Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
The sweetest, most sincere romantic comedy to come along in ages, and a luminous love letter to a great American city." — Salon.com Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
Have we learned nothing from The Klumps?" — Salon.com Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 34%
| Pride and Glory (2008) | "
What makes the characters in Pride and Glory real -- and raises the movie above the standard corrupt-cop fare -- is their capacity to live and die in shades of gray." — Salon.com Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) | "
Like the characters it portrays, How to Lose Friends eventually becomes the very thing it mocks, its delectable naughtiness sacrificed to sentiment and audience appeal." — Salon.com Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 20%
| Righteous Kill (2008) | "
Director Jon Avnet generously puts the actors together as often as possible, and the sheer satisfaction of watching Michael Corleone and Travis Bickle spark off each other almost mitigates the utter hokum that permeates every other element of the film." — Salon.com Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| The Women (2008) | "
You go, girls. Preferably as far away as possible." — Salon.com Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Happening (2008) | "
Shyamalan's such an eager recycler, grinding out the same ideas and images again and again. The man who showed such promise less than a decade ago has been leaving a diminishing creative footprint ever since." — Salon.com Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| What Happens in Vegas (2008) | "
You'd think the combination of Diaz, Kutcher and Vegas would be good for at least a little sexy, silly fun. But don't bet on it." — Salon.com Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) | "
doesn't have the brisk economy of the original book, but the animated Horton feels nevertheless close to the sweet, quirky heart of Dr. Seuss." — Salon.com Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Definitely, Maybe (2008) | "
Definitely, Maybe isn't a particularly good movie. It's hard to make either romance or comedy out of relationship wreckage, not to mention career ennui, and the pace is often meandering and sulky." — Salon.com Posted Feb 14, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| 27 Dresses (2008) | "
The biggest disappointment of 27 Dresses is that it inhabits a Harlequin romance New York City, one remarkably short on homosexuals and divorce." — Salon.com Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| The Invasion (2007) | "
Gratuitously violent [and] soullessly brain dead." — Salon.com Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| License To Wed (2007) | "
Despite its fuzzy, getting-to-know-you message, the movie itself offers zero motivation for any of its protagonists." — Salon.com Posted Jul 6, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Baby Boy (2001) | "
[Jody's] lessons on growing up and moving on never ring more than halfhearted and false." — Salon.com Posted Jul 6, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | "
Debut film director Gil Junger may be a TV veteran making a movie for the Clearasil crowd, but he doesn't sacrifice the story to gimmicky camerawork or overzealous pacing." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| 200 Cigarettes (1999) | "
Though it has its moments, 200 Cigarettes fails to make an impression because it doesn't have anything new to say about men, women or even Gloria Vanderbilt jeans." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| American Pie (1999) | "
Some of it does manage to be quite funny; some of it just lies there, all by itself, without even trying to wrap itself around a joke." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 48%
| Any Given Sunday (1999) | "
It's super revved up, high-intensity tedium all right, but tedium nonetheless." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Anywhere But Here (1999) | "
Sarandon is good, but Portman is astonishing." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Big Daddy (1999) | "
The film's jokes, stretched out over 90 minutes, aren't that funny." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Billy Elliot (2000) | "
A surprisingly wise and funny meditation on the nature of what it truly means to be a man." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 50%
| Black Mask (1999) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 31%
| Crazy in Alabama (1999) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 45%
| Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| Dudley Do-Right (1999) | "
In the end, it's neither Dudley Do-Right nor Do-Wrong, but merely Dudley Do-Just-So-So." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 93%
| Election (1999) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Forces of Nature (1999) | "
At the center of every swirling storm is a place of placid inertia, safe and still -- and not very exciting. And it's where Affleck and Bullock spend most of their time, floating amiably but never doing enough to truly connect." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 92%
| Go (1999) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Happy, Texas (1999) | "
...if the world is not exactly aching from a lack of fish-out-of-water criminal capers, Happy, Texas nevertheless pleasingly proves that even a shtick we've seen before can charm when it's done well." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Holy Smoke! (1999) | "
Campion, who co-wrote the script with her sister Anna, appears to have spent so much time and energy creating Ruth that she didn't have anything left over for rest of the characters." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Idle Hands (1999) | "
It's a bad thriller and a bad comedy!" — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Jawbreaker (1998) | "
Jawbreaker may promise a series of gleefully cheap thrills, but in the end all it delivers is a whole lot of bad taste." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 71%
| Limbo (1999) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) | "
We've heard it all before, and usually with a slightly more comprehensible accent." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) | "
Uninspired, recycled!" — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Music of the Heart (1999) | "
Another utterly bland lump of Hollywood crapola." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) | "
The illusion that it's just a bunch of wiseguys making fun of a movie is what prevails. It's a pretty impressive special effect." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Original Gangstas (1996) | "
Where Original Gangstas works is in its understanding that the stars are playing the characters they created 25 years ago as their older selves." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Psycho (1960) | "
All those who still get a chill every time they step into a hotel shower, say aye. That, you see, is the power of Psycho." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 33%
| Psycho (1998) | "
Van Sant clearly knows that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and his own smooth touch is neatly sympathetic with his predecessor's." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Runaway Bride (1999) | "
Roberts and Gere try gamely to look at each other as if there's a scintilla of frisson between them, but often as not they're forced to eschew the drama and go for absurd overacting." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| She's All That (1998) | "
In the process of discovering each other, both Laney and Zack learn that it's as OK to change as it is to stay the same, perhaps even better." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 14%
| Simply Irresistible (1999) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 60%
| SLC Punk! (1999) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) | "
Dark, bitingly funny!" — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Stigmata (1999) | "
A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| Superstar (1999) | "
Superstar may not be the most unnecessary movie of the year, but it's got to rank right up there." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| The Bachelor (1999) | "
The Bachelor doesn't generate enough laughs or sighs to hold together." — Salon.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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