Karen Hershenson

Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
Contra Costa Times
Movie Reviews Only
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2.5/4 | 66% | Black Snake Moan (2007) |
Ricci has guts. Nonetheless, Black Snake Moan turned my stomach. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Mar 2, 2007
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C | 49% | The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
Even though it is relentlessly intense, at times even deeply moving, The Passion ultimately leaves you numb. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Feb 25, 2004
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91% | High Fidelity (2000) |
Smart and in the end feel-good, it's more an evening with a talented club band than the full-out stadium show. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Mar 6, 2001
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17% | Here on Earth (2000) |
After weathering the movie's mood swings and enduring its overwrought ending, you'll be begging for satire on bended knees. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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10% | Chill Factor (1999) |
Chill Factor is just the kind of failed action picture one expects to see during these final days of August. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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54% | What Dreams May Come (1998) |
"What Dreams May Come" is a like an abstract painting, full of vivid brushstrokes that hint at deeper meaning. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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29% | Jakob the Liar (1999) |
Plays dangerously close to Hogan's Heroes goes to Auschwitz. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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43% | The Ninth Gate (1999) |
The movie is so crisply done, with such class, that it keeps you engrossed. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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51% | Anna and the King (2000) |
More well-intended than it is entertaining. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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57% | Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) |
Entertaining in its own wacky way. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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40% | Scream 3 (2000) |
What we are witnessing here is a rather perfunctory conclusion to what was once an inspired burst of creativity. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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42% | What Planet Are You From? (2000) |
It gives new meaning to the overused adage that men are from Mars, women are from Venus. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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25% | The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) |
The new Flintstones movie is bad. Prehistorically bad. Neolithically bad. Bad enough that you should take your youngsters and run in the opposite direction to My Dog Skip. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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36% | Bicentennial Man (1999) |
It's the Tin Man without much brain. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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26% | Gone in 60 Seconds (Gone in Sixty Seconds) (2000) |
That's how long it ought to last in theaters -- unless there's a hidden audience out there for formulaic movies with hack scripts. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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11% | End of Days (1999) |
Let us be sustained by the knowledge that in just 38 more days, all this millennium nonsense will be over. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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65% | Rounders (1998) |
The acting is crisp, and Dahl knows how to pace a movie and make it look good. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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30% | The Thirteenth Floor (1999) |
Never has a film deteriorated so abruptly and so completely. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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68% | Timecode (2000) |
Time Code isn't so much a movie as an experiment in digital filmmaking, and one likely to induce nausea or migraines in the viewer. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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15% | Pokémon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew (1999) |
Movies like this make me cringe. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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77% | Gladiator (2000) |
A clever cast. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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48% | The Road to El Dorado (2000) |
Road to El Dorado has some nicely done visuals. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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32% | Romeo Must Die (2000) |
To say [Li's] acting is 'wooden' would be kind. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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35% | Where the Heart Is (2000) |
A heartwarming and sometimes inspirational couple of hours. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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64% | Dinosaur (2000) |
A quick blast. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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24% | Mission to Mars (2000) |
They don't waste words in the space program, and I won't waste any more here. Let's call this one mission: improbable. - Contra Costa Times
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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