Rotten C-
| Rotten 23%
| Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) | "
Resident Evil: Extinction plays like a flabby middle chapter, full of nerdy details but fraudulently short on the ruined Vegas-scape that ads have been promising." Posted Sep 26, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 27%
| The Game Plan (2007) | "
Having tamed one muscled man-child (Vin Diesel in The Pacifier), Disney sets its sights on The Rock." Posted Sep 26, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 16%
| The Brothers Solomon (2007) | "
Feels like a cheapo, soft-R retread of the dimwits' progress from Dumb and Dumber" Posted Sep 5, 2007 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 33%
| The Hottest State (2006) | "
If the words ''based on a semiautobiographical first novel'' don't send chills up your spine, how about ''adapted for the screen and directed by the author''?" Posted Aug 29, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 24%
| El Cantante (2007) | "
A conventional, brassy blat of a biopic." Posted Aug 2, 2007 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 48%
| Cashback (2007) | "
Cashback aspires to be equal parts Volkswagen ad and Nicholson Baker's The Fermata, yet compares unfavorably to both." Posted Jul 25, 2007 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 37%
| The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) | "
If you swept the cosmic dust of the superhero boom into a flimsy dustpan, you'd have the Fantastic Four franchise." Posted Jun 18, 2007 |
Rotten D-
| Rotten 2%
| Delta Farce (2007) | "
Here's a sobering thought: If every war gets the comedy it deserves, could Delta Farce, a strenuously unfunny Three Amigos knockoff, be our M*A*S*H?" Posted May 16, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 12%
| Slow Burn (2007) | "
A strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of The Usual Suspects and the Tragic Mulatto, Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro." Posted Apr 18, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 46%
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) | "
The plot can't be summarized: Let's just say that crazy s--- happens, and occasionally, you laugh." Posted Apr 11, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 17%
| Dead Silence (2007) | "
Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime." Posted Mar 21, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 35%
| Reno 911!: Miami (2007) | "
The characters are perfectly evolved screwups and the premise (every legit cop is quarantined at a police convention, leaving our heroes in charge of Miami) has potential. It lacks only the discipline of a 30-minute episode." Posted Feb 28, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 80%
| East of Havana (2007) | "
There's a beat, but we never quite see who's dancing to it." Posted Feb 7, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 0%
| Constellation (2007) | "
Neither the camera nor the script can focus." Posted Feb 7, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 11%
| Blood and Chocolate (2007) | "
Moments of inspiration vie in vain with Goth cliché." Posted Jan 31, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 100%
| Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965 (2007) | "
Verdict on Auschwitz not only tracks the 20-month trial but meticulously re-creates it." Posted Jan 25, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 83%
| Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) | "
... as thickets of history and culture are (too) neatly avoided, the viewer is also left in the dark." Posted Jan 25, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 44%
| 20 Centimeters (2005) | "
Here's yet another self-consciously 'Almodóvarian' confection, studded with small odes to the glory of self-creation." Posted Nov 1, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 97%
| The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | "
Flattened for years on cable and video, Nightmare has been resurrected in all its tactile glory." Posted Oct 25, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 10%
| The Grudge 2 (2006) | "
What's a bad sequel but a revenant soul doomed to repeat itself?" Posted Oct 18, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 53%
| Flicka (2006) | "
A new yet insistently old-fashioned spin on the kid-lit classic My Friend Flicka." Posted Oct 18, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 86%
| Jesus Camp (2006) | "
As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message..." Posted Oct 4, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 96%
| So Much So Fast (2006) | "
So Much So Fast... elegantly presents both a critique and a celebration of American optimism." Posted Oct 4, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 55%
| Feast (2006) | "
Feast isn't quite demented enough to reach Raimi-an heights, but Gulager uses parts of the monster-movie buffalo even the buffalo didn't know existed." Posted Sep 20, 2006 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 39%
| Looking for Kitty (2006) | "
