|
F
|
21%
|
The 24th Day (2004) |
"
An ethically repugnant, relentlessly monotonous chamber drama that manages the difficult trick of boring and irritating its viewers simultaneously."
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Mixed Reviews
Posted May 11, 2004
|
|
F
|
28%
|
Teknolust (2002) |
"
Wallows in dubious plot constructions, shoddy design, immature camera work, and a fatiguing lack of thrill."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Feb 6, 2004
|
|
D-
|
33%
|
The 13th Warrior (1999) |
"
The cheese flows fast and furious from the screen."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D
|
96%
|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"
Too adult for children and too simplistic for most adults, it ultimately leaves us with some of the prettiest cinematic pictures of the year. And nothing more."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Dec 13, 2006
|
|
D
|
74%
|
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"
The man who gave human dimension to the effects of holocaust in Schindler's List has now prostituted human extermination for entertainment. Bread and circuses, indeed."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 1, 2005
|
|
D
|
21%
|
Poco più di un anno fa (Adored: Diary of a Porn Star) (2003) |
"
An unfortunate exercise in ego run amok, coupled with inexperience and ineptitude."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted May 28, 2004
|
|
D
|
70%
|
The Company (2003) |
"
Has everything about Altman that people who detest his films hate."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Dec 27, 2003
|
|
D
|
36%
|
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"
Ah, Leatherface...where has your menace gone?"
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Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 25, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
44%
|
Rocky IV (1985) |
"
Cold War metaphors delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer dampens the storytelling."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Sep 21, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
67%
|
Ladyhawke (1985) |
"
Weak pacing makes for a difficult watching, despite the talented leads."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Sep 21, 2003
|
|
B--
|
65%
|
Dorian Blues (2005) |
"
Ultimately has little insight into the experience it chronicles. News flash: growing up gay is rough. Who did not know this already?"
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Sep 19, 2005
|
|
C++
|
55%
|
Undertow (2004) |
"
Lacks the gravity and the power to transcend its genre roots."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 5, 2004
|
|
|
7%
|
Jawbreaker (1999) |
"
Leaves a bad aftertaste."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
D+
|
5%
|
Harry + Max (Harry and Max) (2005) |
"
You can almost hear the filmmakers exhale with nervous relief, having made it through a film about incest without actually having an opinion on the subject."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jan 25, 2005
|
|
D+
|
0%
|
Merci Docteur Rey (2002) |
"
Lacks the sophistication it needs to be truly effective, hopelessly lost in its unfunny gags and weak plotting."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Sep 2, 2004
|
|
D+
|
43%
|
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004) |
"
A languid study in remorse and revenge that loses its way pretty quickly, sludging through an impenetrable veneer of icy listlessness."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jun 24, 2004
|
|
D+
|
87%
|
Zatôichi (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi) (2003) |
"
Zatoichi finds a legacy diminished by his new, updated masters. "
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted May 4, 2004
|
|
D+
|
82%
|
Monster (2004) |
"
almost despicably lazy storytelling... Director / screenwriter Patty Jenkins has tried to humanize a despicable person, and she is completely ineffective at doing that."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Dec 27, 2003
|
|
D+
|
36%
|
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) |
"
A by-the-book action picture that has no revolutionary aspects at all -- overlong, overthought and overdone."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 6, 2003
|
|
C-
|
65%
|
What Doesn't Kill You (2008) |
"
Little more than a middling variation on gangster thematics, better explored in The Sopranos and elsewhere."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Dec 10, 2008
|
|
C-
|
35%
|
Southland Tales (2007) |
"
If Mulholland Drive had a prettier, younger, and developmentally-challenged sister, it would be Southland Tales."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Dec 2, 2007
|
|
C-
|
53%
|
Across the Universe (2007) |
"
The thin narrative wobbles like an alcoholic after last call."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Sep 16, 2007
|
|
C-
|
51%
|
For Your Consideration (2006) |
"
For Your Consideration feels under-cooked, with easy potshots at an indulgent Hollywood studio system and a pervasively dull atmosphere."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Nov 5, 2006
|
|
C-
|
61%
|
The New World (2005) |
"
In Malick's hands, Pocahontas' story becomes a metaphoric seduction straight out of Nabokov."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Dec 11, 2005
|
|
C-
|
51%
|
The Producers (2005) |
"
Carries its lumpy theatrical bulk like a rucksack instead of as the dazzling firecracker it is."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Dec 8, 2005
|
|
C-
|
43%
|
Three Dancing Slaves (Le Clan) (2005) |
"
Darkly rich in character and mood, provocative in intent...but ultimately foiled by inattention to its own story."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Aug 6, 2005
