Mark Ramsey

Mark Ramsey

""You Can't Polish a Turd""

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography:
Mark Ramsey is the MovieJuice guy. MovieJuice is read by many of the most important folks in the movie business. Roger Ebert picked MovieJuice as one of the net's top twenty movie sites, ranking it second in the category "Online Outlaws" - right behind Harry Knowles and Ain't It Cool News. Joel Siegel and Steven Spielberg read MovieJuice, so there's no accounting for taste. MovieJuice! has been featured numerous times on E! Entertainment Television and VH1. Mark Ramsey is a board member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the nation's largest film critics organization.
Favorites:
Oh I don't know
Publications:
MovieJuice!
Critics' Group:
Broadcast Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
451
Location:
Southern California

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

Showing 51 - 100 of 451
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
F 10% Season of the Witch (2011) " This is the puffy-faced Nic Cage. The one who fights for Christ and Little Debbies and not necessarily in that order." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jan 9, 2011
A 96% True Grit (2010) " 'Is your every utterance to be indecipherable, Marshall? Your vocalizations are less words than outhouse rumbles after overconsumption of whisky and chicken wings. Does your throat retain an unfortunate tumbleweed?'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jan 2, 2011
C+ 79% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) " 'With a name like 'Lovegood' I'm the luckiest woman with a profile on Match.com,' said Luna. 'The second-luckiest,' said Moonraker's Holly Goodhead." — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 27, 2010
C 86% Unstoppable (2010) " 'Yes, I've moved to the station master chapter in my career,' said Rosario Dawson. 'It's the chapter that comes right between ingenue and Law and Order.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 14, 2010
C 59% Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) " 'This camera has your eyes,' said the illegal nanny, as she placed it in a high chair and tried to feed it cheerios." — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 25, 2010
B- 55% Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) " Transformers alum Shia is the protege of Decepticon Megatron Douglas - who is looking rather Megatranny these days." — MovieJuice!
Posted Sep 27, 2010
D 52% Devil (2010) " Who's the devil in the elevator? I vote for the guy who farts or the rugrat who considers the pressing of fifty buttons indistinguishable from play." — MovieJuice!
Posted Sep 20, 2010
B 72% Machete (2010) " Check out that cast of all-stars and never-were-stars and certainly-no-longer-stars. This must be what it's like when the Sheens and the Baldwins have a barbecue." — MovieJuice!
Posted Sep 5, 2010
C 41% The Expendables (2010) " Wow, I haven't seen this much over-the-hill action since Don Ameche and Hume Cronyn did laps in Cocoon." — MovieJuice!
Posted Aug 30, 2010
A- 62% Salt (2010) " So Angie disguises herself as Mario Cantone for whom the White House evidently has an open door policy. 'Some White Houses are more Chris Noth, others are more Mario Cantone,' explained the helpful White House gate guard as he ushered the Salahis and thei" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 26, 2010
D 63% Predators (2010) " 'What planet is this?' asked Adrien. 'Wherever it is, my iPhone 4 keeps dropping calls,' said Danny Trejo." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 17, 2010
B- 49% The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) " 'If I'm going to marry someone who's dead, at least he should have a job,' says Bella. 'Although,' Bella's friend reminded her, 'who wouldn't prefer a dead boyfriend to one you wish was dead?'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 6, 2010
C 52% Knight & Day (2010) " Cameron Diaz has turned to PIXAR to create the perfect CGI manifestation of a face. 'It has been a long time since the sight of me has evoked both Buzz and Woody,' explained Cameron." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jun 30, 2010
D 35% Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) " 'It is said some lives are linked across time%u2026.' begins the ponderous narration. And it is said that some movies should only be seen on TNT and with Noah Wyle in the starring role." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jun 11, 2010
B 43% Robin Hood (2010) " 'In this version of the tale,' said Ridley Scott, 'Robin Hood fires a desk telephone at a bullseye from 100 yards and hits it square on.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted May 16, 2010
D 15% A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) " This is what happens when Gossip Girl has a character with a blemish problem and a stripe-savvy fashion sense" — MovieJuice!
Posted May 2, 2010
F 19% The Back-up Plan (2010) " 'At this point the only guy who wants to approach your hoo-haa is one wearing rubber gloves with antiseptic tongs,' said Robert Klein." — MovieJuice!
