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1/4
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29%
|
The Oogieloves in The Big Balloon Adventure (2012) |
"
It's like paying to watch a dumbed-down mash-up of the least creative parts of "Teletubbies," "Barney & Friends," and "Pee-wee's Playhouse.""
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2012
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|
1/4
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4%
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House of the Dead (2003) |
"
Here is yet another video game transferred to film with little enhancement or development."
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Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 17, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
47%
|
Final Destination 2 (2003) |
"
FD2, despite some imaginative fatalities, is less a movie than a slick video game."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 30, 2003
|
|
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8%
|
Kangaroo Jack (2003) |
"
The movie gives us frat-house-style sexual humor, flatulence jokes about camels, and a romantic subplot apparently intended to woo the female half of the audience."
—
Boston Phoenix
Posted Jan 18, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
34%
|
Resident Evil (2002) |
"
A video game cum movie that substitutes shrieking decibel levels for a coherent plot and any resemblance to originality."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 15, 2002
|
|
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24%
|
Snow Dogs (2002) |
"
Cuba Gooding Jr. valiantly mugs his way through Snow Dogs, but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 18, 2002
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|
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54%
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Bully (2001) |
"
The moral wasteland of suburban youth has been examined, earlier and better, in The River's Edge. Clark's leering leads nowhere: In Bully, he has nothing new to say, and, in the end, no real point to make."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2001
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|
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43%
|
Two Can Play That Game (2001) |
"
A listless, witless battle-of-the-sexes movie that's nothing more than a canned sitcom with more sex and 'ho' references."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 6, 2001
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|
|
45%
|
Jeepers Creepers (2001) |
"
Unlike the recent horror films Session 9 and The Others, there's nothing remotely ambitious or imaginative in Jeepers Creepers."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 31, 2001
|
|
|
43%
|
All Over The Guy (2001) |
"
It's light and fun, with some peppy dialogue, but it's also sentimental and predictable."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 23, 2001
|
|
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46%
|
Greenfingers (2001) |
"
Simply reheats a formula that relies on ordinary blokes who triumph."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 2, 2001
|
|
|
47%
|
Brother (2001) |
"
For all its arty bloodshed, Brother is disappointingly hollow."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 26, 2001
|
|
|
15%
|
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"
Just a bunch of spotty sketches slapped together that will satisfy no one except the diehards."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 5, 2001
|
|
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15%
|
The Trumpet of the Swan (2001) |
"
A lame duck."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 10, 2001
|
|
|
37%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2001) |
"
Rachel and Petula are hollow characters of fantasy."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 19, 2001
|
|
|
33%
|
Just Visiting (2001) |
"
A perfectly likable fish-out-of-water comedy, but the wall-to-wall, over-the-top physical slapstick wears thin in a hurry."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 5, 2001
|
|
|
22%
|
Pokemon 3: The Movie (2001) |
"
This predictable, uninspired third installment to the endless saga won't win over non-believers."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 5, 2001
|
|
|
15%
|
Tomcats (2001) |
"
Poirier wants to revel in the gutter, but despite the juvenile vulgarity of Tomcats, his head is in the clouds."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 29, 2001
|
|
|
23%
|
See Spot Run (2001) |
"
George Gallo, who wrote and directed the recent action comedy Doubletake, is one of the writers of See Spot Run, and his signature is all over this silly affair."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 1, 2001
|
|
|
16%
|
Sweet November (2001) |
"
The film is ultimately undermined by its fondness for sudser clichés."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 15, 2001
|
|
|
10%
|
Dungeons & Dragons (2000) |
"
A mildly entertaining but tepid extravaganza more suited to television than the big screen."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 8, 2000
|
|
|
17%
|
Held Up (2000) |
"
Held Up is a fish-out-of-water comedy that is all wet from the start."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
16%
|
The Art of War (2000) |
"
Quickly falls into B-picture visual cliche, accompanied by leaden dialogue, as it simplifies its ambitious story for the sake of too many shootouts and overblown chases."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
33%
|
Loving Jezebel (1999) |
"
Kwyn Bader's debut feature is run-of-the-mill sitcom-y in its pedestrian writing and uninspired direction."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
20%
|
Autumn in New York (2000) |
"
All style and no substance."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
75%
|
Rugrats in Paris - The Movie (2000) |
"
Predictable and not terribly clever."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
25%
|
Digimon - The Movie (2000) |
