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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
C
Saw (2004) Johnny Donaldson Saw manipualtes you in clever and morbid ways, but that still doesn't make it a very good movie.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
A
I Heart Huckabees (2004) Johnny Donaldson I Heart Huckabees may be the most looniest, most alienating, most what-were-they-thinking mainstream movie ever made. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
B
Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) Johnny Donaldson What makes the film effective is its acting...
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
C+
The Grudge (2004) Johnny Donaldson The Grudge may have an air of chilly dread, but it's often just a neutered and repetitive slice of tony exploitation horror.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
Team America: World Police (2004) Johnny Donaldson It's a puerile, gross, and immature comedy that has moments of genuinely abrasive, subversive and much needed humor in it.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
C+
The Forgotten (2004) Johnny Donaldson The Forgotten is competently made but ultimately lifeless.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
A
Shaun of the Dead (2004) Johnny Donaldson Weird, silly, smart, moving, funny and scary, Shaun of the Dead is potentially a cult classic that's in a field of its own.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
C-
Paparazzi (2004) Johnny Donaldson The time is about right to make a drama about the tawdry ghost of celebrity mania. Paparazzi is not that movie.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
Cellular (2004) Johnny Donaldson Cellular never actually comes together as a movie, but it does have enough clever parts to keep you entertained.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Hero (2002) Johnny Donaldson Hero for all its sword-swinging action is not a fight film exactly; it is a work of visual poetry.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
D
Vanity Fair (2004) Johnny Donaldson Vanity Fair is wan and colorless - a romantic painting that has come haltingly to life.
Posted Nov 10, 2004  Edit critic review
D
Van Helsing (2004) Johnny Donaldson ...you get the sense that you're seeing the first movie to be made from nothing but climax.
Posted May 13, 2004  Edit critic review
C
Laws of Attraction (2004) Johnny Donaldson It's wan and pallid, with little of the lightness of touch that a movie of this sort requires.
Posted May 13, 2004  Edit critic review
D
Godsend (2004) Johnny Donaldson A mediocre bit of bad seed hokum...
Posted May 13, 2004  Edit critic review
C+
The Punisher (2004) Johnny Donaldson ...a thuggish and junky vigilante cartoon...
Posted Apr 29, 2004  Edit critic review
A-
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) Johnny Donaldson Kill Bill Vol. 2 has the centered emotional grounding and heartfelt maturity lacking in the first installment
Posted Apr 29, 2004  Edit critic review
B
Hellboy (2004) Johnny Donaldson Hellboy is a big-budget special FX spectacle, but it's one made with the artful, polished beauty of real moviemaking.
Posted Apr 29, 2004  Edit critic review
C
Walking Tall (2004) Johnny Donaldson Walking Tall clocks in at a lean 82 minutes, which means that [director Kevin] Bray has carved off most of the fat. The problem is, most of the meat is gone too.
Posted Apr 29, 2004  Edit critic review
D+
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) Johnny Donaldson The movie is a gaudy, hyperventilating eyesore with flashing colors and frenetic action that may keep little ones diverted for an hour and a half.
Posted Mar 31, 2004  Edit critic review
D
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) Johnny Donaldson It's an amazing feat, but Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London is an even thinner bit of plastic than the first one was.
Posted Mar 31, 2004  Edit critic review
A
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Johnny Donaldson Quietly beautiful, it's the first genuinely moving film of the year.
Posted Mar 31, 2004  Edit critic review
A
Dawn of the Dead (2004) Johnny Donaldson ...a genuinely jaw-dropping, nerve-frying mercenary thriller.
Posted Mar 24, 2004  Edit critic review
B
Secret Window (2004) Johnny Donaldson ...a consistently watchable lightweight horror yarn..."
Posted Mar 24, 2004  Edit critic review
B
Monster (2003) Johnny Donaldson Theron doesn't just look like Wuornos, but becomes her and it's a display of acting as bravura as any.
Posted Mar 10, 2004  Edit critic review
C+
The Passion of the Christ (2004) Johnny Donaldson ...a two-hour wallow in torture and sadism that amounts to nothing more than a snuff film with pretensions of both art and religion
Posted Mar 03, 2004  Edit critic review
C
Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004) Johnny Donaldson ...the Lizard's ask us to wade through a lot of the cut-rate slasher horror that should have been retired with the demise of the Urban Legend franchise.
