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0/5
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14%
|
Mafia! (1998) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 4, 2003
|
|
0/5
|
14%
|
How to Be a Player (1997) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 13, 2003
|
|
1/10
|
64%
|
The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
"
...suffers from the smug belief that a couple of affable stars can compensate for a lazy lack of purpose."
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
2/10
|
26%
|
2016: Obama's America (2012) |
"
...lush cinematography and a keen editing rhythm give at least the impression of a seriousness the film sorely lacks."
—
PopMatters
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
2/10
|
26%
|
Your Highness (2011) |
"
...a sputtering and vastly pleased-with-itself piece of work that resembles something sketched out on the back of a napkin."
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
1/5
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4%
|
The Roommate (2011) |
"
none of it adds up to much, as should be expected from a film that can't even get a good laugh out of Billy Zane playing a college professor"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 4, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
32%
|
Wild Target (2010) |
"
desperately unfunny "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 28, 2010
|
|
2/10
|
67%
|
Date Night (2010) |
"
This weak-kneed comedy is guilty of many sins."
—
PopMatters
Posted Aug 11, 2010
|
|
2/10
|
51%
|
Alice in Wonderland (2010) |
"
What's shocking about Alice in Wonderland is just how woefully conventional it all is."
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 5, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
21%
|
Leap Year (2010) |
"
A third-circle-of-hell kind of film"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 7, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
30%
|
Tideland (2006) |
"
if there was ever a film to end a career, Tideland is it."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 12, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
26%
|
Anatomy of Hell (2004) |
"
a font of faux profundity"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 13, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
On Deadly Ground (1994) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 14, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
35%
|
Games People Play (2004) |
"
doomed to late-night rotation on some high-digit, bargain-basement cable channel"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 11, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
18%
|
License to Drive (1988) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 29, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
64%
|
In the Mood (The Woo Woo Kid) () |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 4, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
Crocodile Dundee II (1988) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 29, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
62%
|
Moonraker (1979) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 13, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
48%
|
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"
Cliche reheated many times over"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 7, 2003
|
|
|
12%
|
Love Ranch (2010) |
"
A tasty story about whores, boxers, jealousy and greed gets run through the wringer of mediocrity in Taylor Hackford's limp, long-delayed drama starring his wife, Helen Mirren."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Jun 25, 2010
|
|
|
53%
|
Green Zone (2010) |
"
...a stiff, uneven Iraq War actioner that's more anti-invasion wish fulfillment than ideas-driven drama."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Mar 12, 2010
|
|
|
84%
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"
At what point did the Harry Potter film franchise become a race against repetition?"
—
PopMatters
Posted Jul 15, 2009
|
|
|
33%
|
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"
...sometimes feels like just another link in a chain to nowhere."
—
PopMatters
Posted May 20, 2009
|
|
|
77%
|
Venkovský Ucitel (The Country Teacher) (2008) |
"
A beautifully shot, would-be-penetrating drama about a closeted teacher in a small Czech village falls victim to a wandering plot and muffled characterizatio"
—
Film Journal International
Posted Mar 23, 2009
|
|
|
58%
|
Taken (2009) |
"
Mill's towering righteousness is just too much for this weak little film, whose only interest is in affirming the white patriarchal prerogative."
—
PopMatters
Posted Feb 6, 2009
|
|
|
27%
|
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"
If there were a way to do a secular passion play, this would be it."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 22, 2008
|
|
|
78%
|
Doubt (2008) |
"
There is precious little doubt in Doubt."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 12, 2008
|
|
|
61%
|
The Reader (2008) |
"
Without [Kate] Winslet, The Reader would be just another literary adaptation that got high on its own self-importance."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 12, 2008
|
|
|
64%
|
Quantum of Solace (2008) |
"
...the plot is just so much noise in the end, somehow both over- and underdone."
—
PopMatters
Posted Nov 21, 2008
|
|
|
34%
|
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) |
"
There may be a subtle bone somewhere in Spike Lee, but it would take a team of skilled surgeons to find it."
