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0/5
|
——
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Art History (2011) |
"
Anyone who sees [the] insufferable "Art History" and doesn't wish for the 74 minutes back has an empty life indeed."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
0/5
|
——
|
Lucky Days (2010) |
"
Eventually you have to acknowledge that this unpleasant drama set on Coney Island isn't deadpan; it's just dead. "
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
0/5
|
17%
|
Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009) |
"
It needs to be emphasized that Eating Out 3 has nothing to do with the restaurant business, lest any foodies wander into this ineptly written and acted gay sex comedy by accident."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
0.5/5
|
27%
|
Beer League (2006) |
"
Artie Lange, Howard Stern's radio sidekick, somehow manages to make beer-league softball seem no fun at all in this extremely lowbrow comedy."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Reuniting The Rubins (2012) |
"
The script includes little back story and lots of button-pushing shorthand, none of which feels genuine..."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 16, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
Creature (2011) |
"
Doesn't throw in the kind of wit that can turn a formulaic creature feature into a pleasant diversion along the lines of "Lake Placid.""
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 10, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
——
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Golf In The Kingdom (2011) |
"
Golf may be the world's dullest spectator sport, not counting soccer: it takes a long time for not much to happen. By that standard, "Golf in the Kingdom" captures the game perfectly."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
——
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Talentime () |
"
A collision of tones that leaves the film feeling unfocused."
—
New York Times
Posted May 7, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
67%
|
The Girl Next Door (2007) |
"
The kind of movie that makes you wish you could rinse your brain in bleach, to wash all traces of it from your memory."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 5, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
17%
|
Sun Kissed (2006) |
"
When a movie aspires to be gay pornography but can't even manage that, well, you know you've got a bad movie."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 23, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Shottas (2006) |
"
Stars from reggae and other musical worlds give acting a try in Shottas, a witless, misogynistic, gratuitously violent, drug-culture-worshiping film."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 10, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
67%
|
Justice (2004) |
"
Justice often moves painfully slowly, and so does Justice (Justiça), a documentary by Maria Ramos about low-level criminal courts in Brazil that at times might be mistaken for an unedited video feed from a courthouse security camera."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 19, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Kiss Me Again (2006) |
"
[Smith] seems not to realize just how tired the notion of married folk deciding jointly to experiment with other partners is."
—
New York Times
Posted May 5, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
30%
|
The Sisters (2006) |
"
It's a bit of an oversimplification but still a rule no writer should forget: Insufferable characters make for an insufferable play or movie."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 14, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
Stay Alive (2006) |
"
The star of Stay Alive is a cutting-edge video game, but the film still has hackneyed horror at its heart."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2006
|
|
255
|
55%
|
The Perfect Game (2010) |
"
So overwhelmed by its own based-on-actual-events tale that it can't find the tone to tell it effectively."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 16, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
13%
|
After Fall, Winter (2012) |
"
The lovebirds' dialogue has the sophistication of a junior high school romance, and Mr. Schaeffer appears to have pasted his story together from the button-pushing plotlines of other films."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
5%
|
Beneath The Darkness (2012) |
"
Someone involved with "Beneath the Darkness" has either watched too many horror movies or not enough."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
71%
|
The Dead (2011) |
"
A long, chemistry-free slog through the zombified countryside."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
0%
|
A Love Affair of Sorts (2011) |
"
Endlessly fascinated by the idea that some people are endlessly fascinated with themselves? David Guy Levy has made a movie perfectly suited to you."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
82%
|
Defamation (2009) |
"
Presumably Mr. Shamir's film plays differently in Israel. In the United States, it feels like just another day on the Op-Ed page."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 20, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
0%
|
Eulogy for a Vampire (2009) |
"
It's hard to imagine anyone watching this attempt at a horror film without guffawing. (Or maybe it's supposed to be a comedy?)"
