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Brett Buckalew

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Publications:: Chicago Tribune , FilmStew.com , Hollywood.com , Metromix.com

Total Reviews:: 141

Worst Reviewed Films

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
68%	Redbelt (2008)	" The journey has its charms, but the destination calls to mind Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?"" — FilmStew.com Posted May 2, 2008
64%	Stop Loss (2008)	" Much of Stop-Loss' first act feels like the cast of Hee-Haw auditioning for a Best Years of Our Lives remake." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 31, 2008
29%	Trade (2007)	" Treats sex slavery with roughly the same amount of tact and complexity with which the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target treated homelessness." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 2, 2007
19%	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	" Roman Polanski has a confounding two-scene cameo as a customs official who gives Carter and Lee a full cavity search. (Har har.)" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 10, 2007
44%	In the Land of Women (2007)	" Only slightly less clumsy overall than Against the Ropes, but at least it plays to co-star Meg Ryan's ability to suggest volumes of repressed emotion." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 24, 2007
53%	The Last Mimzy (2007)	" Roger Waters' song is ultimately the work of a sell-out desperately trying to sound like a profound hippie prophet. As it happens, so is The Last Mimzy." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 26, 2007
8%	The Number 23 (2007)	" The titular novel is written by an anonymous scribe who goes by the moniker Topsy Kretts (Get it? Like "Top Secrets"? Yeah, I didn't laugh either.)" — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 23, 2007
21%	Catch and Release (2007)	" If it was Brad Pitt carrying the coffee and Halle Berry saying she's not serious about him to a buddy, this movie would make over $100 million." — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 25, 2007
23%	Home of the Brave (2006)	" The idea of a Very Important Drama featuring rapper 50 Cent and vapid TV starlet Jessica Biel in major roles seems more like a gag straight out of Get Shorty." — Metromix.com Posted Dec 15, 2006
49%	Candy (2006)	" Ledger's first film since the one-two punch of Brokeback and Casanova reinforces the almost always accurate admonition "Just say no to drug addiction films."" — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 7, 2006
65%	The History Boys (2006)	" The closest mirror image of Republican Mark Foley is Mr. Hector, an unconventional educator with a fondness for groping his students' while giving them motorcycle rides." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 22, 2006
19%	Shadowboxer (2005)	" Though generally well-acted, it is rendered by director Lee Daniels with such stifling pretension and aggressive weirdness that it becomes an unintentional art-film parody." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 6, 2006
73%	Flags of Our Fathers (2006)	" An easy film to admire, but an impossible one to love." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 20, 2006
29%	Tideland (2006)	" Terry Gilliam's first collaboration with Jeff Bridges yielded The Fisher King. This time around, it amounts to something a whole lot fishier." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 18, 2006
11%	All The King's Men (2006)	" Stranger still, the usually brilliant Mark Ruffalo is spacey and awkward, as if the marijuana-addled scientist he played in Eternal Sunshine has taken over the role." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 21, 2006
46%	The Last Kiss (2006)	" We're supposed to scratch our chins and ponder the faux wisdom of lines of dialogue like, "relationships: they either work or they don't." Who knew?" — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 15, 2006
21%	You, Me and Dupree (2006)	" A braver, more female-empowering movie would have Molly come to her senses and realize that Dupree, hygiene and career problems aside, is twice the catch that Carl is." — FilmStew.com Posted Jul 14, 2006
40%	Nacho Libre (2006)	" Creating hermetic worlds in a manner so reminiscent of Wes Anderson that the Rushmore auteur should consider suing, Hess shows little affection for his characters." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 15, 2006
35%	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)	" Each film throws two or three okay action scenes into an otherwise wobbly blend of macho posturing, philosophically windy chitchat and moldy archetypes." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 15, 2006
34%	The Break-Up (2006)	" He likes Social Distortion, she likes Alanis Morrissette. And quite frankly, either "Ball and Chain" or "Isn't it Ironic" are both better takes on the modern relationship." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 1, 2006
37%	Keeping Up With The Steins (2006)	" If one were to compile a list of pop culture references that were barely funny three years ago, there would be a near-exact match with the gags tossed off here." — FilmStew.com Posted May 12, 2006
33%	Poseidon (2006)	" As quick, character-defining sketches go, Richard Dreyfuss' recently dumped gay architect hits the very bottom of the disaster flick barrel." — FilmStew.com Posted May 12, 2006
87%	The Proposition (2005)	" If there remains any doubt that the MPAA's Ratings Board grants screen violence more leeway than sex, The Proposition effectively quashes such uncertainty." — FilmStew.com Posted May 5, 2006
24%	RV (2006)	" In a time when the majority of bad movies out there bore you with their plainness, this one deserves a shred of credit for failing on its own grotesque terms." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 28, 2006
33%	The Sentinel (2006)	" A paint-by-numbers thriller so derivative that you can't help but think about how much you'd rather be watching the numerous movies it apes." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 24, 2006
