Elvis Mitchell

Elvis Mitchell

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com , Movieline , New York Times
Critics' Group:
National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
512

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 1% The Master of Disguise (2002) " It doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes. It still feels like a prison stretch." — New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2002
0/5 2% Battlefield Earth (2000) " And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea." — New York Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/10 4% The Roommate (2011) " In the theater where I saw it, the tedium was broken only by the sound of Angry Birds being played on iPhones." — Movieline
Posted Feb 4, 2011
0.5/5 22% Dirty Dancing - Havana Nights (2004) " This reimagining of the recklessly melodramatic 1987 original is packed with flashy, taffeta silliness." — New York Times
Posted Feb 26, 2004
0.5/5 12% The Girl (2001) " Has the dreary one-track banality of a feature-length version of an episode of Red Shoe Diaries." — New York Times
Posted Apr 20, 2001
0.5/5 53% Josie and the Pussycats (2001) " Gruelingly self-referential, substituting sarcasm for irony." — New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2001
0.5/5 8% Valentine (2001) " When it's hard to hear the dialogue because the audience is laughing, it's clear that Valentine doesn't even succeed on its own limited terms." — New York Times
Posted Feb 5, 2001
0.5/5 29% Drowning Mona (2000) " Mona is a dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery." — New York Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/5 42% What Planet Are You From? (2000) " This movie wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite." — New York Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/5 40% The Replacements (2000) " This negligible comedy might as well come with a bouncing ball so members of the audience can recite the dialogue along with the actors." — New York Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/5 2% The In Crowd (2000) " The only people who could be surprised at this movie will be those who wandered into the wrong multiplex theater by mistake." — New York Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/5 15% Pokemon - The Movie 2000 (2000) " Probably about as good as cut-rate animation that seems to consist of screen savers can be." — New York Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/5 22% Coyote Ugly (2000) " It looks like a big-budget version of a Miller's Genuine Draft commercial." — New York Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/5 12% Get Carter (2000) " The stylish murk seems to signal that everyone on the technical crew had his own agenda, each trying to outdo the others." — New York Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 46% Hidalgo (2004) " This primitively plotted family action adventure is one of the few movies that seem to be making up their plots as they go along." — New York Times
Posted Mar 4, 2004
1/5 23% Torque (2004) " This monotonously macho action-adventure film wears testosterone as if it were a new fragrance." — New York Times
Posted Jan 15, 2004
1/5 13% The Haunted Mansion (2003) " The film equivalent of the dark, boring period on a haunted house ride before the gondola crashes into another room filled with dirty mirrors." — New York Times
Posted Nov 26, 2003
1/5 34% Returner (Ritana) (2002) " Returner is a smorgasbord that seems to have been picked out of a Dumpster." — New York Times
Posted Oct 16, 2003
1/5 79% Bubba Ho-Tep (2003) " Ho-Tep is a punch line in search of a setup." — New York Times
Posted Sep 25, 2003
1/5 9% My Boss's Daughter (2003) " This muddled comedy of confusion feels as if it were a Farrelly brothers' comedy that has sat exposed to the elements long past its expiration date." — New York Times
Posted Aug 25, 2003
1/5 41% Freddy vs. Jason (2003) " This grunge match is far more horrible than horrifying." — New York Times
Posted Aug 14, 2003
1/5 55% American Wedding (2003) " The makers of Wedding have so effectively managed to make offensiveness seem tame that this could be subversion financed by the religious right." — New York Times
Posted Jul 31, 2003
1/5 11% Alex & Emma (2003) " The picture is desperate to be a Date Night event, but it feels more like a Last Date movie." — New York Times
Posted Jun 19, 2003
1/5 28% Daddy Day Care (2003) " The most astonishing thing about Daddy Day Care, a comedy that would have to work harder even to justify the appellation uninspired, is that a kick in the groin is now a joke for toddlers." — New York Times
Posted May 9, 2003
1/5 21% Basic (2003) " Someone decided to put Rashomon in a Cuisinart along with A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects and A Soldier's Story, and hit the pulverize button while forgetting to replace the top." — New York Times