Posted Apr 25, 2010
B 28% Clash of the Titans (2010) " 'Regard yonder Medusa! She has the body of a snake and the breasts of a centerfold!'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Apr 5, 2010
A 68% Shutter Island (2010) " 'I don't know who #67 is,' said Leo, 'but more than one Sports Illustrated cover model has closed my case-file on #69.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Feb 21, 2010
C 35% The Wolfman (2010) " I don"t know whether to scream or to drop a fun-size 3 Musketeers into Benicio's pillow case." — MovieJuice!
Posted Feb 13, 2010
C- 20% Legion (2010) " Every time an M16 with teflon-coated bullets fires, an angel gets his wings." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jan 25, 2010
C 48% The Book of Eli (2010) " 'And God said 'let there be light between a man's head and his shoulders,' said Denzel, as he carved through one bad guy after another." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jan 10, 2010
C- 37% Nine (2009) " Dame Judi Dench singing with a boa on top of a piano? Said director Rob Marshall, 'Judi's is the oldest bust ever to be on a piano that didn't belong to a composer.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 26, 2009
D 70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " Something tells me the only good deduction likely to come from this Sherlock Holmes is a tax deduction for Warner Bros." — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 22, 2009
C 56% It's Complicated (2009) " I was trying to find the running time on this movie when I realized it rounds to "forever."" — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 21, 2009
B 83% Avatar (2009) " It's an element called "unobtainium" that the military is really after. That's "unobtainium," not "easy-to-obtainium," so perhaps the military should settle for something really easy, like "Kardashium" or "Real-Housewives-of-Orange-Countium."" — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 14, 2009
A 91% Up in the Air (2009) " George Clooney knows all the travel secrets, all right. And not just the ones he uses to bypass every woman's homeland security." — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 12, 2009
C 32% The Lovely Bones (2009) " I'd prefer bones based on a graphic novel - or Jerry Bruckheimer bones starring Johnny Depp." — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 12, 2009
C 27% The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) " 'Dogs, vampires....my miserable life would be so much less complicated if I were ugly or maybe French,' exclaims Bella." — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 24, 2009
F 39% 2012 (2009) " It's great to see Fred Astaire, er, Danny Glover back in the saddle as the President of the United States. It's the first time America elected a President whose campaign slogan was 'I'm too old for this s**t.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 17, 2009
B- 54% Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) " 'My next project is to motion capture some hair and comb it over my 3D scalp,' said Zemeckis." — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 8, 2009
D 42% Jennifer's Body (2009) " See Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reviewing Jennifer's Body" — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 5, 2009
B- 90% Zombieland (2009) " 'I haven't worked opposite zombies since Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt,' said Harrelson." — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 5, 2009
D 21% Sorority Row (2009) " In a generation, Carrie Fisher has moved from Jabba the Hut to a job at the Pizza Hut - with plenty of extra cheese." — MovieJuice!
Posted Sep 14, 2009
A 91% District 9 (2009) " District 9 is a cautionary tale about man's inhumanity to aliens, especially those aliens who are high in cholesterol." — MovieJuice!
Posted Aug 15, 2009
F 34% G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) " Down the elevator goes into the desert sands - a man-made lake at this level, a working reconstruction of the Bush years at the next level, Kim Kardashian's closet at the level past that." — MovieJuice!
Posted Aug 10, 2009
D 55% Orphan (2009) " It's based on the scene that plays out every day in the checkout line at Walmart." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 26, 2009
B+ 84% Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) " "Hermione and me?" said Ron Weasley. "I was shocked that the trajectory of this story actually made us the unlikeliest couple since the leopard who nursed a baby baboon."" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 20, 2009
B- 68% Public Enemies (2009) " It was tough to get caught in those days. These FBI guys couldn't catch an STD from Brett Michaels." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 5, 2009
D 20% Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) " If you're going to send me a hero, I always say make it one with a built-in cup-holder, Michelins as hip-bling, and car doors for wings!" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jun 28, 2009
B- 92% Drag Me to Hell (2009) " 'You have staples in your head!' Alison screams at her. 'All the better to collate my thoughts!' sneers the old crone." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jun 8, 2009
B- 33% Terminator Salvation (2009) " Bale is a leader of the resistance fighters, who are mostly resistant to ugliness, facial blemishes, a few extra pounds, roomy flight suits, and old age." — MovieJuice!
