 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
B+ |
|
(2003) |
|
"It can only meet you halfway: you have to be able to grin at this stuff, not sneer."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B+ |
|
(2002) |
|
"A remarkable movie, if only for effectively burying its theme beneath a good red herring."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C |
|
(2003) |
|
"One compelling story intertwined gracelessly with countless others ranging from mediocre to unspeakably idiotic."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C |
|
(2005) |
|
"Second-rate adventure.
"
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
--
|
|
(2001) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
A- |
|
(2007) |
|
"Tamara Jenkins' sophomore outing is sharp, clear-eyed, uncondescending; a non-stop, non-guilty pleasure."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(2001) |
|
"It's not courageous enough to deviate from the teen movie formula more than a smidgeon."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B- |
|
(2004) |
|
"Pretty fearless, at least until backing off somewhat in its closing minutes."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
--
|
|
(2000) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2001) |
|
"The jokes are overwhelmingly dumb, and not in a good way."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B- |
|
(2004) |
|
"Saw is laughable, but it's worth laughing at."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
D+ |
|
(2001) |
|
"Tries for gross-out laughs but can't tell the difference between comedy and embarrassment."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B- |
|
(2000) |
|
"Scary Movie is a sporadically hilarious parody of teen horror movies that too frequently seems half-baked."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C |
|
(2001) |
|
"Yes, there are laughs, but they're sporadic, with a lot of the jokes being regurgitated from the original."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B- |
|
(2003) |
|
"The only way to review these movies is to tell you whether or not they are funny. Scary Movie 3 is funny enough."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(2006) |
|
"Thoroughly worthy of Todd Phillips, and appropriate for teenagers' dollars, hard-earned or otherwise."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B+ |
|
(2003) |
|
"This isn't a movie about honor, or honesty, or even "being yourself;" instead, it's about not letting "the man" stop you from putting on a show. That's refreshing."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
D |
|
(2002) |
|
"Both an excruciatingly lousy movie and a crushing betrayal of its charming source material."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(2001) |
|
"A good heist movie, flawed but thoroughly
competent, with an amazing cast and precise, almost
Mametian dialogue."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(2002) |
|
"This franchise could give Star Wars a run for its money if only head honcho Stephen Sommers... could get his act together"
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(1997) |
|
"I truly hope that Scream 2 proves to all of the doubters that horror movies are not all the same. They are not all equally bad, and by God, they are not all equally good. However, they don't get any better than Scream 2."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
--
|
|
(2000) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
--
|
|
(2000) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(2004) |
|
"It's best when it lets loose with its most lurid cliches, when the soundtrack soars and we see children frolicking as our beaming leading man goes off to fight for his death."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
--
|
|
(2000) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C |
|
(2003) |
|
"The film stymied my every attempt to like it until I was forced to conclude that despite the pine-fresh smell it emits by virtue of its release date, it's just not very good."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C |
|
(2003) |
|
"A maudlin, disorganized family movie, throwing out so many platitudes and quasi-themes that I soon stopped trying to keep track and turned against it."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B- |
|
(2008) |
|
"Mostly, this is Hollywood excess the way I like to see it: skillfully done, and with a beating heart."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
A |
|
(2003) |
|
"An exploration of family and fidelity hiding under a bizarre, surrealistic, sometimes impenetrable facade."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B+ |
|
(2004) |
|
"With the gargantuan amount of talent invested in this production, it just seems churlish to quibble over details."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
D+ |
|
(2008) |
|
"I am sick to death of the clueless, arrogant buffoon that Will Ferrell has made his stock-in-trade, and desperate to see the talented comic do something -- anything -- else."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C- |
|
(2001) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(1995) |
|
"It's certainly unnerving -- gory and sometimes frightening -- but it's also fairly standard, even predictable."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
--
|
|
(1997) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(2008) |
|
"I guess I can be most useful to this weekend's potential drag-alongs: it's not excruciating. I was never more than mildly annoyed."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(2008) |
|
"A thoroughly clichéd virginity-deadline teen comedy with none of American Pie's trangsressiveness (it's hard, these days) and little of Superbad's intelligence."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(2001) |
|
"Isn't nearly as interesting as it thinks it is."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(2004) |
|
"Good fun for those who like Mametian con-inside-a-con-inside-a-con trickery."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
A- |
|
(2000) |
|
"Unusual and delightful."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
--
|
|
(2000) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B+ |
|
(1998) |
|
"It is a mature, adult romantic comedy, with enough swashbuckling, humor and love scenes to keep everyone interested."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
7/10 |
|
(2000) |
|
"[Chan]'s not only a great martial artist but he's a hell of an actor too."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(2003) |
|
"What seemed at first to be gross cluelessness became sly calculation; what I saw as blunt moralizing I now perceived as a neat moral reversal."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C |
|
(2004) |
|
"Everyone knows what the typical Will Smith character sounds like, and anyone who doesn't want to listen to it magnified three-fold for 90 minutes should stay far, far away."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
A- |
|
(2003) |
|
"The events unfold with a riveting dread inevitability."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(2004) |
|
"This gonzo 140-minute omnibus reserves a scene or two for any social or political concern you'd care to mention."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(1998) |
|
"It's wretchedly predictable, inconsistently funny and not always well-written. It's enjoyable enough, but a truly good movie it's not."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1999) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
--
|
|
(2001) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
|
|
| |
C |
|
(2002) |
|
"The very definition of autopilot."
[movie review] |
|
Film Blather |
|
|
