|
|
61%
|
Interview with the Vampire (1994) |
"
The movie may well make money, but no matter how many zillions it grosses, Tom Cruise will forever after be something of a joke."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
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71%
|
eXistenZ (1999) |
"
The only visual jolts come from Cronenberg's trademark images of grotesque amphibians and oozing intestines, and these creepy-crawly moments are merely repulsive, not provocative."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
90%
|
Three Colors: White (Trzy kolory: Bialy) (Trois Couleurs: Blanc) (1994) |
"
Without a luminous presence like Juliette Binoche or Irene Jacob to hold the murky narrative together, it never soars."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
85%
|
The Joy Luck Club (1993) |
"
Despite strong performances by the cast of talented Asian actresses, the movie never sweeps us up in its spell."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
65%
|
Little Buddha (1994) |
"
Part fairy tale, part travelogue, and part kindergarten lesson in Eastern religion. Not a single part is persuasive or compelling."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
84%
|
JFK (1991) |
"
One doesn't have to buy the Warren Commission's version of the nightmare in Dallas to find Stone's hysterical conspiracy theory monumentally unconvincing."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
64%
|
Anywhere But Here (2000) |
"
Without a strong central narrative ... the film loses momentum and ends as one more tired treatise on family dysfunction."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
55%
|
The River Wild (1994) |
"
[Streep's] role is ridiculous, and the scenes depicting her marital crisis play like a hokey prelude to the inevitable reconciliation."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
84%
|
The Fisher King (1991) |
"
Gilliam's pyrotechnics can't redeem the utterly predictable plot."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
71%
|
Zebrahead (1992) |
"
The shooting seems like a lame attempt to inflate a small, well-observed story with a significance it hasn't earned."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
26%
|
Threesome (1994) |
"
The movie often plays more like a wisecracking sitcom -- Saved by the Bell with four-letter words -- than a wise romantic roundelay."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
22%
|
The Flintstones (1994) |
"
Thirty-two writers came up with this?"
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
80%
|
The Client (1994) |
"
There isn't a trace of subtlety or intelligence in the far-fetched adventure."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
73%
|
Mo' Better Blues (2004) |
"
Mo' Better Blues, in thrall to the cliches of the star-is-born musicals of the past, is a stillborn academic exercise."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
86%
|
Jungle Fever (1991) |
"
Lee's mosaic has some masterful background details but a gaping hole at the center."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
81%
|
A Few Good Men (1992) |
"
As a play of ideas, it has the profundity of a high-school debate, with a wan, climactic sermon about the need to stand up for the little guy."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
45%
|
Losing Isaiah (1995) |
"
Although Halle Berry makes a creditable effort to play against her glamorous image, she's no match for Lange."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
71%
|
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) |
"
Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle is a throwback to the sexless romantic comedies of the 1930s."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
67%
|
Female Perversions (1997) |
"
Humorless and swathed in symbolism, it taunts us with cerebral puzzles that we may not care to solve."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
48%
|
Natural Born Killers (1994) |
"
Made in the style of an MTV video...Natural Born Killers is exactly the kind of bullying, mindless assault that Stone excoriates the media for perpetrating."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
88%
|
The Spanish Prisoner (1997) |
"
As the movie keeps piling on surprise revelations, it becomes more convoluted without ever managing to be satisfying or exciting."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
81%
|
Barcelona (1994) |
"
Stillman's dramatic instinct falters badly."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
50%
|
Endurance (1999) |
"
It has neither the compelling authenticity of cinema verite nor the dramatic punch of artful fiction."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
91%
|
Miller's Crossing (1990) |
"
Even though the plot is propelled by lust and vengeance, there's no heat in the movie."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
54%
|
Basic Instinct (1992) |
"
It's almost completely lacking in suspense."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
93%
|
Being John Malkovich (1999) |
"
The filmmakers are stoned on weirdness for its own sake, which is the danger of becoming too enthralled by the freewheeling ethos of the '60s."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
34%
|
The Shadow (1994) |
"
One of the year's unmitigated disasters."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
91%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (1993) |
"
One longs for genuine bursts of cinematic poetry instead of all the overemphatic gusto."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
88%
|
Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990) |
"
Excessively violent, empty-headed, contrived and full of gaping plot holes."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
63%
|
Bitter Moon (1992) |
"
Unfortunately, Polanski is not in complete control of the tone of the movie."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
63%
|
Sommersby (1993) |
"
Hobbled with a meandering script, an erratic performance by Richard Gere, and an overbearing score by Danny Elfman."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
68%
|
Dancer in the Dark (2000) |
"
The preachiness is off-putting, and so are the film's melodramatic plotting and woozy handheld camerawork."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 17, 2001
|
|
|
42%
|
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) |
"
A leaden bore."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 17, 2001
|
|
|
9%
|
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) |
"
It's beautifully photographed and well directed by Hugh Hudson, but the script is flimsy."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 17, 2001
|
|
|
82%
|
X-Men (2000) |
"
If you're feeling indulgent, you may find some of the movie's stunts entertaining, but its loftier ambitions are laughable."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 17, 2001
|
|
|
55%
|
Blow (2001) |
"
Penélope Cruz usually mesmerizes, but here she's playing such a one-dimensional shrew that her beauty and charm count for little."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 16, 2001
|
|
|
77%
|
The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
"
More cerebral than visceral, and it falls uneasily between the suspense and comedy genres."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 16, 2001
|
|
|
53%
|
The Family Man (2000) |
"
So undernourished and one-dimensional that it begins to drag long before the misty-eyed conclusion."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 16, 2001
|
|
|
90%
|
Cast Away (2000) |
"
The bottom line is that Cast Away is reaching for so many cosmic truths that it never achieves the emotional kick that any survival story must have."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 16, 2001
|
|
|
77%
|
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
"
Wide-ranging ambition is a virtue in a director, but it finally counts for little if the crucial human details are missing."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 16, 2001
|
|
|
48%
|
Bamboozled (2000) |
"
es, it's true that Hollywood has a lot to answer for in its portrayals of blacks as patsies and fools. But this fraudulent, self-important movie does little to rectify the situation."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 16, 2001
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
Very Bad Things (1998) |
"
There are some hysterically funny bits, but the excessive violence sometimes kills the laughter."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
|
|
|
82%
|
Mademoiselle Chambon (2010) |
"
Small-scale but big-hearted French romance packs a wallop."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
|
79%
|
The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) |
"
An entertaining swipe at corporate irresponsibility."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
|
20%
|
Motherhood (2009) |
"
A pleasing, lighthearted look at the mommy wars."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
|
27%
|
The Canyon (2009) |
"
Bad things happen to good people in this intermittently effective chiller."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
|
63%
|
Peter and Vandy (2009) |
"
Small gem features two star-making performances."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 12, 2009
|
|
|
58%
|
Trucker (2009) |
"
Michelle Monaghan delivers the goods."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
|
87%
|
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"
Second-string animated movie makes it to the finish line."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
|
91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
Laughs and heartbreak meld seamlessly in this brilliant character drama."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 8, 2009
|
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