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Mark Adnum

Mark Adnum

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:
eFilmCritic.com , Eleven Magazine , FILMINK (Australia) , outrate.net , Script Magazine , Senses of Cinema
Total Reviews:
183
Total QuickRatings:
17

Worst Reviewed Films

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1/100 43% All Over The Guy (2001) " an utterly wretched film that carves deep new trenches into the stinking open grave that is contemporary gay cinema" — outrate.net
Posted Aug 7, 2003
65% The History Boys (2006) " I never saw the madly popular stage version of The History Boys, but I felt like I had after I sat through this almost amateurishly strange, two-dimensional version of it." — eFilmCritic.com
Posted May 14, 2007
83% Somersault (2004) " The gay subplot is the highlight of the film. \Free of the slack pretensions that saturate the rest of Somersault, the sequences between Joe and Richard (Erik Thomson), an older guy who recognizes Joe's furtive glances, are concise and suspenseful." — outrate.net
Posted Mar 15, 2007
—— Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story () " Armin Meiwes is currently in a German jail for biting and cutting off Bernd Brandes' penis, frying it and serving it as a light meal for the both of them, before slaughtering Brandes, carving his body into choice cuts and storing them in the fridge." — outrate.net
Posted Mar 15, 2007
45% Cut Sleeve Boys (2007) " This dreadful and inane minstrel show takes its title from a poem written by a Han Emperor who cut off the sleeve of his beautiful robe so he could get out of bed without waking his sleeping male concubine." — outrate.net
Posted Mar 15, 2007
55% Adam & Steve (2005) " Surprisingly, there are some merits in this latest dropping from the despicable Zany Gay Romantic Comedy factory." — outrate.net
Posted Dec 4, 2006
—— October Moon (2005) " what a strange choice, to set a weirdo gay stalker loose with some rope and a set of steak knives amid a sea of gay-tolerance platitudes" — outrate.net
Posted Dec 4, 2006
73% Deathtrap (1982) " Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve apparently drank litres of alcohol to get through their dreaded male-male kiss scene in Deathtrap, but you'll need something stronger than alcohol to stay interested in this movie." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
68% Jeffrey (1995) " Jeffrey is, easily, the worst gay-themed film ever made." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
67% Bent (1997) " A sentimental mock-Jewish string score, bony lead actors and heartless SS guards fill up a very stock picture of martyrs at the mercy of a cruel world." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
48% Summer Storm (Sommersturm) (2006) " I think it's interesting that hetero coming-of-age, teen-love films tend to be broad frat-house comedies a la American Pie while gay versions on the theme lean towards a lushly romanticised, almost tragic vision of innocence lost." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
63% À cause d'un garçon (You'll Get Over It) (2002) " Yet another troubled-gay-teen dragged Christ-like through the wringer of high-school-hell film." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
—— Death in Venice () " Homosexual attraction in Death In Venice is such an isolated, intellectual quest that it has no carnality, and becomes something like a mania or temporary fever-induced mental attack." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
25% O Fantasma (2001) " Officially selected at the Venice Film Festival and variously proclaimed as "one of the year's ten best films" etc., by reviewers in gay and non-gay media, O Fantasma is really an overblown bore" — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
90% A Year Without Love (Un Ano sin amor) (2005) " As his immune system declines, his need for affection increases, but when he hooks up with a hardcore sex gang, meets the charismatic Martín and decides to publish a frank autobiography, he drifts away from his supportive family" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
—— 200 American (2003) " things kind of go no where but also in all directions as this woeful movie jumps aboard the Crapola Express to ****ville" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
22% Nine Dead Gay Guys (9 Dead Gay Guys) (2002) " Lower-class Irish guys darting from one misadventure to the other dated about as quickly as Hugh Grant's voice-over narration in films like Notting Hill and About A Boy" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
6% Testosterone (Testosteroni) (2004) " A perfectly titled film, since the fleeting mid-story appearance of Antonio Sabato Jr.'s **** was apparently all that was necessary to vacuum cash out of gay male film goers' wallets and into the box offices of gay and lesbian film festivals the world ove" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
77% Presque rien (Come Undone) (2000) " Stanley Kubrick once said that watching a film was like taking part in a controlled dream. But Presque Rien is really like the kind of daydream you might have at work, while you stare out the window waiting for five o-clock" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
52% Garçon Stupide (2005) " Oh, when will it end? How many more art-farty films about aimless young homo gits gliding on auto-pilot through an endless string of anonymous sexual encounters do we need to see?" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
