— | Fresh 92%
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Dec 10, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Starship Troopers (1997) | "
Lacks the courage of the book's fascist conclusions." — Salon.com Posted May 29, 2002 |
— | N/A | Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Nov 13, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| I Am Cuba (1964) | "
It still has power to surprise and, occasionally, to enchant." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Feb 21, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| 12 Monkeys (1995) | "
What's remarkable about 12 Monkeys is that, despite its decade-hopping abandon, the film makes a chilling kind of narrative sense." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | "
I assumed that this was what all movies ought to be: treasures for moral and aesthetic contemplation that did not provide all their answers on first contact." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 30%
| Bad Company (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| Bandit Queen (1994) | "
Seema Biswas, who plays the protagonist, conveys a remarkable range of suffering - bleeding, at its extremes, into a kind of pure, white-hot hate that makes the anger of Thelma and Louise look like playground stuff." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Brady Bunch Movie (1995) | "
The sitcom elements are strung together rather than interwoven; there's no sense of movement or development in the film." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 75%
| Burnt by the Sun (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 94%
| Crumb (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 88%
| Death and the Maiden (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Doctor Zhivago (1965) | "
When the bland epics of Sir Richard Attenborough and Roland Joffe are long forgotten, people will still be watching David Lean's work." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 21%
| Event Horizon (1997) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 57%
| Fierce Creatures (1997) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Floundering (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 50%
| French Kiss (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Gattaca (1997) | "
When they sculpted the DNA for the perfect race in Gattaca, somebody left out the gene for self-knowledge." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 94%
| Hamlet (1996) | "
Every little triumph seems to inspire in Branagh some accompanying act of bad taste or judgment." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Independence Day (1996) | "
There's precious little reward in plumbing the world-historical implications of the screenplay." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 14%
| Johnny Mnemonic (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Ladybird, Ladybird (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Legends of the Fall (1994) | "
Zwick seems to have taken Terrence Malick's gorgeous Days of Heaven as his model, but he lacks Malick's sense of geometry, and his aspiration to mythic quality feels more pretentious than heartfelt." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 88%
| Living in Oblivion (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 41%
| Losing Isaiah (1995) | "
Losing Isaiah raises hopes for itself by dealing with a social issue as a disturbing dilemma rather than, in typical Hollywood style, as a heroic cause. But it's unwilling to follow through." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Love & a .45 (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Mars Attacks! (1996) | "
A throwaway piece of pop ephemera, like a '90s Casino Royale, momentarily arresting and soon forgotten." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Martha & Ethel (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 44%
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Free Press Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | N/A | Moving the Mountain (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Murder in the First (1994) | "
It's a sorry excuse for a serious movie." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Nobody's Fool (1994) | "
It's in dealing with Sully's past that Nobody's Fool succumbs to the kind of didactic sentimentality that Hollywood's visions of everyday people and lives so often rely upon." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | N/A | Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Secret of Roan Inish (1995) | "
Without ostentation or self-consciousness, the film immerses you in the spume, fog and glare of the seaside life, with its temporal mysteries and its organic metamorphoses." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Shallow Grave (1995) | "
Loathsome people can make for absorbing entertainment, but after a while you may want to say: not today, thank you." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 48%
| Small Soldiers (1998) | "
Fortunately, it's possible to ignore the morals entirely and simply enjoy the filmmakers' skill at creating carefully contained mayhem in a microcosm." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 35%
| Something to Talk About (1995) | "
Director Lasse Hallstrom glazes the film with too much faux bluegrass music, and the equine fantasy-world of the King Ranch is so enveloping that it suffocates all aspirations to more serious drama." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 60%
| Starship Troopers (1997) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Strange Days (1995) | "
An ambitious but ultimately disappointing attempt to assemble the latest in fringe-culture byproducts ... into a Hollywood package." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 60%
| subUrbia (1997) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 42%
| Tank Girl (1995) | "
She may not be to everyone's taste, but she's certainly refreshing." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| The Fifth Element (1997) | "
As you sit through the interminable two-hours-plus that constitute The Fifth Element -- a colossally stupid, overbearingly pompous new movie by Luc Besson -- you can expect to become acquainted with boredom on the most elemental level." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Flower of My Secret (1996) | "
It slowly unfolds from a narrow satire into a romance that's rich with real-life bitterness." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 30%
| The Net (1995) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 63%
| The Quick and the Dead (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 0%
| The Walking Dead (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 29%
| The War (1994) |
Click here to read article — San Francisco Free Press Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 2/4
| Rotten 11%
| Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) | "
Lightweight fun." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 36%
| Virtuosity (1995) | "
There's a tiredness to its action sequences and a dullness about its plotting that no amount of special-effects legerdemain can hide." — San Francisco Examiner Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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