|
1/4
|
11%
|
Pathfinder (2007) |
"
The official Pathfinder Web site is far more interesting than the movie itself, and you'll get better history lessons from the Vikings of Minnesota."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 13, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
10%
|
Venom (2005) |
"
Even the title is lame, but it does convey the movie's overall effect: numbing and toxic."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 16, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
72%
|
Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) (2003) |
"
An undisciplined mess."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 30, 2004
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
Overnight (2012) |
"
Formulaic to a fault and painfully unfunny..."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
27%
|
Play The Game (2009) |
"
There's a good comedy to be made about sex among seniors, but the low-budget indie film Play the Game is not that movie."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 15, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) |
"
The movie's convoluted hide-and-seek plot also demands a White House break-in that makes about as much sense as subprime mortgage rates."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 21, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
5%
|
THR3E (2007) |
"
If Thr3e is any indication of what we can expect from the emerging trend of studio-funded faith-based movies, we may find ourselves wishing The Passion of the Christ had been a box-office bomb."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 5, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
4%
|
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) |
"
It's comedian DeRay Davis and sassy actress Niecy Nash, who earn a few laughs in small supporting roles. Still, any resemblance to real entertainment is strictly coincidental."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 5, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
33%
|
Mad Cowgirl (2006) |
"
This indulgently puerile waste of time plows ahead with pointless mayhem masquerading as 'art.'"
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 6, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
22%
|
The Quiet (2006) |
"
Bordering on camp and loaded with lesbian undertones, this wretched drama plays like a high-school horror flick that trades monsters and mayhem for an overdose of force-fed cruelty."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 1, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
35%
|
Saw II (2005) |
"
You'll be hard-pressed to find a shred of the perverse ingenuity that made Saw so effectively unnerving."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 27, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
41%
|
High Tension (Switchblade Romance) (2005) |
"
A lame exercise, delivering shameless thrills at the expense of logic and genuine suspense."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 10, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
25%
|
House of Wax (2005) |
"
Wretched excuse for a horror flick."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 6, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
25%
|
Dot the I (2003) |
"
Implausibility and banality join forces to turn dot the i into the kind of pretentious, pseudo-clever claptrap that most wanna-be directors get out of their system during film school."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 25, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
53%
|
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) |
"
[The movie] manages to eradicate any meaningful subtleties that are present in Kate DiCamillo's 2001 Newberry Award-winning children's book."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 18, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Bowery at Midnight (1942) |
—
DVDTalk.com
Posted May 23, 2001
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2012) |
"
You know the drill: A small group of unsuspecting adventurers wanders into danger, and not all of them will get out alive."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
The Woman (2011) |
"
"The Woman" is an affront to human decency that no self-respecting critic (even this tolerant horror fan) would enthusiastically endorse."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
29%
|
Survival of the Dead (2010) |
"
A lot of Survival seems stale, as if Romero were growing bored with his own redundancies. Now in the final years of an uneven career, Romero needs to get out of his comfort zone."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
84%
|
The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2010) |
"
If you're going to attempt an ambitious action epic, you'd better have the directorial chops to pull it off. Kim clearly doesn't."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 6, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
18%
|
The Fourth Kind (2009) |
"
A frustrating exercise in terror that relies too heavily on gimmicks to have any genuine impact."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 5, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
18%
|
The Cross(The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story) (2009) |
"
In telling the story of globe-trotting evangelist Arthur Blessitt, director Matthew Crouch allows Christian priorities to gloss over details that a more objective filmmaker would consider essential."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 26, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
The Great Buck Howard (2009) |
"
Like the has-been it celebrates, this gentle comedy wears out its welcome by embracing mediocrity."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 19, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
68%
|
Ben X (2007) |
"
In adapting his novel and subsequent stage play, first-time writer-director Nic Balthazar seems more intent on impressing World of Warcraft gamers than honestly exploring the inner life of the mildly autistic boy at the center of his story."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 26, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
40%
|
My Name Is Bruce (2007) |
"
Subtract Campbell from this movie's idiot-friendly equation and you've got just about any dimwitted horror comedy that's gone straight to video."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 11, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
58%
|
Year of the Fish (2007) |
"
Apart from the debut of appealing An Nguyen and a pet fish instead of a magic slipper, there's nothing particularly innovative here, and the film's seedy milieu ensures that it's anything but a kid-friendly fairy tale."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) |
"
It's disappointingly heavy-handed as an examination of racial prejudice in the military."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
30%
|
The Children of Huang Shi (2008) |
"
The film's closing credits ironically emphasize its dramatic shortcomings: Here we see the real, now-elderly children of Huang Shi, reflecting on their adventure. Their compelling recollections suggest that... perhaps a documentary would've been better."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 20, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
45%
|
The Strangers (2008) |
"
Bertino relies too heavily on occasionally nonsensical terror tricks that every horror buff has seen a million times since John Carpenter's Halloween set the standard for domestic fright-night mayhem."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 30, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
24%
|
The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) |
"
What you get, in the end, is a pair of fine performances (from Thurman and Wood) and a technically well-made film that arrives at a foregone conclusion."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 25, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
Zombie Strippers (2008) |
"
Hey, at least you don't have to ask what it's about, right?"
