Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Fantasia 2000 (1999) | "
The rest of these animated sequences depend on gimmickry, cuteness, or facile ideology." Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Emperor's New Groove (2000) | "
Ingenious action sequences driven by surprisingly little plot lead to a climax full of the transmogrification animation was invented for." Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Tarzan (1999) | "
The stylized physiques and movements of the characters in this exciting animated musical-romance-adventure are at once realist and fantastic." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| The Little Vampire (1999) | "
Vampire cows provide comic relief and many of the scares in this respectfully dark yet optimistic story about a lonely child who befriends a vampire." Posted Oct 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Dracula 2000 (2000) | "
Mary, a descendant of the prototypical vampire slayer, works at a Virgin megastore in New Orleans, and the gratuitous use of the city during Mardi Gras is the least of this movie's unoriginal sins." Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 17%
| The Queen of the Damned (2002) | "
Michael Rymer stages high-tech sequences combining gore, romance, and gothy music, and he has enough conviction to make what could have been very silly strangely provocative." Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Mortal Kombat - Annihilation (1997) | "
The most stimulating, satisfying aspect of this action fantasy is the theme music." Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| 'Til There Was You (1997) | "
With its clotted script, art direction that's all splash and no style, and dialogue that's too nakedly calculated to facilitate identification), this tedious and confused movie points several characters in obvious directions." Posted Jul 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| The Shadow Conspiracy (1996) | "
Bland, interminable chase scenes take up so much of the story -- the hackneyed plot doesn't need much exposition -- that the sheer repetitiveness begins to amaze you." Posted Jul 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 8%
| Knock Off (1998) | "
Though the jokey lines seem out of place, the somber tone of this 1998 action movie makes the political subtext more sincere and less grandiose than usual." Posted Jul 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 18%
| Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) | "
Gently humorous and moving." Posted Jul 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| B.A.P.S. (1997) | "
t's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them." Posted Jul 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| Holy Man (1998) | "
It may not be earthshaking, but this calmly competent feel-good movie shows that a little sincerity can go a long way." Posted Jul 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 14%
| Vegas Vacation (1997) | "
The subplots involving D'Angelo and Newton and Ethan Embry -- the Griswolds' son, who can't stop winning -- have their charms." Posted Jul 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Bride of the Wind (2001) | "
Alma Mahler is flirting again." Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Down to You (2000) | "
[A] relentlessly adolescent romantic comedy." Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Enemy of the State (1998) | "
[Its] spirited action is balanced by an almost contemplative attitude toward surveillance phobias and the movie cliches they've spawned." Posted Mar 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Bats (1999) | "
This bad-scientist movie about bats that attack humans and the humans who track them -- Texas sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and zoologist Dina Meyer -- is played straight, though it wasn't intended to be taken that way." Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) | "
The draggy narrative of this 1997 comedy is tough to sit through -- there are even several overproduced musical numbers -- but it does have an intriguing subversive element that I don't want to give away." Posted Feb 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Rush Hour (1998) | "
The contrast between Tucker's motormouth and Chan's man of few words should be funnier, but the plot -- which is cliched without quite becoming self-reflexive -- and the uneven pace dampen most of their moments." Posted Oct 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) | "
Footage shot from over their shoulders reveals a sea of faces out of which individuals quickly emerge, as the comedians -- especially emcee Harvey -- enthrall and provoke audience members." Posted Sep 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Bringing Out the Dead (1999) | "
Its hard-to-pin-down tone is frighteningly original -- simultaneously world-weary and adolescent with an aura of perpetual anxiety, as if the characters and filmmakers were in pursuit of a catharsis everyone knows will never come." Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Three Kings (1999) | "
A damning yet idealistic satire about the motives behind U.S. foreign policy." Posted Aug 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| A Thousand Acres (1997) | "
The story is just an empty, manipulative compilation of tragedies and misunderstandings." Posted Jul 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Dead Man on Campus (1998) | "
This limp 1998 comedy tries hard to be both irreverent and ethical by suggesting that deceit motivated by self-interest is OK as long as no one gets hurt." Posted Jun 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Big Daddy (1999) | "
