Jay Antani

""It isn't work unless you'd rather be doing something else"--James Barrie"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography:
Well, I like long walks and poetry and watching sunsets. No, seriously, I do like those things on occasion, but, generally, I like movies, discovering cool new stuff to read and music to listen to, hanging out with fun, stimulating, intelligent, open-minded humans (and cats). Philosophically, I like to think of myself as a work-in-progress. But I'm gettin' there.
Publications:
Boxoffice Magazine , Cinema Writer , Filmcritic.com , I.E. Weekly , Jaman , Los Angeles Alternative , Moving Pictures Magazine , Paste Magazine , Reel.com , Slant Magazine
Total Reviews:
455
Total QuickRatings:
15
Location:
Los Angeles

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/4 8% Furry Vengeance (2010) " an experience in collective embarrassment %u2014 embarrassment for yourself, your fellow audience and the actors onscreen forced to take part in the movie's wildly inept, bottom-of-the-barrel shenanigans." — Moving Pictures Magazine
Posted May 5, 2010
.5/4 87% Millions (2005) " if you're a sucker for adorable, freckle-faced kids, you may not be able to resist the infantile wiles of this movie" — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 20, 2010
.5/4 26% Anatomy of Hell (2004) " A waste of cinema, and of precious time." — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 19, 2006
.5/4 18% Shadowboxer (2005) " After 90-odd minutes of bludgeoning us into open-jawed bafflement, Shadowboxer is best aborted, and flushed away as one of 2006's more unpleasant memories." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 20, 2006
1/5 52% Shuttle (2009) " a pile of stinking turpitude" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 11, 2009
1/5 61% Bug (2006) " A staggering miscalculation." — Filmcritic.com
Posted May 24, 2007
1/5 36% The Tripper (2007) " Ineptly written by Arquette and Joe Harris, The Tripper is a carnival of cretins doing and saying one ass-headed thing after another." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 21, 2007
1/5 50% Race You to the Bottom (2005) " While clocking in at a relatively painless 75 minutes, Brown fails to come up with anything so fresh and bold in his approach as to make a single one of those worth watching." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 30, 2007
1/5 20% The Marine (2006) " It's as fast and loud as you'd expect, but where it catches you off-guard is in its breathtaking stupidity." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2006
1/5 63% Mail Order Wife (2005) " a simple-minded circle jerk about exploitation, peopled by characters without the least bit of originality, vitality or appeal" — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Mar 8, 2005
1/5 80% 21 Grams (2003) " 21 Grams thrashes wildly...exhorting us to feel something. Apart from the fleeting satisfaction of its structural parlor game, I felt little...save exhausted boredom." — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Sep 30, 2004
1/5 81% The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) (2003) " ...jerkily paced, dramatically obvious, and seems penned by a self-serious 16-year-old" — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Sep 30, 2004
1/4 40% Tonight You're Mine (2012) " A prime example of a movie whose setting must compensate for an absence of any actual merit." — Paste Magazine
Posted May 9, 2012
1/4 32% How Do You Know (2010) " What happened to James L. Brooks? " — Cinema Writer
Posted Jan 30, 2012
1/4 43% Twentynine Palms (2004) " A movie full of surfaces but with exasperatingly little to say" — Cinema Writer
Posted Sep 6, 2010
1/4 75% Wedding Crashers (2005) " What should've been an absolutely raucous and no-holds-barred lusty farce is nothing but lame-ass, safe, predictable, lowest common denominator, no-laffs garbage" — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 17, 2010
1/4 50% The Living Wake (2010) " we get the sense that O'Connell is having all the fun, leaving the rest of us to suffer through the indulgences of this aggressively awful comedy" — Moving Pictures Magazine
Posted May 14, 2010
1/4 21% The Lodger (2009) " Ondaatje's lack of certainty seeps from the dialogue and characterizations to his choice of an overwrought aria-heavy score and a shoddy sense of style that recalls episodic television and myriad Silence of the Lambs rip-offs." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2009
17% Badland (2007) " Offensive to all and on every level, Badland tops the landfill of this year's worst." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2007
1/4 31% Unaccompanied Minors (2006) " a 90-minute succession of jokes, set pieces and false sentiment that, unless you're extremely young or undiscerning, has a distinctly been-there-done-that whiff about it." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2006
1/4 85% The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain) (1986) " instead of being wickedly funny, it's repellent before becoming a total snore" — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 20, 2006
1/4 74% Cars (2006) " a steep step downwards for all and everything concerned, unless you're a Caucasian sports car" — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 20, 2006
1/4 38% Happy Hour (2004) " Happy Hour is strictly college-level compost, content with its mediocrity, if not wholly unaware of it." — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Oct 29, 2004
