Splat 2/4 |
Jackass: Number Two (2006) |
"The movie does what it set out to do: entertain its core audience of guys like me who were weaned on Beavis and Butt-head." |
Eric Winkler |
Splat |
The Jacket (2005) |
"The great mystery of The Jacket is how so many really terrific performers got sucked into such a silly movie." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
Jackpot (2001) |
"Has its moments, but if we're meant to care about these losers, the film misses by a mile." |
Robert W. Butler |
- |
The James Bond Collection - Special Edition 007 DVD 7-Pack: Volume 1 (1962) |
"In each of the reports, All the James Bond DVDs ,including the ones in the new boxed set, are judged by what works ('What's Shaken'), what doesn't ('What's Stirred') and by overall flavor (a 4-martini scale)." |
Dan Lybarger |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
"An intermittently amusing but mostly improbable comedy about romantically challenged women who devote six months to reading and discussing all six of Austen’s early-19th-century novels." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Japanese Story (2004) |
"It's not great, but it occasionally flirts with greatness. It's not bad, but it can be dull and repetitive. It's too smart to be mediocre." |
Loey Lockerby |
Splat 1/4 |
Jason X (2002) |
"Four hundred years into the future, human beings can conquer new planets and are still dumb enough to split up when a psycho killer is after them." |
Dan Lybarger |
Tomato |
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) |
"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is one big, fat guilty pleasure." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Jeepers Creepers (2001) |
"Remarkably fun to watch." |
Leah Green |
Splat |
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
"[The characters] are so banal and bland that we never get a fix on who they are or care when they're dispatched in grisly fashion." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat C+ |
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
"The film relies more on jump moments than gratuitous blood and guts for its scares, which is a welcome choice after such blood-drenched dreck as Freddy Vs. Jason." |
Shawn Bowers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jellyfish (2008) |
"These interlocking stories don’t add up to a conventional narrative. It helps to think of Jellyfish as a tone poem. And like the invertebrate that is its namesake, the film is by turns beautiful, stinging and rather shapeless." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Jersey Girl (2004) |
"Imagine Britney Spears croaking her way through La Traviata, and that's what it's like to endure Kevin Smith trying to deal with adult emotions in Jersey Girl." |
Dan Lybarger |
- |
Jesus' Son (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert W. Butler |
- |
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jindabyne (2007) |
"It’s safe to describe Jindabyne as a haunted movie." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
Joe Dirt (2001) |
"If you can get people to roar at a scene of someone being showered in, well, you know what ... why stress yourself giving the people anything more than you-know-what?" |
Ward Triplett III |
Tomato |
Joe Somebody (2001) |
"There are things to relish here." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007) |
"By the end of Temple’s rather long film, that is the person who emerges: a man no longer interested in changing the universe song by song but devoted to enriching his own corner of the world." |
Timothy Finn |
Splat |
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) |
"One heaping plate of sci-fi cheese, a film that looks like it got lost on its way to the video shelves and ended up in theaters by mistake." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
John Q (2002) |
"No doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place. Where their heads were is anyone's guess." |
Brian McTavish |
Splat |
Johnny English (2003) |
"There are perhaps 12 minutes of genuine gut-clutching hilarity spread throughout Johnny English's hour and 25 minutes." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Johnstown Flood (2003) |
"Johnstown Flood has its weaknesses (the firsthand accounts weren't written to be recited like dialogue), but it still does a fine job of explaining why the impact of May 31, 1889 remains with us." |
Dan Lybarger |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) |
"Relying on previously unseen film footage, still photos and voice recordings, Jonestown paints a portrait of a fantastically charismatic preacher." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) |
"The sweeping jabs at MTV and its music-biz monolith aren't necessarily original, but they are done well enough that they keep us laughing." |
Leah Green |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) |
"A diverting if shallow entertainment, not to mention a glimpse of things to come." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Joy Ride (2001) |
"You might not remember it 10 minutes later, but while it's playing out Joy Ride lives up to its title." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Joyeux Noël (2006) |
"The story speaks to universal human emotions that transcend country and culture." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ju-On: The Grudge (2004) |
"With just a little bit of editing and some disorienting sound effects, Japanese director Takashi Shimizu can create more tension and jolts than most filmmakers can with oceans of blood." |
Dan Lybarger |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"This is one lip-smacking, celestially aromatic, drop-dead delicious movie." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Jump Tomorrow (2001) |
"The characters are vivid and endearing." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1/4 |
Jumper (2008) |
"Jumper is a special effect in search of a movie." |
David Frese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Junebug (2005) |
"A slight film enlivened by Adams’ winning performance." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Juno (2007) |
"What propels the film into the stratosphere is Juno herself. As played by Ellen Page, Juno is a winning combination of fierce intelligence, irrepressible irony, casual profanity and, though she doesn’t want to admit it, emotional vulnerability." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
Jurassic Park III (2001) |
"The problem is that JP3 operates mostly on a 12-year-old's level. For the rest of us it's deja vu all over again." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Just Like Heaven (2005) |
"Usually whenever the phrase 'just like' precedes something, it's a nice way of saying it falls short of the real thing." |
Dan Lybarger |
- |
Just Looking (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Just My Luck (2006) |
"Just My Luck is a cute idea with nowhere to go after the first hour." |
Loey Lockerby |
Splat |
Just Visiting (2001) |
"You'd think the second time around they'd have put a little more oomph into it." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Juwanna Mann (2002) |
"Some comedies are so funny that they make your sides ache from laughter. "Juwanna Mann" just makes you ache." |
Dan Lybarger |
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