Splat 1/4 |
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008) |
"Despite a game performance by Trevor Matthews in the lead, not much in this alleged comic/horror flick really succeeds as either funny or scary." |
Bruce Demara |
Splat 2/4 |
Jackass: Number Two (2006) |
"The first half hour was hilarious. The second half hour got repetitious and tedious." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
The Jacket (2005) |
"It suffers from a common thriller syndrome these days: the desire to explain away madness with logic." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
"The script might have slipped into caricature, as often the adaptations of Austen's novels have, but Swicord opts for characters in whom we might see ourselves." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
Japanese Story (2004) |
"An underdeveloped film that requires all of [Collette's] ample skills merely to rise to the mediocre." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
Jarhead (2005) |
"Jarhead makes its points less obviously than most war films, and with more brains than blood." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Jason X (2002) |
"Truly terrible." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) |
"This ramshackle affair unspools like a bloopers reel of stag-party outtakes culled from Smith's four previous movies: Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004) |
"Against a vibrant, well-lit backdrop, he performs his biggest hits with an intensity and clarity that should allow even the uninitiated to appreciate the lyrical dexterity which makes him the genre's dean, the first rapper profiled on 60 Minutes." |
Ashante Infantry |
Tomato 3/4 |
JCVD (2008) |
"The film's odd conceit is its primary strength, with Van Damme in a nakedly honest, bravely candid turn that for the first time in his career can be commended as 'acting'." |
Rob Salem |
Splat 2/5 |
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
"When it stoops to sociological concerns, as it does when the boys and girls on the bus bicker over matters of race and homophobia, Jeepers Creepers 2 simply collapses into incoherence." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jellyfish (2008) |
"Jellyfish, with its pervasive sense of mysticism, is anything but standard, predictable storytelling. What is it exactly? Well, you might as well ask a jellyfish." |
Bruce Demara |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"Jennifer's Body comes across as Diablo Cody lite, something she seems to have dashed off in-between talk show appearances and updating her MySpace page with her latest caustic witticisms." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Jerichow (2009) |
"Jerichow is striking proof of the [Germany]'s resurgence as a hotbed of provocative new cinema." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Jersey Girl (2004) |
"Watching Jersey Girl is akin to being smothered by a basket of warm puppies." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Jet Lag (2003) |
"All the usual meet-cute tropes are trotted out -- room service hassles, bed-sharing dilemmas -- but Reno and Binoche make a fine pair and the Parisian setting somehow makes it all seem fresher." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
A Jihad for Love (2007) |
"While there is much to admire among the subjects of A Jihad for Love, the film itself is a low-grade production that risks losing the viewer with an unimaginative sequence of talking heads." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood (2004) |
"Glick is a one-note joke, and a flat note at that." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007) |
"From the open-air stroll he took down Pennsylvania Ave. on his inauguration day, to the sunny-coloured cardigans he wore when addressing the nation, president James T. Carter always seemed like a guy who wanted people to remember he was one of them." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Jindabyne (2007) |
"Easy to admire but considerably harder to enjoy." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Joe Somebody (2001) |
"The movie makes smart use of the small-screen big-charm appeal of former Home Improvement star Tim Allen." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007) |
"Miracle of miracles, a valuable portrait of Strummer manages to emerge from the chaos, helped by the film's one consistent thread: tapes of a BBC World Service radio show he hosted in his final years." |
Peter Howell |
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John & Jane (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat |
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) |
"The 'acting' by lead stars Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham and Pam Grier is more wooden than a Pinocchio puppet show." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
John Q (2002) |
"Stacks its emotional deck in favour of the reluctant hero so high it threatens to collapse." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
John Tucker Must Die (2006) |
"... a dreary female revenge timewaster that steals from so many and returns so little." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Johnny English (2003) |
"A hugely redundant spy spoof." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 3/5 |
Johnson Family Vacation (2004) |
"This family vacation runs out of gas long before its destination." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) |
"Love them or loathe them, it's the Jonas Brothers' moment -- you might as well enjoy it." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Joshua (2007) |
"Ratliff's movie almost succeeds in hurtling over the trenches it digs for itself in an increasingly ludicrous third act. But not quite." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) |
"It's okay as far as it goes." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006) |
"While the Europeans are compelled to share some of their own songs, beliefs and personal history, it's the telling of the Inuit stories that compels much of the movie." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Journey to Armenia (2007) |
"Without angst or melodrama, director Robert Guédiguian has made a film that gives nationalism a good name." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) |
"If 3D is indeed the future of movies, we're going to need something more substantial than Journey to the Center of the Earth to convince us." |
Philip Marchand |
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Journey to the Sun (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato |
Joy Ride (2001) |
"It attains its modest ambitions with dispatch and wit, and without ever lifting its foot from the pedal." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Joyeux Noël (2006) |
"A beautifully lensed and acted European co-production that blends historical fact with sentimental drama to forge a powerful anti-war statement." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"Child was often imitated but Streep lets us see her jubilant soul." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat 2/5 |
Julie Walking Home (2001) |
"Where Holland falters is in bringing the movie to a satisfying conclusion." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Jumper (2008) |
"Logic takes the greatest leap in Jumper, a sci-fi thriller that plays like a frog jacked on steroids." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Junebug (2005) |
"A quiet journey into the heartland, and the heart." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1/5 |
Jungle Book 2 (2003) |
"A pathetic excuse for an animated feature, with only slightly more than an hour of action, a thin plot that returns to very familiar details and themes, and only two new songs." |
Daphne Gordon |
Tomato 4/4 |
Juno (2007) |
"The best thing about this movie is that for all its wiseacre badinage, it's utterly believable about the most basic of human situations." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Jurassic Park III (2001) |
"A movie in which little else happens except people get chased, terrified and generally bullied by prehistoric creatures." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Just a Kiss (2002) |
"A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander, some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Just Buried (2008) |
"Has its wonky charms, but suffers from trying too hard to be quirky." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat 2/4 |
Just Friends (2005) |
"Just Friends is part Farrelly Brothers and part Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, all wrapped together to deliver gross-out gags in bizarrely random and rapid-fire fashion, with zero intent to develop sustainable plot or character." |
Tony Wong |
Splat 1/4 |
Just Like Heaven (2005) |
"Closer to hell, really." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Just Married (2003) |
"Brittany Murphy and Ashton (Dude, Where's My Car?) Kutcher plunge themselves into this potentially sludgy material ... with such game energy and velocity, they actually whip it into something frothy and fun." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Just My Luck (2006) |
"Word on the street -- we're not sure which street -- has it that Just My Luck is Lindsay Lohan's final teen comedy. If so, the timing couldn't be better." |
Peter Howell |
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