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0/5
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5%
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Old Dogs (2009) |
"
It is an irredeemable affair."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 24, 2009
|
|
0/5
|
18%
|
Gentlemen Broncos (2009) |
"
If you're past the age of worrying about detention, it's an endurance test. How many grotesques, morons and creeps can you watch twist in a barely moving narrative wind?"
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 30, 2009
|
|
F
|
11%
|
Are We There Yet? (2005) |
"
The movie has all the hallmarks of a disaster."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Jan 21, 2005
|
|
D-
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21%
|
Fred Claus (2007) |
"
Award winners like Giamatti, Kathy Bates, Miranda Richardson, Kevin Spacey and Rachel Weisz struggle valiantly to elevate the material, but it's hopeless."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
D-
|
5%
|
Good Luck Chuck (2007) |
"
I could live with Good Luck Chuck's determination to humiliate a cutie pie such as Alba and its ongoing cruelty toward obese women."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Sep 21, 2007
|
|
D-
|
29%
|
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) |
"
The movie veers between looking like a video game and a shaving commercial."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Jun 11, 2004
|
|
D-
|
31%
|
The Hunted (2003) |
"
Let's hope Jones and Del Toro bounce back quickly from this debacle."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Mar 14, 2003
|
|
.5/5
|
13%
|
Jonah Hex (2010) |
"
The movie is laughable, but it's not funny, not even in a camp way."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jun 18, 2010
|
|
.5/4
|
17%
|
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"
Georgia Rule is not just a bad movie, it's a creepy one."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted May 11, 2007
|
|
.5/4
|
42%
|
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) |
"
In the earnest A Love Song for Bobby Long, [Travolta] is a veritable cinematic pollutant."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Jan 28, 2005
|
|
.5/4
|
14%
|
View from the Top (2003) |
"
It presents a girlie fantasy, woefully outdated, that only those who cherish the legendary plastic clotheshorse [Barbie] could possibly appreciate or understand."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Mar 20, 2003
|
|
.5/4
|
13%
|
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"
It would be nice if [Beck] could rely on the script to get him through, but since it's filled with dialogue like 'Don't go in there,' it can't save the day."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Oct 24, 2002
|
|
.5/4
|
26%
|
The Sweetest Thing (2002) |
"
Perhaps the raunchy comedy The Sweetest Thing is some sort of penance we must pay for the groundbreaking experience of Sex and the City."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Apr 11, 2002
|
|
D
|
15%
|
Over Her Dead Body (2008) |
"
Over Her Dead Body is, if nothing else, a conversation piece. Among the important discussion points it raises are, 'What was Paul Rudd thinking?' and 'Does Eva Longoria Parker think?'"
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Feb 1, 2008
|
|
D
|
71%
|
Beowulf (2007) |
"
It's a full-fledged cinematic assault, as if a black velvet painting of Norse gods had sprung to life and begun heaving spears, arrows and geysers of blood directly at your forehead."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Nov 16, 2007
|
|
D
|
67%
|
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"
What's offensive is the way Anderson has used an entire country and its people as set dressing. Poverty and reality don't enter into the picture."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Oct 5, 2007
|
|
D
|
24%
|
Fierce People (2005) |
"
Desperate, manipulative."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Sep 21, 2007
|
|
D
|
19%
|
Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
"
If Chan has toned down the stunts, Tucker has pumped up the volume on his comic duties to the point where it seems his high-pitched whine could break glass."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Aug 10, 2007
|
|
D
|
76%
|
The Machinist (2004) |
"
A pretentious, sadistic film."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Nov 24, 2004
|
|
D
|
5%
|
Christmas with the Kranks (2004) |
"
False, littered with lame slapstick, and leaving the impression that director Joe Roth ... threw it together in about two weeks."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Nov 24, 2004
|
|
D
|
18%
|
Suspect Zero (2004) |
"
A flat, illogical, tedious exercise in sicko-serial killer fiction."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Aug 27, 2004
|
|
D
|
16%
|
The Big Bounce (2004) |
"
Foster is one of the worst actresses seen on screen since Cindy Crawford, to the point where she destroys any chance of the movie redeeming itself."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Jan 30, 2004
|
|
D
|
11%
|
Dr. Seuss - The Cat in the Hat (2003) |
"
Let's hope this insult of a movie doesn't taint any child's ability to enjoy the original."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Nov 21, 2003
|
|
D
|
52%
|
Cet Amour-Là (2003) |
"
Dayan never makes the love story accessible to us, never makes us understand what there is between this couple."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Sep 20, 2003
|
|
D
|
17%
|
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"
Bad special effects would be survivable if the characters were captivating."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Jul 11, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