Posted Mar 02, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
Eurotrip (2004) Johnny Donaldson Crude but not gross, affable rather than offensive, this genial, runty little teen smut-com is better than anyone has any reason to expect it to be.
Posted Mar 02, 2004  Edit critic review
D-
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) Johnny Donaldson Perhaps my loathing of Drama Queen wouldn't be so complete, so bilious as it is, if the central character was someone sympathetic we could root for.
Posted Feb 25, 2004  Edit critic review
C
The Singing Detective (2003) Johnny Donaldson This new version of The Singing Detective..., is a tinny and off-key stab at replicating the feverish, mad splash of a genuine movie musical.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
A Beautiful Mind (2001) Johnny Donaldson A Beautiful Mind is [Howard's] most complex, emotionally resonant film to date.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
D+
The Majestic (2001) Johnny Donaldson The Majestic is so sugary that diabetics should avoid it for fear of insulin shock.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Johnny Donaldson ...the swordfights are exciting, the movie is nice to look at and as rousing adventures go, there could be worse.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
C+
Crossroads (2002) Johnny Donaldson Crossroads is hardly a good movie, but it's a harmless, and sometimes even enjoyable lightweight drama.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) Johnny Donaldson Brotherhood of the Wolf is an audacious, sensational and utterly preposterous mélange of horror, romance, martial arts, costume drama and God knows what else.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
C-
The Time Machine (2002) Johnny Donaldson ...remarkably ho-hum.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
A-
The Devil's Backbone (2001) Johnny Donaldson The Devil's Backbone is a spare and elegant supernatural thriller...
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
A-
Blade II (2002) Johnny Donaldson Del Toro has an avid love for things that go squish in the night
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
C
Clockstoppers (2002) Johnny Donaldson Clockstoppers...is colorful and energetic, but also a little flat.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
A
Monsoon Wedding (2001) Johnny Donaldson The characters chatter, goad, argue, celebrate and communicate with the joyful energy of life.
Posted Feb 19, 2004  Edit critic review
B
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) Johnny Donaldson ...it belongs to a smarter, sharper and funnier breed of romantic comedy.
Posted Feb 18, 2004  Edit critic review
F
The New Guy (2002) Johnny Donaldson After 20 minutes, the filmmakers stop giving a damn. The audience did that 15 minutes earlier.
Posted Feb 18, 2004  Edit critic review
C-
Murder by Numbers (2002) Johnny Donaldson ...moviemaking by numbers.
Posted Feb 18, 2004  Edit critic review
D
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) Johnny Donaldson ...an amped-up, dumbed-down variation on Night of The Living Dead...
Posted Feb 18, 2004  Edit critic review
D
The One (2001) Johnny Donaldson This One sadly comes up zero.
Posted Feb 18, 2004  Edit critic review
C
Life as a House (2001) Johnny Donaldson A dubious attempt to cross American Beauty with a Hallmark card, the film features edgier moments that give way to easy sentimentality and sitcom-cute distractions.
Posted Feb 18, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
Out Cold (2001) Johnny Donaldson Out Cold, your basic hijinxs-in-the-snow madcap comedy, is everything you expect from the trailer: dumb, crass and unlikely to further the art of cinema.
Posted Feb 18, 2004  Edit critic review
D
Waking Life (2001) Johnny Donaldson This isn't profundity - this is intellectual masturbation.
Posted Feb 18, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
The Big Bounce (2004) Johnny Donaldson It glides along easily, it's often funny and quirky and enjoyable, but the movie itself seems like an afterthought.
Posted Feb 12, 2004  Edit critic review
B
The Butterfly Effect (2004) Johnny Donaldson It's not exactly the most pleasant way to spend an evening at the movies, but the film has a grim, disorienting power.
Posted Feb 12, 2004  Edit critic review
C
Chasing Liberty (2004) Johnny Donaldson For a while, Chasing Liberty is a tolerable, if empty, bit of little girl fluff
Posted Feb 12, 2004  Edit critic review
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