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0/4
|
25%
|
Formula 51 (The 51st State) (2002) |
"
Long before it's over, you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser."
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Denver Post
Posted Oct 18, 2002
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0/4
|
2%
|
The Master of Disguise (2002) |
"
Neither [Carvey] nor semi-competent director Perry Andelin Blake have the ability to sustain a scene or idea."
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Denver Post
Posted Aug 2, 2002
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|
0/4
|
10%
|
Bad Company (2002) |
"
Among [the film's] various low points, it features the worst Anthony Hopkins performance I've seen."
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Denver Post
Posted Jun 7, 2002
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0/4
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26%
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The Sweetest Thing (2002) |
"
Lacks original humor."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 12, 2002
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0.5/4
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42%
|
Death to Smoochy (2002) |
"
This is the kind of stinker that emerges every so often from Hollywood when major 'talent' -- Danny DeVito and Robin Williams, in this case -- get it into their heads that something disastrously unfunny is hilarious."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 29, 2002
|
|
.5/4
|
23%
|
John Q (2002) |
"
It features miserable direction by Nick Cassavetes, writing by James Kearns, and acting by too many to be named."
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 15, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
10%
|
Catwoman (2004) |
"
Hide this Catwoman on a hot tin roof -- or anywhere else no one is likely to see it."
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Hollywood.com
Posted Nov 20, 2008
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|
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70%
|
Treasure Planet (2002) |
"
One wants good storytelling from animated films, and Treasure Planet is working with a good one. But, like pirates hoarding gold, it gets greedy trying to wow us with too much."
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Denver Post
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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|
1/4
|
68%
|
Red Dragon (2002) |
"
Manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 4, 2002
|
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1/4
|
30%
|
The Country Bears (2002) |
"
Trying to figure out the rules of the Country Bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans, only hairier -- would tax Einstein's brain."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 26, 2002
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|
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47%
|
Hollywood Ending (2002) |
"
It's as if Allen, at 66, has stopped challenging himself."
—
Denver Post
Posted May 3, 2002
|
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1/4
|
41%
|
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"
As an actor, The Rock is aptly named."
—
Denver Post
Posted Apr 19, 2002
|
|
1/4
|
25%
|
Showtime (2002) |
"
It's really yet another anemic and formulaic Lethal Weapon-derived buddy-cop movie, trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness."
—
Denver Post
Posted Mar 15, 2002
|
|
1/4
|
7%
|
Dragonfly (2002) |
"
... plays like it was written from the end backward."
—
Denver Post
Posted Feb 22, 2002
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|
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56%
|
Taliesin Jones (2002) |
"
Succumbs to the same kind of maudlin, sentimental mysticism that mars the Touched by an Angel school of non-God spiritual-uplift movies."
—
Denver Post
Posted Feb 1, 2002
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|
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34%
|
I Am Sam (2001) |
"
It's similar to a superficially hip and irreverent, yet fundamentally sentimental, TV show."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 25, 2002
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|
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32%
|
Charlotte Gray (2002) |
"
While Blanchett's presence is surely felt in virtually every scene of the movie, her acting isn't. We don't connect with her at all."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 25, 2002
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|
|
91%
|
The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del diablo) (2001) |
"
In the end, Backbone is about showing off a horror film director's tools of trade."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 21, 2001
|
|
|
42%
|
The Majestic (2001) |
"
Even Capra would blanch, if he could stay awake, at Darabont's attempt to force-feed such hollow, phony and insincere sentimentality as infuses Majestic."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 21, 2001
|
|
|
65%
|
Intimacy (2001) |
"
Despite the efforts of Kureishi, Chereau and co-screenwriter Anne-Louise Trividic to make us believe in its realism. Toward the end, there are too many speeches."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 14, 2001
|
|
|
40%
|
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"
A film that, despite intriguing ideas, cleverly tricky structure and some remarkable imagery, just doesn't work."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 14, 2001
|
|
|
77%
|
Tape (2001) |
"
A failed experiment with arresting moments."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 7, 2001
|
|
|
82%
|
Ocean's Eleven (2001) |
"
I think it's time for Soderbergh to be leaving Las Vegas."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 7, 2001
