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1/4
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19%
|
Texas Chainsaw (2013) |
"
The equivalent of filmic road kill ... An abridged version of the original, rendered in bad 3D, serves as a pre-credit set-up and makes us long for the real deal."
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CinemaDope
Posted Jan 26, 2013
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1/4
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27%
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Project X (2012) |
"
Brain trust behind this abomination wants you to think of it as a game-changer, the Ben-Hur of house party movies ... It's a desperate amalgam of every teen sex farce from Animal House to Superbad"
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CinemaDope
Posted Mar 3, 2012
|
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1/4
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16%
|
Shark Night 3D (2011) |
"
Confronted with a film this bad, you take your laughs when you can find them ... That classic SNL skit featuring a door-to-door land shark comes to mind."
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CinemaDope
Posted Sep 5, 2011
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1/4
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77%
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Thor (2011) |
"
... latest in a string of whatever-sticks action-hero franchises ... I can hear the slumming Branagh admonishing, "Give me a break ‒ it's an amusement-park ride! "
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CinemaDope
Posted May 7, 2011
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1/4
|
34%
|
Hall Pass (2011) |
"
"Hall Pass," actually shot in Georgia, boasts the production values of public access TV. The masturbation / marijuana jokes aren't worthy of a Farrelly outtakes reel. "
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CinemaDope
Posted May 4, 2011
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1/4
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20%
|
Beastly (2011) |
"
... tone deaf (do students today really say "hurl chunks" and "Too cool for school"?), predictably plotted, filled with drippy love songs that would embarrass Bryan Ferry. "
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CinemaDope
Posted May 4, 2011
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|
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32%
|
The Waterboy (1998) |
"
The formulaic mix of mirth and mayhem is aimed way down the MTV food chain..."
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Variety
Posted Jun 2, 2008
|
|
1/4
|
17%
|
The Perfect Score (2004) |
"
A generic teen comedy brimming with patronizing stereotypes and lame in-jokes."
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San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 29, 2004
|
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1/4
|
12%
|
Timeline (2003) |
"
This dunderheaded mix of sci-fi and medieval skull-bashing should have been called Monty Python and the Holey Time Machine."
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San Jose Mercury News
Posted Nov 26, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
36%
|
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"
That it escaped the straight-to-video bin suggests that Hollywood's contempt for today's youth audience has reached a new level."
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San Jose Mercury News
Posted Oct 16, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
7%
|
All The Queen's Men (2001) |
"
This one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit."
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San Jose Mercury News
Posted Oct 24, 2002
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1/4
|
51%
|
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) |
"
Nothing, not a single character, gesture or exchange, rings true. When you think about it, that's some accomplishment."
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San Jose Mercury News
Posted Oct 17, 2002
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|
1/4
|
10%
|
Bad Company (2002) |
"
This formulaic countdown-to-oblivion number is so sluggish and impersonal, it could very well have been directed from two states away by remote-controlled robot."
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San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jun 6, 2002
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|
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58%
|
Birthday Girl (2002) |
"
An anemic little movie."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 31, 2002
|
|
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80%
|
The Royal Tenenbaums (2002) |
"
If I smiled at all during this colossal misfire, it was at Hackman, who knows how to do cheerfully thoughtless better than anyone around. The rest of the cast looks lost and miserable."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Dec 21, 2001
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|
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42%
|
The Majestic (2001) |
"
At 2 1/2 hours, this movie is about an hour too long, and this makes an obvious story obnoxious in the extreme."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Dec 21, 2001
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|
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40%
|
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"
One big mushy mess of a movie."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Dec 13, 2001
|
|
|
37%
|
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) |
"
All those arguments about how desensitizing video games are certainly apply here."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Nov 29, 2001
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|
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38%
|
Novocaine (2001) |
"
Proves initially intriguing in a junky sort of way, but in the end is just plain numbing."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Nov 15, 2001
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|
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23%
|
Domestic Disturbance (2001) |
"
A slick, rerouted TV movie at best."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Nov 1, 2001
|
|
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82%
|
Innocence (2001) |
"
Because the script has them lovey-dovey from beginning to bittersweet end, their story is fatally lacking in dramatic conflict."
