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Critics / Christine James
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CHRISTINE JAMES

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Favorites: V for Vendetta, Shaun of the Dead, Army of Darkness, Spinal Tap, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Career Girls, Station Agent, Magnolia, Napoleon Dynamite, Time Bandits

Publications: Boxoffice Magazine

Total Reviews: 239

Location: Los Angeles

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Rotten
2.5/5

Fresh
60%

Sabrina (1995)

" Ugly-duckling-into-swan stories are fun, but the lead characters here lack the charisma to make this romantic comedy sufficiently believable or engaging."

Posted Oct 18, 2008

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
75%

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

" Impressively free of black-and-white characterizations."

Posted Jul 8, 2006

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
36%

The Lake House (2006)

" Who knows -- perhaps it's not a glitch in the fourth dimension that Kate and Alex must traverse, but rather just some bad editing."

Posted Jun 24, 2006

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
12%

An American Haunting (2006)

" An American Haunting utterly stultifies the thrilling Bell Witch legend on which the film is based; the most disturbing ghost here is the wraith of opportunity lost."

Posted Jun 3, 2006

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
58%

Kinky Boots (2006)

" The story's beats and developments are a little too familiar, though quirky wit and a genuine warmth make getting from one to the next a pleasure."

Posted Apr 28, 2006

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
83%

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

" Writer-director Doug Atchison dishes out tough love with words like ratiocinate, synecdoche, and one that 'begins with an x' and only gets worse from there, but he pulls his punches when it comes to the more emotionally resonant issues faced by Akeelah."

Posted Apr 28, 2006

Fresh
4.5/5

Fresh
73%

V For Vendetta (2005)

" It all unfolds to an apex of the triumph of the best of humanity that could even change the real world."

Posted Mar 23, 2006

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
6%

Big Momma's House 2 (2006)

" Martin Lawrence continues to run around in a fatsuit impersonating a sassy obese grandma in order to take down criminals and slaver over beautiful women."

Posted Mar 4, 2006

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
32%

Tamara (2006)

" By now, we all know what you did last summer and have had our ticket punched at our final destination. And nerdy girls have been turning hot and wreaking revenge on their nemeses at least since ZZ Top's heyday."

Posted Feb 17, 2006

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
9%

When a Stranger Calls (2006)

" Just in case there was anyone out there who didn't already know the payoff revelation, the commercial considerately spells it out, thus saving those viewers who like suspense for their $7.50 their ticket money."

Posted Feb 11, 2006

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
73%

Nanny McPhee (2006)

" A fugly Mary Poppins meets Nanny 911 in this family comedy whose overly familiar elements still go down easily as if with a spoonful of sugar."

Posted Jan 27, 2006

Fresh
3.5/5

Rotten
54%

Last Holiday (2006)

" Admirably avoiding the burlesque fish-out-of-water/makeover movie one might fear, Last Holiday is as joyful and winsome as Georgia turns out to be."

Posted Jan 13, 2006

Fresh
3.5/5

Fresh
88%

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

" Mike Newell does an exceptional job translating the fourth book to the screen, showing a remarkable flair for cutting-edge visuals."

Posted Nov 18, 2005

Fresh
3.5/5

Rotten
57%

Just Like Heaven (2005)

" Clever writing, appealing leads and the one-two comic punch of the hilarious and lovable Heder and Logue make this date-movie Heaven."

Posted Sep 12, 2005

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
38%

Margaret Cho - Assassin (2005)

" While Cho may have charted much of this territory, by now it's comic terrain that's overtraveled and dangerously eroded."

Posted Sep 1, 2005

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
37%

The Brothers Grimm (2005)

" Black comedy, romance, adventure, fantasy and horror all get short shrift, even as they're pitched toward the extreme."

Posted Aug 26, 2005

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
83%

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

" There's not much new behind the gates of the Wonka Factory for viewers who have the trippy Gene Wilder take seared into their memories."

Posted Jul 18, 2005

Fresh
3.5/5

Fresh
73%

War of the Worlds (2005)

" Almost every moment of War of the Worlds is heart-racing, jaw-dropping, knuckle-biting, date-grabbing adrenaline."

Posted Jul 5, 2005

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
25%

Bewitched (2005)

" [An] occasionally amusing but entirely forgettable film."

Posted Jun 24, 2005

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
41%

Kicking and Screaming (2005)

" [Ferrell's] humor is cut off at the knees by sloppy editing, a tedious pace and an underwhelming payoff."

Posted May 13, 2005

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Fresh
60%

SLC Punk! (1999)

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Posted Apr 29, 2005

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
24%

The Amityville Horror (2005)

" There are the inevitable bathtub attacks, taps dripping blood, demons who appear behind you when you're looking in the mirror and an invisible friend who gets mad if you say it doesn't exist."

Posted Apr 18, 2005

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
45%

Constantine (2005)

" A more visceral approach might have upgraded Constantine from what in its present form feels more like a trip to heck and back."

Posted Feb 18, 2005

Fresh
2.5/5

Rotten
13%

Boogeyman (2005)

" Some fascinatingly original twists that play with time and space keep the tension ratcheting up till the ending."

