Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) | Assured direction, stylish photography, adroit pacing, creative kills, good acting, awesome full-frontal nudity, and a neat whodunit angle. Oodles better than the lackluster original. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2010 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | Perpetually boring and insufferably smug, this uninsightful human-relations piece is mechanically schematic and hampered by two uninteresting lead characters. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 1, 2010 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 94%
| Barry Lyndon (1975) | Never boring but not particularly engaging, it lacks dramatic force and a story and characters we could actually have an emotional stake in. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Stagefright (1987) | Could use more energy and flair, but it's consistently involving and more than a little bit of fun. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 31, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | Rats: Night of Terror (1983) | Relentlessly boring and listless without so much as an iota of suspense or scares that's not even enjoyable on an undemanding trashy level. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 30, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 6%
| Old Dogs (2009) | Travolta and Williams ultra-slum in this asininely-amateurish, sophomorically-scatalogical, just-plain-horrendous so-called comedy that's as funny as two broken legs. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 11%
| Case 39 (2010) | Begins reasonably well but soon succumbs to ludicrousness and unintentional laughs despite Zellweger's usual bravado. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Eyes of a Stranger (1981) | Tewes makes for an appealingly spunky heroine, but the scares are telegraphed and there's a considerable lack of immediacy to the narrative. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Case of the Bloody Iris () | Some decent gore and nudity, but this lackluster, protracted giallo delivers neither suspense nor surprises. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 29, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| N/A | Tell Tale (2009) | Absolutely awful thriller with a boo-hiss script, uninteresting characters, and a camera that never seems to be in the right place. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Spreading Ground (2001) | Surprisingly effective serial-killer tale with a couple of surprises, adroit pacing, and a fine staying-in-character lead performance by Hopper. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 26, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 76%
| Invictus (2009) | The characterizations are superficial, the pacing glacial, and the who-cares story carries not so much as a whisper of vitality. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Messenger (2009) | Foster and Harrelson are superb, and the film starts out quite well, but as a whole it's episodic, cliche-ridden, and dramatically obvious. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Green Lantern - First Flight () | Kinda bland, kinda underwhelming, but also fairly entertaining and colorful. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 22%
| Unforgettable (1996) | The cast is first-rate, but the characters are uninteresting, the whodunit angle obvious thirty minutes in, with a dire lack of genuine suspense and thrills. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | The characters lack definition, the story takes us on a familiar course, and the execution lacks vitality. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 60%
| Power (1986) | What starts out as a fascinating behind-the-scenes expose on political campaigning self-destructs with its dire, square-minded morality play. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Hard Time (1998) | Think of it as a Righteous Kill with half a brain and two superb performances from Reynolds and Durning who enjoy terrific, unforced chemistry. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | The Final Hit (2002) | So loosely scripted and inadequately directed that it's wafer-thin in execution with only a smidgen of decent laughs and charm. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 30%
| Brainscan (1994) | A few intriguing ideas are shoddily developed, and with that and the inept direction, there are neither thrills nor suspense in his wanton sci-fi horror flick. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Deadly Illusion (1987) | Oh, it's pure junk, make no mistake; but thanks to William's surprisingly ace comic performance and good pacing this a perfectly fine time-killer. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | A Taste for Killing (1992) | The underrated Michael Biehn is far classier than this predictable, totally unremarkable crime tale that telegraphs all of its punches. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| Distant Thunder (1988) | The always-excellent Lithgow shines so much brighter than the terrible scripting and co-star Macchio's typical mediocrity. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 31%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | Even though the f/x and stunts are grade-A, this is an overly-mechanical, soulless cinematic endeavor that never stirs the imagination. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Moving Violations (1985) | Gloriously goofy entertainment that's a lot of fun if you're in an undemanding mood. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 60%
| Inferno (1978) | As is usually the case with an Argento film, the overall whole is enervating with fancy lighting and sensationalism trying to make up for coherence and mature storytelling. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Lord of Illusions (1995) | Listless and disjointed, it's bereft of both scares and suspense, with the actors looking as bored as I was. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| The Boogens (1981) | Too protracted and puerile to really score, though the always-welcome Rebecca Balding gives some pluck and spunk to the proceedings. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| N/A | Cross Fire (1989) | Makes 1984's mediocre Missing in Action look like a masterpiece with its lame action-staging, ultra-poor dialogue, bad acting, and who-cares characters. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| Lifeforce (1985) | An outrageously entertaining guilty pleasure that possesses atrocious dialogue and indifferent acting yet also oodles of color and energy. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Married to the Mob (1988) | Not all of it works, and it could've used more energy, but it's very engaging and colorful and filled with inspired performances. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 9, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 20%
| Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) | Like another lame-duck of an attempt at a comedy-chiller, Haunted Honeymoon, there's not a smidgen of either scares or laughs in this cinematic DOA. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| Vision Quest (1985) | Modine is immensely appealing but he and Fiorentino have zero chemistry and the overall structure of the film is both rigid and cliched without much in the way of distinction. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Stunts (1977) | Perfectly entertaining B-movie with good action sequences, a stalwart hero in the person of Forster, and a decent whodunit angle. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 14%
| Armed and Dangerous (1986) | While not exactly laugh-out-loud funny, it's good-naturedly appealing and amusing enough to put it over. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 62%
| Crank High Voltage (2009) | Has some color and wit, but as a whole it's undercooked and not in the least bit exciting. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Train (2009) | Birch is engaging as usual, but the film's another of those bloody-harvesting tales that's more about gore than genuine suspense and is sophomorically predictable. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 48%
| The Lonely Guy (1984) | Disarmingly cute at times, but it's widly uneven, undercooked, and flimsy to the core despite its fine cast. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 5, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | Mortuary (2005) | Despite a hugely winning turn by Dan Byrd, this is one hoary horror flick that's amazingly inept as if it were truly intending to be just that. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | Just Before Dawn (1981) | Leaden pacing and a serious lack of the scares make this negligible in just about every department. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Smile Pretty (2009) | Well-intentioned but rather underwhelming with barely-interesting characters, mediocre acting, and writing that doesn't cut nearly as deep as it would like to think. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 38%
| The City of the Living Dead (1980) | Another run-of-the-mill zombie flick with neither the ingenuity nor the technical prowess to distinguish itself from dozens of its insipid ilk. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 38%
| Imagine That (2009) | No great shakes, to be sure, but it's got plenty of color and bounce with first-rate performances across the board. Murphy's best work in ages. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| N/A | Keoma (1976) | Disjointed and clunky, it's the opposite of Lucio Fulci's underrated Italian western Four of the Apocalypse that was oodles more confident and affecting. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| N/A | The Ghost Galleon (1975) | Unbelievably boring so-called horror flick has nary so much as an iota of tension, suspense and scares to its despicable credit. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (1974) | Starts out well but after about 15 minutes it's needlessly protracted and enervating with DOA pacing. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 25%
| Prophecy (1979) | Silly but undeniably gripping in parts with a fine sense of pace, creepy atmosphere and disturbing implications of mankind-malfeasance affecting their fellow man. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| N/A | Dark Corners (2006) | Well-cast but hopelessly hoary horror tale that confuses complicatedness with complexity. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| N/A | Hidden Agenda (1998) | Lukewarm thriller makes very little sense and isn't helped by another mediocre performance from Kevin Dillon. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 21, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| N/A | Blood Relations () | Unspeakably awful horror flick that's atrociously made and as boring as an insurance seminar. Really rock-bottom, inept trash. — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
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