Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
The acting is decent, the writing competent, and the DP kept everything in focus most of the time. This may seem like faint praise, but given the state of the modern American rom-com, that places it head-and-shoulders above most of the genre." — Cinema Sideshow Posted Aug 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) | "
Yeah, there's the scene with the zombie dogs, but most of the film involves scientists sitting around a big table talking about what they plan to do next." — FADPOV.com Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 43%
| The Brave One (2007) | "
(Since) most ticket-buyers will fail to see beyond the gun violence to the more human story, The Brave One is simply a competent failure by a very good director." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 56%
| Transformers (2007) | "
Considering that the whole movie is being sold as nothing more than a CGI version of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, one kind of expects there to be more rockin' and sockin' and less funny business with Optimus Prime destroying Mom's flower bed." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 3, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| Lucky You (2007) | "
Hanson's an excellent director, and there are swaths of "Lucky You" that are admittedly very well executed. But without a main character to root for, a believable romance or any reason to give a crap about the story, the whole thing just rolls over on its" — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 4, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 51%
| Fast Food Nation (2006) | "
Linklater's Fast Food movie covers all of Schlosser's bases, but is surprisingly anemic in its execution." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| You, Me and Dupree (2006) | "
The slow decline of Owen Wilson's career continues with this pedestrian sitcom-on-celluloid." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| The Black Dahlia (2006) | "
It's hard to tell what De Palma wanted to achieve with this film. Whatever it was, what ended up on the screen is a confused, ugly mess." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 9%
| The Reaping (2007) | "
Hillary Swank is a minister AND a scientist! No, I'm not making this up. Please, stop laughing." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 6, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 68%
| Babel (2006) | "
Babel isn't actually about anything. It's just 140 minutes of self-conscious cinematic navel-gazing dressed up in Oscar-bait clothing." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 10, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 3%
| The Covenant (2006) | "
If Dawson's Creek had been about warlocks, it would look like this." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 8, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Nacho Libre (2006) | "
Jack Black capers, cavorts and makes funny faces in an attempt to wring comedy out of wood, and it's just plain embarrassing to watch." — Portland Tribune Posted Jun 18, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 26%
| The Omen (2006) | "
The first one wasn't all that great, so we're talking about a competent remake of a decent, but mediocre, film. There are more monkeys, though, so that's something." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 6, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) | "
Ratner's slick, smugly inept take on the X-Men is more than an ending to a series -- it's like a stake in its heart, making the entire enterprise smell like a rotting corpse." — Portland Tribune Posted May 26, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 9%
| See No Evil (2006) | "
Dark obviously did a lot of research for his big-screen debut, watching hours of David Fincher movies and Nine Inch Nails videos for inspiration." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 21, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 30%
| Silent Hill (2006) | "
An abject failure as a horror film, offering gorgeous Clive Barker-inspired art direction run amuck with nothing actually scary going on." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 21, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Lucky # Slevin (2006) | "
Perhaps George Clooney and his effortlessly cool Ocean's 11 series is to blame for this wave of insubstantial, inept caper flicks with Rat Pack ambitions." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Inside Man (2006) | "
Takes the obvious plot constructs of an hourlong network TV episode and stretches them to the breaking point, bringing absolutely nothing new to the genre." — DVDJournal.com Posted Mar 27, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| North Country (2005) | "
... an overblown, overlong soap opera about a woman who never learns how to truly stand up for herself." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| The Skeleton Key (2005) | "
The wide, unmoving forehead of Kate Hudson floats with torporific ennui through this clip show of all the slowest, most boring bits from every spook movie you've ever seen." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Fantastic Four (1994) | "
Fantastic Four, with its characters spending so much time talking about their feelings, seems more like a spandex-clad support group session." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) | "
... exceedingly long and pointless" — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Kingdom of Heaven (2005) | "
As with Gladiator, Scott's Kingdom is a busy but empty place with no heart." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| The Amityville Horror (2005) | "
... a lousy pastiche of quick edits, light switches that drip blood, family home-movie footage and incessantly shirtless comedy actor Ryan Reynolds" — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 15, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Hide and Seek (2005) | "
... ultimately nothing more than a derivative slasher film" — Portland Tribune Posted Mar 4, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Be Cool (2005) | "
... not as clever as its predecessor, suffering from somnambulant pacing and a flaccid, underwritten script." — Portland Tribune Posted Mar 4, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Surviving Christmas (2004) | "
... as cinematic gifts go, this one’s less a shiny new Red Rider BB gun than it is a $10 gift certificate for Wal-Mart." — Portland Tribune Posted Oct 22, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Shark Tale (2004) | "
... an extraordinarily irritating, aesthetically unappealing and poorly written movie." — Portland Tribune Posted Oct 1, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Wicker Park (2004) | "
... a lot of self-conscious, Brian DePalma-like, Hitchcock-ripoff camera tricks, painfully scene-specific pop songs and Hartnett brow-furrowing." — Portland Tribune Posted Sep 3, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| The Terminal (2004) | "
Spielberg falls back on his penchant for sappiness and paints everything in the film with a thick coat of the cutes." — Portland Tribune Posted Jun 18, 2004 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 22%
| Van Helsing (2004) | "
There are bad movies, then there are really bad movies — and Van Helsing is even worse than that." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 7, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The Punisher (2004) | "
The title seems less about the character than a descriptive warning to ticket-buyers.
" — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 16, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| The Whole Ten Yards (2004) | "
... an unfunny, incomprehensible mess that stumbles, bumbles and meanders from pointless scene to pointless scene without offering any humor or even a cohesive plot.
" — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Jersey Girl (2004) | "
Flat, trite and embarrassing, Jersey Girl smells as bad as the state for which it's named.
" — Portland Tribune Posted Mar 26, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Secret Window (2004) | "
Secret Window is based on a novella by Stephen King -- that alone should tell you pretty much everything you need to know about the movie ...
" — Portland Tribune Posted Mar 12, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 2%
| Twisted (2004) | "
The plodding path to the unsurprising revelation of whodunit is an exercise in utter stupidity." — Portland Tribune Posted Feb 27, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Against the Ropes (2003) | "
Less actual biography than an unimaginative arrangement of sports-movie clichés ..." — Portland Tribune Posted Feb 20, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) | "
Director Peter Webber's 1665 Holland is all grimy streets, picturesque canals and plump-faced schoolchildren, opting for atmosphere over character development." — Portland Tribune Posted Jan 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Mona Lisa Smile (2003) | "
Roberts ... grins as if her skull may cleave in two and lets loose with her braying-donkey laugh a few times, thus fulfilling the requirements of a "Julia Roberts Movie."" — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 19, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Stuck on You (2003) | "
In attempting to be sensitive, they sacrificed what could have been gut-bustingly hilarious had they had the courage to risk being cruel." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 12, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Timeline (2003) | "
Timeline may not be the dumbest movie to be released this year. But it's certainly not for lack of trying.
" — Portland Tribune Posted Nov 28, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Gothika (2003) | "
... inadequate fluorescent lighting and a couple of things that jump out at the heroine do not a terrifying movie make.
" — Portland Tribune Posted Nov 21, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Radio (2003) | "
Watching this formulaic and predictable film is like settling into a bathtub full of honeyed oatmeal -- not painful, really, just numbing and syrupy." — Portland Tribune Posted Oct 24, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Veronica Guerin (2003) | "
... wears a paper-thin cloak of artistic pretension as Schumacher shamelessly belabors his self-evident points about drugs and gangsters being Bad Things." — Portland Tribune Posted Oct 17, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) | "
... so pointless and so flat-out dumb that it isn't worth the time or the money to watch." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 29, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Medallion (2003) | "
... approaching 50, Jackie Chan still has amazing moves but is not the daredevil that he once was. His opponents are looking more and more spry with every film, and the editing cheats to make Jackie appear his old, nimble self are becoming more apparent." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 22, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Freddy vs. Jason (2003) | "
Freddy's incessant wisecracks are so lame and Jason's stolid invulnerability so uninteresting that even the final cage match between the two icons feels like filler." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 15, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) | "
Without the 3-D gimmick, there wouldn't be any reason to bother with Rodriguez's ultimate Spy Kids movie, although for a generation of kids who never got to enjoy matinee fodder like House of Wax, the gimmick itself may be thrill enough." — Portland Tribune Posted Jul 25, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Johnny English (2003) | "
Riffing on Bond should be a cakewalk, what with all the high-tech gadgets and hammy villains and fabulous babes. Yet this uninspired piece of fluff misses the mark almost every step of the way." — Portland Tribune Posted Jul 18, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) | "
Rabid fans of Legally Blonde may somehow convince themselves that this odious piece of celluloid dreck isn't all that bad; more discerning viewers will leave the theater wishing to put out their own eyes with salad forks." — Portland Tribune Posted Jul 4, 2003 |
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