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C-
|
22%
|
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) |
"
Resident Evil: Extinction plays like a flabby middle chapter, full of nerdy details but fraudulently short on the ruined Vegas-scape that ads have been promising."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 26, 2007
|
|
C
|
28%
|
The Game Plan (2007) |
"
Having tamed one muscled man-child (Vin Diesel in The Pacifier), Disney sets its sights on The Rock."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 26, 2007
|
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C+
|
15%
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The Brothers Solomon (2007) |
"
Feels like a cheapo, soft-R retread of the dimwits' progress from Dumb and Dumber"
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 5, 2007
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F
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31%
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The Hottest State (2007) |
"
If the words ''based on a semiautobiographical first novel'' don't send chills up your spine, how about ''adapted for the screen and directed by the author''?"
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 29, 2007
|
|
C
|
25%
|
El Cantante (2007) |
"
A conventional, brassy blat of a biopic."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 2, 2007
|
|
D
|
46%
|
Cashback (2007) |
"
Cashback aspires to be equal parts Volkswagen ad and Nicholson Baker's The Fermata, yet compares unfavorably to both."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 25, 2007
|
|
C-
|
37%
|
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
"
If you swept the cosmic dust of the superhero boom into a flimsy dustpan, you'd have the Fantastic Four franchise."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 18, 2007
|
|
D-
|
5%
|
Delta Farce (2007) |
"
Here's a sobering thought: If every war gets the comedy it deserves, could Delta Farce, a strenuously unfunny Three Amigos knockoff, be our M*A*S*H?"
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 16, 2007
|
|
C+
|
12%
|
Slow Burn (2007) |
"
A strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of The Usual Suspects and the Tragic Mulatto, Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 18, 2007
|
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B-
|
48%
|
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres (2007) |
"
The plot can't be summarized: Let's just say that crazy s--- happens, and occasionally, you laugh."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 11, 2007
|
|
C
|
20%
|
Dead Silence (2007) |
"
Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 21, 2007
|
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B-
|
34%
|
Reno 911!: Miami (2007) |
"
The characters are perfectly evolved screwups and the premise (every legit cop is quarantined at a police convention, leaving our heroes in charge of Miami) has potential. It lacks only the discipline of a 30-minute episode."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 28, 2007
|
|
B-
|
80%
|
East of Havana (2007) |
"
There's a beat, but we never quite see who's dancing to it."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 7, 2007
|
|
C
|
0%
|
Constellation (2005) |
"
Neither the camera nor the script can focus."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 7, 2007
|
|
C+
|
11%
|
Blood and Chocolate (2007) |
"
Moments of inspiration vie in vain with Goth cliché."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 31, 2007
|
|
A-
|
100%
|
Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965 (2007) |
"
Verdict on Auschwitz not only tracks the 20-month trial but meticulously re-creates it."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 25, 2007
|
|
B-
|
83%
|
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006) |
"
... as thickets of history and culture are (too) neatly avoided, the viewer is also left in the dark."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 25, 2007
|
|
C+
|
44%
|
20 Centimeters (20 Centimetres) (20 centímetros) (2005) |
"
Here's yet another self-consciously 'Almodóvarian' confection, studded with small odes to the glory of self-creation."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 1, 2006
|
|
B+
|
96%
|
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
"
Flattened for years on cable and video, Nightmare has been resurrected in all its tactile glory."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 25, 2006
|
|
C+
|
10%
|
The Grudge 2 (2006) |
"
What's a bad sequel but a revenant soul doomed to repeat itself?"
