Rotten 2.5/4
| N/A | Two Brothers and Two Others (2002) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 8, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Riding Giants (2004) | "
Magnificent if overlong." Posted Jul 9, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 49%
| America's Heart and Soul (2004) | "
Watching this film from veteran commercial director and cinematographer Louis Schwartzberg is like being subjected to an endless ad for Coke or insurance." Posted Jul 2, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 7%
| Kaena: The Prophecy (2004) | "
The film's plot, themes and dialogue are markedly less inspired and original than its imagery." Posted Jun 25, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 78%
| Two Brothers (2004) | "
You don't have to be a cat-lover to fall in love with the cuddly young tigers who star in Two Brother." Posted Jun 25, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 61%
| The Terminal (2004) | "
A gentle alternative to noisy kid-oriented action flicks, raucous comedies and the agitprop of Fahrenheit 9/11." Posted Jun 18, 2004 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 21%
| Adored - Diary of a Porn Star (2004) | "
Not only is Adored amateurish and mawkish even by the standards of American 'gaysploitation' cinema, it's weirdly shy about showing nudity and sex." Posted May 28, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 22%
| Raising Helen (2004) | "
Can't decide whether it's a romance, a fish-out- of-water flick, a teen-parent conflict story, or a tale of sibling rivalry and reconciliation, and therefore fails at each." Posted May 28, 2004 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 16%
| Twist (2004) | "
More tedious than affecting, the film feels like an excuse for reproducing more of the kind of kinky imagery notoriously employed by fashion photographer Steven Meisel in his creepy pedophile advertisements for Calvin Klein." Posted May 21, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 44%
| Love Me If You Dare (2004) | "
Slick but painfully precious, it strains to be darkly romantic but is bereft of genuine feeling." Posted May 21, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 55%
| Troy (2004) | "
The lackluster ensemble hired by the director is overwhelmed by the generally impressive sets and crowd scenes (aided by computer-generated images), by the task of playing epic heroes and by David Benioff's rambling, tone-deaf screenplay." Posted May 14, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 33%
| Breakin' All the Rules (2004) | "
For the most part, Breakin' All the Rules feels like a Richard (Love Actually) Curtis film but without the inventiveness and wit." Posted May 14, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 59%
| Valentin (2004) | "
A sweet, often poignant little film." Posted May 7, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 6%
| Envy (2004) | "
An embarrassingly unfunny black comedy." Posted Apr 30, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 64%
| 13 Going on 30 (2004) | "
It's a surprisingly charming and fresh comedy that only becomes painfully saccharine in its last 20 minutes." Posted Apr 23, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 29%
| The Punisher (2004) | "
Travolta is terrific as a bad guy, making Saint almost sympathetic. His co-stars however, flounder in a sea of bad lines, with poor Romijn-Stamos getting stuck with the worst." Posted Apr 15, 2004 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 4%
| The Whole Ten Yards (2004) | "
A dumb, pointless sequel." Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 55%
| The Girl Next Door (2004) | "
Though shamelessly derivative and amoral, The Girl Next Door is nevertheless funnier and smarter than most of the pathetic dreck aimed at the nation's teens." Posted Apr 8, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 81%
| Hellboy (2004) | "
Surprisingly enjoyable." Posted Apr 2, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 24%
| Walking Tall (2004) | "
Exciting stuff in its primitive, predictable way." Posted Apr 2, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 91%
| Shattered Glass (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 27, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Never Die Alone (2004) | "
A violent, would-be film noir that strains with limited success for tragic resonance and gritty authenticity." Posted Mar 26, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 36%
| Games People Play: New York (2004) | "
Its thrills are too cheap to be worth a $10 movie ticket." Posted Mar 18, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 63%
| Starsky & Hutch (2004) | "
Probably the most enjoyable Hollywood update of a decades-old TV series since the first Brady Bunch movie." Posted Mar 5, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Risk/Reward (2004) | "
A quietly compelling documentary that is refreshing in both form and content." Posted Feb 27, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| Havana Nights (2004) | "
