ROTTEN TOMATOES: Emanuel Levy

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F	" Howard Hughes' anachronistic saga is one of the worst films ever made with an embarrassing performance of John Wayne as Genghis Khan the Warrior. The Duke later said: I've been extolled as rough American hero, and the public won't take anything else." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Nov 10, 2006	The Conqueror (1956)	n/a
D-	" Flat, witless, and sappy (a very bad combo), Sally Field's embarrassing feature directorial debut aims to say something "relevant" about American society's obsession with physical looks at the expense of "inner beauty" and moral integrity." -- Variety Posted Sep 12, 2006	Beautiful (2000)	15%
D-	" Excess for excess sake, or just bad taste: Caligula is a messy, bloody film that fails on any level, even as porn and camp." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Oct 15, 2007	Caligula (1979)	22%
D	" A sketch stretched to the limits of a feature, Love Guru, yet another Myers fish out of water comic creation (spoofing ashrams and gurus), is so silly, shallow, and harmless that despite being stereotypical should not stir controversy or offend anyone" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jun 14, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
D	" Even Zinnemann (High Noon) and Badham (Nick of Time) knew that to heighten suspense of a story spanning real time, the film's running-time must be the same or close, but Avnet and scripter unnecessarily extend their inane saga from 88 to 106 minutes." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Apr 10, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	5%
D	" *The nastiest and silliest of Larry the Cable Guide big-screen vehicles, Witless Protection, the formulaic road flick, is Witless Comedy par excellence." -- EmanuelLevy.Com* Posted Feb 23, 2008	Witless Protection (2008)	0%
D	" A juvenile comedy aiming for dumb, obvious humor, Balls of Fury fails horribly as lame spoof of sports films and martial-arts flicks, drifting along with low energy and uninspired shtick." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 25, 2007	Balls of Fury (2007)	23%
D	" Ill-conceived and executed by German helmer Kreuzpaintner, Trade fails on every level, as expose of sex traffickers, as commentary on US ongoing illegal immigration debate, as portrait of innocent children violated by crime, and even as seedy thriller." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 19, 2007	Trade (2007)	27%
D	" The most disappointing film Milos Forman has made in his rich career, this misguided saga fails to illuminate the famous Spanish painter or the infamous Inquisition; among other flaws, it features the first bad performance from the gifted Natalie Portman" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jun 23, 2007	Goya's Ghosts (2007)	28%
D	" Three talented women--Fonda, Huffman, Lohan--are totally wasted in this disappointingly written and acted chick flick that can't decide if it's a comedy or drama about child and sexual abuse and thus goes back and forth in convoluted, manipulative way." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted May 9, 2007	Georgia Rule (2007)	18%
D	" Is Sandra Bullock losing it? Just when you thought her taste in film projects and acting skills were improving, along comes this senseless, incoherent thriller." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Mar 11, 2007	Premonition (2007)	8%
D	" A witless examination of relationships and day jobs, Cosgrove's would-be comedy finds little humor in issues of infidelity, heartbreak (and bodily functions), resulting in a film that's hopelessly amateurish and creatively destitute." -- Variety Posted Mar 6, 2007	Caffeine (2007)	0%
D	" One of the weakest films at this year's Sundance dramatic competition, Weapons is a violent crimer that rehashes familiar turf of the "youth, crime and neighborhood" movie genre, better and deeper explored in numerous indies of the past 15 years." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jan 29, 2007	Weapons (2007)	0%
D	" Reitman, comedy maestro of 1970s and 1980s, has clearly lost his touch, for this picture is even less funny and even more out of synch with the comedy genre, Hollywood, and the zeitgeist than his previous effort, Evolution." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 19, 2006	My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)	40%
D	" With the exception of the acting, this amateurish and incomplete film gives the impression that the debutant writer and director want to cram into their saga as many subects as possible, though none too well." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 18, 2006	Shadowboxer (2006)	20%
