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Urban Cinefile Critics

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography:
Launched in February 1997, www.urbancinefile.com.au is Australia's premier online movie magazine and winner of the 1998 AFR Internet Awards Best Arts & Entertainment Site Award. It was again judged among the top three Entertainment sites in the 2000 Awards. Edited by film journalist Andrew L. Urban, it is updated weekly, with a comprehensive menu of reviews covering all new film releases, many DVD and VHS releases, plus star interviews and behind the scenes features, news and box office reports. Streaming videocontent includes star interviews, location reports, movie reviews, trailers.
Publications:
Urban Cinefile
Total Reviews:
5286
Total QuickRatings:
4
Location:
Sydney, Australia

Worst Reviewed Films

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26% The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) " There are more problems than ghosts in this charmless romantic comedy in which Matthew McConaughey's Lothario gets a lesson in the love stakes." — Urban Cinefile
Posted May 4, 2009
35% Pride and Glory (2008) " It's predictable, it's also escapist entertainment." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jan 29, 2009
38% Star Trek - Nemesis (2002) " Even though the special effects are as well executed as ever, the story doesn't excite or even allow us to really believe the premise." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
47% Azumi (2003) " Well, this particular fantasy surely lost its novelty value a while back, and frankly never did much for me anyhow." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
0% Killing Me Softly (2003) " What a disappointing waste of good talent!" — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
82% Barbershop (2002) " The problem with Barbershop is that it tries too hard to be too many things." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
9% White Noise (2005) " A messy cheesecake of supernatural horror without scaring the pants off its audience, nor making any real sense." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
15% Garfield - The Movie (2004) " Garfield is a cool cat with attitude, yet his debut on the big screen falls short by more than a whisker largely due to a script that relies on novelty value rather than fresh ideas." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
5% Yu-Gi-Oh! - The Movie (Yûgiô: Gekijô-ban) (2004) " It's essentially an advertisement for a similarly titled trading card game." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
46% Shall We Dance (2004) " This excellent and acclaimed cast is shoved into a film whose screenplay should have alerted them that it's not ready to go before the cameras." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
27% Fantastic Four (2005) " The film is made in the internet equivalent of capital letters and its simplistic morality stands out on the big screen more so than on the small page." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
2% Twisted (2004) " At least the performances are solid." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
5% The Perfect Man (2005) " It's funny, poignant and the characters are appealing." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
41% Freddy vs. Jason (2003) " it's safe to say the best work of these bad boys is decidedly behind them." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
4% The Whole Ten Yards (2003) " Mostly overacted and overblown, the script tries to make 'outlandish' into outrageous but hardly ever manages it. Missing is the element of some discernible sense of reality that is essential to black comedy." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
5% Christmas with the Kranks (2004) " The notion of bullying people into succumbing into the trappings of Christmas does not necessarily represent goodwill to all, and while the situations present good comic opportunities, the film ends up feeling rather manipulative and sugary." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
81% One Hour Photo (2002) " In a story so reliant on detail as the engine for character action, it's frustrating and annoying to see the film spiral down the gurgler because of a few (but crucial) lapses of attention to detail." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
2% Half Past Dead (2002) " What is it about Steven Seagal and three-word movie titles?" — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
13% Ghost Ship (2002) " There is a sense of predictability about the film after the promising start and for all its good intentions it never takes us on board with its mish mash of ghosts, mysticism and spiritual concoction." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
6% Son of the Mask (2005) " Kennedy is feeble and even Alan Cumming makes less of a meal than he could of his role as the petulant god of mischief." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
81% Safe (1995) " Like Carol, this gifted filmmaker seems to be trapped inside a shell -- devoting his considerable intelligence mainly to justifying his own sense of paralysis." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
10% Catwoman (2004) " Rated NFD (Not For the Discerning)." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
24% Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) " Jan de Bont's direction is also disappointing, and while Angelina Jolie continues to be an eye catching female superhero, she will only do it for the most undemanding audiences this time." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
5% Serving Sara (2002) " Excruciating." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
