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The Jacket (2005)
"A clever story with a decent cast but lacks the sort of skilled handling (paging M. Night Shyamalan) that might have made it a noteworthy supernatural thriller."
Gary Thompson
Jarhead (2005)
"As much as Jarhead seeks to break new ground, the movie feels calculated."
Jason X (2002)
"Actually sitting through a movie called Jason X, in which Jason does indeed go to outer space and become a killer cyborg, is not as much fun as thinking about it."
Jawbreaker (1998)
"Tasteless!"
Tomato
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
"Jeepers Creepers is itself a throwback, to the kind of (mostly) unironic, unpretentious B-movie that played at drive-ins 40 years ago."
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
"Another campy slasher."
Splat C
Jennifer's Body (2009)
"The movie fails in ... fundamental ways. Cody and director Karyn Kusama do a poor job of defining Jennifer's character in the early going, so it's hard to measure how she changes/devolves."
Jersey Girl (2004)
"Smith never makes us believe in this story the way he clearly does."
Jet Lag (2003)
"Jet Lag opens with a few jabs at the predictability of American movies, then promptly starts aping them."
Joe Dirt (2001)
"Unfortunately, the audience is left saying, 'Just shoot me.'"
Dan Gross
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)
"Dulls the viewer with a parade of second-hand thrills."
John Q (2002)
"It's incredibly crude and obvious, but that's clearly what director Nick Cassavetes is aiming for -- the kind of muckraking movie that throws only haymakers."
Johnny English (2003)
"A good bet for Bean fans, though for others, it's modest pleasures will play better on video."
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
"A blandly written comedy that straightjackets Cedric in a role more suited to Fred MacMurray."
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
"Mocks corporate branding and consumerism, but of course it's as name-brand (based on a comic book), cross-promoted and synthetic."
Tomato B
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
"Even without the 3-D, it's a fast-moving, old-fashioned boys' adventure romp, built for short attention spans and maximum popcorn consumption."
Joy Ride (2001)
"What the movie lacks ... is airtight plotting that makes these kinds of movies work."
Tomato B-
Julie & Julia (2009)
"A smiley-face version of the The Hours that substitutes Julia Child for Virginia Woolf, food for suicide, jokes for despair, and startles us with its refreshing portrait of a good marriage."
Jumper (2008)
"In Jumper, the fantasy of teleportation grows stronger by the moment -- after just a few scenes, you want to be somewhere else."
Junebug (2005)
"Excels at showing us characters and situations that turn out to be far more complicated than they initially appear."
Tomato A
Juno (2007)
"I feel almost duty-bound to say something contentious about the highly praised Juno, but truth is, it's every bit as good as advertised."
Jurassic Park III (2001)
"A canny, shrewd piece of work that smacks of professionalism from top to bottom."
Just a Kiss (2002)
"A near-laughless comedy."
Just Friends (2005)
"[The] efforts to delay the inevitable reconciliation between Chris and Jamie become increasingly tiresome, even though Just Friends barely cracks 90 minutes."
Just Like Heaven (2005)
"I don't know if I've ever seen this kind of mismatched energy on screen - like trying to pair a hummingbird with a heavily drugged circus bear."
Just Married (2003)
"A few laughs here and there, but not many of them grow out of the characters, who don't make much sense."
Splat C-
Just My Luck (2006)
"A romantic gimmick comedy that stands out as hackneyed even in this tired genre."
Juwanna Mann (2002)
"The entire movie is filled with deja vu moments."
Diana Veiga
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