41%	American Dreamz (2006)	" Beyond the About a Cad subplot featuring Hugh Grant, this one is about as entertaining as your typical post-Weekend Update skit on SNL." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 21, 2006
66%	On a Clear Day (2006)	" Finding similarity in a child overcoming a handicap and a former laborer trying to get his groove back is a notion far more insane than choosing to swim the English Channel." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 10, 2006
71%	Friends With Money (2006)	" Writer-director Nicole Holofcener has brains to spare, even if she can't always figure out how to put them to good use." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 10, 2006
55%	16 Blocks (2006)	" The results on a movie set can be great when Richard Donner yells 'Action!' But on this one, it feels more like, 'Lights, camera, ostentation!'" — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 1, 2006
22%	The Pink Panther (2006)	" Here's all you need to know: Clouseau now surfs the Internet under the e-mail handle "Doctor Knockers," and has to take Viagra before getting comfy in the sack." — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 9, 2006
10%	Annapolis (2006)	" As a naval take on the boot-camp movie, it's so bland and homogenized that it makes last year's decidedly so-so Jarhead look audacious in comparison." — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 27, 2006
32%	Tristan & Isolde (2006)	" Franco lays on mannered tics, like a slurred vocal delivery reminiscent of Benicio del Toro's mush-mouthed hood from The Usual Suspects." — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 12, 2006
88%	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)	" Once Potter ditches scenes that feel taken from Beverly Hills 90210 meets Scooby-Doo, I will approach the series with more than just guarded optimism." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 17, 2005
61%	Jarhead (2005)	" We don't know, but we've been told... Mendes' new film is far from gold." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 3, 2005
50%	Prime (2005)	" Greenberg comes off as dull, which is ironic considering he excelled on Unscripted as a struggling actor who lands a big role opposite Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 27, 2005
28%	Elizabethtown (2005)	" The blandest, most emotionally inexpressive performance yet from the least distinguished member of The Lord of the Rings' ensemble cast." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 12, 2005
21%	Two For the Money (2005)	" At least when Pacino does one for the money, he doesn't look nearly as miserable as De Niro does in similar cinematic circumstances." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 7, 2005
82%	Serenity (2005)	" As joyless, lurching, and filled with dull exposition as the TV show was giddy, fleet-footed, and packed with lively conversation." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 30, 2005
4%	Modigliani (2004)	" Fundamentally crippled by the casting of Andy Garcia in the kind of leading role that demands someone with a more volcanic, larger-than-life presence to fill it." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 27, 2005
60%	Oliver Twist (2005)	" Any parents thinking of bringing their young kids to this very-hard-PG-13 downer have hereby been warned." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 22, 2005
32%	Pretty Persuasion (2005)	" It's both the joy and folly of Pretty Persuasion that it attempts to skewer Beverly Hills, underage schoolgirls, post-9/11 America, TV news media sensationalism and more." — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 18, 2005
37%	The Skeleton Key (2005)	" Director Ian Softley seems shamelessly more interested in getting Kate Hudson into gratuitous shower scenes than into the nuances of her character." — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 12, 2005
13%	The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)	" With a hideously fake tan and an eerie smile, Simpson recites her lines with a chipper hollowness that makes it seem like she has just barely memorized them." — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 5, 2005
55%	Lords of Dogtown (2005)	" I couldn't help but think of the episode of The Simpsons where the Itchy & Scratchy canine sidekick so self-consciously 'in-your-face' comes off as tame instead." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 3, 2005
60%	Winter Solstice (2005)	" Director Sternfeld's sense of drama is so underdeveloped that he pretends swirling characters in inert tornadoes of grief is enough for a coherent plot." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 18, 2005
24%	The Amityville Horror (2005)	" Outfitting Reynolds with creepy, blood-red contact lenses for every scene in which George is possessed turns out to be a faulty creative decision." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 14, 2005
39%	D.E.B.S. (2004)	" The silliest spy spoof centered around a chaste lesbian love story that I've ever seen." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 25, 2005
53%	Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)	" The moment is so identical to a pivotal scene in Lars von Trier's Dogville that it makes one wonder if director Wayne Wang is intentionally paying homage." — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 19, 2005
78%	A Very Long Engagement (2004)	" If you take Kurosawa's Rash�mon and plunk it down in a battlefield setting, the results will almost certainly be derivative and thematically hollow." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 1, 2004
59%	Enduring Love (2004)	" The role of Claire is so thinly conceived that it's hard to imagine what attracted one of the most consistently intriguing actresses working today to the part." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 3, 2004

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