57% Cowboys & Angels (2003) " Though Cowboys & Angels has a heart of gold, it has a brain of tin. Unbelievable coincidences and pat conveniences allow you to give your eyeballs a thorough rolling" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
20% Anonymous (2004) " Cruising around washrooms, parks and the internet for sex is boring enough when you're doing it yourself, so Todd Verow's 84-minute home video of his own encounters is enough to drive you to stick hot needles in your eyes" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
16% Eating Out (2004) " One good thing: at 84 minutes, it's over quickly." — outrate.net
Posted Nov 17, 2005
—— Locked Up (Gefangen) (2004) " It's criminal to see such slop being shovelled towards a gay market as something they simply have to see and it's embarrassing to see gay consumers take the bait." — outrate.net
Posted Sep 12, 2005
84% Mysterious Skin (2005) " Pre-teen boys are a little androgynous, but this one's more freaking female impersonator." — outrate.net
Posted Jun 13, 2005
65% Big Eden (2001) " an annoying and mediocre film that is mystifyingly popular" — outrate.net
Posted May 30, 2005
17% Unconditional Love (2002) " It's hard to see how talented, ballsy Kathy Bates could have ever been effective in this silly, feminine film." — outrate.net
Posted Dec 13, 2004
55% The Iron Ladies (Satree lek) (2001) " Footage of the original Iron Ladies shows a group of calm, composed kathoeys who contrast completely with the shrill archetypes of the film." — outrate.net
Posted Dec 13, 2004
28% Proteus (2004) " Proteus is a little bit of a soutpiel, as it can't decide wether it wants to be a brainy and beautiful costume epic, or quirky and polemic "New Queer Cinema"." — outrate.net
Posted Jul 3, 2004
64% Priest (1995) " Homosexual Catholic priests are, apparently, relatively common, but any kind of open expression of homosexual orientation by the ordained is of course forbidden. Priest explores this fascinating constriction in the most boring, lame way imaginable" — outrate.net
Posted May 9, 2004
63% Swoon (1991) " the contrast between real gay outlaws and faux, red-ribbon ones is a sharp one" — outrate.net
Posted Mar 19, 2004
100% And the Band Played On (1993) " ... and on" — outrate.net
Posted Mar 16, 2004
69% The Adventures of Felix (Drôle de Félix) (2001) " Rock Hudson must be rolling in his grave: ditzy light comedies now feature HIV-positive gay characters as frothy, cute leads." — outrate.net
Posted Dec 6, 2003
93% The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) " twee, and in gay fantasy land from the word go" — outrate.net
Posted Dec 1, 2003
32% Mambo Italiano (2003) " plods along a well worn path to nowhere" — outrate.net
Posted Nov 20, 2003
67% The Living End (2008) " an extremely overrated film about a couple of HIV-positive guys on a destructive road trip to nowhere" — outrate.net
Posted Nov 4, 2003
77% Nicholas Nickleby (2002) " the perfect resource for students who've balked at the book's brick-like dimensions but who have an exam on it the next day, and need a quick overview" — FILMINK (Australia)
Posted Oct 26, 2003
37% Le Divorce (2003) " too many undeveloped plot strands and a dozen too many famous faces, who keep popping up and then disappearing like some kind of star-studded carousel." — FILMINK (Australia)
Posted Oct 26, 2003
24% A Guy Thing (2003) " every bumbling mishap along the way to the aisle- the sudden public attacks of diarrhea, the psychotic ex-boyfriend, about a hundred other stale gags - is straight out of the campus-howler how-to book" — FILMINK (Australia)
Posted Aug 19, 2003
35% The In-Laws (2003) " scriptwriters fill in plotting gaps with unnecessary jokes at the expense of minorities, as the story heads towards a deflated, kind of begrudgingly happy ending" — FILMINK (Australia)
Posted Aug 19, 2003
63% The Broken Hearts Club (2000) " smiley-face, rainbow-flag, being-gay-is-just-so-great crap." — outrate.net
Posted Jul 18, 2003
19% The Next Best Thing (2000) " Madonna is a great actress." — outrate.net
Posted Jul 17, 2003
—— Butch Camp (1999) " Why not make a gay Porky's? Because broad sex farces and modern gay culture just don't go together - they just don't. Butch Camp is the evidence." — outrate.net
Posted Jul 16, 2003
—— Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971) " Tom of Finland meets "Banana Splits" in the completely stupid Fortune and Men's Eyes." — outrate.net
Posted Jul 16, 2003
92% The Laramie Project (2002) " A sterling film - a cross between Boys Don't Cry, Deliverance, and Ode to Billy Joe - lies somewhere in the story of Matthew Shepard, but that film is yet to be made." — outrate.net
Posted May 30, 2003
77% Philadelphia (1993) " Betty Crocker meets AIDS" — outrate.net
Posted Mar 31, 2003
80% The Green Mile (1999) " a miscalculated and indulgent limping elephant of a film, a bizarre and meaningless mess, kind of like something Steven Spielberg would dream of after he ate a big spicy meal" — eFilmCritic.com
Posted Nov 24, 2002
2/5 61% Valkyrie (2008) " A one-man Hollywood on legs, Cruise is Eyes by Newman, Nose by Streisand, Body by Brando, Brain by Mickey Mouse." — outrate.net
Posted Jan 28, 2009
2/5 63% Disclosure (1994) — outrate.net
Posted Jun 13, 2003
2/5 80% The Client (1994) — outrate.net
Posted Jun 4, 2003
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