|
0/5
|
14%
|
Zookeeper (2011) |
"
If a worse movie is released this year, I hope I don't have to see it. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
0/4
|
18%
|
Chapter 27 (2007) |
"
Visually ugly, morally non-existent and a complete black hole in the departments of insight and wit, Chapter 27 is quite possibly the most godawful, irredeemable film to yet emerge in the 21st century."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 27, 2008
|
|
0/4
|
9%
|
I Know Who Killed Me (2007) |
"
Risible, grotesque, and incoherent."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2007
|
|
0/4
|
19%
|
The Life of David Gale (2003) |
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 4, 2003
|
|
.5/5
|
44%
|
Casa de mi padre (2012) |
"
This is one of those pictures, alas, that is critic-proof merely by dint of the fact that applying any amount of thought to it, superficial, or serious, or what have you, is an entirely humiliating,"
—
MSN Movies
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
44%
|
Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (2003) |
"
If you want to see what $125 million worth of nothing looks like, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is the picture for you."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 17, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
17%
|
The Art of Getting By (2011) |
"
...a limp, lifeless and rote retread, utterly unconvincing in most of its New York details and so overly familiar it might as well have been titled 'Tadpole Goes Down an Infinite Playlist'"
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jun 15, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
35%
|
The Hangover Part II (2011) |
"
...[it] sacrifices plausibility, believability and empathy with anything that doesn't validate its lead characters' 'Wolf Pack' mentality in the service of a smirkingly cynical attitude."
—
MSN Movies
Posted May 25, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
77%
|
Thor (2011) |
"
[It's] confusing because it's been getting reasonably favorable word of mouth despite the fact that it's as thoroughly a mediocre superhero movie as you'd care to imagine. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted May 4, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
92%
|
Incendies (2011) |
"
Incendies is about as meretriciously overdetermined as art cinema, or any kind of cinema for that matter, gets. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Apr 21, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
Sucker Punch (2011) |
"
So thoroughly labored, and panders so relentlessly to adolescent attitudes and fantasies, and is so thoroughly and stridently humorless, that it kind of sucks out your soul while you're watching it."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Mar 25, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
32%
|
I Am Number Four (2011) |
"
Honestly, the god-awful, no-budget, grade-Z 1959 potboiler Teenagers From Outer Space had more integrity than does this piece of militaristically oppressive, micromanaged tripe."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Feb 17, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
73%
|
The Last Exorcism (2010) |
"
The only thing finally astonishing about The Last Exorcism is its goofiness. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 3, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
53%
|
Across the Universe (2007) |
"
Just when you think the movie can't possibly get more literal, more kitsch-infused, more mortifyingly soft-headed, it does."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
17%
|
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"
If there was ever a film project that deserved sabotaging, this is it."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted May 10, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
51%
|
Lucky Number Slevin (2006) |
"
[McGuigan] uses a 20-gallon Hefty bag of other moviemakers' tricks on the ridiculous reverse-constructed revenger script by Jason Smilovic."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Apr 6, 2006
|
|
1/4
|
44%
|
The Jacket (2005) |
"
It is the work of conspicuously smart people operating under the assumption that the mass audience whose money they want is pretty dumb, and hence concoct a pretty dumb movie that they believe said audience will mistake for being smart."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
64%
|
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"
Dubus, anticipating the dreaded Raymond Carver, is only concerned with the interiority of the characters. It's solipsism once removed; and in this film, it's that times four."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2004
|
|
1/4
|
50%
|
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"
Does one really have to so debase Christ's story in order to make it relevant to today's audiences?"
