Splat |
Jack Frost (1998) |
"The film is boring with a bad plot and so-so acting." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Jacket (2005) |
"It draws you into its grim and mysterious world through the first half of the movie, then falls apart like a house of cards in a hurricane." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Jarhead (2005) |
"It's a unique vision of war from the point of view of a Marine who never pulled a trigger against a foe." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Jawbreaker (1998) |
"If it's a hit, it'll prove teens don't demand a plot that makes sense, characters that seem real or any other movie virtue, except for sexy girls with revealing outfits and bad attitudes." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) |
"A warmed-over hash of jokes that will have Mewes fans rolling with laughter and the rest of us rolling our eyes in disbelief." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
JCVD (2008) |
"The gentler Van Damme may disappear after just two pictures. If he does, I'm happy at least to have made his acquaintance." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Jeepers Creepers (2001) |
"Who'd have imagined that the two most satisfying movies of August - no, of the entire summer stretching back to Shrek -- would be horror films?" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
"JC2 is the simplest, stupidest kind of shockfest." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2/4 |
Jersey Girl (2004) |
"It's so merchandisable that I look for a direct-to-video sequel, Jersey Kidz, to hit the shelves next year." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jesus Camp (2006) |
"Perhaps Jesus Camp will awaken some slumbering minds to two truths on which both sides of this religious debate might agree." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Jet Lag (2003) |
"This modest soufflé of a romance rests securely on [Reno and Binoche's] shoulders." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Joe Dirt (2001) |
"Is Joe Dirt a satisfying way to spend a mindless evening at the multiplex some hot Saturday? Yeah." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Joe Somebody (2001) |
"It's like the perennial Christmas fruitcake -- nobody's first choice for a dessert, but a ritual we all observe now and again." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) |
"It starts as enjoyable B-movie pulp, degenerates to camp, then turns into laughable lunacy, as a Martian-style Marilyn Manson exhorts zombie troops through endless scenes of slaughter." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
John Q (2002) |
"Whether or not you favor a national health system (and I do), you may not want to be clubbed over the head by this rhetoric." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 1/4 |
Johnson Family Vacation (2004) |
"Writers Todd R. Jones and Earl Richey Jones, who make their feature film debut after brief careers in television sitcoms, have no sense of how to sustain a gag or make it pay off." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) |
"The movie's manic, superficial energy [is] easy to enjoy." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Joy Ride (2001) |
"Writers Clay Tarver and J.J. Abrams set up credible, well-structured scenes, and Dahl works each to maximum effect." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Joyeux Noël (2006) |
"Unexpectedly moving." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"As Child would have told you, a soufflé isn't a filling meal." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Jumper (2008) |
"You have to take everything for granted in Jumper, including the idea that Christensen and Rachel Bilson could show human emotions. These stone faces stand at the center of a story that's as flimsy as taffeta." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Junebug (2005) |
"Adams is first-rate in her lovable desperation, Watson reminds me of many parochial Piedmont mamas, and Taylor is remarkable as the visionary with no eye for his own follies." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Juno (2007) |
"Comedy comes from an exaggeration of reality, not reality itself -- and on that score, Diablo Cody's first screenplay gets high marks." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Jurassic Park III (2001) |
"Most of the effects have been done before, and the trick of shaking the camera when a thunder lizard stomps the ground has grown tedious." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Just Visiting (2001) |
"Bland as fast-food pommes frites (french fries, to you)." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Juwanna Mann (2002) |
"A feeble Tootsie knockoff." |
Lawrence Toppman |
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