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 23, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
17%
|
If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans (2009) |
"
It's like choking down 72 minutes of a stranger's unedited home videos, only without the occasional cute kiddie or pet to lighten the tedium."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
0%
|
Talento de Barrio (2008) |
"
The violence-laden story, such as it is, is ineptly stitched together; it's unclear who is shooting at whom and why; and the dialogue seldom advances beyond "Yo, dog" and "Whassup?" The soundtrack is the only draw here."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 10, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
29%
|
Ripple Effect (2008) |
"
Starts with a not-very-original insight and takes too many shortcuts delivering it."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
——
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Urchin (2007) |
"
If nothing else, Urchin tells us that certain New York City subway stations need a bit more security."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 20, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
4%
|
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) |
"
Cedric the Entertainer's artless performance deadens what could have been a much funnier comedy."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 5, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
42%
|
When Do We Eat? (2006) |
"
In this distasteful film from Salvador Litvak, a Jewish family tries to race through a Seder, but drug use, possible incest and some jokes at the expense of the autistic slow them down."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 7, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
38%
|
Robert J. Lifton: Nazi Doctors (2010) |
"
A lazy piece of filmmaking that consists of little more than letting him talk for almost an hour and a half about one of his better-known books."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 8, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Nesting (2012) |
"
"Nesting" takes an old idea and tosses in a few today-sounding phrases in hopes of coming up with a fresh-feeling movie. But that isn't enough."
—
New York Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
All In: The Poker Movie (2012) |
"
So padded with cheerleading that it doesn't have time for a serious exploration of poker's place in the broader culture or the consequences of its rapid rise and global reach."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Delicacy (2012) |
"
It's a lightweight romance that occasionally shows a sense of humor but seems afraid to turn it loose."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 13, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
It's not hard to guess the source of her horror, and so the film's most interesting aspects are its gimmicks rather than its frights."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Patriocracy (2012) |
"
An assortment of reasoned voices - Bob Schieffer, Alan Simpson and others - delineate problems that are already well known."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
The usual escape-before-the-big-blast stuff ensues, augmented by some fairly tedious family dynamics."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
The Viral Factor (2012) |
"
"The Viral Factor" wants to be both an action movie and a soap opera. But the merging of the two genres by Dante Lam, a director based in Hong Kong, is clumsy, and so is the film."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
70%
|
The Pill (2011) |
"
This might be more entertaining if any of the three main characters were at all likable."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Catch .44 (2011) |
"
A drug-deal tale featuring top-drawer actors trying to have fun with a medium-strength script. Sometimes they succeed, but not often enough to elevate the film to "Pulp Fiction" territory."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
A Novel Romance (2011) |
"
Steve Guttenberg is probably supposed to be a lovable loser in "A Novel Romance," a drab, clumsy film by Allie Dvorin, but he can manage to be merely annoying."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Five Star Day (2011) |
"
A drippy ending erases all the hopes you've built up and forces you to conclude that this wasn't such a well-thought-out film after all."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
7%
|
All's Faire in Love (2011) |
"
Only Ann-Margret, as the fair's reigning queen, retains her dignity."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Hood To Coast (2010) |
"
Christoph Baaden, the director, loses sight of the fact that, for people who don't run, the cult of running is kind of boring."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 14, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Two Gates Of Sleep (2011) |
"
The intent is perhaps some kind of dark tone poem, and the cinematography (by Jody Lee Lipes) is lovely. But oh, the tedium."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 31, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
7%
|
Immigration Tango (2011) |
"
The stuff of sitcoms. Complications, of course, ensue, but they're exactly the complications you expect, with exactly the results."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Carbon Nation (2011) |
"
This film seems blissfully unaware that political obstructionists are paralyzing the legislative process; that deep-pocketed influence peddlers have a vested interest in maintaining the fossil fuel culture; that, in general, people resist change."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 11, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
57%
|
The Red Chapel (2010) |
"
Sloppy even by guerrilla filmmaking standards."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 29, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
39%
|
The Taqwacores (2010) |
"
The storytelling is so muddled and the filmmaking so unpolished - and not in a good way - that mostly this movie is just unpleasant."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 22, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
3 Billion and Counting (2010) |
"
By the time they switch to no-nonsense advocacy, you're unclear as to their credibility. "
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 17, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Baghdad Texas (2010) |
"
Quickly disappoints with an inconsistent tone and painful overacting. "
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 27, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Just Say Love (2010) |
"
The glimmers of originality soon vanish, however, and we're left with a tired gay fantasy that seems as if it came out of a freshman creative-writing class."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 26, 2010
|
68%
——
98%
