Rotten C-
| Rotten 16%
| Eragon (2006) | "
Eragon's mythic journey to discover the truth behind his heritage and battle evil hews so closely to the story lines of other famous fantasy epics that it's hard to believe there aren't a few lawsuits in the works." Posted Dec 15, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Yes Men (2004) | "
Anyone who suspects that satire is dead need look no further than The Yes Men to realize the art of lampooning is alive and well." Posted Oct 15, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Seducing Dr. Lewis (2004) | "
Charming but overly long, a pleasant, smile-producing movie reminiscent of doing a jigsaw puzzle at a rented beach cottage on a rainy day." Posted Sep 17, 2004 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 96%
| Lost Boys of Sudan (2004) | "
The scenes of Peter and Santino's adjustment to life in Houston -- a garbage disposal does what? -- are at once quotidian, poignant and absurd." Posted Sep 17, 2004 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 60%
| Wimbledon (2004) | "
Ho-hum offering by the producers of crowd-pleasing bon bons Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill." Posted Sep 17, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Criminal (2004) | "
L.A. looks hip in its lemonade light, and the low-budget Ocean's Eleven attitude gives Criminal a certain down-and-out swing." Posted Sep 10, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Cellular (2004) | "
The movie has more flawed logic, lame coincidences and plot holes than the average cell phone has ring tones." Posted Sep 10, 2004 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 49%
| Vanity Fair (2004) | "
A lively retelling of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale." Posted Sep 3, 2004 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 65%
| We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) | "
An absorbing relational Rorschach test masquerading as a domestic drama, a sardonic examination of marriage and friendship that invites the audience to think for itself." Posted Aug 27, 2004 |
Fresh C+
| Rotten 27%
| Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) | "
It's not particularly ingenuous, the acting is only serviceable, the killer snakes have adapted most of their scariest riffs from the star of Jaws, but it's a species of low-grade fun that really does appeal to the whole family." Posted Aug 27, 2004 |
Rotten D-
| Rotten 20%
| She Hate Me (2004) | "
A turn-off." Posted Aug 20, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) | "
Panders to the worst traits in the target audience of spoiled third-grade girls." Posted Aug 13, 2004 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 97%
| Maria Full of Grace (2004) | "
A spellbinding drama rife with both tragedy and hope." Posted Aug 6, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| A Home at the End of the World (2004) | "
The film equivalent of the blind date described as 'really nice.' It's neither bad nor good, just sort of earnest and well-meaning." Posted Aug 6, 2004 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 22%
| Little Black Book (2004) | "
Given the fact that it's August, you could do worse than hide out from the heat with the cute-as-a-bug Murphy, who manages to be funny and entertaining despite the material." Posted Aug 6, 2004 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 87%
| Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) | "
Some Kind of Monster is some weird kind of wonderful." Posted Jul 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| The Intended (2004) | "
The pace is stultifying, and even though the ensemble looks realistically stinky and sweaty, the stately progression of events mirrors far too well the torpor of the tropics." Posted Jul 30, 2004 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 42%
| The Village (2004) | "
Thriller is hardly the word for this tedious exercise in clue-hiding." Posted Jul 30, 2004 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 66%
| The Door in the Floor (2004) | "
By turns absorbing, unsettling and, for lack of a better word, icky." Posted Jul 16, 2004 |
Rotten D-
| Rotten 10%
| A Cinderella Story (2004) | "
Poorly written, poorly acted exercise in banality and studio greed." Posted Jul 16, 2004 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 94%
| Before Sunset (2004) | "
Says more about the mystery of love and attachment than any overblown Hollywood romance that comes to mind." Posted Jul 9, 2004 |
Rotten D
| Fresh 65%
| Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) | "
Nothing more than an extended skit, and a lame one at that." Posted Jul 9, 2004 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 71%
| Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | "
He makes Geekus Hollywoodium -- always played by someone such as Ben Stiller, whom we know to be fundamentally cool beneath his nerdy veneer -- look like the fraudulent genus we know it to be." Posted Jul 2, 2004 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 84%
| Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) | "
Supporters of the president will find this reprehensible. Detractors of the president will rub their hands with glee." Posted Jun 25, 2004 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 61%
| The Terminal (2004) | "
Hanks' perfectly rendered Navorski offsets the hogwash and makes the film's shortcomings bearable." Posted Jun 18, 2004 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 26%
| The Stepford Wives (2004) | "
So god-awful it falls into the category of needing to be seen to be believed." Posted Jun 11, 2004 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 89%
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) | "
At long last, here is a film where the computer-generated imagery actually serves the magic rather than being the magic." Posted Jun 4, 2004 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 63%
| Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) | "
It's the rare chance to glimpse the doodles of an auteur." Posted May 28, 2004 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 89%
| Shrek 2 (2004) | "
The spell cast on the audience is that in the world of Shrek, there's a bottomless supply of Funny." Posted May 19, 2004 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 93%
| Super Size Me (2004) | "
The truth is, the delicious fun (forgive me) of Super Size Me resides in watching the lanky, affable Spurlock get intentionally fat." Posted May 14, 2004 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 55%
| Troy (2004) | "
The first hour of this unnecessarily long tale is rough sledding." Posted May 14, 2004 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 62%
| Young Adam (2004) | "
The pacing is as sluggish as the Scottish canals that serve as its setting." Posted May 7, 2004 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 22%
| Van Helsing (2004) | "
If an eardrum-damaging score and people getting routinely slammed into stone walls at a 100 miles an hour without so much as chipping a tooth is your idea of a good time, then Van Helsing won't disappoint." Posted May 7, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Mean Girls (2004) | "
Packed with enough trenchant observations of teen life to make you laugh and wince in equal measure." Posted Apr 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Laws of Attraction (2004) | "
The larger question is not whether these two will wind up together, but rather, if the filmmakers wanted to make a teen movie, why didn't they use real teenagers?" Posted Apr 30, 2004 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 39%
| Man on Fire (2004) | "
If you need a Denzel-fix, Washington's got some piquant assassin-at-work scenes; otherwise the movie never rises above a slow boil." Posted Apr 26, 2004 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 71%
| Robot Stories (2004) | "
Part of the minimalist allure of Robot Stories is that it's much more than the sum of its parts." Posted Apr 26, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004) | "
The animation has cheap-and-fast written all over it. It's so chintzy, the characters look as if they've come straight from a box of Colorforms." Posted Apr 26, 2004 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 85%
| Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) | "
While Tarantino's famous fight sequences are grisly, funny and genuinely entertaining, his love scenes are so tender, so fraught, you fear for the safety of your own heart." Posted Apr 16, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| The Alamo (2004) | "
Worth remembering." Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Ella Enchanted (2004) | "
Except for these ogre-sized missteps -- the occasional overacting, the self-conscious and over-used '70s dance music -- Ella has a lot to recommend it." Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Neil Young - Greendale (2004) | "
So terrible, you can't believe Young isn't simply having a big goof on all of us." Posted Apr 2, 2004 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 27%
| The Prince & Me (2004) | "
Dimwitted." Posted Apr 2, 2004 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 55%
| Home on the Range (2004) | "
No one could come up with anything better, plot-wise, than saving the 'ol homestead?" Posted Apr 2, 2004 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 68%
| The Same River Twice (2003) | "
It's Moss' disinclination to judge that gives what might otherwise be a slight film its genuine poignancy." Posted Mar 26, 2004 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 73%
| Intermission (2004) | "
It's great fun watching Farrell back in his native habitat after his usual Hollywood pretty-boy turns." Posted Mar 26, 2004 |
Fresh C+
| Rotten 21%
| Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) | "
I won't go so far as to say Scooby-Doo 2 is fun for the entire family, but if you've got a 10-year-old underfoot who needs entertaining, you could have a worse time." Posted Mar 26, 2004 |
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