Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 31%
| Stick It (2006) | "
Though the film's twist is an entertaining jolt to the standard sports story, its vision of integrity over points is executed with a surprising lack of finesse." — Reel.com Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 57%
| Drawing Restraint 9 (2006) | "
Barney writes in the press kit that the heart of the piece is 'the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity.' Okay, fine. But do we care? Not this reviewer." — Reel.com Posted Apr 21, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 33%
| The Sentinel (2006) | "
A middling picture at best, it reveals some interesting inner workings of the Secret Service. At worst, it plays like a boring night of TV watched at your mom's." — Reel.com Posted Apr 21, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 31%
| The Sisters (2006) | "
We never tire of watching these actresses (particularly Bello, who's utterly convincingly playing one of those sexy, crazy, intelligent women men go bonkers for). And the movie, though flawed, remains absorbing and, in a ridiculous way, fun." — Reel.com Posted Apr 14, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| Adam & Steve (2006) | "
So awkwardly directed by star Chester that its timing and tone are hopelessly uneven." — Reel.com Posted Apr 7, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| ATL (2006) | "
Along the way, the film is bogged down by its dramatic twists and turns." — Reel.com Posted Mar 31, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| Don't Tell (2005) | "
Here's the problem with Cristina Comencini's Don't Tell: it should have been directed by Pedro Almodovar." — Reel.com Posted Mar 17, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 42%
| The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006) | "
Like LeRoy's novels, the movie finds something hep about degradation, neglect, and eating out of dumpsters. It calls to mind the Zoolander joke about a fashion line, 'Derelict,' inspired by crack whores and hoboes." — Reel.com Posted Mar 10, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 81%
| Tsotsi (2006) | "
Yes, it's beautifully photographed, and at times we truly feel the struggle presented before us, but Tsotsi is also problematic and frustrating." — Reel.com Posted Feb 24, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 87%
| Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) | "
Sophe Scholl: The Final Days is an oddly economical, exceptionally detailed and, finally, horrifying movie that surprises one with its cumulative power." — Reel.com Posted Feb 24, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 44%
| Final Destination 3 (2006) | "
The picture returns to the biting humor of the first FD and, in fact, improves and deepens the Rube Goldberg-ian deathtrap scenarios." — Reel.com Posted Feb 10, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 32%
| Imagine Me & You (2006) | "
British accents and names like 'Heck' just aren't enough to compensate for the generic quality and general lackluster feeling inspired by the film's plot and characters." — Reel.com Posted Jan 27, 2006 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| April's Shower (2006) | "
Poorly shot, badly timed, lamely idiosyncratic, and annoying." — Reel.com Posted Jan 13, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 7%
| Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005) | "
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: Carmen Electra is more interesting than Steve Martin." — Reel.com Posted Dec 31, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 41%
| Marebito (2004) | "
The look of the film, and the gore, meld into the real and unreal of this hero's journey. But the journey is muddled, and at times unintentionally funny." — Reel.com Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 5%
| Yours, Mine, & Ours (2005) | "
I just think there are far superior holiday films the family can enjoy." — Reel.com Posted Nov 23, 2005 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 51%
| Ellie Parker (2005) | "
Though Ellie Parker isn't an especially deep film, and Watts' character can come off a bit whiny and narcissistic (but hey, come on, she's an actress!), it is engaging and frequently funny." — Reel.com Posted Nov 11, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 64%
| Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) | "
Silverman rarely reveals herself. She just reveals, often coquettishly, those naughty statements many people think but never say aloud. They certainly would never, ever say them as hilariously as she does." — Reel.com Posted Nov 11, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| I Love Your Work (2005) | "
Maybe the point is to be bewildered. That would be fine had the film created any resonant power. Instead, we're merely bemused." — Reel.com Posted Nov 4, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 20%
| Doom (2005) | "
With uninspired fight choreography and sequences so dimly lit the viewer has a hard time deciphering where and what anything is, director Bartkowiak reveals he's no Ridley Scott when it comes to tension and buildup." — Reel.com Posted Oct 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 33%
| The Gospel (2005) | "
Really, a musical would have been a much better idea." — Reel.com Posted Oct 15, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| Nine Lives (2005) | "
Thanks to Garcia's vigorous camerawork, startlingly in-depth touches, guile and, importantly, a stable of top-notch actresses, and actors, the picture remains fresh and unexpected." — Reel.com Posted Oct 14, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 59%
| Oliver Twist (2005) | "
Is it possible that a film made in 1948 and by David Lean could exceed the darkness and controversy of a Roman Polanski picture? After watching the newest screen version of Oliver Twist, the answer is yes." — Reel.com Posted Sep 23, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 46%
| Green Street Hooligans (2005) | "