Sentimental yet insensate, this forgotten '04 trifle is Burns at his worst ..." Posted Sep 8, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 80%
| Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006) | "
Ken Takakura, a great rain-creased oak of an actor, delivers a quietly massive performance." Posted Aug 30, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 39%
| Beerfest (2006) | "
I felt oddly respected: Neck-deep in barley and boobs, marinated in urine, Beerfest panders shamelessly to the 15-year-old in this 30-year-old... without assuming he is a 15-year-old." Posted Aug 25, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 43%
| Queens (aka Reinas) (2006) | "
A threadbare crazy-quilt of Spanish sex comedies." Posted Aug 23, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 36%
| Accepted (2006) | "
Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit." Posted Aug 16, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 20%
| Step Up (2006) | "
Step, under the sure hand of director-choreographer Anne Fletcher, quickly discovers its own virtuoso charms." Posted Aug 9, 2006 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 33%
| The Trouble with Men and Women (2003) | "
I won't spoil the anticlimax, but we learn love is both (a) hard and (b) sometimes right in front of you!" Posted Aug 9, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 11%
| Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) | "
Garfield himself (voiced by Bill Murray) is once again strikingly unlikable, a bloated, bingeing fascist." Posted Jun 14, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 86%
| The Heart of the Game (2006) | "
The film is a furious full-court press, its subjects aflame with the kind of passion only youth can furnish. Even their bruises are luminous." Posted Jun 7, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 24%
| Peaceful Warrior (2006) | "
[A] self-congratulatory self-help seminar, which plays as high comedy, thanks to Nolte's slurry sensei." Posted May 31, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 31%
| Stick It (2006) | "
A deliriously, defiantly unfocused headrush..." Posted May 3, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 83%
| Akeelah and the Bee (2006) | "
Akeelah and the Bee may spell it out for you, but it pulls few punches in its depiction of the hurdles a verbally gifted South Central L.A. 11-year-old (Keke Palmer) must clear." Posted Apr 19, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 6%
| Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) | "
Flatulence ensues." Posted Mar 29, 2006 |
Rotten D-
| Rotten 8%
| Ultraviolet (2006) | "
Crank your brain to its lowest possible idle and you'll still overthink Ultraviolet." Posted Mar 8, 2006 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 6%
| Doogal (2006) | "
Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence?" Posted Mar 1, 2006 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 40%
| Running Scared (2006) | "
A giddily awful, awfully giddy action noir." Posted Feb 22, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 51%
| Ellie Parker (2005) | "
Watts, whose memorable audition scene in Mulholland Drive launched her into stardom, makes a glorious mess of herself playing her karmic opposite." Posted Nov 16, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 76%
| Zathura (2005) | "
Zathura is a rarity: a stellar fantasy that faces down childhood anxieties with feet-on-the-ground maturity." Posted Nov 9, 2005 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 33%
| The Gospel (2005) | "
It's a rich portrait of a church in transition." Posted Oct 12, 2005 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 81%
| Serenity (2005) | "
Serenity, despite its simple chase plot and elegant narrative ductwork, is unmistakably a TV season's worth of roller-coastering drama, most of it balanced on the capable shoulders of Fillion, a natural leading man." Posted Sep 28, 2005 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 23%
| Cry_Wolf (2005) | "
Contains no actual wolves, but it does have some howlers." Posted Sep 21, 2005 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 10%
| Venom (2005) | "
A mud-simple horror trudge set in a swamp colony of Abercrombie models." Posted Sep 21, 2005 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 88%
| Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) | "
Aims for the junior stargazer in a release coinciding with NASA's new moon-by-2018 initiative. The movie is unmistakably a pitch, and an honorable one." Posted Sep 21, 2005 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 44%
| The Thing About My Folks (2005) | "
It's about men not so much tackling responsibility as passing it off laterally, and finally pulling an end run into the schmaltz zone." Posted Sep 14, 2005 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 60%
| Kamikaze Girls (2005) | "
A mesmerizing lesson in otherness." Posted Sep 7, 2005 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 7%
| A Sound of Thunder (2005) | "
So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design." Posted Sep 7, 2005 |
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