Karen Hershenson

Karen Hershenson
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications: Contra Costa Times

Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter Title | Year
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
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 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
43% 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
57% Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) Entertaining in its own wacky way. - Contra Costa Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 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
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 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
30% 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% Pokémon 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
32% 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
64% Dinosaur (2000) A quick blast. - Contra Costa Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000