Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| About a Boy (2002) | "
A timid, soggy near miss." Posted May 17, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 48%
| Big Trouble (2002) | "
It desperately wants to be a wacky, screwball comedy, but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time." Posted Apr 5, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| Changing Lanes (2002) | "
Banek is one of the more complex characters Affleck has attempted, but the performance comes off flat and uninvolving." Posted Apr 12, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| Enigma (2002) | "
How did a movie with so many gifted people in front of and behind the camera wind up being such a drag?" Posted May 3, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 21%
| Enough (2002) | "
Shamelessly exploits the horror of domestic violence for melodramatic, cheap thrills." Posted May 24, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 49%
| Human Nature (2002) | "
It's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness, and where Human Nature should be ingratiating, it's just grating." Posted Apr 12, 2002 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 48%
| Jackass: The Movie (2002) | "
An inflated and excruciating 85 minutes with barely enough laughs to sustain 10." Posted Oct 28, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 27%
| Life or Something Like It (2002) | "
You may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie." Posted Apr 26, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 83%
| Matchstick Men (2003) | "
Rockwell is a hoot as Frankie, but during the stretches when he's not on screen, the air goes out of the film." Posted Sep 12, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 66%
| Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | "
Instead of zesty and daring, Attack of the Clones is often labored and stiff." Posted May 16, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| The Bourne Identity (2002) | "
For all its shoot-outs, fistfights, and car chases, this movie is a phlegmatic bore, so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film The Sum of All Fears, starring Ben Affleck, seem downright Hitchcockian." Posted Jun 14, 2002 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 7%
| The New Guy (2002) | "
So wrongheaded that this one couldn't even have looked good on paper." Posted May 17, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| The Sum of All Fears (2002) | "
There's nothing ambiguous here -- no twisty plot lines, no out-of-left-field jolts. Just lots of angry boys with big angry toys designed to wipe out the whole ever-lovin' lot of us." Posted May 31, 2002 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 44%
| The Thing About My Folks (2005) | "
Flat and forgettable, it's a tiresome film barely held together by its plinky piano score, sophomoric flatulence jokes, and cloying greeting-card emotions." Posted Sep 16, 2005 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 76%
| Undercover Brother (2002) | "
The most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill." Posted May 31, 2002 |
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