—
PopMatters
Posted Oct 17, 2008
|
|
|
61%
|
The Duchess (2008) |
"
...a film that could have been a bold feminist statement becomes fodder for those who just loved The Other Boleyn Girl."
—
PopMatters
Posted Sep 29, 2008
|
|
|
53%
|
Tropa de Elite (The Elite Squad) (2007) |
"
A poor man's City of God that suggests the only answer to the problems of Brazil's slums are blazing guns wielded by a neo-fascist police force."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Sep 19, 2008
|
|
|
13%
|
The Women (2008) |
"
Diane English's version of "The Women" barely nudges from its Martha Stewart interiors, exchanging insights for platitudes. It's a cup of lukewarm tea, without even a biscuit on the side."
—
PopMatters
Posted Sep 12, 2008
|
|
|
65%
|
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008) |
"
When it comes to the music, Dream of Life almost makes up for all its other wandering failings."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Aug 8, 2008
|
|
|
43%
|
What We Do Is Secret (2007) |
"
A thinly dramatized slice of music history better suited for broadcast on an MTV offshoot than cinematic release."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Aug 8, 2008
|
|
|
57%
|
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (2007) |
"
Thin gruel, indeed."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Jun 6, 2008
|
|
|
91%
|
Shotgun Stories (2007) |
"
There's no escaping the fact that the film, well-crafted though it may be, is ultimately just as slow as the proverbial molasses."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Mar 26, 2008
|
|
|
46%
|
Cassandra's Dream (2007) |
"
Allen's writing here is so lacking in vigor and purpose that much of the film seems to be on nothing more than autopilot, a faded and tissue-paper-thin retread from a filmmaker who should know better."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Dec 31, 2007
|
|
|
44%
|
redacted (2007) |
"
The pretense of authenticity which all the sub-vérité stylings are meant to imply don't lend much credibility to a film that couldn't much be bothered with realism."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Nov 13, 2007
|
|
|
83%
|
Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2007) |
"
It's not to say that the filmmakers should have resorted to pulp dramatics, but in correctly straining to not exploit their subjects, they forgot to fill in the spaces left behind."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Nov 12, 2007
|
|
|
51%
|
The Kingdom (2007) |
"
Although the last scene is an extraordinarily disturbing one, it can't quite erase the letdown of what immediately precedes it."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Sep 25, 2007
|
|
|
89%
|
Helvetica (2007) |
"
Helvetica spins its wheels for a good part of its rather short running time, making the same points over and again, with diminishing effect each time."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Sep 13, 2007
|
|
|
44%
|
Angel-A (2005) |
"
Ultimately too slight a work on which to end a directorial career."
—
Film Journal International
Posted May 18, 2007
|
|
|
89%
|
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan) (2007) |
"
Given the powerful drama of life in this city...it is frustrating in the extreme to see a filmmaker turn so dramatically away from it, and choose banality."
—
Film Journal International
Posted May 9, 2007
|
|
|
66%
|
Snow Cake (2006) |
"
Squanders all its potential for emotional honesty and goes for cheap and unfulfilling uplift."
—
Film Journal International
Posted May 1, 2007
|
|
|
30%
|
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003) |
"
The film is nothing more than a rapidly tiresome gag that barely seems to understand the knotty philosophical problems being posited by its lusty fembot heroine."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Apr 23, 2007
|
|
|
48%
|
Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs) (2007) |
"
An act of nearly overwhelming self-congratulation ... like Wings of Desire directed by Zalman King."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Mar 8, 2007
|
|
|
75%
|
Conventioneers (2005) |
"
Hardly as thought-provoking as it imagines itself to be, and barely as exciting as the televised convention coverage itself."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Oct 23, 2006
|
|
|
37%
|
Looking for Kitty (2004) |
"
Burns seems not nearly as engaged with his story as one would hope. And why should he be? He could write another like this before lunch."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Sep 5, 2006
|
|
|
38%
|
Kill Your Idols (2006) |
"
Discordant documentary on New York's "No Wave" art-punk music scene begins in fertile territory but squanders everything with a lengthy and ill-considered comparison to more recent bands."
—
Film Journal International
Posted Jul 11, 2006
|
77%
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