Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
New York Post
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Publications:
New York Post,
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Movie Reviews Only
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71% | Clockers (1995) |
What all but sinks Clockers is its muddled script, an indulgent mess that is by turns dull and disorienting. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Apr 9, 2020
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43% | Space Jam (1996) |
Space Jam is not a movie. It's a feature-length infomercial for Michael Jordan Inc. and a host of related corporations that made their product-placement arrangements early. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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54% | Cruel Intentions (1999) |
The misbegotten Cruel Intentions serves up great glittering gobs of cheap, without the thrills. - New York Post
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| Posted Mar 21, 2019
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67% | Antonia (Antonia's Line) (1995) |
The movie is so pastorally lovely to look at, its characters so likable and its lulling rhythms so soothing that it's easy to forget that it's a lot of pleasant, plotless hooey. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Oct 4, 2016
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67% | The Pillow Book (1997) |
Pillow Book may be a dull, heartless, cruel film, but for what it's worth, it looks marvelous. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted May 2, 2016
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79% | GoldenEye (1995) |
Despite a promiscuous number of explosions on screen, don't expect many genuinely big bangs out of this one. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Oct 28, 2015
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92% | Men in Black (1997) |
What makes this wildly imaginative setup so much fun is the contrast between the deadpan gruffness of Jones and Torn, and the spectacularly strange environment in which they work. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Aug 12, 2014
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18% | Trippin (1999) |
An after-school special posing as Booty Call, stumbling badly over its clunky message-movie scripting. - New York Post
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| Posted Jul 28, 2014
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25% | Fathers' Day (1997) |
The plot is full of the kind of holes necessary to set up cream-puff moments where everybody turns huggy and learns Valuable Lessons. Ugh. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jul 14, 2014
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11% | Batman & Robin (1997) |
Batman & Robin is as bad as anything on screen this year. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jun 18, 2014
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11% | Striptease (1996) |
Moore, the most overrated star since Comet Kohoutek, is dreadful, dreadful in this thoroughly disappointing film version of Carl Hiaasen's hilarious novel. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jun 18, 2014
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99% | L.A. Confidential (1997) |
Though their spirits may seem all but entombed by sin, these men are vividly human, this film savagely alive. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jun 4, 2014
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66% | The Rock (1996) |
The camera is always too close, and the editing extremely choppy, dizzyingly so. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted May 27, 2014
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46% | For Love of the Game (1999) |
For love of the God, what is wrong with the once-likable Kevin Costner? - New York Post
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| Posted May 8, 2014
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5% | A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) |
It looks and feels junky. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted May 5, 2014
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87% | Heat (1995) |
Though it's a tad too schematic, Heat, written and directed by Michael Mann, provides a venue for white-hot acting by De Niro and Pacino. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Apr 29, 2014
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82% | Seven (Se7en) (1995) |
The two actors misfire here: Freeman is so low-key he's almost drowsy, and Pitt jumps around like a chihuahua to no effect. It doesn't help that the sound mix is so murky that much of their dialogue sinks into the murk. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Mar 25, 2014
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89% | Titanic (1997) |
Titanic is an awesome achievement, a traditional Hollywood epic that dazzles your eyes, breaks your heart and shivers your soul. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Feb 25, 2014
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75% | Ransom (1996) |
Ransom benefits handsomely from a story that remains compellingly believable, even as the plot twists become more baroque. Be warned, though, that Ransom is a violent film, with bloody shootouts that will not be easy to watch. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jan 22, 2014
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85% | The English Patient (1996) |
The English Patient's considerable pleasures are chiefly aesthetic, not emotional. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jan 6, 2014
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91% | Trainspotting (1996) |
A grimy bolt of celluloid lightning unspooling at 24 crackling frames a second, this episodic tale of smart-aleck Scottish lads on heroin is the year's most exciting film -- and surely its most controversial. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jun 26, 2013
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5% | Kazaam (1996) |
Good ol' Shaq, the big happy galoot, makes you smile just by showing up. Because of him, Kazaam is a minimal kid-pleaser, but because the trailers made us dream of genie, we can't help being disappointed when we get a turbaned social worker. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted May 29, 2013
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4% | Speed 2 - Cruise Control (1997) |
