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Mark Holcomb

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:: Las Vegas Weekly , Time Out , Time Out New York , Village Voice

Total Reviews:: 328

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1/6	82%	Into the Wild (2007)	" Penn's entitled to his reading of McCandless's story, of course, but envisioning it as a Stations of the Cross with a backpack is bizarre and disrespectful." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 20, 2007
1/6	5%	Because I Said So (2007)	" Everyone here is a caricature, and the gaps are papered over with hyperactive shtick. I haven't seen so many cakes dropped or smashed since I Love Lucy." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 10, 2007
1/5	30%	Running With Scissors (2006)	" Scissors is about as engaging as an acquaintance's psychotherapy session." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Nov 15, 2006
	36%	The Lake House (2006)	" Watching it is like being force-fed cotton candy laced with Xanax (or vice versa)." — Village Voice Posted Jun 13, 2006
	30%	The Sisters (2006)	" What's left is a series of fraught confrontations that are more shrill than insightful or wrenching." — Village Voice Posted Apr 11, 2006
	45%	Final Destination 3 (2006)	" The notion of butchery as a spectator event notwithstanding, there's an almost admirably workmanlike quality to the way co- scenarists Glen Morgan and James Wong set up their characters for carnage like so many fleshy bowling pins." — Village Voice Posted Feb 7, 2006
	39%	End of the Spear (2006)	" Coy crypto-Christian claptrap masquerading as feel-good ethnography." — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2006
	59%	Hostel (2006)	" The film is too casually misanthropic and enamored of its expulsive prosthetic virtuosity to be politically relevant, and it's not clear what response -- shame? outrage? titillation? -- Roth is after." — Village Voice Posted Jan 10, 2006
	29%	Fun With Dick and Jane (2005)	" This Dick & Jane is precisely the kind of social-problem comedy you'd expect from well-intentioned millionaires unaccustomed to putting their money where their mouths are." — Village Voice Posted Dec 21, 2005
	52%	First Descent (2005)	" First Descent comes off as an overlong, overstuffed promo for an 'industry' that hasn't needed promoting since the movie's target audience was in diapers." — Village Voice Posted Dec 6, 2005
	62%	The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)	" Ouimet versus Vardon probably was the greatest golf game ever played, and Paxton and Frost do it justice, but I wouldn't sit through another simulated hole of it for Tiger Woods's salary." — Village Voice Posted Oct 4, 2005
	76%	Little Manhattan (2005)	" Who is this movie's target audience, anyway? Preteens will be bored stupid, while adults are unlikely to want to revisit puppy love in such grueling detail." — Village Voice Posted Sep 27, 2005
	4%	Dirty Love (2005)	" Excruciatingly inept." — Village Voice Posted Sep 20, 2005
	53%	An Unfinished Life (2005)	" Lasse Hallstrom never met a case of advanced emotional constipation he couldn't unplug in two psychobabbly hours or less." — Village Voice Posted Sep 6, 2005
	36%	The Great Raid (2005)	" Ultimately scotched by History Channel-worthy nostalgia." — Village Voice Posted Aug 9, 2005
	31%	November (2005)	" November runs out of surprises well before it climaxes, and by the third go-round the plot's thinness is all that's left to illuminate." — Village Voice Posted Jul 19, 2005
	14%	The Honeymooners (2005)	" The real problem is that the Kramdens' precarious financial situation, which gave the original its poignant frisson, is sidestepped." — Village Voice Posted Jun 14, 2005
	46%	Constantine (2005)	" The actor's black-on-white getup makes it plain that Constantine is one 'whoa' away from Neo-dom, and that Constantine likely represents the start of another Hollywood franchise with diminishing returns in its future." — Village Voice Posted Feb 15, 2005
	6%	Son of the Mask (2005)	" The movie is built around these ostensibly kid-friendly fracases, but at its heart is a deep, unresolved ambivalence about child rearing." — Village Voice Posted Feb 15, 2005
	4%	Fascination (2005)	" If you're in the mood for some unscripted belly laughs or a catnap, Fascination should do the trick." — Village Voice Posted Feb 2, 2005
	11%	Are We There Yet? (2005)	" Lacks the courage of its grape-juice-, mud-, and vomit-spattered convictions." — Village Voice Posted Jan 21, 2005
	30%	Flight of the Phoenix (2004)	" By film's end the adventure appears less a matter of base survival than a beach barbecue gone slightly sour." — Village Voice Posted Dec 21, 2004
	26%	Blade: Trinity (2004)	" Aside from the effectively staged action sequences Trinity is cheap-looking and laughably inept." — Village Voice Posted Dec 7, 2004
	48%	Saw (2004)	" James Wan's Saw starts off incomprehensibly, turns nasty in a hurry, and ultimately induces numb exhaustion." — Village Voice Posted Oct 26, 2004
	30%	The Forgotten (2004)	" Car chases, special-effects jolts, and a socially irrelevant sci-fi story line lifted whole from The X-Files." — Village Voice Posted Sep 21, 2004