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 25, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
24%
|
Shrooms (2008) |
"
Even casual horror buffs have seen it all before."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 8, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
Macbeth (2006) |
"
The play's power has been diluted by questionable editing, an overload of blandly stylized violence and the conspicuous suspicion that this whole thing is the predictable result of catering to base commercial instincts."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 14, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
20%
|
Day at the Beach (1998) |
"
It's a must-see for curious cinephiles, but otherwise a drag."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 31, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
33%
|
Walking to Werner (2006) |
"
Walking to Werner flirts with becoming an ordeal."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 29, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
Day Watch (2007) |
"
[Director] Bekmambetov is a reckless and juvenile storyteller with a regrettable knack for empty spectacle."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
45%
|
Fay Grim (2007) |
"
Fay Grim makes giddy sense to a point, but Hartley seems trapped in a bubble of his own, failing to let us in on a joke that would be funnier if its punch line weren't so quirkily obscure."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 18, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
6%
|
Nomad: The Warrior (2007) |
"
It embraces every cliché in the epic-movie playbook, relies too heavily on stale dialogue delivered in somber tones and offers little to its actors besides the opportunity to fashion some great-looking Eurasian costumes."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 27, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
8%
|
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"
It's enjoyable for what it is, but without McGinley, it would've needed major remodeling."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 4, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
Unknown (2006) |
"
There's a good little thriller lurking somewhere in the depths of "Unknown," but it never quite rises to the surface."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 15, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
7%
|
Conversations With God (2006) |
"
Conversations with God is a bad film about good things that many people will find enlightening. Its message is admirable, its filmmaking as bland as a communion wafer."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 27, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
Free Zone (2006) |
"
A rambling road movie with noble intentions and an excess of speechifying."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 29, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
3%
|
Crossover (2006) |
"
You can't blame Crossover for being comfortable with its own clichés. It's so blatantly formulaic that it actually grows on you if you don't dismiss it in the first five minutes."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 1, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
24%
|
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"
None of this is fun to report from a critic's perspective. I'm a Shyamalan fan who greatly admires what he's trying to do, but Shyamalan's desperate desire to be the next Steven Spielberg has grown painful to witness."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 21, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
69%
|
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"
Like its protagonist, Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly suffers from a schizoid identity crisis."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 7, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
74%
|
Chinjeolhan geumjassi (Lady Vengeance) (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) (2005) |
"
Apart from Park's impressive but ultimately hollow style (his images are impeccably composed and visually inventive), Lady Vengeance is still an exercise in wretched excess (though less extreme than its predecessors)."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 23, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
The King (2006) |
"
It really is reprehensible and disgusting, not only because we've seen far too many sociopaths in movies over the past 20 years, but because it deals with horrid clichés and presents them as something indie-hip and morally provocative."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 23, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
20%
|
La Mujer de Mi Hermano (2006) |
"
Here's a 'steamy' soap opera that's never very steamy, and if you set your expectations low, this movie is only too happy to meet them."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 5, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
11%
|
Rinjin 13-gô (Neighbor No. 13) (2005) |
"
... a technically impressive but altogether listless revenge tale ..."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 10, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
58%
|
Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) (2006) |
"
If [Director] Bekmambetov had any skill in actually telling a story, his kitchen-sink trilogy would be something to celebrate. It presently qualifies as a dubious achievement."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 24, 2006
|
79%
33%
54%
52%
