| 21. |
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10/02/10 |
Weak |
"Introduce the supernatural, and anything goes. Here, everything does. And that's a problem no one can solve. At least it wasn't called 'Case 666.' " |
| 22. |
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10/01/10 |
Moderate |
"Three minutes into the film, we feel the sharpness of Stone's ax to grind. It's dull to be told what to think." |
| 23. |
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09/11/10 |
Poor |
"So nonchalant is 'Resident Evil: Afterlife,' that its overarching premise isn't explained." |
| 24. |
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12/25/09 |
Moderate |
"...well-worn horror movie territory.... Yet buried under a mound of haunted house cliches is a creepier, more sophisticated movie about the sexual power of teenage girls, and their fathers' inability to comprehend, clambering to get out." |
| 25. |
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12/11/09 |
Weak |
"When is a comedy not a comedy? When it's not all that funny.... While a few chuckles bubble to the surface, the film is half-baked.... Send it back." |
| 26. |
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08/21/09 |
Moderate |
"You'd think the 3-D effects would bring the action closer... it turns the athletes into GI Joe and Boba Fett action figures zipping around a dollhouse set." |
| 27. |
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05/01/09 |
Weak |
"You can tell the militaristic humans are bad because their spaceships are metal and glow neon, whereas Terrians fly low-tech, bird-shaped aircraft made of cloth and love." |
| 28. |
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04/10/09 |
Weak |
"Writer-director Christophe Barratier's paint-by-numbers script uses a mile-wide brush.... a mostly pointless exercise in nostalgia." |
| 29. |
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01/17/09 |
Weak |
"Lussier stages his movie not so much around nail-biting moments as novel ways to fling entrails at his viewers... there must be worse ways to spend 100 minutes." |