|
F
|
12%
|
The Messengers (2007) |
"
Relies way too much on cheap, nerve-jangling sound effects and musical stings to juice up the film's tepid, PG-13 proceedings."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Feb 22, 2007
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|
0/5
|
19%
|
The Seventh Sign (1988) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Nov 17, 2003
|
|
F
|
35%
|
The Real Cancun (2003) |
"
With a strangely irritating editorial sensibility, the filmmakers work desperately at juicing up a narrative, but mostly meet with failure."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jul 30, 2003
|
|
0/5
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0%
|
Razor Blade Smile (1998) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Dec 27, 2002
|
|
F
|
3%
|
fear dot com (FeardotCom) (2002) |
"
The big mystery is how Malone convinces name casts to appear in his semi-competent fare."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Sep 9, 2002
|
|
F
|
38%
|
Marie Baie des Anges (Marie from the Bay of Angels) (Angel Sharks) (1998) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
F
|
16%
|
The Avengers (1998) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D-
|
30%
|
The Animal (2001) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jun 25, 2001
|
|
D
|
20%
|
Passengers (2008) |
"
Fly me away, please, from this condescending supernatural twaddle."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 1, 2009
|
|
D
|
——
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The Sign of the Cross (1932) |
"
The film's generous helpings of sex and violence are overwhelmed by its general air of condescension and phony piety."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted May 3, 2009
|
|
D
|
35%
|
Vantage Point (2008) |
"
It's most interesting as a one-gimmick film--which is to say that it's not very interesting at all."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 21, 2008
|
|
D
|
14%
|
Made of Honor (2008) |
"
I'm not a big Carrie Bradshaw fan, but this stuff makes Sex and the City look like an Altman film."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 21, 2008
|
|
D
|
35%
|
Southland Tales (2007) |
"
When it's not being obstinately stupid, Southland Tales is just difficult to watch."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Mar 21, 2008
|
|
D
|
59%
|
The Hitcher (1986) |
"
Without the original film's subtext of male bonding gone awry, nothing here has a shred of psychological resonance."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Feb 22, 2007
|
|
D
|
59%
|
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) |
"
A preening, superficial film that expects you to appreciate its smart concept without noticing the stupid execution."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 31, 2005
|
|
D
|
37%
|
Sylvia (2003) |
"
To what degree this portrayal is accurate is beside the question - as drama it's inert, and as biography it's unilluminating."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Nov 17, 2003
|
|
D
|
66%
|
Shanghai Knights (2003) |
"
Formulaic to the point of distraction and saddled with one of the stupidest musical scores in recent memory."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Sep 14, 2003
|
|
D
|
——
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Emanuelle in America (Brutal Nights) (2003) |
"
Makes crap like 8MM look like morally responsible filmmaking."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Aug 27, 2003
|
|
D
|
69%
|
May (2003) |
"
Director Lucky McKee has a knack for discomfiting material involving contact lenses and animal hospitals, but such moments are increasingly rare as he stretches his material."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Aug 25, 2003
|
|
D
|
13%
|
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"
Ghost Ship is so ineptly put together that it's hard to take much comfort in the meager pleasures that it does offer."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Dec 27, 2002
|
|
D
|
26%
|
Swordfish (2001) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jun 25, 2001
|
|
D
|
24%
|
Nightwatch (1998) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Feb 14, 2001
|
|
D
|
12%
|
Office Killer (1997) |
"
As lifeless as the corpses that pile up in mousy Carol Kane's basement."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D
|
14%
|
Showgirls (1995) |
"
Not only is this movie really dumb, but it's barely sexy, and not even close to explicit."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D
|
22%
|
Stigmata (1999) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D
|
9%
|
Species II (1998) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Nov 17, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
25%
|
Nowhere to Run (1993) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Nov 17, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
Organ (1996) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Nov 17, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
18%
|
V.I. Warshawski (1991) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Dec 21, 2002
|
|
D+
|
——
|
Nattevagten (Nightwatch) (1994) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Apr 20, 2001
|
|
D+
|
36%
|
Species (1995) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D+
|
12%
|
The Crow: City of Angels (1996) |
"
More than anything I've seen from Hollywood lately, City of Angels smacks baldly of product -- it's a movie with a lousy script but a great look."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D+
|
22%
|
In Dreams (1999) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D+
|
27%
|
The End of Violence (1997) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D+
|
12%
|
Diabolique (1996) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D+
|
7%
|
Jawbreaker (1999) |
"
For all its posturing, and despite an odd cameo by McGowan's fiance, Marilyn Manson, Jawbreaker is missing anything resembling its own sensibility."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D+
|
47%
|
Deep Impact (1998) |
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
C-
|
41%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
Despite spending too much screen time sobbing, shrieking, or putting on a game face as the camera peers down her shirt, Elizabeth Olsen comes out ahead. "
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Mar 11, 2012
|
|
C-
|
25%
|
Friday the 13th (2009) |
"
Most of the space between sex scenes and bloody murders is padded, condescendingly, with 110-decibel phony shock effects."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Feb 12, 2009
|
|
C-
|
——
|
Virgin Witch (1972) |
"
Half of the film plays as a surprisingly straightforward nudie picture, the other half as a somewhat ambitious psychological horror movie."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Feb 4, 2009
|
|
C-
|
57%
|
My Bloody Valentine 3-D (2009) |
"
This lowest-common-denominator remake of/sequel to a minor slasher classic succeeds on purely technical terms but, despite the depth effects, it's a serious snooze."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Jan 18, 2009
|
|
C-
|
26%
|
Eagle Eye (2008) |
"
As an election-year riff on current events, it's moderately clever, even though it has no nerve whatsoever. (Last year's Shooter had more guts.)"
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Sep 25, 2008
|
|
C-
|
36%
|
21 (2008) |
"
Harold & Kumar Go to Las Vegas would be lots more fun as well as more sociologically astute."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Mar 31, 2008
|
|
C-
|
25%
|
Halloween (2007) |
"
Rob Zombie is a big ol' cinephile who lacks the chops to execute on the screen everything that's going on emotionally and intellectually inside his head."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Sep 10, 2007
|
|
C-
|
28%
|
Next (2007) |
"
The third-act twist is so smug and charmless that it negates any lingering investment the audience still has in the generic guns-and-bombs goings-on."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Apr 29, 2007
|
|
C-
|
60%
|
300 (2007) |
"
Fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Mar 6, 2007
|
|
C-
|
51%
|
The Fountain (2006) |
"
If Aronofsky's just gone over my head, I'm prepared to live with that."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Dec 6, 2006
|
|
C-
|
69%
|
Hollywoodland (2006) |
"
The film oughta be Reeves' story -- except the filmmakers, like everyone else, couldn't figure out how the poor guy really died."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Sep 7, 2006
|
|
C-
|
68%
|
Snakes on a Plane (2006) |
"
Not much for the thinking viewer -- which Snakes on a Plane tries its best to render obsolete -- to latch onto."
—
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Posted Aug 18, 2006
|
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