Jackie Chan's First Strike (1997)

"The climactic shark-tank fight is a masterpiece of choreography"

Jails, Hospitals, and Hip Hop (2001)

"This guy's a headache -- but when he's bagging on Jerry Seinfeld it's hard not to bust a smirk."

Janice Beard 45 WPM (2002)

"Director Clare Kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been."

The Jaundiced Eye (1999)

"A powerful documentary to refute those who would claim that homophobia's a dead issue."

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

"This tripe ... isn't worth your time or our ink."

The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

"According to legend, Catherine Zeta-Jones was 15 when this movie was made."

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (2001)

"It makes as good a case as any for the use of animation as a medium for serious, mature features."

Joe Somebody (2001)

"It's possible America needs a movie like Joe Somebody at year's end, if only for those in the audience terrified of English accents and trailers that promise, 'From the Academy Award-winning director of...'"

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)

"Another strong outing for Carpenter, a B-movie that knows its place, delivers its goods, then gets the hell out of our face."

John Q (2002)

"A film that might have made its points more convincingly if its makers hadn't felt obliged to underline and spell out at length every one of those points."

Joshua (2007)

"[W]hy is it so hard to make a scary flick about evil kids these days? The Omen remake was pretty hilarious, and Joshua is ridiculous, though they are apparently attempting to re-position it as a "black comedy""

Joy Ride (2001)

"Somehow this project manages to be both astoundingly derivative and reasonably entertaining at the same time."

Jump Tomorrow (2001)

"Perhaps what's best about the movie is its absolute color blindness."

Junior (1994)

"To quote Last Action Hero: "Big mistake!""

Jurassic Park III (2001)

"The ending in particular is weak and abrupt, involving a character suddenly knowing something that he explicitly did not know before, apparently as a result of sheer dumb luck."

Just Friends (2005)

"Just Friends suggests that Reynolds and Faris have potential greatness together"

Just Married (2003)

"By the time the newlyweds end up in Venice (Italy, not California, though it was probably filmed there), the story's gone so flat that you may feel like a browbeaten spouse trapped in a loveless marriage."

Juwanna Mann (2002)

"This limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's Tootsie, forgetting only to retain a single laugh."