Splat 2/4 |
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) |
"I didn't exactly hate this film." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2.5/4 |
101 Dalmatians (1996) |
"Close's Cruella matches her animated counterpart's nastiness and then some; her hilariously over-the-top turn is sure to influence drag queens everywhere." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2.5/4 |
12 Monkeys (1995) |
"A messy mélange of action, adventure, sci-fi, romance, horror, and comedy." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1/4 |
The 13th Floor (1999) |
"As cold and sterile as a piece of machinery." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The 13th Warrior (1999) |
"Jerry Goldsmith's rousing score exhibits more personality than any of the actors--or anything else in the film, for that matter." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"Herzfeld settles for the most mundane execution of his idea." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
17 Again (2009) |
"Efron's adequate but completely anonymous work keep this from achieving true liftoff." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
187 (1997) |
"What makes the film work, perhaps better than it has any right to be, is Jackson." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
2 Days In The Valley (1996) |
"Herzfeld was obviously shooting for Pulp Fiction meets Short Cuts, but the film is more like Four Rooms meets Prêt-à-Porter.
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Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"When the ride looks and feels as smooth as this, it's practically irrelevant to complain about any lack of so-called substance." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
20 Dates (1998) |
"Fun, if ultralightweight." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2.5/4 |
200 Cigarettes (1999) |
"What's good about it is hidden behind the smoke of mediocrity." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2.5/4 |
21 (2008) |
"One can't help but think there was a smarter film to be made from this premise." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"Those wishing for a full-on, comprehensive look at the era will be disappointed, but Winterbottom, Coogan, and Boyce serve up a vivid and lively thumbnail sketch." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
25th Hour (2002) |
"Lee successfully, seamlessly marries his famously inventive visual style with more introspective material." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 0/5 |
3 Ninjas (1992) |
No article available. |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 0/4 |
3 Strikes (2000) |
"Has far more than three strikes against it." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
"Lichtenstein apparently thought quirks such as the sight of Paul 'Having My Baby' Anka firing a rifle would be enough to keep a viewer entertained." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
36 Hours to Die (1993) |
"Fails to transcend its made-for-TNT origins." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"As well-done as the set pieces are, giving the film its more substantive dramatic kick is the psychological warfare." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 0/4 |
4 Life |
"One can only wonder why people like Wood Harris attached themselves to something so sloppily slapped together." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 5/5 |
4 Little Girls (1998) |
No article available. |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 4/5 |
48 Hrs. (1982) |
No article available. |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The 4th Floor (1999) |
"It hasn't been too long since William Hurt won his Oscar, yet here he is playing boyfriend to another recent nominee, Juliette Lewis, in a schlocky direct-to-video thriller." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"There's a sweet romance fighting to reach the surface here, but it's ultimately a losing battle against the overpowering and sour Sandler crassness." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
54 (1998) |
"Somehow, some way, the supremely disappointing 54 has made the historically hip haven of hedonism... boring." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"In paying attention to potentially thought-provoking issues, the writers neglect basic storytelling." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/5 |
The 6th Man (1997) |
No article available. |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2.5/4 |
8 1/2 Women (1999) |
"The headscratching weirdness doesn't gel into a discernible emotional point." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
8 Mile (2002) |
"Ends on a high note, but it doesn't negate the tedium of the number of false and mostly flat ones that precede it." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
8 Women (2002) |
"An Agatha Christie drawing room mystery crossed with the '50s setting and melodrama of Douglas Sirk crossed with the musicality of Jacques Demy with some Aaron Spelling bitchery thrown in for good measure." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
8MM (1998) |
"The mystery is more or less resolved in an overblown sequence that comes at the end of act two, and the revelations are contrived and incredibly underwhelming." |
Michael Dequina |
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