Joshua Rothkopf

Joshua Rothkopf

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography:
Senior Film Critic for Time Out New York
Publications:
Chicago Reader , City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , Time Out , Time Out New York , Time Out Sydney
Critics' Group:
Chicago Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
1120

Worst Reviewed Films

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0/6 2% Epic Movie (2007) " The gutter-brow auteurs who helped write the first Scary Movie and created Date Movie milk their lame sketch-comedy minds for yet another punishingly uninspired skewering of Hollywood hits." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2007
1/6 26% Land of the Lost (2009) " A seriously mistaken enterprise, this Cat in the Hat-worthy stinker grafts the DNA of a Gerald Ford-era children's TV show (barely remembered by thirtysomethings) to the restless-leg freneticism of today's CGI-heavy blockbustering." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 10, 2009
1/6 9% My Life in Ruins (2009) " Settling for My Life in Ruins requires a serious lowering of the bar: like digging a groove for it." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 3, 2009
1/6 66% The Brothers Bloom (2009) " The Brothers Bloom reveals a limited formal artist who relies on cutesy montages and a Cat Stevens song to glom onto borrowed emotion." — Time Out New York
Posted May 13, 2009
1/6 28% New In Town (2009) " A shockingly banal script lends the movie a generic awfulness; you wish Zellweger were in better hands." — Time Out
Posted Feb 27, 2009
1/6 16% Crossing Over (2009) " Let this be the last of a kind of cloying, paranoid cinema we should all be sick and tired of." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 26, 2009
1/6 28% New In Town (2009) " A shockingly banal script lends the movie a generic awfulness; you wish Zellweger were in better hands." — Time Out New York
Posted Jan 29, 2009
1/6 25% Four Christmases (2008) " Can someone please establish a Vince Vaughn Support Group?" — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 26, 2008
1/6 —— Soviet Story (2008) " An offensively schlocky treatment of an important subject, The Soviet Story turns Stalin's systematic starvation and slaughter of millions into a hopped-up horror flick." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 22, 2008
1/6 14% The Love Guru (2008) " An oh-my-God-level disaster that'll make you wonder if Hollywood actually hates us." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 20, 2008
1/6 7% Postal (2007) " I'm not gonna box you, Uwe Boll. Punch your way through another critic's face, as is your inclination. But please: Let me train you. Seriously. If you're really going to go head to head with Michael Bay, you've got to work on your rope-a-dope." — Time Out New York
Posted May 21, 2008
1/6 47% My Blueberry Nights (2007) " All of these groaner developments, coscripted by Wong and crime novelist Lawrence Block, feel like a tour of the waxiest 1990s clichés ever." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2008
1/6 11% Fool's Gold (2008) " Like watching blond eight-year-olds play a game of Clue, Fool's Gold will have you seriously wondering if it was a film made for adults." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 7, 2008
1/6 25% Halloween (2007) " As if spooked by the long shadow of suburban killer Michael Myers, the director has all but dropped his organic camera style, resulting in exactly the kind of bland, scareless remake the fans were fearing." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 6, 2007
1/6 64% The Nines (2007) " How do ridiculous films like The Nines (the latest bit of quasimystical nonsense in the Magnolia mold) constitute serious Sundance fare?" — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 30, 2007
1/6 6% Who's Your Caddy? (2007) " Total sand trap." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 4, 2007
1/6 36% Sleuth (2007) " The real culprit, dear Watson, is playwright Harold Pinter, contracted here for a baroque rewrite of Shaffer's original dialogue. The result. Is one. Of unbearable artifice. Throughout. The entire film. Some puzzles just give you a headache." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 21, 2007
1/6 21% Fred Claus (2007) " Not a flake on the ground and we already have our first lump of coal." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 12, 2007
1/6 44% Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007) " Mind-bogglingly, there's virtually no swordplay for the first two hours; when Keith Richards shows up for his soused cameo, the visual joke hangs in the air." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 30, 2007
1/6 21% The Invisible (2007) " My screening presented the final reel upside down and backward; no difference whatsoever." — Time Out New York
Posted May 5, 2007
1/6 8% The Reaping (2007) " Religious horror will always be with us, but if The Reaping connects, it'll only be because we sinned on the ticket line." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 7, 2007
1/6 11% The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) " A secret comedy lurks within this decidedly shoddy piece of corporate horror." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 31, 2007
1/6 14% Wild Hogs (2007) " This collection of gags on male menopause, genuinely offensive gay-cop jokes and bumper-sticker life lessons is beyond intolerable." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 10, 2007
1/6 26% Ghost Rider (2007) " Grand, empty gestures and loads of CGI effects can't cover up pure schlock. Even the character's iconically cool trademarks -- a flaming skull and a fiery chopper -- are reduced to Velveeta slices. No, damn you, sir." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 3, 2007
1/6 8% Gray Matters (2007) " Gray Matters is trying so hard to be charming and screwball (not to mention politically correct) that it trips all over itself." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 3, 2007
1/6 17% Turistas (Paradise Lost) (2006) Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/6 72% Stranger Than Fiction (2006) " An uncommonly plastic bit of Hallmark sentiment-mongering, with exactly the kind of New Age psychobabble ending youâ(TM)d expect." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/6 31% Unaccompanied Minors (2006) Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/6 55% Déjà Vu (2006) Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/6 69% Freedom Writers (2007) Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/6 38% The Nativity Story (2006) Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/5 —— Mortem (2013) " [An] excruciatingly bad drama ..." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 23, 2013
1/5 47% Heaven's Gate (1980) " If anything, Michael Cimino's inert disaster of a Western has gotten worse over the years ..." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 19, 2013
1/5 19% Inescapable (2013) " Waiting for Inescapable to finally reach its unearned, sentimental conclusion is a tiresome experience, but seeing Tomei submit to its badness is several measures worse." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 20, 2013
1/5 4% Movie 43 (2013) " You won't believe how tiresome bad taste has become." — Time Out New York
Posted Jan 25, 2013
1/5 19% Texas Chainsaw (2013) " Alexandra Daddario, playing a distant Leatherface cousin set to inherit the manor (and manner), continues her sad career in unbuttoned bondage, and the 3-D effects are especially ruinous." — Time Out New York
Posted Jan 5, 2013
1/5 46% The Comedy (2012) " [A] faux-courageous nondrama." — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 13, 2012
1/5 47% The First Time (2012) " Writer-director Jonathan Kasdan can't even bother to satisfy the buildup with a real moment of consummation (welcome to the fade to black) or believable postcoital complications." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 16, 2012
1/5 29% Red Lights (2012) " Why wait for the next M. Night Shyamalan fiasco to vent your spleen when another director has beaten him to it?" — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 10, 2012
1/5 6% The Tortured (2012) " The flick gets off on surgical slicings and an overall Fincheresque gloominess, the latter becoming an unwitting joke." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 12, 2012
1/5 38% Detention (2012) " The whole thing comes off like 200 commercials smashed together, selling you your own obsolescence." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 10, 2012
1/5 26% This Means War (2012) " Some kind of internal threshold for obnoxiousness is broken when you submit to this harsh rom-com..." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 14, 2012
1/5 12% I Melt with You (2011) " After the halfway mark, it's too much, with director Mark Pellington displaying little intent to criticize." — Time Out New York
Posted Dec 6, 2011
1/5 11% Fool's Gold (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 44% Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 25% Halloween (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 16% When in Rome (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 64% The Nines (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 47% My Blueberry Nights (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 16% Crossing Over (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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