ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jonathan Rosenbaum

WORST REVIEWED FILMS

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0/4	" The value of [Farmer's] dream and its potential for destruction are irrelevant. Refusing to accept defeat is all that matters -- at least if you're the designated good guy." -- Chicago Reader Posted Feb 23, 2007	The Astronaut Farmer (2007)	58%
0/4	" In a fun house like this the elaborate tortures seem to leave behind the real world of pain and suffering for the realm of slapstick; they're the kind of horrors that make you scream and laugh at the same time." -- Chicago Reader Posted Dec 10, 2005	Saw II (2005)	36%
0/4	" The preceding parts are so literal minded, as both puritanical and pornographic illustrations of an obnoxious male fantasy, that they strike me as alternately absurd and hypocritical." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 24, 2005	Samaritan Girl (2004)	43%
0/4	" They've hit a fatal snag. The feature they selected happens to be a pretty good one -- certainly much better than Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie by just about any criterion one could think of." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000	Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)	73%
1/4	" 13 (Tzameti) might seem allegorical, but it's too cynically concerned with what works as entertainment to offer larger truths about human existence." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 8, 2006	13 Tzameti (2006)	84%
1/4	" *One form of low-rent showbiz Allen depicts in Scoop is Fleet Street journalism, but it's depicted with none of the witty rancor or intelligence of Evelyn Waugh's 1937 Scoop." -- Chicago Reader* Posted Jul 28, 2006	Scoop (2006)	38%
1/4	" *It's a fitfully engaging romance, it's just not Pride and Prejudice." -- Chicago Reader* Posted Dec 17, 2005	Pride and Prejudice (2005)	85%
1/4	" The audience is clearly expected to enjoy the bloodbath even while it disapproves." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 24, 2005	Dear Wendy (2005)	37%
1/4	" A film about a junkie rock musician, played by Michael Pitt at his most narcissistic, doing nothing in particular for the better part of 97 minutes isn't my idea of either a good time or a serious endeavor." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 13, 2005	Last Days (2005)	60%
1/4	" The studio must have reasoned that Jolie and Brad Pitt are movie stars, so anything they do would be seen as fun and attractive -- and what could be more fun and attractive than their trying to kill each other and just about everybody else in the movie?" -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 11, 2005	Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)	58%
1/4	" To boost this movie's rating to 'worth seeing' would make me feel like a publicist or simply a dope." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 13, 2005	Monster-in-Law (2005)	16%
1/4	" The movie's sentiment is nothing new for the Farrelly brothers, but its complacency certainly is." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 23, 2005	Fever Pitch (2005)	63%
1/4	" I couldn't buy that two supposedly sophisticated theater people could be so simpleminded about what defines comedy and tragedy. I also couldn't believe in most of the characters, including either version of Melinda." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 25, 2005	Melinda and Melinda (2005)	52%
1/4	" It clearly hasn't occurred to anyone to try to say something new about these issues; instead we're reassured that we're in known territory." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 17, 2004	Silver City (2004)	48%
1/4	" Von Trotta, who's obviously less personally invested in her story, seems more than a little calculating in her efforts to wring tears." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 27, 2004	Rosenstrasse (2004)	57%
1/4	" If this is history demystified, give me myth." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 10, 2004	King Arthur (2004)	31%
1/4	" An exceptionally stupid movie." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 4, 2004	The Day After Tomorrow (2004)	45%
1/4	" In a way it functions as the mental, emotional, and aesthetic equivalent of junk food; two hours after you see it, you're hungry again, even though your brain has gotten fatter." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 8, 2004	Super Size Me (2004)	93%
1/4	" The plot certainly has possibilities, but far too many of them are botched by writer-director David Koepp, who's a better writer than director." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 16, 2004	Secret Window (2004)	47%
1/4	" We aren't meant to understand the story fully until the film's closing minutes, so the shocks and suggestions come in a muddled context." -- Chicago Reader Posted Dec 27, 2004	A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003)	87%
1/4	" I didn't laugh once." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 27, 2003	Anything Else (2003)	41%
1/4	" So formally and stylistically aggressive that this aspect overpowers what it has to say, which isn't much." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 14, 2003	Irreversible (2003)	56%
1/4	" A terrible movie." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 24, 2003	Super Sucker (2003)	29%
1/4	" [Soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence, and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness." -- Chicago Reader Posted Nov 29, 2002	Solaris (2002)	64%
1/4	" A clunky ribbing of the movie industry." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 23, 2001	America's Sweethearts (2001)	31%
1/4	" If I'd been interested in this movie's acrimonious characters I might have appreciated the actors' performances more." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 11, 2001	The King is Alive (2001)	60%
1/4	" This stupid and demeaning fantasy about the shooting of F.W. Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu is a piece of postmodernist kitsch whose only redeeming quality is an enjoyably over-the-top, eye-rolling performance by Willem Dafoe." -- Chicago Reader Posted Feb 7, 2001	Shadow of the Vampire (2000)	82%
1/4	" Reflects our wish to redeem ourselves through sacrifice. But that entails more than briefly nodding to our flaws, magnifying what we like best about our past, and waving it around, hoping the euphoria will resolve any contradictions." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Patriot (2000)	62%
1/4	" What�s the difference between artistry and bravado? This isn�t a question I generally feel inclined to ask, but I�m compelled by the work of Werner Herzog, who scrambles the two until it�s difficult to tell which is which." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000	My Best Fiend (1999)	78%
1/4	" Unless one counts a few running gibes against lawyers that can easily be imagined coming from Grisham, Altman basically chooses to treat this hackneyed story straight." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Gingerbread Man (1998)	59%
1/4	" *Some reviewers have applauded Out of Sight* for its nuances of character, but I and others don't see any characters at all.*" -- Chicago Reader* Posted Jan 1, 2000	Out of Sight (1998)	92%
1/4	" For all the care and thoughtfulness that follow in the story, I never could shake the impression that all I was watching was every other war film Spielberg had ever seen." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	94%
1/4	" Breakdown has plenty of deft action sequences, and what they add up to is nifty garbage disposal, with all of us -- characters, filmmakers, viewers -- ultimately spiraling down the same drain." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000	Breakdown (1997)	78%
1/4	" If Treat Williams were the Phantom and Billy Zane the capitalist villain would any significant nuances be lost?" -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Phantom (1996)	43%
1/4	" Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, and Cuba Gooding Jr. are salesmen, and we're consumers, buying emotional truth. That's a brave message for a commercial film to have. Too bad it's unintentional." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 1, 2000	Jerry Maguire (1996)	83%

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