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19%
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Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001) |
"
A visually spectacular yet oddly cheerless experience."
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Film.com
Posted Jun 14, 2001
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33%
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One Night at McCool's (2001) |
"
Hinges on a haphazard intersection between several venal, infinitely and annoyingly flawed characters."
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Film.com
Posted Apr 26, 2001
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28%
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Kingdom Come (2001) |
"
The comedy sequences are routinely played for the very broadest sort of slapstick, which makes its abrupt attempts to switch gears back into genuine dramatic emotion-mode all the more impossible to sustain."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Apr 12, 2001
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37%
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Beautiful Creatures (2001) |
"
As the movie limps on, it becomes painfully obvious that both these 'creatures' ... will always remain victims at best, stooges at worst."
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Film.com
Posted Apr 5, 2001
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8%
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Valentine (2001) |
"
Simply mines the same tired, predictable slasher-movie vein."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 2, 2001
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28%
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Sugar & Spice (2001) |
"
[A] deliberately shallow, plasticized yuck-fest."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 25, 2001
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40%
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Proof of Life (2000) |
"
This is half a good movie held hostage to the other, trashier half, and unfortunately for all of us, no rescue seems forthcoming."
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Film.com
Posted Dec 7, 2000
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10%
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Dungeons & Dragons (2000) |
"
Better luck next turn."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Dec 7, 2000
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45%
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The Cell (2000) |
"
The consistent emphasis on visual over story logic and character considerations, along with certain weaknesses already inherent in Mark Protosevich's script, gradually undermine the whole enchilada from the bottom on up."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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16%
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The Astronaut's Wife (1999) |
"
Languorous and oddly detached."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3%
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Bless the Child (2000) |
"
It's all just cheap metaphor and stupid spectacle, with technology standing (rather inadequately) in for any sort of genuine inquiry into the fascinating mysteries and difficulties of actual faith."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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42%
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The Ninth Gate (1999) |
"
The key word here is 'whore,' not 'horror.' As in 'too bad Polanski's become one' ... and such an ineffective one, to boot."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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23%
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Simpatico (1999) |
"
Suspend my disbelief? I couldn't even lift it!"
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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70%
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Frequency (2000) |
"
Good casting only takes us so far, and Frequency -- fun as it remains -- really doesn't have the chops to go the rest of the distance."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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34%
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But I'm A Cheerleader (2000) |
"
Ungainly sentiment and unnecessary stylization."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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29%
|
Drowning Mona (2000) |
"
No kind of triumph of anything over anything."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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80%
|
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) (1997) |
"
The movie's eventual transition from silly fun to heartstring-tugging tearjerker mode comes off as limp at best."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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64%
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Anywhere But Here (2000) |
"
No subtle interplay of personality here, folks, just yet more 'proof' of some well-established Hollywood canon 'facts.'"
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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55%
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The Little Vampire (2000) |
"
Some things just don't translate ... not with Lipnicki attached, at any rate. Stick with the books."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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9%
|
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) |
"
A dressed-up piece of drivel, a self-referential pseudo-thriller with pretensions to pretensions of classic Hollywood suspense."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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51%
|
Anna and the King (2000) |
"
Tennant seems genuinely unsure what mood he's striving for here."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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25%
|
Reindeer Games (Deception) (2000) |
"
It just vanishes from between your ears like cotton-candy in a tropical rainstorm, leaving nothing but a slightly sickly aftertaste."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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39%
|
Lake Placid (1999) |
"
This is just a variant on ten thousand other huge-creature-tryin'-to-kill-me movies."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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11%
|
Boys and Girls (2000) |
"
Truly appalling, repetitive, utterly predictable film."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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22%
|
Lucky Numbers (2000) |
"
A roundelay of frenzied action that racks up deal after extortionate deal and body after body while hit after retro hit plays on the soundtrack; sound and fury, pretty much about nothing."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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27%
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Running Free (2000) |