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San Jose Mercury News
Posted Oct 25, 2001
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|
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49%
|
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) |
"
Feels both forced and erratic, like an old Buick missing on all cylinders."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Oct 18, 2001
|
|
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53%
|
My First Mister (2002) |
"
Harold & Maude it ain't."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Oct 12, 2001
|
|
|
72%
|
Training Day (2001) |
"
This movie is so racist that it's almost possible to overlook the wholesale misogyny."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Oct 5, 2001
|
|
|
74%
|
Joy Ride (2001) |
"
Dahl, like his brother protagonists, isn't up on the scare basics."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Oct 4, 2001
|
|
|
38%
|
Hardball (2001) |
"
It's a tossup as to what's more distasteful in this film -- the slathered-on schmaltz or the grim urban stereotypes."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Sep 13, 2001
|
|
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52%
|
Rock Star (2001) |
"
If the head-banging hype doesn't turn you off to Rock Star ... the hilarious miscasting and archaic rags-to-riches story line should do the trick -- and then some."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Sep 6, 2001
|
|
|
71%
|
Bread and Tulips (2001) |
"
Soldini ... exploits the premise for schmaltz and easy laughs."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Aug 30, 2001
|
|
|
44%
|
Rat Race (2001) |
"
That so much energy and talent could be squandered on such idiocy says loads about the state of Hollywood today."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Aug 16, 2001
|
|
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29%
|
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"
Uninvolving mix of fable, anti-war lecture and star-crossed romance."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Aug 16, 2001
|
|
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84%
|
The Others (2001) |
"
Too polite, too subdued for its own good."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Aug 9, 2001
|
|
|
52%
|
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"
It has all the essential ingredients -- same writer, same cast, same suburban Michigan setting -- but it's sour now, with the texture of soggy cardboard."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Aug 9, 2001
|
|
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55%
|
Osmosis Jones (2001) |
"
Depending on your age and mindset, the ensuing gastrointestinal skirmish will seem either terribly clever or nauseatingly rude, the potty joke to end all potty jokes."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Aug 9, 2001
|
|
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52%
|
Rush Hour 2 (2001) |
"
Comes off as a lot more cynical than comic -- yet another example of Hollywood riding a semi-amusing bit -- SPLAT! -- into the ground."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Aug 2, 2001
|
|
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12%
|
Original Sin (2001) |
"
We haven't had this much tawdry fun since Pia Zadora and Bo Derek's heydays."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Aug 2, 2001
|
|
|
49%
|
Atlantis - The Lost Empire (2001) |
"
Has the distinct feel of too many galley cooks."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jun 14, 2001
|
|
|
43%
|
Evolution (2001) |
"
The movie itself, I'm sorry to report, is more devolution than evolution, a lazy lampoon that draws from grade-Z sci-fi and Reitman's own uproarious Ghostbusters."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jun 7, 2001
|
|
|
10%
|
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001) |
"
What's the worst that could happen? This witless mess of a farce starring Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito, that's what."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted May 31, 2001
|
|
|
35%
|
The Man Who Cried (2000) |
"
If this all sounds terribly melodramatic, that's because it is."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted May 26, 2001
|
|
|
58%
|
A Knight's Tale (2001) |
"
By the time the big grudge match comes around and William and the no-account Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell) meet in center court, whatever charm and good humor were engendered by this adventure have long since worn off."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted May 11, 2001
|
|
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32%
|
Exit Wounds (2001) |
"
Exit Wounds is really a succession of street fights, explosions, car chases and helicopter rescues in search of a plot."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Mar 20, 2001
|
|
|
56%
|
The Gift (2000) |
"
Unfortunately, Raimi and Thornton -- who collaborated as director and star on the genuinely creepy A Simple Plan -- have only enough material this time to sustain half a movie."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 19, 2001
|
|
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84%
|
Meet the Parents (2000) |
"
Meet the Parents is a one- -- well, maybe two- -- joke idea that starts out goofy and fun, but soon runs out of verbal or visual ammunition."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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19%
|
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
"
I wouldn't call what [Madonna] does acting; it's more like vogue posing."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
59%
|
Permanent Midnight (1998) |
"
Stiller's attempted image makeover, though admirable, doesn't make it."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
67%
|
American Psycho (2000) |
"
Much of American Psycho feels like déjà vu."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
13%
|
Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 (2000) |
"
Unfortunately, Berlinger has chosen to 'go Hollywood' with his first theatrical feature, which plays more like Wes Craven's Scream 3 than what it should."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
40%
|
The Replacements (2000) |
"
The games, while plenty rowdy and profane, aren't very realistic."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
40%
|
Pay It Forward (2000) |
"
The three principals have been encouraged to recycle their recently acclaimed performances and, when at a loss for something to do, to fall back on their specialty acts."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
50%
|
Any Given Sunday (1999) |
"
Stone's latest isn't his worst, but it's still a mess."
—
San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
76%
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