— | Fresh 89%
| Ginger Snaps (2001) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 49%
| Love's Labour's Lost (2000) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 25%
| Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 42%
| Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 45%
| Nicotina (2004) | "
Close enough to Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to make no difference, Nicotina delivers the predictable in a blur of phone calls, gunshots and lightning-fast editing." Posted Aug 7, 2004 |
— | Rotten 44%
| The Blue Butterfly (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 24, 2004 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 33%
| The Butterfly Effect (2004) | "
An exercise in ponderous gloom and doom." Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 41%
| Jersey Girl (2004) | "
The problem is the subject matter: a cozy ode to fatherhood with a maudlin audacity that would make Dickens blush." Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 80%
| Stupidity (2003) | "
The idea that our culture is dumbing down is nothing new, but fortunately Stupidity skips the predictable finger-wagging at our collective idiocy in favour of a more interesting, academic study of stupidity." Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Miracle (2004) | "
Everything about this movie is painfully stock." Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
— | N/A | Foolproof (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 17, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Ginger Snaps 2 : Unleashed (2004) | "
A well-paced horror whose slick, exhilarating action sequences are a significant improvement over the original." Posted Feb 1, 2004 |
— | Fresh 85%
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
— | N/A | Shake It All About (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
— | Fresh 65%
| Out of Time (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 35%
| Radio (2003) | "
Feigns compassion for the mentally challenged, but treats Radio as a pet, a toy, a prop." Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 35%
| Mona Lisa Smile (2003) | "
Considered less as a piece of entertainment and more as an argument constructed to further a feminist agenda, the film is hugely impressive." Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 63%
| Love Actually (2003) | "
There's simply too much here to digest." Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 36%
| Sylvia (2003) | "
Not the last word on the subject by any means, but it is a solid entry into the canon that sensibly resists beatification or crucifixion of the Ariel poet." Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Cold Mountain (2003) | "
Law and Kidman are the stars, but it's the secondary characters that the audience will connect with and remember, especially Ruby." Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
— | N/A | SuperTex (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 5, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Kitchen Stories (2004) | "
Hamer is gifted with both a sly wit and a rich visual vocabulary." Posted Oct 22, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| My Life Without Me (2003) | "
Polley wipes herself of all intelligence and beauty for the role, and almost all emotion; her lack of affect is both frustrating and somehow fitting." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Bus 174 (2003) | "
While the hostage-taking story alone is compelling drama, Brazilian documentarian José Padilha pushes the story further, making a compelling case that the incident was an inevitable result of a city that treats street kids as vermin." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) | "
As muted and still as a Vermeer painting, Girl With a Pearl Earring has atmosphere to burn and a near-total action vacuum." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| Anything Else (2003) | "
Ricci is perfectly cast, and seems to relish her character's blend of cruelty and cluelessness." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 12%
| Cold Creek Manor (2003) | "
Despite the film's predictability, there's something in the film that makes you want to root for the bad guy." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 42%
| The Fighting Temptations (2003) | "
This film would have been better with a lot more gospel and a lot less Gooding." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Veronica Guerin (2003) | "
Journalists don't usually get much respect at the movies, but Veronica Guerin is successful in its straight-up retelling of the true story of a journalist who turned into a modern-day martyr." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Girlhood (2003) | "
A compelling and ultimately positive portrait of teenagers." Posted Sep 24, 2003 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Walking on Water (2002) |
Click here to read article Posted Aug 19, 2003 |
— | Fresh 78%
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Aug 5, 2003 |
— | Rotten 59%
| Down With Love (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 8, 2003 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Swing (2002) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 8, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 40%
| Rugrats Go Wild (2003) | "
As a Rugrats neophyte, I found it hard to understand what makes them so beloved: their voices are shrill and charmless, and so much of the humour springs from grating babytalk." Posted Jul 8, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| N/A | The Favourite Game (2003) | "
Like song lyrics that look clunky when written on the page, lines from the book die a thousand deaths when they come out of the mouths of the actors." Posted May 2, 2003 |
— | N/A | The Fourth Angel (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 26, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 34%
| What a Girl Wants (2003) | "
Gordon and Co. slobber all over themselves at how quaint and wonderful the British are, producing an effect that is strongly, cheesily American." Posted Apr 20, 2003 |
— | Rotten 42%
| The Core (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 20, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 14%
| View from the Top (2003) | "
It would be almost likeable if it weren't for the contradictions that rip the guts out of the set-up." Posted Mar 25, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 24%
| Till Human Voices Wake Us (2003) | "
A turgid, pretentious piece of work that may have played well on the page, but is too heavy and slow-moving to work on the big screen." Posted Mar 25, 2003 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 62%
| Ayurveda: The Art of Being (2001) | "
Like all infomercials, Ayurveda: Art of Being is heavy on testimonials and light on statistics." Posted Mar 25, 2003 |
— | Rotten 20%
| Expecting (2002) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 25, 2003 |
— | Rotten 47%
| Final Destination 2 (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 25, 2003 |
— | Rotten 38%
| Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 25, 2003 |
— | N/A | Monsieur Batignole (2002) |
Click here to read article Posted Jan 22, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 25%
| A Guy Thing (2003) | "
The film is completely predictable, yet two questions remain: why would Becky want to hook up with a loser like Paul, and what is the talented Stiles doing in this movie?" Posted Jan 20, 2003 |
— | Rotten 39%
| Sex: The Annabel Chong Story (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Jan 6, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 81%
| The Hours (2002) | "
A potent illustration of the profound impact words and ideas can have, even across decades and disparate milieux." Posted Jan 6, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| Evelyn (2002) | "
The story is naturally poignant, but first-time screenwriter Paul Pender overloads it with sugary bits of business." Posted Jan 6, 2003 |
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