Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 18%
| Collateral Damage (2002) | "
An entertaining action movie, nothing more, nothing less." Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 84%
| Open Your Eyes (1997) | "
Alejandro Amenabar announced himself in the category of the top level of directors working today." Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| My Life Without Me (2003) | "
Fascinating." Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 33%
| Windtalkers (2002) | "
This is the kind of film where you think you can predict everything that’s going to happen upon the first shot and you spend the rest of the film praying that you’re wrong. But it’s fun getting there." Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 24%
| Walking Tall (2004) | "
An in-name-only remake of a moonshine classic that feels recycled from frame one." Posted Apr 6, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 76%
| Dawn of the Dead (2004) | "
The kind of joyous horror-viewing experience where you yell at the screen and cheer for the victims and the zombies with equal venom." Posted Mar 24, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 26%
| Mindhunters (2005) | "
A film that betrays itself by not following its story through to a believable and psychological conclusion." Posted Feb 8, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Miracle (2004) | "
Powerful in its recreation of a magical time and place and it really does make us believe that miracles are possible." Posted Feb 8, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| House of Sand and Fog (2003) | "
A very good film with a special performance by Ben Kingsley." Posted Dec 23, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| Looney Tunes - Back in Action (2003) | "
Dante's much more confident in this combined world of animation and live-action than we saw in the interesting but uneven Small Soldiers." Posted Nov 18, 2003 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 4%
| House of the Dead (2003) | "
A film that’s so bad, so grievously awful in so many ways, that you’re convinced that it was meant to be a comedy." Posted Oct 22, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| My Life Without Me (2003) | "
The film has a lot of humor and joy in it." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Rundown (2003) | "
What's fun about the film are its goofy sense of humor, wild and crazy stunts, and the cheerful willingness of The Rock to poke fun at himself." Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 41%
| Freddy vs. Jason (2003) | "
The film delivers." Posted Aug 19, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 55%
| American Wedding (2003) | "
What I really enjoyed was just seeing the characters again, possibly for the last time." Posted Aug 5, 2003 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 6%
| Gigli (2003) | "
Has no story, no redeeming characters that anyone could care about, and the actors are all on autopilot, completely soaked with their own vanity." Posted Aug 5, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) | "
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines unfolds as a thrilling piece of entertainment, but it has a third act and ending that don't work and shouldn't ever work." Posted Jul 8, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| Wrong Turn (2003) | "
Proof that an old genre can still have life as long as filmmakers are willing to fill it with energy, humor and respect for the genre." Posted Jun 3, 2003 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 40%
| The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) | "
The film is corny, predictable, and manipulative to the point that you feel like there's electrodes attached from the screen to your brain, but, by the end of this film, I’ll be damned if I didn't feel genuine affection for it and Lizzie in particular." Posted May 4, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| Dreamcatcher (2003) | "
There's nothing epic here, just lots of constant viscera ground out over a bruising two plus hours." Posted Mar 23, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 57%
| Dark Blue (2003) | "
An entertaining action-thriller, nothing more, nothing less." Posted Feb 18, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| Shanghai Knights (2003) | "
A lazy and limp film, completely forgettable." Posted Feb 10, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Insomnia (2002) | "
It grabs us with the premise and holds our attention and doesn't let go." Posted Jan 21, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Just Married (2003) | "
Like a head on collision between some nice performances and a really stupid plot." Posted Jan 16, 2003 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| Jason X (2002) | "
Low rent from frame one." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 57%
| Ararat (2002) | "
A film that has many strengths, not the least of which is its towering ambition." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Men With Brooms (2002) | "
The plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesting actually, but what I like about Men With Brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's unique and quirky about Canadians." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 61%
| K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) | "
A cold war thriller told from the Russian point of view which gives it the appearance of having more credibility and dark truth than if this were an American story." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 8%
| Stealing Harvard (2002) | "
The film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Halloween (1978) | "
Arguably, the greatest horror film of the past thirty years." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 38%
| 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) | "
This film would've been a lot funnier if the filmmaker's had shown the slightest bit of imagination in terms of the plot's comic possibilities." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| The Scorpion King (2002) | "
The Rock is ceaselessly entertaining, it's fun to see the characters get killed(good or bad, I didn't care), and the women are so beautiful I thought I was watching Kama Sutra 2." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 11%
| Kung Pow! (2002) | "
The film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| Impostor (2001) | "
If Sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 61%
| Friday the 13th - Part 1 (1980) | "
Long before Jason, and the endless machinations of dumb sequels, Friday the 13th represented the purest form of terror." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| Panic Room (2002) | "
A very scary film, well made and lovingly dark, and it illustrates how terrified we are of becoming the victims we see on TV." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 18%
| Collateral Damage (2002) | "
An entertaining action movie, nothing more, nothing less." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 36%
| Equilibrium (2002) | "
A seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director Kurt Wimmer at the screenplay level." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 2%
| Half Past Dead (2002) | "
I have no problem with the fact that [Seagal] doesn't use a Russian accent (Do they ever?), but he looks out of shape and tired." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 68%
| Red Dragon (2002) | "
I suppose Brett Ratner seemed like a controversial and odd choice to make this film but he outdoes himself here." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 45%
| Return to Never Land (2002) | "
The film is fun, energetic, and brightly colored and I think kids will love it a lot." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 33%
| Windtalkers (2002) | "
More than passable summer entertainment and I think if they were still making war westerns today, it would feel right at home." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Analyze That (2002) | "
It doesn't show us anything new or really funny, certainly nothing that we can’t get on HBO." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 3%
| Rollerball (2002) | "
Such a brain dead, jukebox of a movie, it should've been called Tron for Dummies." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 62%
| We Were Soldiers (2002) | "
This is a good film; strong, honest, strikingly photographed (by Dean Semler) and appropriately devastating." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 34%
| Resident Evil (2002) | "
I'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the film." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| Enough (2002) | "
A graceless and miserable film." Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) | "
It's a great comedy, and a deeply touching one, too." Posted Jun 11, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Rare Birds (2001) | "
Rare Birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable." Posted Jun 11, 2002 |
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