article about city teenagers." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 23, 2008

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