Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 51%
| White Countess (2005) | "
Like being stuck behind an old man on the highway." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 19, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 84%
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) | "
Jones carries Pete's weight of grief but without betraying the character's emotional impenetrability or slack conscience." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2005 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 88%
| Caché (2005) | "
A mind-blowing modern allegory in the exceedingly persuasive guise of an art house thriller." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 8, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | "
As in The Center of the World, July's focus is on people's deformed longing for human connection." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 14, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 84%
| Up and Down (2005) | "
Played so broadly as to be mocking." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| In Good Company (2004) | "
Paul Weitz warms over the cold truth of corporate globalization in this sub-Ephron gloss on the white-middle-class-in-peril." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 31, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 91%
| Kinsey (2004) | "
In a post-November 2nd world, Kinsey is just what we need." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 81%
| The Bourne Supremacy (2004) | "
So oppressively identified with its predecessor’s look, sound, and design that Doug Liman warrants a co-director credit." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 21, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 44%
| The Clearing (2004) | "
The Clearing needed the firm hand of a Hollywood insubordinate, not a sycophant." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 3, 2004 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 31%
| The Intended (2004) | "
If Wolfgang Peterson had any guts, she would have been offered Helen of Troy." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 25, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Breakin' All the Rules (2004) | "
Crudely embraces reverse ethnic stereotypes." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 47%
| Close Your Eyes (2004) | "
For Visnjic, who is sometimes associated with George Clooney because of the ER hand-off, this is his Out of Sight." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 21, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 63%
| The Blonds (2004) | "
Magnanimous yet slapdash, The Blonds records Carri’s effort to satiate her—and her nation’s—parentless identity." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 5, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 55%
| Home on the Range (2004) | "
There is a noticeable stench in the air when the movie makes a reference to Billy Bob Thornton’s performance in Sling Blade. It’s stale ink." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 30, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 18%
| Laws of Attraction (2004) | "
Julianne Moore currently essays maybe the most obnoxious white woman in a Hollywood movie since Erin Brockovich." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 30, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 40%
| The Reckoning (2004) | "
Scottish director Paul McGuigan is fast approaching Baz Luhrmann status in the wasteland of stylistic braggadocio." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 4, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| Taking Lives (2004) | "
There’s a reason why the poster for Taking Lives is better than the movie itself—those lips ain’t made for talking.
" — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2004 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 46%
| Eurotrip (2004) | "
Represents the latest pestilence from DreamWorks's subterranean id-grinder." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| Kangaroo Jack (2003) | "
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has an unparalleled knack for assembling Z-grade talent, particularly when operating in family-fun mode." — Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Chicago (2002) | "
Chicago represents something of an artifact from a dark and dangerous era, reconstructed with lots of zest and little depth." — Premiere Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Devils On The Doorstep (2000) | "
Rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword, Jiang Wen's Devils on the Doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of Joseph Heller or Kurt Vonnegut." — Premiere Magazine Posted Dec 20, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Drumline (2002) | "
The band scenes are downright gladiatorial in their visceral impact and energy...edited with the tightness of a snare drum and photographed with the geometrical majesty of a Busby Berkeley musical." — Premiere Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 2%
| Half Past Dead (2002) | "
[Seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's Razzie." — Premiere Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2002 |
Fresh short
| Fresh 63%
| Gremlins 2 - The New Batch (1990) | "
Deliriously satirizes every facet of contemporary pop culture while also blasting away with a smart and rowdy imagination of its own." — Matinee Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 19, 2002 |
Fresh short
| Fresh 78%
| Gremlins (1984) | "
A ringing reminder of Joe Dante’s unerring wit and cinematic significance." — Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 94%
| Monsoon Wedding (2002) | "
Anglosized Indian director Mira Nair pilfers every lame ceremonial cliché through the ages." — Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 68%
| 10 (1979) |
Click here to read article — Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 8, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 88%
| The Son (2003) | "
Olivier Gourmet's touching performance is an act of meticulousness that you will either catch out of the corner of your eye, or not at all." — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 84%
| My Mother's Smile (2005) | "
Contains about a half-dozen intellectually stimulating moments of discourse but is drowned out by Bellocchio's reluctance to carry through all the way with any of them." — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| The Uncertainty Principle (2002) | "
A porn film without the sex scenes." — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 88%
| Russian Ark (2002) | "
As the voyage progresses towards its tremendous conclusion, it becomes tempting to ignore the subtitles so that your eyes can fully comprehend the suspended opulence." — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Ten (2003) | "
An artistic expression that could easily have been bitter and threatening to the point of impatience, yet comes off as not only fluid and honest, but even a little lovely." — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Kissing Jessica Stein (2002) | "
Westfeldt characterizes Jessica Stein with ample neurosis yet never draws her as a pathetic figure." — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 24, 2002 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 82%
| The Good Girl (2002) | "
Rides a standard trajectory with meager little surprise in the details." — Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 4, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 19%
| National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) | "
The sight gags and poop jokes are mercifully unsafe and unhinged, and many composed with the kind of primordial, dank wit reminiscent of old John Waters." — Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| We Were Soldiers (2002) | "
Instilled with every awful cliché and stereotype available--and even invents anachronistic ways to perpetuate new ones." — Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2002 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 53%
| Storytelling (2002) | "
Solondz hates himself so deeply and single-mindedly that contempt is the only sensibility he is able to express." — Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 37%
| Full Frontal (2002) | "
A Hollywood satire made by people who clearly hate movies but love Hollywood." — Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 92%
| The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) | "
Evans's "brass knuckles in the balls" personality is simply too hollow for any lasting profundity to stick." — Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2002 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 82%
| Road to Perdition (2002) | "
A movie that, while impressed with its own style, is truly ignorant and terrified of itself -- of its own heart, its soul and its moral awareness." — Matinee Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2002 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 33%
| Harvard Man (2002) | "
Heavy with flabby rolls of typical Toback machinations." — Matinee Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 85%
| Lilo & Stitch (2002) | "
The greatest myth on display here is the belief that ostensible impoliteness somehow equals a break from the norm." — Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 21, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 76%
| Tigerland (2000) | "
The corniness and contrivance that has marked Schumacher's movies all along is not suddenly absent here." — Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 83%
| The Bourne Identity (2002) | "
Athletically limber and enthusiastically offbeat, both serious and fun." — Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 76%
| Undercover Brother (2002) | "
Fulfills the mandate for outrageous comic adventurism ignored by the rigidly coordinated Spider-Man and the insipidly plagiaristic Austin Powers." — Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 1, 2002 |
N/A | N/A | 2001 Year-in-Review (2001) | "
"I mean, it was forced, maybe, but still humanistic."" — Matinee Magazine
ESSAY Posted May 30, 2002 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 79%
| The Sleepy Time Gal (2002) | "
Photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic." — Matinee Magazine Posted May 30, 2002 |
Rotten D-
| Rotten 21%
| Enough (2002) | "
Pity the masses of tired and poor women who will flock to Jennifer Lopez's latest loud blast of self-empowerment." — Matinee Magazine Posted May 22, 2002 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 35%
| Bartleby (2002) | "
The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joffé and Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter." — Matinee Magazine Posted May 22, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Diamonds (1999) | "
Inappropriate for audiences of all ages." — Village Voice Posted May 19, 2002 |
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