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0/4
|
23%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
While full of welcome gore and blood spatter, it's bankrupt of any creative spark."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
0/4
|
26%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
This is a product of gross indifference in every respect, an attempt on the part of its producers to make enough money to justify a third, perhaps even more cut-rate, installment. (Revenge of the Titans?)"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 28, 2012
|
|
0/4
|
79%
|
Cold Fish (2011) |
"
Don't let me talk you out of it--after all, I'm no kibbitzer."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2011
|
|
0/4
|
55%
|
The Shipping News (2001) |
"
The movie would probably be laughed out of the very locale in which it's set. It's the kind of movie that they've got rigged to play on an endless loop in hell."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 11, 2002
|
|
0/4
|
79%
|
Audition (Ôdishon) (1999) |
"
Insipid "human drama" gives way to relentless brutality. Is this cinema? If it is, you can have it."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2002
|
|
0/4
|
70%
|
Series 7: The Contenders (2001) |
"
Nothing more than the bad television it purports to tease."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2002
|
|
0/4
|
66%
|
Spy Game (2001) |
"
If you ignore the xenophobia and Aryan-colonialism design of this fantasy-adventure replaying of the CIA's greatest hits, you might have a chuckle or two."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
56%
|
Pocahontas (1995) |
"
Everything seems to have been surgically transplanted from prior Disney successes."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Oct 30, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
26%
|
Swordfish (2001) |
"
Cold-blooded, unpleasant, utterly ridiculous, and obsessed with (photogenic) death and destruction."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
25%
|
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"
The kind of bloodless, razzle-dazzle showmanship usually reserved for entries in the 'Star Wars' trilogy."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jun 5, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
47%
|
The Mummy Returns (2001) |
"
[Director] Stephen Sommers has opened all valves and soaked the screen with monumental ugliness and excess, all of which is harmless enough, but also rather depressing."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted May 20, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
12%
|
Get Carter (2000) |
"
If it had a taste, that taste would be rust and turpentine."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
39%
|
Black and White (2002) |
"
Most of the acting is wretched, the screenplay is preachy and redundant, the ironic crosscutting is clumsy and obvious, and at the film's core is a soft, warm mush."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
88%
|
Scent of a Woman (1992) |
"
At one point Chris O'Donnell's character goads the colonel to shoot him -- I wish he had."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
35%
|
Where the Heart Is (2000) |
"
The movie is a heartless, impersonally crafted result of a joint cooperative effort between Wal-Mart, 20th Century Fox, Kodak, and the Oprah Winfrey Book Club."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
53%
|
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) |
"
The funniest joke is on Ron Howard, who spent $123 million on a heartless movie that attacks consumerism and thinks it promotes love and unity."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
63%
|
Chocolat (2000) |
"
Merciless banality that will give your cringing muscles an excellent workout."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
85%
|
Billy Elliot (2000) |
"
This is a movie on autopilot, and I hated every cloying, calculated moment of it."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
0/4
|
0%
|
In God's Hands (1998) |
"
If it weren't for the surfing footage in this film, it wouldn't even be worth writing about, let alone watching."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
0/4
|
28%
|
The Bone Collector (1999) |
"
Tiresome nonsense."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
0/4
|
40%
|
Big Daddy (1999) |
"
If this is what going to the movies is all about for you, you can have it."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
0/4
|
68%
|
U-571 (2000) |
"
Everyone speaks in neat little war movie clichés to fill up the empty spaces."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
9/100
|
——
|
Lust for Frankenstein (2001) |
"
Marked and marred by the astonishing ineptness of its every conceivable aspect."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 15, 2001
|
|
.5/4
|
37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
"
Caters almost exclusively to the remedial, Duplo Blocks demographic, leaving parents and guardians bored to distraction."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
51%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
It's both abrupt and languorous, a wall-to-wall exhibition of design work where nobody had the basic decency to make sure the designs were good."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 6, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
89%
|
In Darkness (2012) |
"