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Feb 26, 2004
|
|
1/4
|
23%
|
Sonny (2002) |
"
Too defensive and earnest about its topic to be either fun or illuminating."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 17, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
49%
|
Bruce Almighty (2003) |
"
This picture can be summed up perfectly in two words. Ready? God. Awful."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted May 21, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
43%
|
People I Know (2003) |
"
Smushes together The Bonfire of the Vanities (the novel, that is), True Believer, and Eyes Wide Shut, only it does so without being nearly as good as any of the aforementioned."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
60%
|
Gerry (2003) |
"
Van Sant fails to understand that when 'nothing' happens in the films of Tarr and Denis, it happens for a very good reason, not for a lack of anything better to do, as is the case here."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 4, 2003
|
|
|
58%
|
Birthday Girl (2002) |
"
A thriller enacted by an energetic cast that can't quite compensate for its slightness."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Jan 4, 2002
|
|
|
15%
|
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"
Though Necklace might be pretty much useless in every other respect, at the very least, it's proof that Swank has the stuff real stars are made of."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Nov 22, 2001
|
|
|
86%
|
Gosford Park (2001) |
"
Altman's fecklessness pretty much reduces the likes of Derek Jacobi and Alan Bates to bit players who haven't been given any bits."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Nov 22, 2001
|
|
|
48%
|
Love's Labour's Lost (2000) |
"
One might as well be watching Lawrence Welk reruns."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2001
|
|
|
9%
|
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) |
"
Gallmann now is a respected conservationist in Kenya. Fine. Good for her. But in this case, not so good for us."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2001
|
|
|
76%
|
The Virgin Suicides (2000) |
"
a disarmingly wispy film given its subject matter, which is pretty much spelled out by its title."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2001
|
|
|
53%
|
The Golden Bowl (2000) |
"
One of James's juiciest scenarios, but barely anybody involved in this enterprise seems to have caught its groove."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2001
|
|
|
58%
|
The Luzhin Defence (2001) |
"
One has to assume that Sony Pictures Classics hopes to attract Nabokov-philes to theaters. And, boy, will they be pissed."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2001
|
|
|
77%
|
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
"
Are the Coens just being smart alecks here, or are they saying something sourly profound about American popular culture?"
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2001
|
|
|
14%
|
Waking Up in Reno (2002) |
"
A few zingers aside, the writing is indifferent, and Jordan Brady's direction is prosaic."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Aug 29, 2001
|
|
|
64%
|
O (2001) |
"
Despite the best efforts of the passionate Mekhi Phifer and the glowering Josh Hartnett (Julia Stiles's performance is a haughty misfire), what's intended as tragic comes off as grotesque."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2001
|
|
1.5/5
|
24%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
Everything that happens in the multiple story lines is entirely predictable; the only question is when. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
59%
|
We Have a Pope (2012) |
"
The movie is a near-relentless intellectual muddle, throwing out signifiers and metaphors lazily and to no particular effect."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
10%
|
Trespass (2011) |
"
Trespass is still something of a dog..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 12, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
24%
|
What's Your Number? (2011) |
"
...the film's tedium is such that by the time the final credits rolled, I felt much sorrier for myself than I did for [Faris]. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 28, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
87%
|
Submarine (2011) |
"
It's so relentless in its piling on of snappy effects... that it kind of plays like The Graduate going through steroid psychosis. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jun 1, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
15%
|
Something Borrowed (2011) |
"
It's mainly interested in hurtling from one cute set piece to the next, plausibility and/or 'organic' character development be damned."
—
MSN Movies
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
26%
|
Hop (2011) |
"
...the almost willfully brain-dead tone of Hop began trying my patience right off the bat. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Mar 31, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
37%
|
Mars Needs Moms (2011) |
"
Mars Needs Moms is precisely the sort of mess that just grows more depressing the more one ruminates on it. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Mar 10, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
34%
|
Hall Pass (2011) |
"
Hall Pass is such a tiring and dispiriting enterprise in and of itself that using it as a potential springboard to contemplate why the Farrellys no longer 'matter' ... well, it just seems not to matter."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Feb 24, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
49%
|
No Strings Attached (2011) |
"
...as Natalie Portman Talks Dirty movies go, the winner and still champion is 2004's Closer."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jan 20, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
20%
|
The Tourist (2010) |
"
... it's a bit of a shock to see this caliber of star power and big-budget production and location juice... yield such dismal results. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 9, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
28%
|
Life as We Know It (2010) |
"
I didn't laugh once at any of this trite, sentimental gunk..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
20%
|
Dead Silence (2007) |
"
While one might wish to commend Wan and company for making a horror pic that's less reliant on gore and gross sadism than the ones that they're normally associated are, what they're serving up as an alternative really lacks."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
48%
|
Run Fatboy Run (2007) |
"
[Director] David Schwimmer takes the sow's ear of a script given him by [Simon] Pegg and Michael Ian Black and deep-fries it into a burnt pork rind of a movie."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 27, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
51%
|
Funny Games (2008) |
"
Throughout the picture, Haneke demonstrates an imperial hauteur that completely undercuts his already dubious point."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 14, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
The Eye (2008) |
"
A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2008
|
68%
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98%