Becomes laugh-out-loud awful, with dreadful, lame lines delivered painfully badly -- as if a different screenwriter and director had taken over for the movie's final act." Posted Feb 27, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| The Passion of the Christ (2004) | "
Mel Gibson's Passion, though well-acted, technically impressive and initially moving, is for the most part not beautiful and certainly not ennobling." Posted Feb 24, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 28%
| Teknolust (2002) | "
Fails as entertainment, being so ineptly directed and written it often has the feel of a high school production by kids with more money and ambition than talent." Posted Feb 20, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 46%
| Eurotrip (2004) | "
A lazy and uninspired knock-off of the hilarious 2002 movie Road Trip." Posted Feb 20, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 94%
| After the Life (2002) | "
The fine performances by Blanc and Melki give Belvaux' whole clever undertaking some needed weight." Posted Feb 13, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 96%
| Osama (2003) | "
That it is such a powerful and indeed beautiful film is simply extraordinary." Posted Feb 6, 2004 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 61%
| The Dreamers (2004) | "
A kind of art-house Showgirls -- which actually exceeds Showgirls in its self-indulgence, shallowness and sheer stupidity." Posted Feb 6, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 61%
| An Amazing Couple (2002) | "
For the most part it's either clunky (as when Alain speaks directly to the camera) or shrill." Posted Feb 6, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | On the Run (1998) |
Click here to read article Posted Jan 31, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 73%
| On the Run (2002) | "
An enjoyably spare and fast- moving French thriller." Posted Jan 29, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Touching the Void (2004) | "
One of the best climbing movies ever made, doing justice to a sport that has not been well served by the cinema." Posted Jan 22, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| Crimson Gold (2004) | "
It offers a rare glimpse into the lives of the Iranian wealthy. And it does so in the service of a surprisingly bleak, radically class-conscious vision of Iranian life." Posted Jan 16, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 26%
| Along Came Polly (2004) | "
Recycles gags from various, more successful gross-out and romantic comedies, but without any zest or imagination." Posted Jan 16, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 27%
| Paycheck (2003) | "
Unlike Woo's Face/Off or Broken Arrow, there are no stunts, special effects or kinetic moments in Paycheck that really blow you away." Posted Dec 25, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 98%
| The Fog of War (2003) | "
Despite its more tendentious moments and sometimes irritating slickness, Fog of War is every bit as fascinating and unnerving as its subject." Posted Dec 19, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 35%
| Mona Lisa Smile (2003) | "
Sanctimonious, relentlessly predictable and willfully ignorant of the period it's set in." Posted Dec 19, 2003 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) | "
It would be hard to overpraise Johansson -- who could hardly look more perfect for the part -- for her extraordinary ability to convey so much emotion with so few words." Posted Dec 12, 2003 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 20%
| Honey (2003) | "
Its by-the- numbers plot is depressingly familiar, and each line of dialogue is so predictable that the script could have been generated by a computer." Posted Dec 5, 2003 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 11%
| Timeline (2003) | "
This is not just a 'B-movie' -- it's a B-movie that fails to entertain on any level." Posted Nov 26, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 63%
| Love Actually (2003) | "
Slick but uneven romantic comedy." Posted Nov 7, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 41%
| The Human Stain (2003) | "
A compelling, sexy and often moving film." Posted Oct 31, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Scary Movie 3 (2003) | "
Mediocre spoof." Posted Oct 24, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Singing Detective (2003) | "
It is worth catching The Singing Detective to see the brilliant Robert Downey Jr. in another extraordinary performance." Posted Oct 23, 2003 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 54%
| Veronica Guerin (2003) | "
Shamelessly schmaltzy biopic." Posted Oct 17, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| Mystic River (2003) | "
A haunting, ambitious but ultimately flawed film that treads some of the same somber moral territory director Clint Eastwood explored in Unforgiven." Posted Oct 3, 2003 |
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