|
|
|
56%
|
Sidewalks of New York (2001) |
"
It is nice that Sidewalks reflects a younger, multiethnic New York, one in which not everybody is wealthy and middle-aged or older as Allen's New York increasingly was. But diversity is no substitute for quality."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 30, 2001
|
|
|
14%
|
Black Knight (2001) |
"
Most of the gags are groaners."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 21, 2001
|
|
|
65%
|
Spy Game (2001) |
"
At times, it just seems like the movie is engaged in a game, itself, to keep us from noticing its faults."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 21, 2001
|
|
|
65%
|
Heist (2001) |
"
Rare for Mamet, that talk here sometimes comes off as strained and awkward, or as a slightly highbrow variation on the usual hackneyed bon mots of generic action films."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 9, 2001
|
|
|
95%
|
Monsters, Inc. (2001) |
"
Monsters, Inc. just can't figure out how to elaborate on and flesh out this parallel universe in a way that stays novel. It opts for an easy plot development -- and a babyish one at that."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 2, 2001
|
|
|
41%
|
K-PAX (2001) |
"
Its conflict is so understated, and takes so long to engage us, that the film is as flat as a stretch of Interstate 70 east of Denver."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 26, 2001
|
|
|
52%
|
The Last Castle (2001) |
"
If Castle isn't offensive, it is deeply stupid."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 19, 2001
|
|
|
72%
|
Training Day (2001) |
"
Alonzo Harris ultimately is a character whose plausibility can't withstand our scrutiny, but Washington's turn as him is a wicked performance to relish."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 5, 2001
|
|
|
24%
|
Don't Say a Word (2001) |
"
Its story seems merely an excuse for its all-too- familiar recycling of suspense-movie ideas."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 28, 2001
|
|
|
50%
|
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
"
Going for transcendence, [Hicks] gives us lugubriousness."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 28, 2001
|
|
|
64%
|
O (2001) |
"
In the ways that the plot points have been 'modernized,' events and character motivation often come off as far-fetched."
—
Denver Post
Posted Aug 31, 2001
|
|
|
55%
|
Osmosis Jones (2001) |
"
I really enjoyed Kroon and Sito's movie, but disliked the Farrellys. It's time they try harder - their style has grown sickening. And it's time Kroon and Sito make both halves of a film."
—
Denver Post
Posted Aug 10, 2001
|
|
|
52%
|
Rush Hour 2 (2001) |
"
Nobody expects this to be, say, The French Connection, but it should make a little more sense."
—
Denver Post
Posted Aug 3, 2001
|
|
|
71%
|
Made (2001) |
"
I wish Made hadn't been made. And if it had to be, I wish it had been made as a silent movie."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 27, 2001
|
|
|
46%
|
Brother (2001) |
"
Rarely has such an artful aesthetic been used to craft such sadistically violent junk."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 27, 2001
|
|
|
45%
|
Planet of the Apes (2001) |
"
As is all too familiar with modern adventure movies, it gets trapped in formula - big action scenes that offer few surprises, a predictable story arc, dialogue peppered with cliched bon mots and obligatory big ideas that are spoken rather than dramatized."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 27, 2001
|
|
|
31%
|
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"
Given its subject matter, it's too genial to cut deep."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 20, 2001
|
|
|
61%
|
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The Princess and the Warrior) (2000) |
"
Formalistically elegant and meticulous, yet ultimately unengaging."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 6, 2001
|
|
|
15%
|
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"
Because there is little scene-by-scene coherence, the story becomes little more than the sum of its 'quotes.'"
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 4, 2001
|
|
|
71%
|
Baby Boy (2001) |
"
[Singleton] He means for this to be r,38p,11p revelatory, but it is instead exhausting."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 29, 2001
|
|
|
73%
|
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"
It could bear the initials 'E.D.' -- emotionally deficient."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 29, 2001
|
|
|
60%
|
The Anniversary Party (2001) |
"
A textbook example of why actors sometimes should just act."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 22, 2001
|
|
|
42%
|
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) |
"
While it'd be silly to hold a movie like this to too strict a standard, one should expect it to at least respect its own premise."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 22, 2001
|
|
|
11%
|
Bride of the Wind (2001) |
"
This is so bad a film, so clumsy and obvious in its dialogue and plot points, one wonders why it's even being released."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 15, 2001
|
|
|
19%
|
Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001) |
"
It's yet another movie where you frequently have no idea what's going on or why."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 15, 2001
|
|
|
49%
|
Atlantis - The Lost Empire (2001) |
"
A film without an artistic vision to match its commercial one."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 15, 2001
|
|
|
76%
|
Moulin Rouge! (2001) |
"
It's torn between comedy and romantic melodrama."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 1, 2001
|
67%
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