D	" This misbegotten project is Shyamalan's weakest thriller--senseless, verbose, convoluted. It might be remembered for featuring the director himself as a wannabe writer, and a film critic from hell who complains, there are no original stories left..." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 13, 2006	Lady in the Water (2006)	24%
D	" We can accept Cassel as villain and perhaps Clive Owen as flawed hero, but certainly not Jennifer Aniston, TV's girl-next-door, as an alluring femme fatale" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Nov 7, 2005	Derailed (2005)	20%
D	" Charmless and witless, this tiresome comedy fails as notalgic tribute to the beloved TV series and as contempo reimagining due to lack of chemistry between Ferrell and Kidman" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jun 17, 2005	Bewitched (2005)	25%
D	" *The degradation inflicted on the characters in Moodyson�s A Hole in My Heart* is also inflicted on the viewers... an excruciating and appalling experience.*" -- EmanuelLevy.Com* Posted Apr 8, 2005	A Hole in My Heart (2005)	41%
D	" Be Cool is anything but. A follow-up to the charming comedy Get Shorty, it�s one of the weakest sequels in recent memory. " -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Feb 26, 2005	Be Cool (2005)	28%
D	" Even as a potboiler, this melodrama is too silly and improbable to be enjoyed as trash" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Oct 29, 2006	Head in the Clouds (2004)	15%
D	" *A train wreck structurally, Beyond the Sea* is a vanity project that's more about Spacey the producer, director, star, and singer than about Bobby Darin.*" -- EmanuelLevy.Com* Posted Dec 18, 2004	Beyond the Sea (2004)	42%
D	" *A flop of massive proportions, Alexander* is a diffuse and incoherent historical epic that fails to engage intellectually or emotionally.*" -- EmanuelLevy.Com* Posted Nov 28, 2004	Alexander (2004)	16%
D	" To Read review visit www.EmanuelLevy.com" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Nov 14, 2004	Van Helsing (2004)	22%
D	" To read review visit www.EmanuelLevy.com" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Nov 14, 2004	The Stepford Wives (2004)	27%
D	" Dizzying visual style can't conceal the shallow, self-indulgent nature of Ferrara's sleazy erotic thriller, one of his worst pictures with a terrible performance by a miscast Matthew Modine at its center" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Oct 20, 2007	The Blackout (2001)	0%
D	" Adam Brooks' film is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s and as a coming of age of a girl obsessed with her sister's mysterious death" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Dec 18, 2006	The Invisible Circus (2001)	22%
D	" Flat, borderline banal comedy that in theory includes all the ingredients of the Farrelly brothers (who here serve as producers) about the seemingly incestuous relationship between siblings Chris Klein and Heather Graham" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Dec 1, 2006	Say It Isn't So (2001)	9%
D	" The fashion world is ripe with possibilities for a biting satire, but Lange's Sundance Festival entry is pedestrian, offering a disappointingly flat look at the glamour industry." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Dec 18, 2006	Intern (2000)	20%
D	" The most notable aspect of this trashy (but unenjoyable) biopic of Jacquleine Susann, Valley of the Doll's best-selling author, is its running time (93 minutes); Bette Midler and Nathan Lane give two of their worst and broadest performances." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Dec 14, 2006	Isn't She Great (2000)	25%
D	" Three of Hollywood's most beautiful and talented actresses, Ryan, Keaton, and Kudrow, are totally wasted in this shamelessly sappy meller that bears the schmaltzy sensibility of Nora Ephorn, its inept producer and co-scripter even though Keaton is helmer" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 7, 2006	Hanging Up (2000)	12%
D	" This wanbabe noir is frustrating due to the meandering nature of the pretentious, riddle-like script and lethargic, incompetent direction of Paul Auster in his solo directorial debut" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Nov 15, 2006	Lulu on the Bridge (1998)	0%
D	" One of the worst films at Sundance, Richman's update of Henry James' novel Wings of the Dove, is marred by obvious text, shallow motivations, and pat ending; beware the romantic meller is aka Under Heaven (where it should have stayed)." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 31, 2006	In The Shadows (1998)	n/a
D	" This preposterously plotted, ineptly helmed film features the emabrrassing directing debut of actor Kevin Spacey, wasting the talents of Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, Viggo Mortensen, Joe Mantegna, Faye Dunaway, and others." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 2, 2007	Albino Alligator (1996)	47%