A "Not Another Holocaust Movie" awards grab that isn't even distinguished by its base artlessness and indifference to craft."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 6, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
12%
|
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) |
"
They die horribly. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
More bluntly than ever before (and that's saying something), Sandler uses an entire film to let his loyal fans know that he thinks they're all a bunch of stupid *******. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
33%
|
5 Days Of War (2011) |
"
If 5 Days of War is any indication, Renny Harlin is looking to hoist himself up from the bottom of the barrel using the Blood Diamond template."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 14, 2011
|
|
16/100
|
——
|
Footsteps (2001) |
"
The badness of this film defies both belief and scholarly analysis."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Mar 21, 2001
|
|
20/100
|
——
|
Cypress Edge (2001) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 25, 2010
|
|
20/100
|
——
|
Cypress Edge (2001) |
"
I couldn't work up enough real anger to hate 'Cypress Edge', but I'll bet you'll be able to - if you don't heed my advice not to bother with it."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 27, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
78%
|
Caroline And Jackie (2013) |
"
Writer-director Adam Christian Clark's Caroline and Jackie clobbers the viewer with a wall of insistent stylishness, a Ketel One ad that just won't quit, or Bellflower for people whose Blackberry is a vital organ. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
——
|
The Woods (2012) |
"
It's all very "found footage," Impolex by way of Discovery's The Colony, only with a lot more in the way of familiar consumer products."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
32%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
Beyond my Big Apple-centric nitpicking, the cheapness is soaked into the material and direction as well."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
24%
|
Conan the Barbarian (2011) |
"
Conan the Barbarian seems to have little interest in '30s pulp stories, and only a little more in cheesy '80s epics. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 17, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
38%
|
Cars 2 (2011) |
"
Cars 2 looks like the work of multiple committees completing various objectives, with varying degrees of success."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
46%
|
Orange County (2002) |
"
I'm not sure if Stay Home is a message I care to invest a great deal of faith in, but it ties up the story neatly and wraps things up in less than ninety minutes."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 10, 2002
|
|
1/4
|
86%
|
Subway (1985) |
"
As far as Besson's movies go, Subway has all the right ingredients, but comes out all wrong."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2002
|
|
1/4
|
86%
|
Gosford Park (2001) |
"
Despite my complaints, this second-rate Altman has many first-rate touches."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2002
|
|
1/4
|
80%
|
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"
A merchandising tie-in for a popular novel."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2002
|
|
1/4
|
57%
|
From Hell (2001) |
"
Heather Graham plays Heather Graham playing a prostitute...Mike Leigh veteran Cartlidge wipes the floor with her...the ex-Rollergirl dons a British accent - bad idea, oh very bad!"
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
52%
|
The Last Castle (2001) |
"
There is mistreatment, reluctance, acceptance, uprising, tragedy, uplift, credits. Take it or leave it."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
71%
|
The Lady and the Duke (2001) |
"
Stately, stagey, interminable."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Oct 28, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
50%
|
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
"
Rote Americana of the Spielberg/Zemeckis vein...with King's touchy-feely-creepy metaphysics, his gallery of iconic villains, and a mist of facile nostalgia..."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
93%
|
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) |
"
I find this vaguely Stalinist notion of "correcting" [the film] to be frightening and kind of sickening."
—
Jacksonville Film Journal
Posted Sep 10, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
80%
|
Ashes of Time (2008) |
"
Teeters dangerously between deadpan and self-parody."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
——
|
Double Down (2000) |
"
Nothing more than comedy scenes sandwiched in-between serious (as in the "a very special episode of Happy Days" kind of serious) scenes."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 9, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
45%
|
Planet of the Apes (2001) |
"
The costumes, sets, and makeup are only slightly less ghastly than those in Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2001
|
|
1/4
|
44%
|
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (2001) |
"
It is fully digital, and begs to be considered fully analog. The result, despite honourable intentions by all, is a colossal boner."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2001
|
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