The wind goes out of this tub's sails long before it reaches port. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted May 28, 2013
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8% | Solo (1996) |
Solo contains the usual shoot-'em-ups, an undistinguished performance from Van Peebles, plus lots of crummy dialogue. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted May 28, 2013
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83% | Jerry Maguire (1996) |
Crowe draws terrific performances from the entire cast. And his magnificent dialogue limns emotional nuances and delicate truths rarely touched on in big-budget Hollywood movies, making Jerry Maguire a thoroughly unexpected pleasure. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted May 1, 2002
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50% | Life (1999) |
This prison dramedy's muddled, episodic script seems to have gone on a hunger strike for humor! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/4 | 87% | American Beauty (1999) |
American Beauty is a flat-out masterpiece, surely the best movie of the year; indeed, an all-time classic. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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39% | Big Daddy (1999) |
Big Daddy is easily the laziest, most slapdash and altogether crummy picture Sandler's done to date. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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19% | Love Stinks (1999) |
Jeff Franklin's idea of cutting-edge comedy writing runs to the kind of vulgar, unfunny shtick that puts the gag in 'gag.' - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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33% | The Love Letter (1999) |
Capshaw is cold and charmless! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/4 | 68% | Stir of Echoes (1999) |
Stir of Echoes is studded with potent fright scenes and built on a rock-solid performance by the ever - dependable Kevin Bacon. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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83% | Notting Hill (1999) |
Notting Hill is about as enchanting as movies get these days! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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2.5/4 | 75% | Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
Quite good in parts and always dazzling to the eye but a letdown all the same. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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52% | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) |
Amusing but ultimately disappointing. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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21% | The General's Daughter (1999) |
So nonsensical and asinine that it would take all 14,000 miles of cable holding up the Brooklyn Bridge to suspend your disbelief. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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2/4 | 54% | Mars Attacks! (1996) |
Isolated cool moments aside, Mars Attacks! is mostly blah filler. Burton dashes around so skittishly he rarely has time to exploit his better ideas; it's not the sustained kitschy romp the excellent trailers lead you to expect. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/4 | 70% | The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) |
Renee Russo is an absolute knockout! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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2/4 | 52% | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) |
Everything about this film is so mechanical you wonder if it was written, directed and acted by 'droids.' - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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1.5/4 | 22% | Stigmata (1999) |
The story makes increasingly little sense as it unspools! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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88% | The Matrix (1999) |
A more technically dazzling synthesis of action choreography and cutting-edge computer graphics has not been seen since James Cameron's T2. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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50% | The First Wives Club (1996) |
Puerile claptrap. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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2/4 | 46% | Runaway Bride (1999) |
A runaway bore! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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54% | The Hi-Lo Country (1998) |
Woody Harrelson's surprisingly credible, yippie-ki-yay performance as the last of the old-time cowboys is the only reason - but just reason enough - to see THE HI-LO COUNTRY. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3.5/4 | 86% | The Sixth Sense (1999) |
It is impossible to take your eyes off Osment, who vividly conveys the hopelessness of a sensitive, intelligent child who bears burdens beyond all telling. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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51% | Summer of Sam (1999) |
A ragged mess that only rarely connects with its audience or with a point. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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1/4 | 5% | Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) |
The Muscles from Brussels mouths dialogue that wouldn't challenge a bivalve - and in an accent that makes Stallone sound like a master of elocution. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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2/4 | 10% | Chill Factor (1999) |
A waste of time and talent! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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91% | Go (1999) |
Flat-out the best thing I've seen all year! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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17% | Wild Wild West (1999) |
Heaven knows he gives it his best, but not even the smart, sexy and immensely likable Smith can save this awful Barry Sonnenfeld picture from the oblivion it surely deserves. - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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63% | Muppets From Space (1999) |
Draggy and awfully thin! - New York Post
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| Posted Jan 1, 2000
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