"
If you're looking for something child-appropriate that'll actually keep the little darlings awake for two hours straight, you'd do better ... and cheaper ... to just stay at home with the Discovery Channel."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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75%
|
Rugrats in Paris - The Movie (2000) |
"
Watching Rugrats In Paris ... I am forced to ask myself exactly what range of kids this kiddie movie is actually being pitched at."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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54%
|
Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
"
Ends up suffering from the classic diseases of book -to- film adaptation."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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7%
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Lost Souls (2000) |
"
Another barely-there plot cobbled around a series of prettily vacant images, adding up to an almost total waste of time."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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11%
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Highlander - Endgame (2000) |
"
Kinetic but borderline incoherent, hinging entirely on character relationships whose significance it can't possibly slow down long enough to explain for the newbies in the audience."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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33%
|
Final Destination (2000) |
"
At two hours and ten bucks, you'll definitely feel cheated."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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2/5
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34%
|
Where the Heart Is (2000) |
"
So sugary sweet and packed with magic-realistic miracles it plays like an Oprah Winfrey-produced miniseries on crack."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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2/5
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78%
|
Get Real (1999) |
"
Get Real may fulfill a desire in some to see simple-minded views expressed cinematically in feel-good fables (at whatever cost to narrative logic or character development), but these actors deserve better."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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2/5
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93%
|
A Summer's Tale (1996) |
"
It's the kind of vaguely philosophical travelogue/not-exactly-love story audiences are virtually guaranteed to find either exotically fascinating or utterly interminable."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/5
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67%
|
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1998) |
"
It's a surreal paradise where the summer sun never sets and the air is full of feathers drifting down from the Glahn family ostrich farm."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted May 7, 2002
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3/5
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63%
|
Chocolat (2000) |
"
Feels good going down, but for such a sweet movie, the aftertaste is oddly bitter."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Feb 7, 2001
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3/5
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38%
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Entrapment (1999) |
"
Connery and Zeta-Jones are such fun to watch together it almost doesn't matter how little sense the movie makes -- and their relationship is far more gleefully perverse, weirdly chivalrous and surprisingly interesting than the trailer makes it look."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/5
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9%
|
The Skulls (2000) |
"
It's better than you expect going in, but not quite good enough to leave you with more than a vaguely pleasant, vaguely disappointed aftertaste."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/5
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96%
|
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) |
"
Educational as well as fun -- a product worthy of its subject."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/5
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82%
|
Beyond the Mat (1999) |
"
To my own immense surprise, I find myself giving the thumbs-up to Hollywood screenwriter-turned-director Barry W. Blaustein's documentary about professional wrestling."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/5
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92%
|
Star Trek - First Contact (1996) |
"
The most exciting entry in the Trek franchise since the The Wrath Of Khan."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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69%
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The Adventures of Felix (Drôle de Félix) (2001) |
"
A remarkably charming, laid-back, well-adjusted guy to find at the heart of any 21st-century comedy."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jun 6, 2001
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58%
|
A Knight's Tale (2001) |
"
Will A Knight's Tale have a long shelf-life? Hell, no. But will it do for this Friday, preferably with a date? Hell, yes."
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Film.com
Posted May 10, 2001
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8%
|
The Forsaken (2001) |
"
Scary and sexy."
—
Film.com
Posted Apr 27, 2001
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54%
|
Enemy at the Gates (2001) |
"
The new year's single most satisfying movie experience thus far."
—
Film.com
Posted Mar 15, 2001
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53%
|
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"
Breaks virtually no new narrative ground, yet treads the familiar territory it does cover with grace, style, wit and fun."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 11, 2001
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14%
|
Dracula 2000 (2000) |
"
Dracula 2000 is nothing more or less than pure popcorn filmmaking, with an emphasis on the 'corn', and...apparently... proud of it."
—
Film.com
Posted Dec 22, 2000
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97%
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (2001) |
"
A waking dream of truly operatic dimensions."
—
Film.com
Posted Dec 7, 2000
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97%
|
Good Will Hunting (1997) |
"
Executed with such maximum grace, style and heartfelt emotional realism that it's almost enough to make the concept of an 'uplifting' movie not seem like such a big fat cheat any more."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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83%
|
Erin Brockovich (2000) |
"
[Roberts looks] spectacularly and movingly human even at the expense of her established persona."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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68%
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