Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 16%
| Spinning into Butter (2009) | "
Any movie that chooses to open a credits sequence with a Maya Angelou quote and blackface cartoons screams desperation." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 34%
| The Edge of Love (2009) | "
The film is on far less ground when it eventually becomes yet another wartime domestic tale, with Maybury's semi-kicky style draining out slowly until mediocrity settles in." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 24%
| The Caller (2009) | "
Sadly, The Caller, the second feature from director Richard Ledes, doesn't allow its leading men the luxury of their legacies, instead forcing a wan quasi-thriller in the space where a laidback character study should be." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Starting Out in the Evening (2007) | "
Self-contained and silly." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 68%
| Darfur Now (2007) | "
Its 99 minutes could have easily been about 65 if you removed all of the celebrity do-gooder filler." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 37%
| Reservation Road (2007) | "
Such TV-movie style set-ups may have worked better in the original novel, but on the silver screen play as an eye-rolling chore." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| Across the Universe (2007) | "
Taymor's signatures are visible throughout, but she is clearly trying hard to gussy up a screenplay that plays more like The Wonder Years without the cultural insight." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 97%
| The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) | "
The subtitle of the film is actually an unneeded addition since what the film highlights with piercing exactitude are the lengths grown men won't go to in the long run to prove themselves." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| Becoming Jane (2007) | "
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this movie throws like a girl." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 29, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 91%
| Hairspray (2007) | "
In doing some constructive nip/tuck and staging the musical numbers in splashy old-musical style, Shankman has put some of the bang back into the genre." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 15, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 53%
| Introducing The Dwights (2007) | "
Shrieking like a banshee has unfortunately become Brenda Blethyn's stock in trade ever since her remarkable breakout performance in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 1, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 74%
| Lady Chatterley (2006) | "
A turgid, droopy bore." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 65%
| Broken English (2007) | "
Basically a hipster's pastiche of every chick flick you've ever seen except with expert breeding, but it doesn't completely erase the feeling of déjà vu." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 54%
| Charlie Bartlett (2007) | "
A feeble entry into the teen-movie lexicon." — Slant Magazine Posted May 23, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| You Kill Me (2007) | "
Even when he's worked with escalated budgets, John Dahl has retained his playful noir side." — Slant Magazine Posted May 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007) | "
A notable addition to highly under-populated field of documentaries about the inner mechanics of putting on a great big show." — Slant Magazine Posted May 2, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 69%
| Everything's Gone Green (2007) | "
Everything's Gone Green just barely hangs there in that low-watt Canadian film world deadpan." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 5, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| Stephanie Daley (2007) | "
Tells a distinctly (sometimes wrenching) feminine tale without making it only relative to Oprah watchers and talk-show bingers." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 30, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Rotten 44%
| Fay Grim (2007) | "
Hartley miraculously manages to make a grandly entertaining (and relevant) movie that never seems as if it's being too cloying." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 19, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 27%
| The Hawk Is Dying (2007) | "
It's awfully hard to review a movie called The Hawk is Dying without avoiding bird synonyms and metaphors." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 66%
| Miss Potter (2006) | "
Zellweger's face has utterly frozen into a human version of a scrunchie, and appears as if it will shatter into 1,000 pieces if an honest smile were to break out." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 26, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 87%
| Notes on a Scandal (2006) | "
If only the movie's early momentum were kept intact." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 26, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 74%
| The Painted Veil (2006) | "
The Painted Veil is more or less from the school of motion picture that Pauline Kael used to say "reeks of quality."" — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| The History Boys (2006) | "
The heavy lifting is left mainly to the performers, who virtually all make the grade. It's the director that could use a little detention." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| For Your Consideration (2006) | "
This overcrowded and under-funny assault on Hollywood and the Academy Awards is the latest in Guest's comedy factory of diminishing returns, and there is very little here you haven't seen before." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 25, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 45%
| Bobby (2006) | "
The movie has no real story to speak of, just a series of barely connected vignettes over the 24-hour period before RFK's demise, only some of which have anything to do with the ever-changing political climate of the early 1960s." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2006 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 48%
| Driving Lessons (2006) | "
Driving Lessons is the type of movie that makes you want to single-handedly dismantle the British film industry." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Copying Beethoven (2006) | "
Will there ever be a decent movie made about any part of Ludwig van Beethoven's life?" — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 25, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 75%
| Sherrybaby (2006) | "
Sherrybaby is never really convincing outside of Gyllenhaal's portrayal." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 23, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 73%
| Conversation(s) with Other Women (2006) | "
It's hard to think of a recent movie that nails the circular games of adults trying to get laid and then talking their way out of it." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 14, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| Lonesome Jim (2006) | "
Another product of the woefully inadequate InDigEnt company, who have almost never turned out an agreeable movie, Lonesome Jim feels as if it's from an earlier time and not in a good way." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 1, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 48%
| Rent (2005) | "
One would have to be made of stone not to respond to at least something in this vivid score, and it sounds marvelous." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 85%
| Pride and Prejudice (2005) | "
Writer Deborah Moggach's adaptation is sleek but lacks the judiciousness Emma Thompson brought to her terrific screenplay for Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 31, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 75%
| In Her Shoes (2005) | "
MacLaine's are the only shoes anyone could ever truly want to be in here.
" — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 2, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) | "
A rather schizo piece of filmmaking that is too busy to ever be dull, but the only Prize in the foreseen future for it might be the boob tube.
" — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 23, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 63%
| Proof (2005) | "
Just as he kept Shakespeare in Love years ago from leaping into greatness with his banal direction, Madden similarly keeps things stately and sleepy here." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2005 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 68%
| The Edukators (2005) | "
A well-meaning but direly protracted German/Austrian trifle." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Memories of Murder (2003) | "
For a film about women getting brutally attacked and dispatched, the movie has no sense of urgency or underlying dread." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2005 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 97%
| Blood Simple (1984) |
Click here to read article — Matinee Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| The Jimmy Show (2002) | "
It may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie’s various victimized audience members after a while, but it also happens to be the movie’s most admirable quality" — Premiere Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Empire (2002) | "
directed in a flashy, empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name" — Premiere Magazine Posted Dec 6, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Dead or Alive: Final (2002) | "
The film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future Quentin Tarantino picture" — Premiere Magazine Posted Dec 3, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) | "
Even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director, it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment" — Matinee Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| Spider-Man (2002) | "
All the dough in the world doesn't disguise hollow, simplistic storytelling" — Matinee Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Saturday Night Fever (1977) | "
it’s one of the best films ever made about disaffected youth and the pains of discovering your place in society" — Matinee Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 25, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002) | "
Oft-described as the antidote to American Pie-type sex comedies, it actually has a bundle in common with them, as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough" — Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 25, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) | "
This is the kind of woeful trash heap where you have to say that the best thing about it is Matthew Lillard" — Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2002 |
Rotten D-
| Rotten 37%
| Sweet Home Alabama (2002) | "
Here is a movie that asks us to adore a miserable young woman who wrecks lives, treats people like discarded Biore strips and embodies the absolute worst side of metropolitan arrogance" — Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 8, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Murder by Numbers (2002) | "
Bullock’s complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film" — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Enigma (2002) | "
a History Channel pageant masquerading as a full-blooded film" — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
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