Rotten
| N/A | Half Past Autumn (2001) | "
It's a sumptuous feast for the eyes, but never gives one's mind more than a few tantalizing appetizers to savor." Posted Feb 14, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Dinosaur (2000) | "
The audience is left with a beautiful setting populated by predictable and largely uninteresting characters." Posted Jan 13, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Death to Smoochy (2002) | "
Collapses under its own meager weight." Posted Mar 29, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Panic Room (2002) | "
Tries to think 'outside the box,' but instead ends up being trapped in one." Posted Mar 28, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| The Rookie (2002) | "
Takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpected heights." Posted Mar 28, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Ice Age (2002) | "
... a pleasant enough way to spend a matinee afternoon with the children in life." Posted Mar 15, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Showtime (2002) | "
[A] placebo of a film, bland and inert." Posted Mar 15, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Harrison's Flowers (2002) | "
A violent and implausible fairy tale." Posted Mar 15, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| The Time Machine (2002) | "
little to recommend it beyond ... special effects technology." Posted Mar 8, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) | "
A smart sex comedy that revels more in the gray matter than the groin." Posted Mar 1, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| We Were Soldiers (2002) | "
Sledgehammer-simplistic... piling on the Technicolor carnage and employing just about every stock war film cliché imaginable." Posted Feb 28, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Dragonfly (2002) | "
...visual novocaine..." Posted Feb 21, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| A Rumor of Angels (2002) | "
The actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them, forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes." Posted Feb 1, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| A Walk to Remember (2002) | "
The only surprises are how quickly and unoriginally the banalities mount." Posted Jan 24, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) | "
Its swashes are effectively buckled in all the right places." Posted Jan 23, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Black Hawk Down (2001) | "
A memorable paean to the human spirit." Posted Jan 18, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| Orange County (2002) | "
Consistently funny and surprisingly inventive, it...serves up a much more rewarding stew than the swill normally targeted at 13-24 year olds." Posted Jan 11, 2002 |
N/A | N/A | 2001 Year-in-Review (2001) | "
culturevulture.net's Ten Best Films of 2001" Posted Dec 28, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Ali (2001) | "
Ali does the unthinkable: making its complex and dynamic subject smaller than life." Posted Dec 24, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| The Majestic (2001) | "
A warm and loving ode to the magic of film and the golden age of movie making." Posted Dec 20, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Vanilla Sky (2001) | "
Writer/director Crowe's screenplay is quite faithful to the original story, but he makes a confusing story even more so." Posted Dec 14, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Amelie (2001) | "
An effervescent world of unrequited love, suicidal goldfish, photo booth intrigue and elaborate courtship schemes." Posted Dec 12, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| The Business of Strangers (2001) | "
Powerful performances from Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles are saddled with a slow-developing story." Posted Dec 10, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| Behind Enemy Lines (2001) | "
Takes a simple premise and simplifies it even further; it's a comic book with very few of the frames colored in." Posted Nov 29, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Shallow Hal (2001) | "
Lives up to its title, an inch wide and an inch deep." Posted Nov 9, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Domestic Disturbance (2001) | "
A small and fuzzy blip in an already very bad film year, as nondescript and uninvolving as its title." Posted Nov 2, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| K-Pax (2001) | "
K-PAX suggests that perhaps the answers we find or conclusions we reach are less important than the questions we ask." Posted Oct 26, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| The Last Castle (2001) | "
The Last Castle takes [a] timeworn premise and steers it down a ludicrous and obvious path to a conclusion that will have most audience members rolling their eyes in disbelief rather than cheering." Posted Oct 19, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Zoolander (2001) | "
This isn't a film so much as a smirk of a home movie that somehow got green-lighted as a film project and then ran wildly amuck." Posted Sep 27, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Producers (1968) | "
More than thirty years after its initial release, it's still outrageous as ever and one of the funniest films ever made." Posted Sep 26, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Don't Say a Word (2001) | "
Makes a concerted initial effort to construct a complicated and suspenseful scenario but then strangely and gleefully casts it aside." Posted Sep 24, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) | "
Those who loved the original Apocalypse Now will find more to admire. Those who found the original self-indulgent and pompous may now find it even more so." Posted Sep 19, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) | "
An interminable oral sex and flatulence joke masquerading as a movie." Posted Aug 21, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| Osmosis Jones (2001) | "
Don’t expect the usual Farrelly broad brush and grade-school animal humor, but instead prepare for acerbic wit and sly asides delivered in rapid fashion." Posted Aug 10, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| The Deep End (2001) | "
A spare and stylish thriller that intrigues with intelligence rather than cheap shocks." Posted Aug 9, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| America's Sweethearts (2001) | "
Wide parched vistas of monotony separate scrabbly oases of amusement and the payoff for a gag almost never matches the time devoted to its setup." Posted Jul 19, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Kiss of the Dragon (2001) | "
The action as presented is strictly rote and much more bloody than balletic." Posted Jul 5, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| Cats & Dogs (2001) | "
Clever, technically accomplished, and consistently amusing -- it's a sunny summer treat." Posted Jul 5, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 42%
| Evolution (2001) | "
The players are obviously having a great time and their comic energy is contagious." Posted Jun 8, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Swordfish (2001) | "
Mostly standard gunfire and carnage at ear-splitting sound levels." Posted Jun 8, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Moulin Rouge (2001) | "
Like being stuck inside a kaleidoscope for two hours while a madman plays a calliope next to your ear." Posted Jun 1, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| Angel Eyes (2001) | "
Angel Eyes is a romance without love, a suspense drama without tension, a thriller without excitement." Posted May 18, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Shrek (2001) | "
The total package is magical to behold, clever and hugely entertaining for all ages." Posted May 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Driven (2001) | "
There's no center to the film, no focal point to the story, no main character." Posted Apr 27, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Dish (2001) | "
A quietly moving film that delights in small things." Posted Mar 30, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| Someone Like You (2001) | "
An original take on the quirks of relationships." Posted Mar 29, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Say It Isn't So (2001) | "
The jokes are sparsely sown and what happens between them is duller than C-SPAN during a filibuster." Posted Mar 23, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Monkeybone (2001) | "
A disjointed and frustrating mess." Posted Feb 23, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Sweet November (2001) | "
Patently false and manipulative." Posted Feb 16, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Virgin Suicides (1999) | "
It will resonate with anyone who's ever gone through adolescence. It ranks with the very best films of the year." Posted Feb 14, 2001 |
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