|
.5/4
|
9%
|
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) |
"
Sorry, Deuce fans, but Schneider's faux-sexy alter ego is back with a thud, not a bang."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 12, 2005
|
|
.5/4
|
1%
|
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"
Alone in the Dark presents splatter fans with garden-variety gore, and gives action-horror fans loud, unscary special effects rather than genuine suspense or bang."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 28, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
11%
|
One Last Thing (2006) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
16%
|
When in Rome (2010) |
"
Do as the Romans do. Drive around it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 28, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
24%
|
The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) |
"
The Life Before Her Eyes might offer a fresh perspective on aborted dreams, but its insights are buried under stale, inflated moviemaking."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2008
|
|
|
80%
|
Stolen Life (Sheng Si Jie) (2007) |
"
This one hits home in places, but overall it begs for a lighter touch."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 24, 2006
|
|
|
70%
|
Wall (Mur) (2004) |
"
Bitton poses the important questions, but too often she lets powerful responses get lost amid footage that lingers forever on some mundane location shot while interviews are happening mostly off camera."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 28, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
10%
|
Venom (2005) |
"
Venom is so far beneath comparisons to Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer that it would have to add a Jennifer Love Hewitt cameo just to keep company with the worst sequels of those popular movies."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 16, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
0%
|
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) |
"
Not only is there nothing thoughtful or interesting about this latest ultra-crass contribution to the Lampoon shelf, there's not even anything very funny."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 17, 2004
|
|
1/4
|
7%
|
Kaena - The Prophecy (Kaena: La prophétie) (2004) |
"
Derivative and aimless filmmaking by directors and 'writers' who know only how to craft eye candy."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2004
|
|
1/4
|
7%
|
All The Queen's Men (2001) |
"
There are cheesy backdrops, ridiculous action sequences, and many tired jokes about men in heels."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2002
|
|
1/4
|
13%
|
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"
All the Queen's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2002
|
|
1.5/4
|
51%
|
Chloe (2010) |
"
It can't be recommended even to people who mostly just want to see Amanda Seyfried naked."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
27%
|
Play The Game (2009) |
"
A film in which comedic maturity is measured in jokes about hemorrhoids, constipation, and erectile dysfunction."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 27, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
Next Day Air (2009) |
"
This is a movie that mines its plot from the Stone Age (or is it Stoned Age?) of caper comedies."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 7, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
36%
|
Igor (2008) |
"
To convince you that it's full of surprises, the movie throws in Louis Prima songs where they don't belong, and it riffs on classic monster-movie cliches mostly by spinning them into newly unfunny cliches."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
16%
|
Untraceable (2008) |
"
Hoblit and veteran cinematographer Anastas Michos try to darken the proceedings by giving us nocturnal characters and Portland at its grayest. But it's window dressing, just like the layers of computer geek-speak that can't disguise an analog-age plot."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 25, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
38%
|
Milarepa (2007) |
"
Despite timely and worthwhile subject matter, there is nothing very inspired or inspiring in what makes it to the screen."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 5, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
Mr. Woodcock (2007) |
"
The finished product feels like the unloved child of a bad marriage where the only thing anyone remembers is the sharp edges."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
16%
|
Underdog (2007) |
"
Where (oh where) are Tennessee Tuxedo and Phineas J. Whoopie when we need them?"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 6, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
19%
|
The Ex (2007) |
"
The next time Grodin attempts a comeback, it would be so great if he avoids movies where he might be upstaged by a sandwich stunt."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 11, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
57%
|
The Astronaut Farmer (2006) |
"
From the very first shot of Thornton on horseback, herding stray cattle in his spacesuit, this is a work that often feels orchestrated instead of inspired, literal rather than ethereal."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 23, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
26%
|
Poster Boy (2006) |
"
An overwrought story of American politics and image-making that really only gets interesting in the final act."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 25, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
11%
|
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) |
"
You'll only be attracted to Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties if you're very young, you're very easily entertained, or you just can't get enough of Jim Davis's lasagna-scarfing cartoon cat."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 16, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
40%
|
The Ringer (2005) |
"
In striving to be fair beyond reproach, this movie misses many chances to be funnier. Good comedy doesn't make that choice, and great comedy doesn't have to."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 27, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
77%
|
It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) |
"
Even at its very best, it's just all right."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 13, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
39%
|
Sahara (2005) |
"
Good-natured enough to entertain here and there, but that otherwise loses its way long before the characters complete their implausible quest."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 8, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
29%
|
Black Cloud (2004) |
"
Many cliches and borrowed substitutes for creativity."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 11, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
Hide and Seek (2005) |
"
You won't find anything startling or memorable."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 28, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
76%
|
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2004) |
"
Teases us into believing it's interested in global questions and hard-to-find answers, when really all it wants is to dazzle us with brute force, then dump us before we realize we've been had."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 14, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
L.A. Twister (2004) |
"
Pape and Saville-Read are so busy winking and chuckling over their own clever lampooning of Hollywood conventions that they forget to make the rest of us care."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 27, 2004
|
|
1.5/4
|
56%
|
Ned Kelly (2003) |
"
Ultimately, Jordan's vision is so murky that Ned Kelly remains as foreign to us as wombat stew."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 14, 2004
|
|
1.5/4
|
55%
|
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"
Seems mainly about ripping off 1983's Risky Business without attribution."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 9, 2004
|
|
1.5/4
|
42%
|
The Event (2003) |
"
A feminine hygiene commercial is by far the best thing here. Is that last item a curious thing to say about a film with such a weighty agenda? Exactly."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 21, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
72%
|
Buffalo Soldiers (2001) |
"
The film hits so many dissonant notes and random targets that its dark, dry wit is hard to locate in the buckshot."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
Basic (2003) |
"
It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
10%
|
Juwanna Mann (2002) |
"
Beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines ... there just isn't much to laugh at."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 21, 2002
|
|
2/4
|
39%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
[It] delivers repeated blows - to the abdomen, to the head, and to the groin, but not often enough to the funny bone."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
Ice Age (2002) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
0%
|
Antares (2004) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
Children of Winter (2008) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The Princess and the Warrior) (2000) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Steep (2007) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
A Letter To True (2004) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
The Greatest Places (1998) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
70%
|
Ramona and Beezus (2010) |
"
This new Ramona prefers mischief without real edge. You always know her parachute has a silver lining, even in an economic downturn. She is, above all, safe. And that makes her nowhere near as entertaining or enduring as the girl on the page."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
57%
|
Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) |
"
Shrek Forever After is being billed as the last of four big-screen romps featuring the lovable slime-green ogre with the cheesy Scottish accent. And to see this final installment is to know: It's time."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 20, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
The Joneses (2010) |
"
A generic hash of contrived comedy, romance, and tragedy, the saddest part of which is that a way-cool, high-end riding lawn mower winds up at the bottom of someone's swimming pool."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 15, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Saint John of Las Vegas (2010) |
"
For all its clever quirkiness, the end product seems flat and over-thought, which isn't to say it's a bad first step for this ambitious novice director, just a long way from something that will set the world on fire."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 11, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
28%
|
Dear John (2010) |
"
There's predictable attraction in the clash of opposites: he Tarzan, she Jane. If only screenwriter Jamie Linden could write dialogue half as good as that."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 4, 2010
|
78%
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