D	" What a waste of directing and acting talent; Cher's Oscar for Moonstruck may prove to be a fluke if she continues to make such bad pictures sporadically." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jan 2, 2007	Faithful (1996)	7%
D	" Is that what happens to a gifted indie helmer when he gets 20 million for a schlocky movie that, contrary to the title, is utterly forgettable due to a dull, wholesome heroine (miscast Fiorentino), who may be Dahl's penance for his earlier, gutsier femmes" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 31, 2006	Unforgettable (1996)	21%
D	" A synthetic pastiche of sci-fi, action movies (borrowing feely from the superior Mad Max movies), and routine prison drama that's a sensless, incoherent mishmash that even a reliable pro like Liota cannot salavage." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Sep 16, 2006	No Escape (1994)	56%
D	" A synthetic pastiche of sci-fi, action movies (borrowing feely from the superior Mad Max movies), and routine prison drama that's a sensless, incoherent mishmash that even a reliable pro like Liota cannot salavage." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Sep 16, 2006	No Escape (1994)	56%
D	" Desperately trying to infuse new blood into the 1980s franchise, the fourth installment is a hodgepodge that fashions recycled ideas and characters; the rebllious girl is played Hilary Swank, who would go to Oscar glory." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Sep 12, 2006	The Next Karate Kid (1994)	7%
D	" Joyless, tastelss, and soulless, Last Action Hero can't decide if it's an actioner, a comedy or a spoof." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 23, 2007	The Last Action Hero (1993)	33%
D	" Suspense is not the strongest suit of this predictable psychological thriller, which also fails as a TV style family drama, though Amy Irving, cast against type, is quite good." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Feb 13, 2007	Benefit of the Doubt (1993)	0%
D	" One of Sydney Pollack's worst films, this sechmaltzy romantic drama about the life and loves of a car racer (poorly played by Al Pacino) has no redeeming qualities in either length; Pollack recut the film to 99 minutes for TV." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Mar 1, 2008	Bobby Deerfield (1977)	22%
D	" No less than five directors, including John Huston, and eight writers, including Billy Wilder and Ben Hecht, tried to salvage this lengthy, laden all-star Bond spoof--to no avail." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Nov 11, 2006	Casino Royale (1967)	28%
D	" One of MGM's worst melodramas of the 40s and a low point in the career of Hepburn, here miscast as a young and alert Chinese woman. Propaganda picture was made to please the government (and its Chinese allies) but by today's standards it's racist." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted May 6, 2007	Dragon Seed (1944)	n/a
D	" One of the worst John Wayne pictures, actually more of a Joan Crawford-MGM fake vehicle, in which she plays a French model engaged to a seemingly pro-Nazi industrialist designer (played by Philip Dorn)." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Dec 24, 2006	Reunion in France (1942)	n/a
1/5	" Considering that it's meant to be a comedy about a TV children's show, DeVitto's picture is particularly irritating, nasty, and mean-spirited." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jun 12, 2006	Death to Smoochy (2002)	42%
1/5	" Much of the dramatic juice and intrigue have been drained out of this old-fashioned costume drama, that in the hands of director Charles Shyer and actress Hilary Swank becomes stiff, stuffy, and banal affair." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Dec 1, 2005	The Affair of the Necklace (2001)	15%
1/5	" Broadly conceived and schematically directed (or is it non-directed?), this is a shallow satire, basically a short extended into feature length movie, about a rehabilitation camp for gays and lesbians that wastes the talent of Natasha Lyons." -- Variety Posted May 10, 2006	But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)	33%
1/5	" Formulaic and distastefully fake, Townsend's modern fairy tale unsuccessfuly tries to combine the premise of Pretty Woman with the formats of the fish-out-of-water and culture-collision." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Apr 26, 2006	B.A.P.S. (1997)	5%
1/5	" Prior to its world premiere at Sundance, Boxing Helena, the debut of David Lynch's daughter Jennifer, was the hottest film in the festival; two hours later, the movie was dead." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted May 2, 2006	Boxing Helena (1993)	19%

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