Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| Supercross: The Movie (2005) | "
Mercifully, it's a mad dash to the final finish line." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| Valiant (2005) | "
A valiant effort." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Wild Safari 3D: A South African Adventure (2005) | "
Quite a trip--a seven-story-tall, very much in-your-face, danger-free excursion into the authentic wilds of South Africa." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Bugs! (2003) | "
An extraordinary inspection of a universe rarely invaded by motion picture cameras. You've never been here before." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Hide and Seek (2005) | "
The movie starts out as one thing and suddenly jumps the tracks into something else. Then there's the question of credibility that this abrupt switch invites." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Crash (2005) | "
For a violent film, it is inordinately humane and refreshingly unpredictable." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Junebug (2005) | "
Not since...My Cousin Vinny has there been a more charming class-clash comedy-drama than Junebug." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| Chicken Little (2005) | "
A friendly, if decidedly featherweight, feature." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| A Tale of Two Pizzas (2003) | "
A sweet little film with heart." Posted Oct 22, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Walking on the Sky (2004) | "
A less-than-high-flown affair." Posted Oct 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Steal Me (2007) | "
[Painter's] best achievement is the way she skillfully manipulates her almost-known cast into complicated characters that you can care about." Posted Oct 6, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Lord of War (2005) | "
Amir Mokri's thought-filled camerawork and Zach Staenberg's editing are first-rate and keep the overstuffed plot at least in discernible motion, but, truth to tell, Niccol ... has too much on his mind here and not enough film to tell it." Posted Oct 6, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Melinda and Melinda (2005) | "
Melinda and Melinda, like its title characters, seems to go nowhere in particular." Posted Mar 24, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) | "
A cloying 'family entertainment' filled to the bubbling brim with goody-goody intentions and, somehow, managing to deliver on none of them." Posted Mar 24, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Million Dollar Baby (2004) | "
You might not find a better film all year." Posted Dec 19, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| The Intended (2004) | "
Tropical tripe." Posted Nov 13, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| A Silent Love (2004) | "
Salazar ... pulls the audience over to her corner early on and never lets go of them." Posted Oct 19, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| The Last Shot (2004) | "
Broderick and Baldwin occupy the center ring quite entertainingly, but there's a lot of hysterically funny upstaging from the sidelines." Posted Oct 6, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Ladder 49 (2004) | "
A methodical, step-by-step account of a firefighter's existence, presented in a no-frills, straight-ahead fashion but ultimately taking you no place you've not been before." Posted Oct 6, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| First Daughter (2004) | "
... a perfunctory little picture that doesn't go far beyond sitcom superficiality." Posted Sep 25, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 5%
| Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie (2004) | "
It's a pretty deep dive off the high board in the world of anime, but there's no depth there." Posted Aug 14, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) | "
Laborious and almost studiously old-fashioned biopic" Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Spartan (2004) | "
If Bill Macy shoots blanks, you've got a dud." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Jersey Girl (2004) | "
This is not the hard, cutting-edge Kevin. This is the soft and runny Kevin, trying (a little too hard) to work within the system. It's lame, man." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Gypsy 83 (2001) | "
A road movie where the audience is a little skittish about going there." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 24%
| Stateside (2004) | "
Stateside has some lopsided storytelling techniques, but emotionally it will get you home." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Mean Creek (2004) | "
This affecting and absorbing character study may be the best depiction of alienated youth to wash ashore since River's Edge." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The Butterfly (2003) | "
A delicately etched little character study." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Ella Enchanted (2004) | "
The idea of mixing the modern with the medieval is a dubious Mulligan's stew -- and annoys quickly." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Before Sunset (2004) | "
A late date movie that gives young love a good name. More sequels, please." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| New York Minute (2004) | "
Histrionically speaking, the Olsens couldn't be called twin peaks, but they're getting there." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| The Notebook (2004) | "
It's a vat of sticky sentimentality that demands pretty strenuous swimming." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004) | "
Ten Little Indians is savagely manhandled by five little lizards." Posted Mar 2, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| 50 First Dates (2004) | "
The nagging notion that none of this is funny and much of it is sad dawns early, and that's confirmed when the movie pauses in its manic reprising for sappy sentimentalizing." Posted Feb 17, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Young Adam (2004) | "
Atmosphere is all in Young Adam, pungent and flavorful with deep whiffs of the dock-life dreariness that Eugene O’Neill tapped in Anna Christie." Posted Feb 17, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| The Tracker (2002) | "
An obvious, hot-coal piece of politically correct agitprop." Posted Feb 7, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| My Baby's Daddy (2004) | "
This tedious, toddling material would have scuttled Dr. Spock." Posted Jan 17, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Chasing Liberty (2004) | "
Formula fluff." Posted Jan 10, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Stuck on You (2003) | "
More sticky than slapsticky, but laugh-loaded all the same." Posted Dec 13, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Monsieur Ibrahim (2004) | "
One would have to go back to Christian Bale in 1987's Empire of the Sun to find a male teenager as ripe for major stardom as Pierre Boulanger is in this sensitively etched portrayal." Posted Dec 6, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Hukkle (2002) | "
The picture is so completely detailed and precise in its depiction of pastoral beauty that, if you blink, you might well minimize--or miss--the murder that gradually darkens the story." Posted Dec 6, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| House on a Hill (2003) | "
A very sophisticated and uncommon sensibility is at work." Posted Nov 18, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Good Boy! (2003) | "
First-time director John Hoffman ... betrays a novice touch, shuttling the film between slapstick sequences and sentimental excess." Posted Oct 22, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Marci X (2003) | "
J.A.P. meets rap, but it's not a marriage made in heaven -- (very) far from it, in fact." Posted Aug 30, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| My Boss's Daughter (2002) | "
That's why God invented the dog days of August -- for dogs like this." Posted Aug 30, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| Valentin (2004) | "
A sentimental journey into one's boyhood." Posted Jun 21, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Manito (2003) | "
A mangy little movie that winds up -- surprise! surprise! -- leaving you genuinely moved and sadly bewildered." Posted Jun 14, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Daddy Day Care (2003) | "
The title tells it all, and when you cast Eddie Murphy in that role, you know you've got the attention of the family trade who will have an almost hypocritically high tolerance for raunchy gags." Posted May 13, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Manna From Heaven (2002) | "
There's a calculated stab at 'feel-good' afoot here, but, more often than not, the film just feels tired." Posted Apr 26, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Good Thief (2003) | "
It's the kinkiest cast of the year, and everyone works." Posted Apr 1, 2003 |
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