Posted May 25, 2009
A+ 95% Star Trek (2009) " The average Star Trek fan is fatter than a Mugatu. And I mean the kind of Mugatu that just ate a family of Mugatus. Hey, fella, is that your mouth or the Doomsday Machine?" — MovieJuice!
Posted May 3, 2009
C 19% Obsessed (2009) " 'I'm not your typical temp,' said Ali, as she orders a dirty martini, which is a martini in a glass raised by wolves." — MovieJuice!
Posted Apr 26, 2009
B- 41% The Last House on the Left (2009) " 'Sara still wears a training bra,' says director Iliadis, 'although what's the point of training if you never have to compete?'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Mar 15, 2009
B- 64% Watchmen (2009) " Dr. Manhattan has the powers of a God. 'And I used them primarily to build a gigantic moving sculpture on Mars,' he says. 'One day, Cher and I will call this our home.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Mar 14, 2009
C 25% Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009) " Thanks to 3D, you feel like you can almost reach out and touch the Jonas Brothers, grab them by the neck, and strangle the everlasting life out of them." — MovieJuice!
Posted Mar 2, 2009
C 41% He's Just Not That Into You (2009) " Watching Scarlett Johansson work is almost like being abducted by aliens. All the "missing time" but none of the inappropriate prodding." — MovieJuice!
Posted Feb 11, 2009
D 31% The Uninvited (2009) " It's hard to be scary when you look like Elizabeth Banks unless you're being chased by a mad killer wielding the age of 40." — MovieJuice!
Posted Feb 3, 2009
F 11% The Unborn (2009) " 'This is the last time I'll write a movie on a roll of Charmin Ultra,' said Goyer." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jan 14, 2009
F 27% Punisher: War Zone (2008) " Normally a character with a skull on his shirt is too busy flicking his lighter at the Judas Priest tribute band show to bother with fighting the kind of crime that doesn't require an amp and a guitar." — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 8, 2008
D 49% Twilight (2008) " I don't know about you, but when I was in high school "undead" was what I was lucky to be every day." — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 24, 2008
B 64% Quantum of Solace (2008) " Craig returns to a role allowing him to park any expressions other than "dour" in the lot outside the studio gate." — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 21, 2008
C 12% Saw V (2008) " Nails? Where else but in a Saw movie can a puzzle-minded sadist cobble together elaborate torture contraptions from the same Home Depot that provides his replacement windows and his garage storage solution?" — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 31, 2008
C 16% Max Payne (2008) " Hey, it's Chris O'Donnell! Remember him? In an actual movie that's shown outside his own home! On a big screen that isn't built into his own living room wall! Where the viewer has a ticket he didn't receive because of a DUI!" — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 23, 2008
88% Almost Famous (2000) MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 18, 2008
C 54% Body of Lies (2008) " I lost interest in this movie somewhere between the donkey crossing the road in Jordan and the donkey crossing the road in Syria." — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 14, 2008
D 26% Eagle Eye (2008) " Here's a movie line I never thought I'd live to hear: "Somebody is hacking into the automated cranes!" With a line like that, don't look for Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in the credits." — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 7, 2008
C 19% Righteous Kill (2008) " Robert De Niro is having sex with Carla Gugino. I know. It's like witnessing a traffic accident where an Edsel keeps slamming into a shiny red Corvette." — MovieJuice!
Posted Sep 16, 2008
F 7% Babylon A.D. (2008) " 'Oh well,' said Vin, as the lights came up and the crickets sang their lonely song, 'there's always my moving company: '2 guys and Vin Diesel will move you.''" — MovieJuice!
Posted Sep 6, 2008
D 43% Death Race (2008) " Into the prison yard strolls the one and only Joan Allen. Yes, Oscar-nominated Joan Allen. Into this mess. To say Joan is slumming is an insult to a slum. Picture Bette Davis in Norbit or Judi Dench in Daddy Day Camp." — MovieJuice!