This light yet earnest drama starring Adam Sandler deals openly with one of the most insidious elements in popular filmmaking -- the male screenwriter's relationship with his own father." Posted Jun 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| Good Burger (1997) | "
A laboriously slow suburban adventure..." Posted May 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Rugrats in Paris (2000) | "
Nauseating gags suggest the makers of this eclectically animated adventure... know their audience, though all the Godfather references will be thoroughly puzzling to at least half of it." Posted May 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) | "
[An] inspired, self-referential animated musical." Posted May 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| The Rugrats Movie (1998) | "
The dialogue reproduces infantile idiom even as it parodies the baby talk of adults, and a touching, didactic scene involving a baby blanket that's become the object of sibling rivalry may appeal to a broad age range." Posted May 20, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| The Saint (1997) | "
This insufferable romance-adventure includes vague comedy as well as unintentional humor, and its target audience seems to be preadolescents who won't notice the calculated enthusiasm with which it sidesteps sexuality." Posted May 20, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| Dudley Do-Right (1999) | "
The fanciful associations and bad jokes are more often stupid than silly, making all the spectacle and contrived dance numbers seem a colossal waste." Posted May 20, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| Superstar (1999) | "
Contrasting the erotic with the disgusting is usually provocative and can be funny, but not in this underdog comedy." Posted May 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) | "
Only two scenes in this spin-off are worth the time of followers of the TV series." Posted May 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) | "
Scenes with Peter Fonda as a melancholy grandfather -- he couldn't get a cherished engine running in time for his late wife to ride it -- periodically bring the movie screeching to a halt." Posted May 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) | "
The extravagant makeup and special effects are actually unobtrusive because they're demanded by the pleasantly formulaic story, whose conflicts--and broad, innocuous political allegory -- justify the heartwarming resolution." Posted May 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Leave it to Beaver (1997) | "
[The] dead-on imitations of some of the characters from the television series created by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly will seem pointlessly stylized to viewers unfamiliar with the old sitcom." Posted May 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Barney - Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie (1998) | "
With very little modification, this archly innocuous children's musical could have been marketed as a sequel to Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Posted May 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997) | "
With minimalist and universal fantasies as their points of departure, the superheroic deeds evolve only incrementally beyond the realistic -- a deeply satisfying process." Posted May 14, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Stuart Little (1999) | "
[Uses] class and ethnic stereotypes in support of the idea that it's best to be adopted by rich white people." Posted May 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Paulie (1998) | "
Shalhoub gives an impressively nuanced performance in the dangerously cliched role, and Paulie -- a combination of trained parrots, animatronics, and the voice of Mohr -- comes across as a fully developed character." Posted May 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Dark City (1998) | "
A mishmash of iconography lifted from better movies." Posted Apr 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Snatch (2001) | "
Ritchie may be skilled at generating controlled chaos, but his surprise-a-minute strategy ultimately holds no surprises." Posted Apr 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Training Day (2001) | "
If he makes it through the trial by fire -- and a blandly twisting plot with no meaningful revelations or substantial themes -- Hawke will get a promotion, but there's nothing in it for us." Posted Apr 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Cop Land (1997) | "
The movie's no roller-coaster ride, but there isn't a boring moment either." Posted Apr 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 99%
| L.A. Confidential (1997) | "
This movie restores genre elements to a level of potency that's disturbing, satisfying, and rare as hell." Posted Apr 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| The Prince of Egypt (1998) | "
The blend of animation techniques somehow demonstrates mastery modestly, while the special effects are nothing short of magnificent." Posted Mar 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Eve's Bayou (1997) | "
Subplots are woven stealthily into the story, taking the pressure off the central drama, allowing it to be affecting rather than melodramatic, and heightening the atmosphere of the lush Louisiana setting." Posted Mar 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Soul Food (1997) | "
Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone." Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| The Butcher Boy (1997) | "
Director Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe adapted McCabe's novel for this bland 1998 shocker that fails miserably as satire, character study, and anything else it might have aspired to." Posted Mar 11, 2008 |
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