66% Bright Young Things (2003) " Bright Young Things lacks free-spiritedness and bite." — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Sep 29, 2004
1.5/5 48% Towelhead (2007) " A clumsy, witless, tedious trudge." — Jaman
Posted Jan 30, 2008
1.5/5 36% Eleven Men Out (Strakarnir okkar) (2007) " If you detect anything fresh or original in terms of character or story development, you're probably not watching this movie." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 16, 2007
1.5/5 38% Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007) " trades in platitudes and cliches, for lack of anything distinctive or bold to say" — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2007
1.5/5 67% Noriko no shokutaku (Noriko's Dinner Table) (2005) " Growing up has never felt so god-awful tedious." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2007
1.5/5 72% Bubble (2006) " staggeringly clueless" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 26, 2006
1.5/5 12% Ma Mere,(Meine Mutter),(My Mother) (2005) " ...a dispirited affair and often feels like a parody - a decidedly self-serious one - of one of Bertolucci or Pasolini's boundary-pushing offerings from the '70s" — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted May 14, 2005
1.5/5 70% Monsieur N. (2004) " a disaster" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 8, 2005
1.5/5 46% The Other Side of the Bed (El Otro Lado de la Cama) (2003) " it's impossible for me to completely dismiss a movie that features not one but two Spanish women....The rest of [this] sex romp/romantic comedy...can't be so summarily praised" — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Sep 30, 2004
1.5/5 70% Dogville (2003) " never manages to be more than a belabored shaggy dog story" — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Sep 30, 2004
1.5/5 51% Code 46 (2004) " a noir snore with no moral desperation, no clear-cut point-of-view and a love story whose eroticism feels about as urgent as yardwork" — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Sep 30, 2004
1.5/5 45% Nicotina (2004) " Nicotina feels so comfortably middle-of-the-road...that it makes us ponder the purpose of its very existence and makes the task of reviewing it an absolute redundancy." — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Sep 30, 2004
1.5/4 86% Le refuge (Hideaway (Le refuge)) (2010) " Ozon masks his lack of sensitivity to the material with his characteristic cerebral detachment and pretense to subtlety." — Cinema Writer
Posted Jan 30, 2012
1.5/4 57% Film socialisme (2011) " likely to be an unbearable experience for anyone other than for Godard himself and his most hardcore adherents" — Cinema Writer
Posted Jan 27, 2012
1.5/4 59% Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992) " This fire dampens fast, and the results are rather dreary, and nonsensical." — Cinema Writer
Posted Sep 7, 2010
1.5/4 72% Machete (2010) " hack-and-slash nonsense" — Moving Pictures Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2010
1.5/4 78% Sin City (2005) " My own trajectory while watching Sin City--excited, bored, offended...back to bored...roll credits" — Cinema Writer
Posted Sep 3, 2010
1.5/4 73% Primer (2004) " ridiculous, confusing, vaguely noir-ish nonsense" — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 24, 2010
1.5/4 51% The Switch (2010) " so unimaginative and formula-driven...that it seems entirely to have been hashed out by executives over a long lunch. " — Moving Pictures Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2010
1.5/4 81% The Manchurian Candidate (2004) " This humorless and nonsensical update of The Manchurian Candidate - a total misread of Frankenheimer's classic original - never quite engages, devolving the original's camp and satire into self-serious melodrama. " — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 19, 2010
1.5/4 72% Soul Kitchen (2010) " hasn't a clue how to take its characters through the requisite beats of what is allegedly a story about a man's search for self - just as Soul Kitchen is allegedly an attempt at bright, witty comedy" — Moving Pictures Magazine
Posted Aug 18, 2010
1.5/4 90% Hotel Rwanda (2004) " potentially fantastic material...unfortunately, [Terry] George's attempt is too mired in movie-of-the-week sensibilities...to do any justice to its subject matter" — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 17, 2010
1.5/4 52% The Family Stone (2005) " a gob of yuletide Play-Doh" — Cinema Writer
Posted Aug 17, 2010
1.5/4 97% Animal Kingdom (2010) " more a trip to the petting zoo than a foray into the treacherous savannah of high and low crime" — Moving Pictures Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2010
1.5/4 14% Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) " not the plot nor the action nor most of the jokes offer the joy or delight to make Kitty Galore worth the trip to the multiplex" — Moving Pictures Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2010
1.5/4 34% Miracle at St. Anna (2008) " A dollop of Saving Private Ryan, a dash of Letters from Iwo Jima, and a sprinkle of Italian neorealism characterize the style and sentiment of Miracle at St. Anna." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2008
1.5/4 14% It's All About Love (2004) " while watching it you might be hit with the urge to grab the Danish writer-director by the collar and shout 'No, it's all about story!'" — Los Angeles Alternative
Posted Oct 29, 2004
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