Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 10%
| Aeon Flux (2005) | "
Breeds plenty of contempt." Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Roll Bounce (2005) | "
An airy, nostalgic celebration of roller disco." Posted Sep 26, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Paradise Now (2005) | "
One viewing will leave you with a clearer understanding about why these desperate men commit these desperate acts." Posted Sep 26, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| Stealth (2005) | "
Stealth flails around with cheesy techno-babble, a lame attempt at an inter-office romance between Lucas and Biel, and a bizarre final act that reeks of desperation." Posted Jul 31, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 26%
| House of Wax (2005) | "
A script that offers few thrills and a slapdash story." Posted May 14, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 21%
| Fat Albert (2004) | "
An uneven effort." Posted Dec 23, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 96%
| Born Into Brothels (2004) | "
Reminds us of the curative power of art in an ugly world." Posted Dec 10, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 9%
| First Daughter (2004) | "
Holmes, who's clearly nearer to 30 than 20, never quite fits into the college milieu." Posted Sep 26, 2004 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 5%
| The Cookout (2004) | "
[A] low-flame comedy." Posted Sep 5, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 19%
| Paparazzi (2004) | "
This clunky revenge thriller seems to have a target audience of Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn and Arnold Schwarzenegger." Posted Sep 5, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 15%
| White Chicks (2004) | "
An army of writers reheat gender-bending slapstick with middling results." Posted Jul 3, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 12%
| New York Minute (2004) | "
After a brisk opening half-hour, New York Minute's promising start devolves into a parade of chase and slapstick bits you've seen a dozen times before." Posted May 7, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 24%
| Walking Tall (2004) | "
The film promises vigilante payback, then delivers it without the kind of underlying moral outrage needed to put it across." Posted Apr 3, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 16%
| The Big Bounce (2004) | "
With a running time clocking in at less than 90 minutes, the movie has a slimmed- down-in-the- editing-room feel; plots points often don't connect." Posted Feb 3, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 19%
| Chasing Liberty (2004) | "
Moore's personality void keeps sucking air out of the picture." Posted Jan 11, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| Tupac: Resurrection (2003) | "
Director Lauren Lazin masterfully stitches together bits and pieces of Shakur's interviews to underline the big, Shakespearean themes -- ambition, violence, redemption -- that seemed to define his life." Posted Nov 14, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 4%
| House of the Dead (2003) | "
Without a joystick, audiences can't relish the cheap thrills the video game offers. It's about as much fun as looking over someone else's shoulder at the arcade." Posted Oct 13, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 8%
| From Justin to Kelly (2003) | "
Fans of the television show may show up for this one, but given that an American Idol sequel has already ended its run, audiences are likely to find it stale." Posted Jun 29, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 40%
| Wrong Turn (2003) | "
A tedious slasher picture with yet another Inbred Monster as its star villain." Posted Jun 8, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| It Runs in the Family (2003) | "
Jesse Wigutow’s mostly flaccid script provides a few memorable showdown scenes between father Kirk and son Michael." Posted Apr 25, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 21%
| Basic (2003) | "
The dizzying plot twists of Basic muddle up a story which ultimately comes off as a shell game of a movie." Posted Apr 7, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 7%
| Boat Trip (2003) | "
Stale slapstick and predictable, raunchy sight gags (usually involving a banana)." Posted Mar 27, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 31%
| The Hunted (2003) | "
William Friedkin’s skilled old hand pushes The Hunted along so briskly that you almost don’t mind the howlers in the script or the expression-starved performance from Benicio Del Toro. Almost, but not quite." Posted Mar 16, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 12%
| National Security (2003) | "
It's all right out of Beverly Hills Cop, without the originality the premise had 20 years ago or Eddie Murphy's grinning manic humor." Posted Jan 19, 2003 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| The Hot Chick (2002) | "
Rob Schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill The Hot Chick, the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian." Posted Dec 16, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 92%
| Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) | "
A worthy tribute documentary that digs up recognition for the musicians who backed up Marvin Gaye, the Temptations and other Motown legends." Posted Oct 29, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 18%
| Trapped (2002) | "
Trapped won't score points for political correctness, but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveness." Posted Sep 22, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Experiment (2002) | "
An often gripping dramatization of a psychological research project about the prison dynamics between guards and convicts." Posted Sep 20, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 15%
| Swimfan (2002) | "
Flat performances and a cumbersome plot keep the flame low on this crude teen potboiler." Posted Sep 13, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 49%
| Undisputed (2002) | "
Walter Hill's pulpy, stylized boxing melodrama Undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity." Posted Aug 25, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| The Country Bears (2002) | "
Functions more as a product than a movie." Posted Aug 11, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 61%
| K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) | "
Bigelow handles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense, and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly." Posted Jul 28, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 48%
| Eight Legged Freaks (2002) | "
B-type dialogue -- dirty jokes, overly emphatic declarations and other ripe lines -- make the movie camp fun." Posted Jul 19, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 9%
| Juwanna Mann (2002) | "
Writer Bradley Allenstein peppers the script with a lot of lame locker-room jokes that appear on the horizon long before they hit the screen." Posted Jun 30, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 92%
| Minority Report (2002) | "
Fairly similar to A.I. -- filled with provocative ideas and technically flawless, but somewhat disjointed." Posted Jun 24, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| Sugar & Spice (2001) | "
A badly executed black comedy for the teen set." Posted Jun 5, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 7%
| The New Guy (2002) | "
For a jaunt into teen exploitation, The New Guy is as aggressively unfunny as they come." Posted May 12, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 48%
| Unfaithful (2002) | "
Adrian Lyne's remake of Chabrol's La Femme Infidele isn't as much an examination of an adulterous affair as it is a commercial for it." Posted May 10, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Changing Lanes (2002) | "
As a meditation on the way sadistic impulses can destroy men, Changing Lanes sails onto the open road and away from the traffic jams." Posted Apr 12, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 52%
| American Chai (2002) | "
The movie is amateurish, but it's a minor treat." Posted Apr 5, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 31%
| All About the Benjamins (2002) | "
Many of Benjamins' elements feel like they’ve been patched in from an episode of Miami Vice." Posted Mar 8, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 22%
| John Q (2002) | "
The mushy finale turns John Q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker." Posted Feb 15, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 3%
| Rollerball (2002) | "
Another reminder that most remakes are accidents waiting to happen." Posted Feb 8, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Big Fat Liar (2002) | "
Giamatti's gift for neurotic mayhem lifts Big Fat Liar out of the realm of factory-produced children's pictures that preach various life lessons." Posted Feb 8, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 76%
| Audition (2001) | "
What it lacks in savage wit, Audition more than makes up for in psychological horror." Posted Dec 23, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Joe Somebody (2001) | "
The movie's choppy, erratic tone is as irritating as its unlikable characters." Posted Dec 21, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Not Another Teen Movie (2001) | "
Unlike Young Frankenstein, Airplane or the first Naked Gun, Not Another Teen Movie fails to stick to a story and carry it through to the end." Posted Dec 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Thirteen Ghosts (2001) | "
Uses state-of-the-art visual effects as a substitute for any kind of a clear story." Posted Oct 28, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Focus (2001) | "
Just too preachy to really register." Posted Oct 12, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 52%
| Rock Star (2001) | "
Wahlberg brings his good-natured playfulness to Rock Star, instilling some charisma and energy into a routine show-business movie." Posted Sep 17, 2001 |
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