Posted Aug 20, 2008
A 94% The Dark Knight (2008) " At one point, all of Gotham believes that Aaron Eckhart is Batman. Indie-man, maybe. Or Blonde with Split Chin-man. But I'd sooner believe that Val Kilmer is Batman. And what are the odds of that?" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 21, 2008
A- 87% Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008) " 'Hey, Selma Blair's in this movie!' said Abe Sapien. 'Yeah, I forgot, too.' said Hellboy. 'Not only did I forget she was in this movie, I forgot she even existed,' said Sapien. 'Me too!' replied Hellboy." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 15, 2008
C 41% Hancock (2008) " 'What are those jammin' sounds? Is it a musical jetstream of crunk?''No, it's Hancock on approach! Use runway Six Left, Hancock! All jiggy for landing!'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 8, 2008
C- 14% The Love Guru (2008) " Ben Kingsley's eyes are crossed in a desperate attempt to vanish off-screen even if it means different sides of the screen at the same time." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jun 23, 2008
C 17% The Happening (2008) " 'There are forces at work beyond our understanding,' says Wahlberg. 'Especially beyond my understanding, if you include virtually every force at work.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jun 16, 2008
F 37% You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) " 'I just want to make people silky smooth,' cried Adam in the kind of Israeli accent which suggests that Israel borders France." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jun 9, 2008
C 78% Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) " Karen Allen was once famous for drinking men under the table, and from the looks of her it's there they'll stay. As for Indy, now that he has reached the two-thirds century mark, it's time to stop using the whip and start using the term 'whippersnapper.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted May 26, 2008
C 67% The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) " If there's one genre of family film that's my personal favorite, it's the one featuring a sword-fight to the death." — MovieJuice!
Posted May 20, 2008
B- 93% Iron Man (2008) " 'The Iron Man suit's not actually Iron,' Downey explains, 'it's Gold Titanium Alloy. But 'Iron Man' sounds more like a super hero and less like the chassis of a MacBook Pro.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted May 11, 2008
A- 64% The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) " 'Blue eyeshadow went out in the 1280's!' Jet Li shouts at the Jade Warlord" — MovieJuice!
Posted Apr 22, 2008
F 8% Prom Night (2008) " This movie accomplishes the impossible: It makes you disappointed not to be disappointed by a disappointing twist ending." — MovieJuice!
Posted Apr 18, 2008
C 52% Leatherheads (2008) " I don't want to be a wet blanket, boys, but here's the skinny: Unless it's raw Clooney-ness you seek (and that cup of Vitalis runneth over), or unless you think Zellweger's gams are the cat's meow, then scram before you upchuck." — MovieJuice!
Posted Apr 7, 2008
D 25% Drillbit Taylor (2008) " 'A lily-white Southern California suburban high school can be a very dangerous place,' warned writer Seth Rogen, whose idea of danger is taking a week off from having his car detailed." — MovieJuice!
Posted Mar 25, 2008
D 8% 10,000 B.C. (2008) " I don't know about you, but if I want to get excited about an ancient mammal I'll tune in Janice Dickinson." — MovieJuice!
Posted Mar 18, 2008
C+ 35% Vantage Point (2008) " Dennis Quaid is a Secret Service agent who took a bullet for the President, just as the audience took one for Quaid in Jaws 3-D. That's the sequel where the late, great Roy Scheider uttered the immortal line, "You're gonna need a bigger Anheuser-Busch-own" — MovieJuice!
Posted Feb 24, 2008
D 22% The Eye (2008) " 'This surgery was supposed to make me normal!' she complains.'Why would you want surgery that does that?' says her doctor, trying to knock some sense into her. 'Normal wants surgery to be you!'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Feb 4, 2008
D 37% Rambo (Rambo IV) (2008) " 'Thanks to my plastic surgeon, now I literally do have the Eye of the Tiger!' exclaimed Sly. 'Poor tiger!'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jan 29, 2008
B- 77% Cloverfield (2008) " 'No worries, Lilly,' said Jen. 'New York's underclass will lay down end-to-end and form a bridge to safety.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Jan 21, 2008
F 0% One Missed Call (2008) " Star Ed Burns was fuming over the fact that his movies would be more popular if they featured Mentos dropping into exploding Diet Cokes." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jan 7, 2008
D 35% National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) " Now our heroes are off to the Library of Congress, which is as close as most of this audience will ever come to a book that isn't filled with stamps." — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 28, 2007
C+ 42% The Golden Compass (2007) " Said Ridley Scott: 'We were contemplating talking animals in Blade Runner, but we wanted to hold off Sean Young's descent into madness at least until the end of principal shooting.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 21, 2007
A- 70% I Am Legend (2007) " Thanks to the botched cancer cure, 'social de-evolution has occurred,' says Will. 'And typical human behavior is now entirely absent.' In other words, it's another night on the town with Lindsay Lohan!" — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 21, 2007
B 86% Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) " Personally, I have never sung a love song to my razor, although I did hoist a boom-box over my head and crank Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes to my pomade once back in 1989." — MovieJuice!
