Splat |
Jack and the Beanstalk (1976) |
"[F]reaky and not a little psychedelic..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Jack Frost (1998) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jack of All Trades: The Complete Series (2000) |
"[W]ildly funny in a Three Stooges-meets-Daniel Boorstin kind of way." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
The Jackal (1997) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Jacket (2005) |
"I like a good mind f**k as much as anyone, but hey, Mr. Movie, do not roll over and light a cigarette before you’ve done your job." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jackie Brown (1997) |
"At more than 2 1/2 hours, Jackie Brown could probably have been shorter and entertained nearly as much, but Tarantino lets his characters develop at their leisure." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jailbait (2006) |
"This is very hard to watch, a powerful and disturbing film about the inhuman conditions that exist within the American criminal-justice system..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Jamie Foxx Show |
"[A] minstrel show... an embarrassing carnival the likes of which should have gone out with button shoes..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
"[F]eatures one of the most engaging ensemble casts I've seen in a goodly while... So hurrah for this band of gal pals at various romantic crossroads..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jarhead (2005) |
"Jake Gyllenhaal, after a string of astonishingly mature portrayals of adolescents, turns in his first great adult performance as Swofford..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Jason X (2002) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jasper, Texas (2003) |
"Deliberative but powerful." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) |
"This boisterous and frequently laugh- out- loud comedy isn't just a larkish retrospective of Smith's ViewAskew universe of characters ... it's a romp through Smith's psyche." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
"Salva takes a lewd, crude delight in the licking the boys with his camera." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"It's as if everyone in Jennifer's Body knows they're a character in Jennifer's Body: The New Movie From Badass Chick Screenwriter Diablo Cody..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jericho - The First Season (2005) |
"The sprawling cast is all-Americana; the sprawling themes come as a direct slap in the face to the terrifying road America off the tube is heading down, a world of repealed civil liberties and constricted freedoms..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jerry Maguire (1996) |
"I'd love to see more movies like Jerry Maguire, movies that show us that making a life for oneself is not only is it possible but preferable." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Jersey Girl (2004) |
"Smith’s first 'serious' film, is a sitcom, a mawkish, sentimental single-dad sitcom, with jokes about stinky baby poop and a cute, wiseass kid mugging for the camera." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jesus Camp (2006) |
"Camp is not a diatribe or a polemic... all it does is turn a camera on people who are proud enough of their actions and beliefs to talk candidly and openly about them for the camera." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001) |
"[B]izarre and funny and full of the good Jesus stuff that no one could argue with..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Jesus' Son (1999) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jet Lag (2003) |
"Irresistibly enchanting and smartly sexy." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood (2004) |
"Glick isn’t... satisfying as satire..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007) |
"Regardless of what you think of the man's tenure in the White House, this portrait of Carter's endless crusade for justice and an end to global conflict is inspiring..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Jindabyne (2007) |
"With its cold brilliance and delicate aloofness, this is a movie you can hold aloft to recognize and examine its many intellectual facets in hard light, but it will never make you feel anything." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Jingle All the Way (1996) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Joe's Apartment (1996) |
"One of the cutest movies I've ever seen." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) |
"Little more than a heavy-metal music video. On Mars." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
John Q (2002) |
"Washington’s performance is almost unbearably heartbreaking, but more lamentable is the fact that he’s stuck in such an offensively simplistic story." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Johnny English (2003) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Joni Mitchell - Woman of Heart and Mind (2003) |
"[T]his lovely documentary is... beautifully poetic..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) |
"[A] new low in mindless vapidity." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) |
"[H]as no pretensions to being anything other than a theme park ride..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Journeys With George (2002) |
"A depressing confirmation of everything those of us who don’t object to the description "unelected" have suspected all along: George W. Bush is an incurious, uncharismatic, overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Joy Ride (2001) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Joyeux Noël (2006) |
"[D]ramatizes this bizarre moment in time with a straightforward aplomb that is devastating, that makes you wish you could laugh at the insanity and pointlessness of it but refuses all emotional response except overwhelming rage and grief." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Ju-on: The Curse (2000) |
"Shimizu has enough tricks up his sleeve to make you forget that he’s not making one whit of sense." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Ju-On: The Grudge (2004) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Judy Berlin (1997) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"[G]iddily joyful performances [by] Adams and Streep: spending time with them is like spending time with the kind of friends who support you and love you no matter what..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Jumper (2008) |
"[F]eels like half a movie... pallid and empty and barely even raises questions that should be asked, never mind actually answering even a couple of them..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin (2001) |
"Everyone in the world should see this film, to be reminded that there is a human price to be paid for every action as well as every inaction." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Junkers Come Here (1995) |
"With... its bittersweet, reassuring story, this is a film kids will take to heart..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Juno (2007) |
"[A] heightened, brightened, skip-a-dee-doo-dah glide through one of life's big goalposts: not so much growing up but growing out. And I don't mean bellywise, either..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Jurassic Park (1993) |
"The definitive dinosaur movie." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Jurassic Park III (2001) |
"This is, ironically, the best video game movie of the summer, with the thrills and chills and laughs you expect from a participatory game." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Just Like Heaven (2005) |
"[T]he stars of this mind-numbing dull movie deserve so much better than this. Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo do their best to rise above the crap..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Just Married (2003) |
"Just dreadful." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Justice (2004) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Juwanna Mann (2002) |
"This is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your head on the seat in front of you, at its cluelessness, at its idiocy, at its utterly misplaced earnestness." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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