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 18, 2006
|
|
B-
|
54%
|
Flicka (2006) |
"
A new yet insistently old-fashioned spin on the kid-lit classic My Friend Flicka."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 18, 2006
|
|
B+
|
87%
|
Jesus Camp (2006) |
"
As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 4, 2006
|
|
A-
|
96%
|
So Much So Fast (2006) |
"
So Much So Fast... elegantly presents both a critique and a celebration of American optimism."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 4, 2006
|
|
B-
|
56%
|
Feast (2005) |
"
Feast isn't quite demented enough to reach Raimi-an heights, but Gulager uses parts of the monster-movie buffalo even the buffalo didn't know existed."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 20, 2006
|
|
D+
|
37%
|
Looking for Kitty (2004) |
"
Sentimental yet insensate, this forgotten '04 trifle is Burns at his worst ..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 8, 2006
|
|
B+
|
80%
|
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2006) |
"
Ken Takakura, a great rain-creased oak of an actor, delivers a quietly massive performance."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 30, 2006
|
|
B+
|
41%
|
Beerfest (2006) |
"
I felt oddly respected: Neck-deep in barley and boobs, marinated in urine, Beerfest panders shamelessly to the 15-year-old in this 30-year-old... without assuming he is a 15-year-old."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 25, 2006
|
|
C+
|
43%
|
Reinas (Queens) (2006) |
"
A threadbare crazy-quilt of Spanish sex comedies."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 23, 2006
|
|
B-
|
36%
|
Accepted (2006) |
"
Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 16, 2006
|
|
B
|
19%
|
Step Up (2006) |
"
Step, under the sure hand of director-choreographer Anne Fletcher, quickly discovers its own virtuoso charms."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 9, 2006
|
|
D+
|
33%
|
The Trouble With Men and Women (2006) |
"
I won't spoil the anticlimax, but we learn love is both (a) hard and (b) sometimes right in front of you!"
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 9, 2006
|
|
C-
|
11%
|
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) |
"
Garfield himself (voiced by Bill Murray) is once again strikingly unlikable, a bloated, bingeing fascist."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 14, 2006
|
|
B+
|
86%
|
The Heart of the Game (2005) |
"
The film is a furious full-court press, its subjects aflame with the kind of passion only youth can furnish. Even their bruises are luminous."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jun 7, 2006
|
|
C+
|
25%
|
Peaceful Warrior (2006) |
"
[A] self-congratulatory self-help seminar, which plays as high comedy, thanks to Nolte's slurry sensei."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 31, 2006
|
|
B-
|
31%
|
Stick It (2006) |
"
A deliriously, defiantly unfocused headrush..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 3, 2006
|
|
B+
|
84%
|
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"
Akeelah and the Bee may spell it out for you, but it pulls few punches in its depiction of the hurdles a verbally gifted South Central L.A. 11-year-old (Keke Palmer) must clear."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 19, 2006
|
|
C-
|
5%
|
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) |
"
Flatulence ensues."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 29, 2006
|
|
D-
|
9%
|
Ultraviolet (2006) |
"
Crank your brain to its lowest possible idle and you'll still overthink Ultraviolet."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 8, 2006
|
|
F
|
8%
|
Doogal (2006) |
"
Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence?"
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 1, 2006
|
|
D+
|
40%
|
Running Scared (2006) |
"
A giddily awful, awfully giddy action noir."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 22, 2006
|
|
B-
|
52%
|
Ellie Parker (2005) |
"
Watts, whose memorable audition scene in Mulholland Drive launched her into stardom, makes a glorious mess of herself playing her karmic opposite."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 16, 2005
|
|
A-
|
75%
|
Zathura (2005) |
"
Zathura is a rarity: a stellar fantasy that faces down childhood anxieties with feet-on-the-ground maturity."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 9, 2005
|
|
B-
|
32%
|
The Gospel (2005) |
"
It's a rich portrait of a church in transition."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 12, 2005
|
|
B
|
82%
|
Serenity (2005) |
"
Serenity, despite its simple chase plot and elegant narrative ductwork, is unmistakably a TV season's worth of roller-coastering drama, most of it balanced on the capable shoulders of Fillion, a natural leading man."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 28, 2005
|
|
C
|
23%
|
Cry Wolf (2005) |
"
Contains no actual wolves, but it does have some howlers."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 21, 2005
|
|
D
|
10%
|
Venom (2005) |
"
A mud-simple horror trudge set in a swamp colony of Abercrombie models."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 21, 2005
|
|
B-
|
88%
|
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) |
"
Aims for the junior stargazer in a release coinciding with NASA's new moon-by-2018 initiative. The movie is unmistakably a pitch, and an honorable one."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 21, 2005
|
|
C+
|
45%
|
The Thing About My Folks (2005) |
"
It's about men not so much tackling responsibility as passing it off laterally, and finally pulling an end run into the schmaltz zone."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 14, 2005
|
|
B-
|
62%
|
Kamikaze Girls (2004) |
"
A mesmerizing lesson in otherness."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2005
|
73%
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