Posted Dec 21, 2007
B+ 73% The Mist (2007) " Yes a 'doorway' opens into Maine and a crisis ensues. And it's not until the creatures learn there's also a doorway to Cabo San Lucas that the crisis finally ends." — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 20, 2007
A- 71% Beowulf (2007) " Says the Queen, 'There have been many brave men who have come to taste my Lord's meat.''I shall not touch that one with a 3D ten foot pole, m'Lady,' said Beowulf." — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 18, 2007
F 21% Fred Claus (2007) " Look! It's the inevitable dance sequence where Vince teaches all the elves the lessons of Footloose, because if there's one thing you need on the toy assembly line, it's 'jazz hands.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 15, 2007
A- 80% American Gangster (2007) " Russell is, indeed, a cop. And, miraculously, he works for the same police sergeant that Monk works for two thousand miles and 37 years away! How can that be?!" — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 8, 2007
C 16% Saw IV (2007) " The puzzles in this movie and the infinite number of sequels which have already been queued behind it have been designed to tear the dead presidents from your wallet like a sobriety chip from the shaky palm of Lindsay Lohan." — MovieJuice!
Posted Nov 1, 2007
A- 51% 30 Days of Night (2007) " Danny Huston is the vampire leader. Who knew that vampires look like traveling salesmen, belly up to the bar at the Holiday Inn by the highway in Poughkeepsie? 'It's time to sink my teeth into a free breakfast buffet,' says Danny." — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 20, 2007
C- 29% The Heartbreak Kid (2007) " Schizophrenics! Quadriplegics! We've got roles for you!If you're disabled and you have a SAG card. That's how you won't feel...so blue!" — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 10, 2007
C+ 51% The Kingdom (2007) " Jamie Foxx in the Middle-East...Previously, the closest Jamie has gotten to nearby Abu Dhabi is yelling "Abu Dhabi Doo!" when the whistle blows at the end of his workday." — MovieJuice!
Posted Oct 2, 2007
C 22% Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) " Milla Jovovich, an actress who vividly demonstrates what the world would look like if Miss Teen South Carolina was licensed to kill." — MovieJuice!
Posted Sep 24, 2007
B- 25% Halloween (2007) " The original Halloween was about Jamie Lee Curtis in danger up to her knee socks. And for socks, that was a remarkably high threshold of danger." — MovieJuice!
Posted Sep 4, 2007
D 20% The Invasion (2007) " Nicole plays with her kid like someone who wonders where the nanny went with the housekeeper and how soon the b**ches will be back." — MovieJuice!
Posted Aug 20, 2007
B- 18% Rush Hour 3 (2007) " I never get tired of seeing Jackie accidentally bruise whatever is left of his genitals. 'I've got one ball in a sling and another in need of Lasik,' says Jackie. 'My testicles have their own physical therapist.'" — MovieJuice!
Posted Aug 15, 2007
A 94% The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) " The pouty stylings of Julia Stiles, whose cherubic face looks less at home in the spy biz than in the business of shooting arrows at would-be lovers." — MovieJuice!
Posted Aug 6, 2007
D 14% I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) " 'Boat Trip alone left many unanswered questions,' said CNN fixture Larry King as a production assistant shoveled porridge into his mouth." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 23, 2007
C+ 79% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) " 'Voldemort is on the move!' said Sirius. 'You mean He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken is relocating from the Location He Must Not Originate From to the Place Which Must Not Be His Destination!' said Harry." — MovieJuice!
Posted Jul 9, 2007
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