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Critics / Vera H-C Chan / Movies
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    VERA H-C CHAN

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

    Publications: Contra Costa Times

    Total Reviews: 28

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    Rotten
    54%

    How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

    " The costumes astound, the sight gags abound, but the heart, oh the heart, now that must be found."

    Posted Nov 29, 2007

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Rotten
    48%

    Big Trouble (2002)

    " One of the funnier movies in town."

    Posted Apr 4, 2002

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    77%

    Panic Room (2002)

    " We should be so lucky if all popcorn movies starred Jodie Foster and had the delicious interplay of psychological will, strategic cunning and reasonably watertight plausibility."

    Posted Mar 28, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    17%

    The Queen of the Damned (2002)

    " Despite blood-slurping, a Goth rock score and even the chilling resurrection of Aaliyah as the title character, this third installment of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles seems curiously torpid."

    Posted Feb 21, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    22%

    John Q (2002)

    " So earnest and well-meaning, and so stocked with talent, that you almost forget the sheer, ponderous awfulness of its script."

    Posted Feb 14, 2002

    Fresh

    Fresh
    76%

    Black Hawk Down (2001)

    " The technical language, weaponry and pounding exchange of gunfire contributes to a gruesome realism without sensationalizing it."

    Posted Jan 17, 2002

    Rotten

    Rotten
    47%

    Kate and Leopold (2001)

    " This isn't a sci-fi movie, but you end up brooding about inconsistencies."

    Posted Dec 27, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    13%

    Black Knight (2001)

    " If the powers-that-be had spent as much time on the script as they did on crafting the fake dung … oops, sorry, messing with a Hollywood formula."

    Posted Nov 20, 2001

    Fresh

    Fresh
    90%

    Iron Monkey (1993)

    " The action is flabbergasting."

    Posted Oct 11, 2001

    Fresh

    Rotten
    52%

    Rock Star (2001)

    " If you don't leave Rock Star wanting to do some head-banging and squealing at the top of your lungs, well, you can always pop in an old Air Supply cassette."

    Posted Sep 6, 2001

    Fresh

    Rotten
    44%

    Jeepers Creepers (2001)

    " The surprise is that, even though the title garnered laughs with every movie audience I was with who saw the trailer, Jeepers Creepers isn't a bad little horror flick."

    Posted Aug 30, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    53%

    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

    " Smith more often than he should takes the easy way out: Why bother with a punch line when you can plug in a fistful of four-letter words?"

    Posted Aug 23, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    19%

    John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)

    " I cannot fathom why Carpenter would want to brand his name to this movie, akin to leaving fingerprints at the scene of a crime."

    Posted Aug 23, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    30%

    Bubble Boy (2001)

    " A soup of predictable jokes almost too dull to be offensive."

    Posted Aug 23, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    10%

    What's The Worst That Could Happen? (2001)

    " Torpid snoozer."

    Posted May 31, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    32%

    Along Came a Spider (2001)

    " Really, if you're not here for Freeman, you might as well back out of that turnstile and go home."

    Posted Apr 6, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    9%

    Say It Isn't So (2001)

    " The Farrelly brothers have finally gone and done it. They've become ... soft."

    Posted Mar 23, 2001

    Fresh

    Fresh
    70%

    Series 7: The Contenders (2001)

    " A diabolically clever sendup of reality shows."

    Posted Mar 16, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    31%

    15 Minutes (2001)

    " Its attempts to take aim at tabloid culture ends up a hideous mess."

    Posted Mar 9, 2001

    Fresh

    Rotten
    16%

    The Wedding Planner (2001)

    Considering how the Silicon Valley boom has made this the most romantic of cities also the most expensive, you have to admire The Wedding Planner for sustaining the ultimate fairy tale.
    Posted Jan 25, 2001

    Rotten

    Rotten
    40%

    Miss Congeniality (2000)

    Bullock knows how to showcase her vulnerability, but unfortunately she can't compensate for plot implausibilities that don't have to be implausible, or clichés that don't have to be clichéd.
    Posted Dec 22, 2000

    Fresh

    Rotten
    52%

    What Women Want (2000)

    Nancy Meyers ... sustains a funny and clever momentum out of what could have been sheer farce.
    Posted Dec 15, 2000

    Fresh

    Fresh
    85%

    The Emperor's New Groove (2000)

    It's worth the family outing -- and besides, who can resist Tom Jones as the royal theme singer?
    Posted Dec 15, 2000

    Fresh

    Rotten
    47%

    Bamboozled (2000)

    At least Lee does bring up a past that everyone, race notwithstanding, ignores at his or her peril.
    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Rotten

    Rotten
    7%

    Lost Souls (2000)

    Its examination of our current cynical age of faithlessness is betrayed by largely rote directorship and its own occasional knee-jerk reflexes of horror cinema.
    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Fresh

    Fresh
    78%

    Shanghai Noon (2000)

    Looked as thought it might be another chop-suey salad toss ... yet Shanghai Noon manages to stir this into a repast audiences won't be able to keep themselves from eating up.
    Posted Jan 1, 2000

    Rotten

    Rotten
    11%

    The Watcher (2000)

    The sledgehammer soundtrack editing is also baffling, considering that Charbanic's background is in music videos.
    Posted Jan 1, 2000
     
     
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