Posted Feb 6, 2005

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
13%

Hide and Seek (2005)

" 'Come out, come out, wherever you are' probably sounds much more menacing in the halls of CAA, where De Niro is no doubt stalking the agent who sold him on this film."

Posted Jan 30, 2005

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
9%

White Noise (2005)

" White Noise generates a number of boo! moments -- the hiss-suffixed, vegetable-throwing kind. But mostly, like its namesake, it just puts you to sleep."

Posted Jan 6, 2005

Rotten
2.5/5

Fresh
66%

Bride and Prejudice (2005)

" It all has the trajectory of every Disney animated film of the '90s featuring a feisty femme."

Posted Nov 16, 2004

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
39%

Birth (2004)

" Birth is entirely misconceived."

Posted Oct 29, 2004

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
31%

The Forgotten (2004)

" Plays less like The Twilight Zone than a Bizarro World Lifetime Channel Movie of the Week."

Posted Sep 24, 2004

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
56%

Ju-On: The Grudge (2004)

" Horror fans will hold a grudge against writer/director Takashi Shimizu for conjuring some of the most frightening wraiths in cinematic history, only to dull their terror with repetition and a convoluted plot."

Posted Jul 23, 2004

Fresh
3.5/5

Fresh
87%

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

" Keeping the docu from feeling like a whine-fest is Hetfield, whose sharp-humored, powerful presence is always magnetic."

Posted Jul 11, 2004

Fresh
3.5/5

Fresh
94%

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

" The exhilaratingly fun, obliquely clever and feverishly crowd-pleasing achievement of director Sam Raimi spins a web that everyone wants to be caught up in."

Posted Jul 4, 2004

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
30%

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

" If director Frank Coraci wanted to rehash Rush Hour 2 and Shanghai Knights, was there any need to drag Jules Verne into it?"

Posted Jun 18, 2004

Rotten
1.5/5

Fresh
61%

The Terminal (2004)

" Tedious, insincere malarkey that wants badly to play on emotions it's not capable of generating itself."

Posted Jun 18, 2004

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
26%

The Stepford Wives (2004)

" There are laughs along the way, but the central Stepford Wife concept is the main running joke, and it's too overly familiar to even be considered satire at this point."

Posted Jun 10, 2004

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
94%

Before Sunset (2004)

" Linklater does an admirable job of keeping things flowing by having his protagonists walk through picture-postcard streets and hop on a boat taxi for some lovely moving travelogue shots to hold interest."

Posted Jun 6, 2004

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
8%

Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of A Sorcerer (2004)

" It will leave true believers deeply disillusioned and everybody else apathetic."

Posted Jun 4, 2004

Rotten
3/5

Fresh
89%

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

" Cuaron tries to touch on a couple dozen of the subplots that so delightfully and leisurely unfold in the book, but here come off like a fast-forwarded highlight reel."

Posted Jun 4, 2004

Fresh
3.5/5

Fresh
89%

Shrek 2 (2004)

" There's a lot more to Shrek 2 than this 'I'm-okay- you're-okay' idealism, namely non-stop jokes that are clever, surreal and good-natured."

Posted May 21, 2004

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
6%

Envy (2004)

" Antics with half-dug pools, earth-movers, cranes and a road trip to the woods with a horse carcass strapped to the car roof ensue. Forever. Or so it seems."

Posted May 2, 2004

Rotten
2.5/5

Fresh
84%

Mean Girls (2004)

" Waters' pacing is off and the revenge never builds a satisfying momentum."

Posted Apr 30, 2004

Rotten
2.5/5

Fresh
64%

13 Going on 30 (2004)

" It's the ultimate extreme makeover ... but the result is another good-looking clone without much individuality or character."

Posted Apr 23, 2004

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
29%

The Punisher (2004)

" For fans of vigilante justice, The Punisher is a guilty pleasure. A very guilty pleasure. We're talking moral, intellectual and judicial culpability here, folks."

Posted Apr 16, 2004

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
50%

Ella Enchanted (2004)

" Ella Enchanted may be a little too enchanted with itself, but it conjures enough magical moments to keep its target audience entranced."

Posted Apr 11, 2004

Fresh
5/5

Fresh
86%

Career Girls (1997)

" Writer/director Mike Leigh has once again assembled an amazing cast to render a spectrum of human emotions beyond the range of most filmmakers' reach."

Posted Apr 9, 2004

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
13%

Against the Ropes (2003)

" Never incites enough of a rooting interest to capitalize on its inherent feel-good triumph-of-the-underdog arc."

Posted Feb 20, 2004

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
13%

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)

" Would that this film were as pulled together as Lola's fabulous outfits."

Posted Feb 20, 2004

Fresh
2.5/5

Fresh
91%

Kitchen Stories (2004)

" A quirky, thoughtful and bittersweet comedy/drama."

Posted Feb 13, 2004

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
84%

The Seagull's Laughter (2001)

" The film rollicks as a witty ensemble character study, but the ending, though cutely bildungsromanic, cannot help but disappoint a little as far as the unfulfilled promise of grand gains and Icelandic mythological magic."

Posted Feb 13, 2004

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Rotten
49%

Disney's The Kid (2000)

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Posted Feb 9, 2004
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