	68%	Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian di ying xiong) (2004)	" A fitfully rousing but too derivative mishmash of genre tropes." — Village Voice Posted Aug 31, 2004
	14%	Without A Paddle (2004)	" How do you siphon the laffs from a surefire gut-busting premise like city slickers stuck in the sticks? ... you assemble a cut-rate Three Stooges, inject tired '80s nostalgia and some moralistic goo about carpe-ing the diem." — Village Voice Posted Aug 25, 2004
	0%	Make a Wish (2002)	" With its lukewarm gender politicking and clumsy performances, Make a Wish achieves only one real distinction: It has to be the dullest lesbian campout movie ever made." — Village Voice Posted Jul 20, 2004
	10%	Catwoman (2004)	" This plodding, by-the-numbers superhero flick has all the feline grace of a walleyed mastiff." — Village Voice Posted Jul 20, 2004
	7%	Kaena - The Prophecy (Kaena: La proph�tie) (2004)	" With its hasty computer rendering and thin stew of New Age mysticism, Judeo-Christian messianism, and Dungeons and Dragons geekism, Kaena is better suited to a smaller, more forgiving aspect ratio." — Village Voice Posted Jun 22, 2004
	4%	Godsend (2003)	" Working from the assumption that nobody remembers grade school science, let alone the last 30 years of horror movies, Nick Hamm's genre mishmash clumsily recasts The Omen as a cautionary tale featuring a human incarnation of Dolly the sheep." — Village Voice Posted May 4, 2004
	25%	Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)	" Sports biopics and dewy-eyed nostalgia go together like golf and soul-withering tedium, no more so than in this earnest hagiography." — Village Voice Posted Apr 27, 2004
	68%	La grande s�duction (Seducing Doctor Lewis) (2004)	" Occasional hilarity ensues." — Village Voice Posted Mar 23, 2004
	27%	Paycheck (2003)	" The law of diminishing returns appears to have caught up with Hollywood's Philip K. Dick infatuation." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2003
	77%	The Cooler (2003)	" [The] film never amounts to more than a cute idea stretched to poker-chip thinness." — Village Voice Posted Nov 25, 2003
	14%	Beyond Borders (2003)	" It all becomes little more than feel-good-about- feeling-bad window dressing, like an issue of Utne Reader in Dolby Surround Sound." — Village Voice Posted Oct 28, 2003
	79%	Open Range (2003)	" Charley's crusty assessment of events -- 'Nothing that's been happening in this town is much of a surprise' -- is all too knowingly accurate." — Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2003
	41%	Freddy vs. Jason (2003)	" Screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift don't try all that hard to meld the respective series ... and director Ronny Yu's efforts to generate visual interest ... are overfamiliar as every other slasher trope." — Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2003
	71%	Confidence (2003)	" Lazily assembles a batch of movie stars, turns them loose on a script that reflects nothing so much as a committee interpretation of every other caper flick, and lets them bounce off each other like so many overpaid billiard balls." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2003
	43%	DysFunKtional Family (2003)	" When will these second-rate Richard Pryor-manqu�s figure out that hateful invective doesn't make for satisfying comedy?" — Village Voice Posted Apr 1, 2003
	——	Love at Times Square (2003)	" It takes an abundance of nerve or an impressive miscalculation of vision to situate the guileless, frenzied glitz of a Bollywood musical in gloomy NYC." — Village Voice Posted Feb 19, 2003
	13%	Ghost Ship (2002)	" In a cut-and-paste job more transparent than ectoplasm, Ghost Ship screenwriters Mark Hanlon and John Pogue plunder every notable horror movie from the last 30 years." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2002
	59%	Skins (2002)	" As social expos�, Skins has its heart in the right place, but that's not much to hang a soap opera on." — Village Voice Posted Sep 24, 2002
	50%	Crazy As Hell (2002)	" An allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals African American professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing, but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message." — Village Voice Posted Sep 24, 2002
	48%	City by the Sea (2002)	" The abundance of self-serving fabrication in City by the Sea not only diminishes LaMarca's experience and cheapens McAlary's work, it all but desecrates the memory of the real murder victim." — Village Voice Posted Sep 3, 2002
	57%	Like Mike (2002)	" A valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the NBA." — Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2002
	44%	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)	" The milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch." — Village Voice Posted Jun 4, 2002
	23%	Vulgar (2002)	" An unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2002
	28%	Life or Something Like It (2002)	" Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation (career - kids = misery) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2002
	41%	Night At The Golden Eagle (2002)	" What little grace [Rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics." — Village Voice Posted Apr 23, 2002

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