"
What is particularly unappealing and troublesome about the feature is that it is a video game barely disguised as a movie."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
28%
|
Gossip (1999) |
"
With its hunks and dolls masquerading as characters, its contrived and sleazy plot twists and tawdry sex, Gossip owes less to any film genre than to TV soap operas."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1.5/4
|
11%
|
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) |
"
About to lose his long-held rights to Ayn Rand's novel, and perhaps to cash in on apparent Tea Party interest and support, producer John Aglialoro ... rushed this film into a low-budget production and it shows in every frame."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 14, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
Kangaroo Jack (2003) |
"
The film's crude humor and violence -- cartoonish, but still violent -- should offend parents of younger kids. Yet its ultra-broad, pratfall-filled comedy will satisfy only the most indiscriminate teens."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 16, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
7%
|
All The Queen's Men (2001) |
"
It seems just a long, convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag, no less."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 24, 2002
|
|
1.5/4
|
20%
|
Knockaround Guys (2002) |
"
It might hold some appeal to undiscriminating fans of the ultra-bland, tough-guys-in -black-doing -dumb-things genre."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 10, 2002
|
|
1.5/4
|
11%
|
Halloween - Resurrection (2002) |
"
Like its parade of predecessors, this Halloween is a gory slash-fest. It can't escape its past, and it doesn't want to."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 13, 2002
|
|
1.5/4
|
5%
|
New Best Friend (2002) |
"
Represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2002
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
Sorority Boys (2002) |
"
The situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 21, 2002
|
|
2/4
|
79%
|
Venus And Serena (2013) |
"
Does the film pull back the curtain on who they are and what drives them? Not so much."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 24, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
29%
|
Let My People Go! (2013) |
"
Oy vey doesn't begin to address the result."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
L!fe Happens (2012) |
"
A cliche-laden chick flick that seems conceived solely to capitalize on the success of the far more original (and generous to female friendship) "Bridesmaids.""
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
33%
|
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011) |
"
There's a pretty decent comedy somewhere in "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy,'' if only it wasn't so attracted to everyone else in the room."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 1, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
7%
|
Immigration Tango (2011) |
"
Neither the comedy nor the romance is strong enough in "Immigration Tango'' to offer any improvement on Peter Weir's similar, and better, 1990 film "Green Card.''"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
9%
|
The Order (The Sin Eater) (2003) |
"
Schlock that could and should have been better."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 8, 2003
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Gin gwai (The Eye) (2002) |
"
A feast to behold, but it lacks substance and will leave most viewers wholly unsatisfied."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 19, 2003
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
A Family Affair (2003) |
"
Without the ready-made drama of coming out and identity struggle, gay romance can feel as flimsy and forced as its straight counterpart."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 29, 2003
|
|
2/4
|
30%
|
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) |
"
As with most movies that start as comic sketches -- much of the Saturday Night Live franchise, for example -- the funny ideas and characters are rarely fleshed out enough to justify 90 minutes."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 17, 2003
|
|
2/4
|
43%
|
DysFunKtional Family (2003) |
"
Griffin isn't untalented, but he seems unpolished, not quite ready to carry the weight of a 90-minute concert film."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 3, 2003
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
Das Experiment (The Experiment) (2001) |
"
An R-rated version of Survivor, Big Brother or any number of reality-TV shows that present voyeurism as entertainment and exploitation as insight."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 24, 2002
|
|
2/4
|
13%
|
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"
An adequate horror movie for the Halloween season, but it too easily sinks into haunted-house-film conventions, even if the haunted house is decked out as an Italian luxury liner."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 24, 2002
|
|
2/4
|
14%
|
Pokémon 4Ever (2002) |
"
The latest installment in the Pokemon canon, Pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last two, likely because much of the Japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where Pokemon graze in peace."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 10, 2002
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Little Secrets (2002) |
"
One can hardly argue with the desire to make a wholesome movie for families that extols honesty and decency, but it all comes too easily, too superficially."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 22, 2002
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) |
"
The reliability of the genre doesn't excuse predictable jokes, pat fiascoes and so many stereotypes that one is tempted to alert the Greek anti-defamation league."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 20, 2002
|
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