Karen Hershenson

Tomatometer-approved critic

Publications: Contra Costa Times

movie Reviews Only

Movies

	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
2.5/4	66%	Black Snake Moan (2007)	Ricci has guts. Nonetheless, Black Snake Moan turned my stomach. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 2, 2007
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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 25, 2004
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 6, 2001
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	11%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	29%	Jakob the Liar (1999)	Plays dangerously close to Hogan's Heroes goes to Auschwitz. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	42%	The Ninth Gate (1999)	The movie is so crisply done, with such class, that it keeps you engrossed. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	51%	Anna and the King (2000)	More well-intended than it is entertaining. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	56%	Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)	Entertaining in its own wacky way. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	36%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	36%	Bicentennial Man (1999)	It's the Tin Man without much brain. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	25%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	65%	Rounders (1998)	The acting is crisp, and Dahl knows how to pace a movie and make it look good. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	29%	The Thirteenth Floor (1999)	Never has a film deteriorated so abruptly and so completely. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	15%	Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew (1999)	Movies like this make me cringe. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	77%	Gladiator (2000)	A clever cast. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	48%	The Road to El Dorado (2000)	Road to El Dorado has some nicely done visuals. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	33%	Romeo Must Die (2000)	To say [Li's] acting is 'wooden' would be kind. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	35%	Where the Heart Is (2000)	A heartwarming and sometimes inspirational couple of hours. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	65%	Dinosaur (2000)	A quick blast. - Contra Costa Times EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000
	25%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 1, 2000