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Jonathan Kiefer

Jonathan Kiefer

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Publications:
Maisonneuve , PopMatters , Sacramento News & Review , Salon.com , The Faster Times
Total Reviews:
305

Worst Reviewed Films

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1/5 18% Valentine's Day (2010) " Too cocooned in its own shiny little Hollywood world to be called cynical, but in no genuine way romantic or comedic either." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Feb 12, 2010
1/5 25% Nobel Son (2008) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 11, 2008
1/5 25% Filth and Wisdom (2008) " There's no wisdom in this script." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 30, 2008
1/5 11% Proud American (2008) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 2, 2008
1/5 4% The Celestine Prophecy (2006) " James Redfield's best seller hits the big screen with a dull thud." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
1/5 22% The Quiet (2006) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
1/5 9% When a Stranger Calls (2006) " Having abstained from character development and stalling for something to do between calls, the movie dwells in the house's dark corners, plugging plot holes with overzealous sound design." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
2/5 37% X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) " It's just too bad a movie sharp enough to rip through flesh and helicopter blades and nuclear-reactor smokestack walls has to feel so disappointingly dull." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 7, 2010
2/5 18% Princess Ka'iulani (2010) " Historically fanciful and dramatically doltish." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 27, 2010
2/5 19% The Back-up Plan (2010) " The premise alone might induce vomiting." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 23, 2010
2/5 28% Clash of the Titans (2010) " Here comes director Louis Leterrier and his team of mercenary screenwriters to make sure a dated, lumbering mytho-fantastical clunker from 1981 gets a bland, moronic, computer-enhanced warming over." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 2, 2010
2/5 63% The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) " Gilliam's paean to the imagination seems to lack imagination." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 25, 2009
2/5 32% The Lovely Bones (2009) " Before adding to the pre-existing heap of critical disdain for Peter Jackson's take on Alice Sebold's much-adored 2002 novel, is it possible to admit the book might have been a tad overrated?" — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 11, 2009
2/5 21% Amelia (2009) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 23, 2009
2/5 12% Couples Retreat (2009) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 9, 2009
2/5 17% Love Happens (2009) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 1, 2009
2/5 56% Orphan (2009) " I'm almost offended that I'm not offended." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 24, 2009
2/5 50% Whatever Works (2009) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 19, 2009
2/5 43% Race to Witch Mountain (2009) " Writers Matt Lopez and Mark Bomback, with director Andy Fickman, have seasoned this empty-calorie feast for easy digestion." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Mar 19, 2009
2/5 57% Defiance (2009) " The actors' way of reveling in their stagey gestures, sooty makeup and silly accents becomes increasingly pitiable." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jan 15, 2009
2/5 69% Synecdoche, New York (2008) " Life is so complicatedly humiliating, Kaufman insists, and he's right. Too bad his insistence is so simple-mindedly aggrandizing." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Nov 20, 2008
2/5 41% The Rocker (2008) " To those moviegoers who've expressed some weariness of Will Ferrell and Jack Black always doing what they do: Well, OK, here's somebody else doing it." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 4, 2008
2/5 86% I.O.U.S.A. (2008) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 22, 2008
2/5 49% Bottle Shock (2008) " Verdict: Chewy, ripe and rounded almost to the point of flabbiness, it finishes rather cleanly; less satisfying is the fragrant bouquet, which contains notes of corn and all-wet underdog." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 21, 2008
2/5 33% The Good German (2007) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 65% The Kite Runner (2007) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 50% Fast Food Nation (2006) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 69% Babel (2006) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 15% Hannibal Rising (2007) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 20% The Invasion (2007) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 28% Smokin' Aces (2007) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 16% Eragon (2006) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 80% Little Children (2006) " Blame Field (remember, Perrotta also wrote the knifelike Election), for facing the material too squarely." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 20% Death Sentence (2007) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 38% Swing Vote (2008) " The whole enterprise, including Costner's uneven performance, does get better and more absorbing as it develops. But not enough to be meaningful." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 37% You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) " You should have known: You Don't Expect Much from the Zohan." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 33% The Libertine (2006) " It feels both overlong and incomplete." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 14% The Love Guru (2008) " The whole vaguely pitiable enterprise has tiny flickers of brilliance which can't be denied, but almost can't be detected, either." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 21% Catch and Release (2007) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2/5 46% Green Street Hooligans (2005) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 3, 2006
2/5 5% Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) " Larry's routine becomes considerably more embarrassing the longer it continues." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
2/5 27% Fantastic Four (2005) " Finally, a movie that explores what happens when a group of people who can't get along find themselves freakishly mutated by cosmic radiation!" — Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
2/5 73% V for Vendetta (2006) " Don't believe the hype. All this muddled movie has to offer is more numbly regurgitated, willfully cartoonish pop political commentary." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
2/5 78% Munich (2005) " Spielberg trades in hollow, spuriously cinematic gestures and in explicitly topical politics that I suspect will render this movie embarrassingly dated before decade's end." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
2/5 41% American Dreamz (2006) " his movie, full of easy swipes at easy targets, comes off like that overly chummy guy at a party who got drunk too early and goes around taking too long to set up a joke that's already been beaten to death." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
2/5 55% Happy Endings (2005) Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
2/5 36% Asylum (2005) Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
2/5 36% Chicken Little (2005) " Post-Pixar Disney's "Digital 3-D" concept doesn't seem to include any reservations about 2-D character development." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
C 76% Rocky Balboa (2006) " This might be the best Rocky movie since the first Rocky movie. But if that sounds like a rave, just think of all the others." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 29, 2006
3/5 72% Fuel (2008) Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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