4% Godsend (2003) " It ends up like any mass produced genre piece in which the only thing that is well developed is the film negative." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
8% Gods and Generals (2003) " A labour of love with special interest to history buffs, this epic film is extraordinary in many ways." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
17% The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) " Without a strong, juicy villain -- one that we love to hate -- the film lacks an important ingredient." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
14% Waking Up in Reno (2002) " Four boring characters, a painfully unfunny road trip and drama that's not quite as convincing as a daytime soap opera add up to a wretched time in this redneck romantic comedy." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
7% License to Wed (2007) " It's a bit short of laughs, but there are a few cute ideas in this formulaic, predictable romantic comedy." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
20% The Pacifier (2005) " It might have been a good career move for Diesel, who cut his teeth on high-octane action, but the script needs a lift and the direction feels lackluster." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
5% Swept Away (2002) " Don't count on being swept away by this contrived, predictable shipwrecked romance." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
9% Darkness Falls (2003) " Film lovers beware! The evil spirits of boredom will befall should you enter a darkened cinema and endure Darkness Falls." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
6% The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) " It's a real turkey." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
68% Barbershop 2 - Back in Business (2004) " It's the kind of set-piece ensemble that has proven immensely successful as a sitcom formula but tends to struggle to meet the demands of a movie." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
0% Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) " Banderas mopes through this hideous and unintelligible enterprise like a bloodhound with a hangover, while Liu elects to look cool in leather in lieu of a performance." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
20% Knockaround Guys (2002) " Even the top ensemble case of Knockaround Guys, headed by the ever-remarkable John Malkovich and charismatic Vin Diesel, can't jump the brick wall that the script hits in the last 20 minutes." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
3% Rollerball (2002) " This film was long-delayed and much altered in post-production and it shows." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
81% The Bourne Supremacy (2004) " A huge leap of faith is required to connect, and many plot details appear to have not been properly thought through." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
8% Extreme Ops (2002) " An extremely stupid action movie." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
81% Oldboy (2005) " Vengeance, says director Chan-wook Park, is the most dramatic subject in the world. The problem with that view driving his filmmaking is that it seems to override his creative judgement, presenting us with cruelty as the vehicle for his cinematic jollies." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Oct 18, 2008
19% Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) " The animation seems to have been outsourced to two factories: one for the galactic battles and machines, the other for the Jedi and related characters. The latter seem clunky and simplistic, much like the film's screenplay" — Urban Cinefile
Posted Aug 14, 2008
13% Mr. Woodcock (2007) " Mr Woodcock is ok as far as predictable, low-brow Hollywood comedies are concerned, and it's considerably elevated by its above average cast." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jul 12, 2008
18% Chapter 27 (2007) " The eternal question of why Chapman shot Lennon is not answered. And that's probably because there IS no real reason." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jul 12, 2008
14% The Love Guru (2008) " Puerile and disappointing, what might have been a comical, irreverent look at Eastern guru wisdom a la Mike Myers is a load of balderdash, anchored by an elephantine bag of toilet humour, oversized penises and midget jokes" — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jul 7, 2008
40% Hancock (2008) " I love surprises and would happily be led up the garden path with Will Smith, but there's a fatal flaw to Hancock, with alien-sized plot holes and worse still, characters behaving out of context." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jun 28, 2008
14% Blonde Ambition (2007) " There's nothing redeeming about this badly written, badly directed and (in the case of Jessica Simpson), badly acted low-brow comedy." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jun 18, 2008
67% The Incredible Hulk (2008) " A mish-mash of comic-book drama coupled with video-game graphics." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jun 10, 2008
18% The Happening (2008) " Sadly for Mr. Shyamalan, the ideas that have been coming to him since his brilliant first hit The Sixth Sense are progressively worthy of less merit and more deserving of ridicule." — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jun 10, 2008
56% Rich and Famous (1981) " This saga about two friends falls short of heartfelt and never satisfies" — Urban Cinefile
Posted Jun 5, 2008
39% Saawariya (2007) " With its lavish production design, extravagant sets, poetic musical numbers and photogenic stars, Saawariya is ravishing to look at, but disappointing overall" — Urban Cinefile
Posted May 23, 2008
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