|
|
C-
|
33%
|
The Baxter (2005) |
"
It argues, ironically, that pretty people should only end up with pretty people, and the best we can do is hope that the temp with bad hair will find us equally nerd-hot."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Aug 1, 2005
|
|
C-
|
39%
|
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) |
"
Ultimately, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN can't change actual history. So instead, everyone has to grow a conscience...even the Crusaders have to feel bad about the Crusading."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted May 8, 2005
|
|
C-
|
88%
|
The Woodsman (2004) |
"
Although The Woodsman's subject matter is shocking and disturbing, perhaps the most unsettling quality is its matter-of-fact attitude"
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Dec 7, 2004
|
|
C-
|
96%
|
Sideways (2004) |
"
It is, in almost every way, less than it could or should be."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 14, 2004
|
|
C-
|
36%
|
Touch of Pink (2004) |
"
I'd like to believe that the world has moved past being scandalized by otherness -- Those nutty Indians! Those outrageous gays! -- but Touch of Pink doesn't think so."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 18, 2004
|
|
C-
|
43%
|
The Clearing (2004) |
"
A thriller nearly devoid of thrills...Despite having great actors and a beautiful visual sensibility, The Clearing offers no foundation to wrap them around."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 1, 2004
|
|
C-
|
92%
|
Tarnation (2004) |
"
Tarnation coalesces into a pop-art diary, the self-made soap opera, the arthouse version of a reality show. A fascinating but bloated movie."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jun 22, 2004
|
|
C-
|
——
|
Bored in Brno () |
"
Subtitled "a comedy about defying fate," Bored in Brno really should have spent more time trying to defy conventionality. "
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Apr 24, 2004
|
|
C-
|
30%
|
The Alamo (2004) |
"
As exciting as a big, flat cyclorama exhibit at your local historical society. "
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Apr 11, 2004
|
|
C-
|
39%
|
Seeing Other People (2004) |
"
Feels like an extended pilot episode for a not-quite-Thirtysomething series: meandering plots and wacky supporting players."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Apr 8, 2004
|
|
C-
|
75%
|
Not on the Lips (2004) |
"
Collapses under the weight of its own theatricality."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Mar 16, 2004
|
|
C-
|
40%
|
Proof of Life (2000) |
"
Crackles, sputters, and starts up finally in the last half of the movie."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Mar 16, 2004
|
|
C-
|
49%
|
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"
As a film -- and more importantly, as a document of faith -- it is a dismayingly simplistic, obvious, overbearing waste remarkable only for the quantities of blood it spills."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Feb 26, 2004
|
|
C-
|
15%
|
Gothika (2003) |
"
Despite flashes of brilliance (not unlike Berry herself), Gothika begins strong and finishes weak."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 17, 2003
|
|
C-
|
67%
|
Good Morning, Night (Buongiorno, Notte) (2005) |
"
Despite a handful of spirited performances, Bellocchio is unable to move his tale beyond a simple class-war badgering."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 12, 2003
|
|
C-
|
87%
|
The Quiet American (2003) |
"
Admirable, certainly, but not much fun to watch. For Caine Lovers only."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 28, 2002
|
|
C-
|
58%
|
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) |
"
Why should director Oliver Parker hang his head? It's a multiple choice question."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jun 1, 2002
|
|
2/5
|
88%
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) |
"
Dated, leisurely paced romance that doesn't deserve it's stellar reputation."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 26, 2003
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Swoon (1991) |
"
Moody, dispassionate take on the savagery of crime that neither illuminates nor captivates."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 28, 2002
|
|
C
|
65%
|
The Kite Runner (2007) |
"
Fights a losing battle to reconcile authenticity with performances that vary widely in quality."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Dec 2, 2007
|
|
C
|
82%
|
Into the Wild (2007) |
"
Contrary to the lessons we learned in Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, large bears will not always eat irritating hippie man-children. Damn shame."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Oct 7, 2007
|
|
C
|
57%
|
Kinky Boots (2006) |
"
Far too insubstantial to make any interesting use of its social agenda, and the easy answers it finds about prejudice and bigotry strain credibility."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Apr 8, 2006
|
|
C
|
74%
|
Unknown White Male (2006) |
"
Suffers under a cloud of nostalgia and emotionality that turns the film's investigation into a fuzzy meditation on existence and memory."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Feb 13, 2006
|
|
C
|
35%
|
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) |
"
Instead of revealing the inner sanctum of Japan's traditionalist heart, Geisha wades clumsily through a series of beautiful sets, hackneyed plots and stunning costumes."
—
Modern Fabulousity
Posted Nov 25, 2005
|
87%
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