Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Shadow Company (2007) | "
[A] fascinating, evenhanded documentary." Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Cut Sleeve Boys (2006) | "
[Director] Yeung handles [his characters'] parallel journeys of self-discovery with humor, grace and an occasionally heavy hand, with Leow giving a winning performance as Ash." Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005) | "
It’s easy to keep blaming Ken Burns for this kind of softcore Civil War porn, but enough is enough: This is a vanity project of the most indulgent order." Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Fakers (2004) | "
Such artless inattention to the con man’s craft might be overlooked if any of the characters or performers had the personality to pull one over on us, the audience." Posted Apr 26, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Quality of Life (2004) | "
It's a setup as old as the hills, but the unvarnished simplicity with which first-time director Benjamin Morgan rolls it out makes the tale worth another go-round." Posted May 25, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| An American Haunting (2006) | "
This 'true account' of the Bell Witch haunting offers an encyclopedic rehash of spook films new and old, dressed out in murky period detail." Posted May 4, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 5%
| The Fog (2005) | "
A film riddled with missed opportunities for good clean scares." Posted Oct 20, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Squid and the Whale (2005) | "
in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach weds his verbal gifts to a fresh visual acuity that brings layers of rich detail to a portrait of a family coping, poorly, with self-inflicted change." Posted Oct 13, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| Serenity (2005) | "
It’s the zippy chatter among the Serenity’s wised-up space pirates that gives the film most of its punch, but with only serviceable action sequences and largely cookie-cutter effects, you can still sense the void just outside." Posted Sep 29, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| A State of Mind (2005) | "
Gordon gives an intimate, balanced account of how political power, famine, power shortages and a hatred of America have shaped their young lives." Posted Sep 1, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Matando Cabos (2005) | "
Prominently placed in Jaque’s bachelor pad is a poster for Down by Law, but it’s abundantly clear that Lozano and company have been re-watching Pulp Fiction for the last decade." Posted Aug 25, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) | "
As a salvo in the culture wars, Dukes of Hazzard is a dud, and as an actual movie it doesn’t rate much higher." Posted Aug 4, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003) | "
The Giants' longevity flows from the fact that they can't be explained, only experienced." Posted Jun 28, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| Spun (2003) | "
While his characters wallow and his wasted cast founders in the shoals of Will De Los Santos and Creighton Vero’s script, Åkerlund apes the tics of his primary influences: Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky and the photography of David LaChapelle." Posted Mar 19, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Fidel (2002) | "
It's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most American representations of Castro." Posted Mar 6, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Poolhall Junkies (2003) | "
A one-way ticket to Palookaville." Posted Feb 27, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Jungle Book 2 (2003) | "
It can't shake the impression of a video premiere stretched to big-screen size." Posted Feb 12, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Dragonfly (2002) | "
Despite the film's aspirations to soul healing, its uplift remains mechanical, like an escalator's." Posted Jan 20, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 3%
| Rollerball (2002) | "
Pushes the Hollywood action movie to stratospheric new levels of incoherence." Posted Jan 15, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Skins (2002) | "
Rather quickly, the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation." Posted Dec 13, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Take Care of My Cat (2001) | "
A captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age." Posted Dec 13, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) | "
Nemesis never feels true to itself, its energy never fully engaged." Posted Dec 12, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Trembling Before G-d (2001) | "
Moving and, ultimately, hopeful -- a hope that extends further than most documentaries allow." Posted Dec 12, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Promises (2002) | "
Too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience." Posted Dec 9, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| They (2002) | "
Stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom." Posted Dec 5, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Lilo & Stitch (2002) | "
Disney's most winning animated couple since Bambi and Thumper." Posted Dec 2, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Juwanna Mann (2002) | "
Vaughan brings such disregard to the film that its pedestrian on-court action might as well have been shot from the bleacher seats." Posted Nov 18, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Reign of Fire (2002) | "
Despite a few epic revelations, we never get a real sense of living, breathing dragons." Posted Nov 18, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Way Home (2002) | "
A conventional if appealing tear-jerker." Posted Nov 14, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Jackass: The Movie (2002) | "
Best wear a helmet and have some fun." Posted Oct 31, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| I Spy (2002) | "
Thomas trudges through the film's action sequences with such obvious disinterest that when Wilson turns from a lackluster fireball to quip, 'Whoa, that was a big explosion,' you really know he's putting us on." Posted Oct 31, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Happiness of the Katakuris (2002) | "
An amusing scenario, until even Miike seems to lose his taste for the oddly sweet concoction and allows the film to drift aimlessly to a rainbow-hued finale." Posted Oct 25, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Looking Through Lillian (2002) | "
Torem drifts into formula and his initially promising film goes unbearably soft." Posted Oct 24, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| The City of Lost Souls (2000) | "
While the film throws a solid pop punch, you could still swear you've seen it all before." Posted Oct 24, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 5%
| Swept Away (2002) | "
On top of a foundering performance, [Madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag." Posted Oct 10, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| American Adobo (2002) | "
Guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things. She lists ingredients, but never mixes and stirs." Posted Oct 3, 2002 |
Rotten
| N/A | Ambush (1999) | "
[It has] a humanist touch that stands at odds with the film's wholesale demonizing of the scattered Soviet army." Posted Oct 3, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002) | "
Your taste for Jonah - A Veggie Tales Movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the Holy Spirit." Posted Oct 2, 2002 |
— | Rotten 42%
| Air Bud (1997) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 2, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| The Adventures of Felix (2001) | "
It would all be too obviously feel-good if Ducastel and Martineau weren't also tuned in to the liberating drift of the open highway and a sharp native humor that adds needed flesh and blood to their walking metaphors." Posted Oct 1, 2002 |
— | Rotten 47%
| The Acid House (1998) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 1, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Girls Can't Swim (2002) | "
The film's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that’s opened between them." Posted Sep 30, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Wasabi (2002) | "
The film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises." Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) | "
While much of the film's action ... comes live, as opposed to the digital mayhem of the game, Thai director Kaos (a.k.a. Wych Kaosayananda), making his inauspicious Hollywood debut, still can't breathe any life into it." Posted Sep 19, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Crop Circles: Quest for Truth (2002) | "
Why Crop Circles now, if not to ride the hype of M. Night Shyamalan's Signs to some quick cash? The movie's rambling, slapdash, repetitious nature suggests as much." Posted Sep 17, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) | "
Hartnett's pitch-perfect sexual panic can be hilariously funny." Posted Sep 16, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Amy's O (2002) | "
It's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah." Posted Aug 29, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) | "
Dismally dull sci-fi comedy." Posted Aug 22, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Pauline and Paulette (2002) | "
The film's plainness, and the understated force of van der Groen and Petersen's performances, sharpen its complexity of feeling until all mawkishness is cut away." Posted Aug 12, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Session 9 (2001) | "
A deft exercise in atmospheric horror and insanity." Posted Aug 12, 2002 |
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