Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009) | "
Film buffs and cineastes will find the doc's inside-show biz stories a real treat." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 79%
| Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009) | "
Even casual filmgoers should be intrigued, while film buffs and cineastes will find the doc's inside-show biz stories a real treat." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2008) | "
Director Stephen Kijak's profile of reclusive pop icon Scott Walker is one of the most remarkable music documentaries in ages." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 68%
| Cadillac Records (2008) | "
The problem with the film, mostly, is that it's overstuffed with historical incidents that don't really cohere into a convincing story beyond the usual rise-fall-rebirth stuff." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| Whaledreamers (2008) | "
Scattershot, often beautiful to look at and just as often earnest to the point of self-parody." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| Forever Strong (2008) | "
Gives the word "forgettable" a bad name." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| Fraulein (2008) | "
Easier to admire than actually enjoy." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Greetings from the Shore (2008) | "
Reasonably affecting despite uneven performances and a certain overfondness for familiar stock characters." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 15, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 97%
| The Pool (2008) | "
Chris Smith's low-key coming-of-age film/slice of contemporary Indian life takes forever to get where it's going, which turns out to be pretty much nowhere." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 3, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 39%
| The Rocker (2008) | "
The real problem, of course, is that Fish isn't all that interesting a protagonist." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| Patti Smith - Dream of Life (2008) | "
Insufferable, endearing, pretentiously arty, bracingly direct, humorless, hilarious, oddly distant and strangely touching, but always compulsively watchable -- in other words, a fabulous contradictory mess, much like Smith herself." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 43%
| What We Do Is Secret (2008) | "
A low-budget but stylish recreation of the brief life and times of a pioneering LA punk band, What We Do Is Secret is fast and funny enough to make you overlook the fact that you've seen variants of this story before." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Othello - The Lost Masterpiece (1952) | "
Low-budget but visually stunning." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 14%
| Dudley Do-Right (1999) | "
Why in the wide, wide, world of sports would anybody make a big-budget feature film from a decades-old, animated cartoon parody of Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald movies?" — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 54%
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) | "
Parents can relax: Ron Howard's version of Dr. Seuss' tale of the Christmas-napping Grinch is a smartly stylized hoot." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Feb 5, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| Restaurant (1998) | "
Brody, who has the lean-and-hungry charisma of a skinny young De Niro, turns his potentially cliched, tortured artist character into somebody from whom you'd actually want to buy a drink." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 17, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 62%
| Only the Strong Survive (2003) | "
Most of the music is as fine and fierce as you could want." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2003 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 30%
| Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) | "
A surprisingly likeable farce." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 18, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 43%
| Anger Management (2003) | "
This Adam Sandler/ Jack Nicholson vehicle spends a long 105 minutes spinning a witless sitcom variation on The Game." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 11, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 8%
| Gods and Generals (2003) | "
After about an hour ... the film undergoes a precipitous decline marked by absurdity and Victorian sentiment." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Feb 20, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 8%
| Kangaroo Jack (2003) | "
It's hard not to wonder whether most of the principal actors shouldn't start thinking seriously about switching agents." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 16, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 78%
| Antwone Fisher (2002) | "
The performances are uniformly excellent, first-time director Washington keeps things moving with admirable efficiency." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Dec 20, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 40%
| Maid in Manhattan (2002) | "
If this deeply lame Cinderella story, apparently the result of an unholy tryst between Pretty Woman and Working Girl, had an original idea in its head, that idea would swiftly die of loneliness." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Dec 13, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| I Spy (2002) | "
Nothing about this movie is terribly fresh." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 1, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| The Santa Clause 2 (2002) | "
A reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 31, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 48%
| Jackass: The Movie (2002) | "
Really dumb but occasionally really funny." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 28, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002) | "
Even generally sympathetic adults may eventually find their minds wandering, if only because of the characters' continual, annoying hopping; being vegetables, they have no legs, you see." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 13, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 53%
| The Transporter (2002) | "
Almost everything about the film is unsettling, from the preposterous hairpiece worn by Lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 11, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| Moonlight Mile (2002) | "
Silberling's script is a feast of cornucopian proportions for the talented cast, and the acting is, without exception, world class." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Sep 27, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Crazy As Hell (2002) | "
A psychological thriller that doesn't really hold up if you think about it too much, but is nonetheless highly entertaining in a low-budget, David Lynch-ian way." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 41%
| The Four Feathers (2002) | "
The film's center will not hold." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Sep 19, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 62%
| Blue Crush (2002) | "
Isn't terribly original, but it does have the refreshing virtue of showing people smacked around by tsunami-sized waves that, for a change, are mostly not computer generated." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Aug 16, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| The Country Bears (2002) | "
An unintentionally surreal kid's picture ... in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a VH1 Behind the Music episode." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 25, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| Like Mike (2002) | "
A harmless, if ultimately inane, fantasy-comedy vehicle for youngsta-rapper Lil' Bow Wow." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 3, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 9%
| Juwanna Mann (2002) | "
On its own staggeringly unoriginal terms, this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 20, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 76%
| Undercover Brother (2002) | "
An amiable if inconsistent send-up of and tribute to blaxploitation flicks of the early 1970s." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 30, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 69%
| Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) | "
Think The Lion King redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by Bryan Adams, the world's most generic rock star." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 23, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| Life or Something Like It (2002) | "
An uneasy mix of four-hankie tearjerker and surreal romantic comedy." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 25, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 25%
| The Sweetest Thing (2002) | "
It's hard to overstate just how awful this movie is, despite the efforts of the appealing cast." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 12, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 19%
| National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) | "
While not for every taste, this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the National Lampoon film franchise, too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 5, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 30%
| Very Annie Mary (2001) | "
The cast is uniformly excellent ... but the film itself is merely mildly charming." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 21, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 38%
| 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) | "
A smart and witty romantic farce that mixes sweet and sexy with surprising aplomb." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 1, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 35%
| Super Troopers (2002) | "
A surprisingly funny and much-smarter -than-it- needs-to-be, Animal House-style ensemble comedy." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Feb 15, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| A Walk to Remember (2002) | "
Needless to say, the dramatics that follow are utter hooey." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 25, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Waydowntown (2002) | "
Quirky, original, and often very funny." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 24, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Italian for Beginners (2002) | "
If this is the Danish idea of a good time, prospective tourists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war, perhaps." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 17, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Joe Somebody (2001) | "
Let's face it: 'To thine own self be true' is not exactly late breaking news." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Dec 20, 2001 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 27%
| How High (2001) | "
A hip-hop Cheech and Chong picture crossed with Animal House that's about as cheerfully vulgar as you might expect." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Dec 20, 2001 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| Sidewalks of New York (2001) | "
A charming, low-key ensemble comedy that recalls the films of both John Cassavetes and Woody Allen." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 20, 2001 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| Black Knight (2001) | "
Often painfully unfunny fish-out-of-water saga." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 20, 2001 |
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