Posted Mar 27, 2003
1/5 7% Boat Trip (2003) " Boat Trip goes down faster than the Titanic and is far more deserving of its fate." — New York Times
Posted Mar 20, 2003
1/5 0% Pinocchio (2002) " A movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes Battlefield Earth and Showgirls." — New York Times
Posted Dec 26, 2002
1/5 37% Equilibrium (2002) " A movie that could be stupider only if it were longer." — New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2002
1/5 12% Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) " Nights is festooned with yards of gross-out jokes, sniggering allusions and, astonishingly, a sentimental climax that's more repellent than any of the crude effluvia the film is drenched with." — New York Times
Posted Nov 27, 2002
1/5 0% Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) " It's loud and boring; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2002
1/5 5% The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) " Sadly, though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear, they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction." — New York Times
Posted Aug 17, 2002
1/5 23% Who is Cletis Tout? (2002) " This mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost." — New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2002
1/5 48% Eight Legged Freaks (2002) " Eight-Legged Freaks runs out of gas scarily fast -- its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature." — New York Times
Posted Jul 17, 2002
1/5 22% Mr. Deeds (2002) " Mostly terrible, a shambles of a comedy that looks as if it was shot by a tabloid news crew." — New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2002
1/5 10% Bad Company (2002) " Bad Company, like many of the nonpolitical terrorist-as-villain spectaculars that have been held back after Sept. 11, has the whiff of something gone stale." — New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2002
1/5 26% The Sweetest Thing (2002) " For those who think that movies by the Farrelly brothers or Todd Solondz are the Mount Kilimanjaro of bad taste, it's time to grab your parka and goggles -- there's a new peak to climb." — New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2002
1/5 48% Big Trouble (2002) " Contradicts itself because it's a ramshackle comedy that's both rowdy and neatly pressed." — New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2002
1/5 49% Harrison's Flowers (2002) " A stupefying mix of action, politics and melodrama that is as vaguely condescending as the inept but well-meaning pictures about apartheid from the 1980's." — New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2002
1/5 55% Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha (1999) " A soulless compilation of thrills." — New York Times
Posted Mar 11, 2002
1/5 17% Queen of the Damned (2002) " ... the movie is just a plain old monster." — New York Times
Posted Feb 21, 2002
1/5 23% John Q (2002) " So ham-fisted that it sabotages its own worthwhile arguments." — New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2002
1/5 3% Rollerball (2002) " McTiernan's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious." — New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2002
1/5 18% Collateral Damage (2002) " An exhausted rehash of Mr. Schwarzenegger breaking through red tape to struggle against his nemesis of the moment." — New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2002
1/5 33% Eban and Charley (2000) " Might best be described as preaching to a sparse congregation, or else Mr. Bolton is simply out to bore people into submission." — New York Times
Posted Jan 11, 2002
1/5 14% Thirteen Ghosts (13 Ghosts) (2001) " A production so mammoth in its stupidity that it took two studios, Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures, to wrestle it to the screen." — New York Times
Posted Oct 25, 2001
1/5 44% Rat Race (2001) " Rat Race chooses to rehash the worst aspect of Mad, Mad World, downgrading the experience from mindless to dreadful." — New York Times
Posted Aug 16, 2001
1/5 12% Original Sin (2001) " It's hard to keep a straight face just thinking of Mr. Banderas and Ms. Jolie in the same shot, but Original Sin will bore the giggles right out of you." — New York Times
Posted Aug 3, 2001
1/5 —— Everything Moves Alone (2001) New York Times
Posted Jul 19, 2001
1/5 48% Russian Doll (2001) " The predictable plot unfolds in such slow motion that Russian Doll loiters, as if someone had slowed down the film speed." — New York Times
Posted Jun 15, 2001
1/5 47% Fast Food Fast Women (2001) " Almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another." — New York Times
Posted May 18, 2001
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