6%
|
The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
All the while, Shyamalan creates an ever-growing sense of 'Who cares where we are; when will this be over?' "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jul 1, 2010
|
|
|
58%
|
Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) |
"
Can an ogre jump a shark? I think so."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted May 20, 2010
|
|
|
19%
|
The Back-up Plan (2010) |
"
A romantic comedy about single motherhood -- or mom-rom-com -- that manages to be both bland and offensive."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 22, 2010
|
|
|
75%
|
Greenberg (2010) |
"
The movie has the curious vagueness of intent that makes so many "meaningful" works of fiction not all that meaningful."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 18, 2010
|
|
|
70%
|
Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"
What is surprising is how bland the results are. The explosions and action sequences have an odd cheapness to them and the central plot is one of those dreary take-over-the-world routines."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 25, 2009
|
|
|
56%
|
It's Complicated (2009) |
"
Meyers demonstrates, as she did in Something's Gotta Give and The Holiday, an extraordinarily limited worldview."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 24, 2009
|
|
|
21%
|
Amelia (2009) |
"
It leaves the odd impression of being merely a very long trailer for a film you'd actually love to see."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2009
|
|
|
12%
|
Couples Retreat (2009) |
"
What's depressing is that there's hardly a creative spark in this sour, offensive, contrived story, and its sloppiness is more consistent than its comedy."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 8, 2009
|
|
|
39%
|
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) |
"
[Krasinski's] generosity of intent is really the main impression that remains. He read, he loved, and unfortunately, he did not conquer."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2009
|
|
|
63%
|
Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) (2009) |
"
It may be too respectful of the legend it seeks to illuminate."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2009
|
|
|
17%
|
Love Happens (2009) |
"
Love never happens in this movie, but at least there's some liking here and there."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
|
56%
|
9 (2009) |
"
In movies, our technology is so often the ruin of us. We got that message from Stanley Kubrick way back when, and we get it now. But couldn't filmmakers let something else ruin us for a change? Even the apocalypse needs variety."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2009
|
|
|
33%
|
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"
McG knows how to slap an audience into awed submission. But at a certain point, you may feel so pummeled that you check out and begin pondering things like the time-travel question."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted May 20, 2009
|
|
|
42%
|
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"
He's Just Not That Into You is like reliving your 20s, without any of the fun."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
Premonition (2007) |
"
A thrill-less psychological thriller."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Mar 16, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
9%
|
Norbit (2007) |
"
Norbit briefly thrives on the power of Murphy's genius and then becomes mean-spirited and depressing."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Feb 9, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
46%
|
Bobby (2006) |
"
Estevez doesn't seem to have anything to offer beyond a sweet, unquestioning admiration of RFK and the history homework he obviously did about the trappings of the time."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Nov 22, 2006
|
|
1/4
|
67%
|
The Bridge (2006) |
"
The film is not good, it is not average, it is simply not recommendable in good conscience."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Oct 27, 2006
|
|
1/4
|
55%
|
The Protector (Tom yum goong) (Warrior King) (2005) |
"
A wearying spectacle of unpleasant crunching sound effects (enough to put us off soft shell crabs for years), bad editing, hideous cinematography and spectacularly confused plotting."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Sep 8, 2006
|
|
1/4
|
22%
|
The Quiet (2006) |
"
It teeters between being a campy horror film, a dark comedy ... and a sleazy Wild Things-style teen sexfest."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Aug 31, 2006
|
|
1/4
|
14%
|
The Honeymooners (2005) |
"
A tasteless comedy rife with bad slapstick, dull humor and a host of unpleasant characters."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Jun 9, 2005
|
|
|
35%
|
Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
"
This is bad first novel material, derivative and lightweight."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Feb 25, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
15%
|
Gothika (2003) |
"
A preposterous movie, and Berry is preposterous in it."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Nov 20, 2003
|
|
|
7%
|
Gigli (2003) |
"
Painfully dull and remarkably tasteless."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
|
|
8%
|
Gods and Generals (2003) |
"
It's hard to imagine any African-American not taking affront at Gods and Generals, which doesn't even get around to the controversy of slavery until more than halfway through the movie."
—
Contra Costa Times
Posted Feb 21, 2003
|
79%
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