Though the film begins with the promise of dissecting the origins and politics of the firms, the neighborhood turf wars, and the general attraction towards football-hooligan culture, it quickly abandons those aims." — Reel.com Posted Sep 9, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| The Cave (2005) | "
Messy, derivative, and silly, The Cave is, at the very least, oddly likable." — Reel.com Posted Aug 26, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 32%
| Pretty Persuasion (2005) | "
In spite of its darkness and 'edge,' it wants us too really, really like it. Sorry. As pretty and non-persuasive as you are, we really, really don't." — Reel.com Posted Aug 12, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Skeleton Key (2005) | "
This movie is channeling something quite wonderful and distinct: old-gal horror." — Reel.com Posted Aug 12, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| Broken Flowers (2005) | "
Broken Flowers overcomes its shortcomings through Murray's ability to make a nearly nihilistic character human." — Reel.com Posted Aug 5, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| The Devil's Rejects (2005) | "
It's not a perfect picture, but the overall effect is incredibly satisfying." — Reel.com Posted Jul 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 46%
| Dark Water (2005) | "
Confined by the supposed thrills and chills of pseudo-J-horror, the film's allegorical depth remains, unlike all the ooze saturating Connelly’s digs, hopelessly clogged." — Reel.com Posted Jul 8, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) | "
Though not a bad film, all too often it feels like a slickly made studio offering with nary the juice and verve of the zombie master's prior, lower budget, ventures." — Reel.com Posted Jun 24, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| My Summer of Love (2005) | "
A coming-of-age tale that eschews the typical trappings of that genre by making the friendship/love affair between two precocious adolescents into something powerfully obscure." — Reel.com Posted Jun 17, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 41%
| High Tension (2005) | "
Can a film be undone by its lame twist ending? In the case of High Tension, the answer is yes." — Reel.com Posted Jun 10, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 55%
| Lords of Dogtown (2005) | "
Gritty, exciting, sexy and refreshingly, honestly '70s, Catherine Hardwicke's Lords of Dogtown is one of the most thrilling pictures to be released in years." — Reel.com Posted Jun 3, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| The Longest Yard (2005) | "
A predictable, choppy affair at best." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 26, 2005 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Mindhunters (2005) | "
Schlocky and fun." — Reel.com Posted May 13, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Modigliani (2005) | "
Mick Davis' prosaic art biopic Modigliani is a tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 12, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| A Hole In One (2004) | "
Its overindulgence in pseudo–David Lynch stylistics provides yet another distraction from a potentially intriguing story." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 12, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Brothers (2005) | "
Well positioned on that slippery cliff called melodrama, Susanne Bier's grainy, intimate, almost claustrophobic family drama, Brothers, keeps its footing, never falling into the deep chasm of Soap Opera." — Reel.com Posted May 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood (2004) | "
Do you think Jiminy Glick is funny? If the answer is no, then you'll have a hard time spending 90 minutes with the corpulent, star-struck celebrity-interviewer in his debut film, Jiminy Glick in Lalawood." — Reel.com Posted May 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 16%
| XXX: State of the Union (2005) | "
XXX: State of the Union suffers an action fate worse than un-explainable exploding cars and wooden dialogue -- it's boring." — Reel.com Posted Apr 29, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Torremolinos 73 (2005) | "
The picture rarely delves into how personally (perhaps even politically) revolutionary the couple’s new life has become, making its subject matter more lackluster than it has any right to be." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Madison (2005) | "
If not for the race sequences and the intriguing presence of Caviezel ... the film would amount to a well-intentioned snooze." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 21, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 21%
| The Pacifier (2005) | "
Vin Diesel, I used to love you ... but The Pacifier is making my job a lot harder." — Reel.com Posted Mar 4, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| Be Cool (2005) | "
May not be the swiftest piece of cinema out there, but when it has its moments with The Rock, they absolutely kill." — Reel.com Posted Mar 4, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Cursed (2005) | "
Poor special effects, a silly looking werewolf and clunky comic writing help to spoil what should have been a fun B-movie." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 3, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Daybreak (2005) | "
We don’t really care about these people -- we just want someone to make them stop." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 24, 2005 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Sharks 3D (2004) | "
A sweet-natured documentary that's impressive in its devotion to the beauty and grandeur of its subject." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 19, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 7%
| Son of the Mask (2005) | "
It's irritating. And bizarre. Double bill it with the also freakish Super Babies: Baby Geniuses 2 and you might have something -- a new kind of accidental horror film." — Reel.com Posted Feb 18, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Fascination (2005) | "
So tedious is Fascination that the plot, the embittered characters and, yes, the sexuality are merely insipid." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 3, 2005 |
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