|
|
63%
|
Saving Grace (2000) |
"
You can save yourself from this desperately amiable and harmlessly dull Britcom ... if you just say no."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
33%
|
Romeo Must Die (2000) |
"
Part kung fu film, part blaxploitation film and part classical allusion, there is neither enough of each to stand alone nor enough to make a compelling hybrid."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
47%
|
The Perfect Storm (2000) |
"
The Perfect Storm is as detached and mechanical as a production of Moby Dick staged by the Weather Channel."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
17%
|
The Haunting (1999) |
"
It is missing the coherent story, credible characters and literate dialogue that can make any film, no matter how outlandish the dramatic circumstances, involving."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
56%
|
Mumford (1999) |
"
It's hard to tell what drew Kasdan to imagine Mumford - the town and the man - since the flimsily whimsical, rambling result never declares its intentions."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
29%
|
200 Cigarettes (1999) |
"
As funny as a dark spot on your chest X- ray!"
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
56%
|
Never Been Kissed (1999) |
"
Barrymore's acting looks disorganized and undisciplined."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
39%
|
Lake Placid (1999) |
"
As dramatically substantial as "Ally McBeal" is skinny!"
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
25%
|
Reindeer Games (Deception) (2000) |
"
You are sorely tempted to laugh and call it names."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
38%
|
Entrapment (1999) |
"
A loosely wound thriller of the dime-a-dozen, no-honor-among-thieves variety."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
44%
|
Stepmom (1998) |
"
Cheap melodrama!"
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
67%
|
Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
"
Sleepy Hollow is gorgeously mounted and ingeniously speculative, but hollow."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
21%
|
Inspector Gadget (1999) |
"
What's confusing about this dreck is that it comes hard on the heels of Tarzan, a thoughtful, thought-provoking film from the same studio."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1.5/4
|
58%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
"The Dictator" has no clothes."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
51%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
Even genre film lovers have standards, and "John Carter" doesn't meet them."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
44%
|
Bereavement (2011) |
"
"Bereavement" is cruel and unusual."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
49%
|
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) |
"
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is like two lovers looking in each other's eyes and murmuring things meaningful to only them. Anyone not in the embrace is unlikely to understand, or care, what is being said."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 30, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
74%
|
Splice (2010) |
"
This story, about scientists who create a life form in the laboratory, goes from intriguing to wacky to disturbing with the speed of a car rolling downhill. And the laughter you hear in the theater is the audience's natural response when it does."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 3, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
5%
|
Old Dogs (2009) |
"
Williams is encouraged to supercharge his silliness, Travolta plays straight man and the kids are relegated to background noise."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Nov 24, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
39%
|
2012 (2009) |
"
There are fates worse than death, and 2012 is one of them."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Nov 12, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
63%
|
Extract (2009) |
"
The threads running through Extract are less actual ideas than loose screws rattling around aimlessly."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"
The characters may speak English, but the narrative is gibberish."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 7, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
62%
|
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) |
"
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is loudly and proudly bad."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 23, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
The Godfather of Green Bay (2006) |
"
You don't have to be an overly sensitive Dairy State booster to take offense. It's more than enough to simply be a fan of film or comedy."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 24, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
42%
|
Kicking & Screaming (2005) |
"
Duvall, not to mention Ditka, does not a comedy make."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted May 12, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
15%
|
Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous (2005) |
"
Beyond rescue or repair."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 24, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
20%
|
The Ring Two (2005) |
"
Slavishly faithful to recurring modern horror mythologies designed to guarantee an extension of the franchise."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 17, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
27%
|
The Stepford Wives (2004) |
"
It has been steam-rolled onto the screen by director Frank Oz, camped up by playwright-screenwriter Paul Rudnick ... and sent into the world with little concern for continuity or narrative."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 10, 2004
|
|
1.5/4
|
26%
|
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"
Dickerson's seductive realization and DMX's chillingly detached performance give this subpar variation on culturally apocalyptic themes an amoral plausibility."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 25, 2004
|
|
1.5/4
|
75%
|
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"
This remake fails to advance the original in any way, shape or form."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 18, 2004
|
|
1.5/4
|
7%
|
Gigli (2003) |
"
Every generation gets the celebrities they deserve, but what have we done to deserve Gigli?"
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
38%
|
Legally Blonde 2 - Red, White & Blonde (2003) |
"
The original hit the spot like iced sugar water on a hot day; the sequel is all perspiration and no inspiration."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jul 1, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
41%
|
The Core (2003) |
"
The Core is a bore."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 28, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
55%
|
The Santa Clause 2 - The Mrs. Clause (2002) |
"
That the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, Mother Nature and Cupid even appear suggests that the franchise is already out of ideas, and is aiming itself at a less discriminating audience of the very young."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Oct 31, 2002
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
Some filmmakers put feelings into words; Malick uses smoke signals and semaphore to express things felt but unspoken. How you interpret them is up to you."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
37%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
It sounds boring because it is."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
"Ghost Protocol" is a less a film than a vanity license plate writ large - a throwback to when all an action film needed was a bogus concept, chase scenes and a roman numeral in a title."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
The Thing (2011) |
"
Don't let the title fool you. "The Thing" is not about the orange-colored, rhinoceros-skinned mutant member of the Fantastic Four. If only."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
"Twilight-lite," a reduction of primal impulses into monosyllabic and mono-symbolic teen-speak."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 10, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
6%
|
The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
Shyamalan's effects -- matte paintings, miniatures, location exteriors, backlot interiors and digital work -- never coalesce into a seamless whole, and the result is neither fish nor fowl, tactile nor virtual."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jul 1, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
9%
|
Grown Ups (2010) |
"
A tepid, formulaic and disappointingly random series of sight gags of the kick-in-the-crotch / gassy-grandma / run-into-trees variety."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 24, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
Antichrist (2009) |
"
I cannot recommend Antichrist, but in a culture that hemorrhages death and torture nightly on shows like 24 or C.S.I., I can understand it."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 28, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
84%
|
Whip It (2009) |
"
Roller derby is more than women in fishnet stockings on roller skates. But Whip It isn't."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Oct 1, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
37%
|
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"
The story's fantastic elements are left poorly explained, and the romantic elements are left unexplored; the result is tepid on both counts."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 13, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
9%
|
My Life in Ruins (2009) |
"
Actress Nia Vardalos traipses through the same ethnic minefield that she did in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but with less explosive results."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 5, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) |
"
Despite a 150-year-old backstory that dates to before the Civil War and runs through subsequent conflicts, the title is never fulfilled."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted May 7, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
The Soloist (2009) |
"
The result feels manipulative and superficial."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Apr 23, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
59%
|
The International (2009) |
"
A lot like the global economic crisis -- muddled and grim."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Feb 12, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Marley & Me (2008) |
"
There are no bad dogs. But there are bad dog movies."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Dec 29, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
Four Christmases (2008) |
"
As when its self-centered characters tell some children that there is no Santa Claus, the cynical Four Christmases spoils the holiday for all of us."
—
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Nov 25, 2008
|
75%
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