ROTTEN TOMATOES: Lisa Alspector

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	Big Daddy
	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
	The Rugrats Movie
	Star Trek: Insurrection
	Paulie
	Cop Land
	L.A. Confidential
	The Prince of Egypt
	Eve's Bayou
	Soul Food
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	A Thousand Acres
	Dead Man on Campus
	Good Burger
	Rugrats in Paris
	The Saint
	Dudley Do-Right
	Superstar
	The X-Files: Fight the Future
	Thomas and the Magic Railroad
	Leave it to Beaver
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

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	"The story is just an empty, manipulative compilation of tragedies and misunderstandings." Posted Jul 3, 2008	A Thousand Acres (1997)	24%
	"This limp 1998 comedy tries hard to be both irreverent and ethical by suggesting that deceit motivated by self-interest is OK as long as no one gets hurt." Posted Jun 16, 2008	Dead Man on Campus (1998)	15%
	"This light yet earnest drama starring Adam Sandler deals openly with one of the most insidious elements in popular filmmaking -- the male screenwriter's relationship with his own father." Posted Jun 2, 2008	Big Daddy (1999)	40%
	"A laboriously slow suburban adventure..." Posted May 21, 2008	Good Burger (1997)	31%
	"*Nauseating gags suggest the makers of this eclectically animated adventure... know their audience, though all the Godfather* references will be thoroughly puzzling to at least half of it.*" Posted May 20, 2008*	Rugrats in Paris (2000)	74%
	"[An] inspired, self-referential animated musical." Posted May 20, 2008	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)	81%
	"The dialogue reproduces infantile idiom even as it parodies the baby talk of adults, and a touching, didactic scene involving a baby blanket that's become the object of sibling rivalry may appeal to a broad age range." Posted May 20, 2008	The Rugrats Movie (1998)	55%
	"This insufferable romance-adventure includes vague comedy as well as unintentional humor, and its target audience seems to be preadolescents who won't notice the calculated enthusiasm with which it sidesteps sexuality." Posted May 20, 2008	The Saint (1997)	30%
	"The fanciful associations and bad jokes are more often stupid than silly, making all the spectacle and contrived dance numbers seem a colossal waste." Posted May 20, 2008	Dudley Do-Right (1999)	14%
	"Contrasting the erotic with the disgusting is usually provocative and can be funny, but not in this underdog comedy." Posted May 19, 2008	Superstar (1999)	33%
	"Only two scenes in this spin-off are worth the time of followers of the TV series." Posted May 19, 2008	The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)	64%
	"Scenes with Peter Fonda as a melancholy grandfather -- he couldn't get a cherished engine running in time for his late wife to ride it -- periodically bring the movie screeching to a halt." Posted May 19, 2008	Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)	19%
	"The extravagant makeup and special effects are actually unobtrusive because they're demanded by the pleasantly formulaic story, whose conflicts--and broad, innocuous political allegory -- justify the heartwarming resolution." Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)	56%
	"[The] dead-on imitations of some of the characters from the television series created by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly will seem pointlessly stylized to viewers unfamiliar with the old sitcom." Posted May 19, 2008	Leave it to Beaver (1997)	19%
	"*With very little modification, this archly innocuous children's musical could have been marketed as a sequel to Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Posted May 16, 2008*	Barney - Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie (1998)	24%
	"With minimalist and universal fantasies as their points of departure, the superheroic deeds evolve only incrementally beyond the realistic -- a deeply satisfying process." Posted May 14, 2008	Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)	18%
	"[Uses] class and ethnic stereotypes in support of the idea that it's best to be adopted by rich white people." Posted May 13, 2008	Stuart Little (1999)	66%
	"Shalhoub gives an impressively nuanced performance in the dangerously cliched role, and Paulie -- a combination of trained parrots, animatronics, and the voice of Mohr -- comes across as a fully developed character." Posted May 12, 2008	Paulie (1998)	63%
	"A mishmash of iconography lifted from better movies." Posted Apr 28, 2008	Dark City (1998)	75%
	"Ritchie may be skilled at generating controlled chaos, but his surprise-a-minute strategy ultimately holds no surprises." Posted Apr 15, 2008	Snatch (2001)	71%
	"If he makes it through the trial by fire -- and a blandly twisting plot with no meaningful revelations or substantial themes -- Hawke will get a promotion, but there's nothing in it for us." Posted Apr 9, 2008	Training Day (2001)	71%
	"The movie's no roller-coaster ride, but there isn't a boring moment either." Posted Apr 9, 2008	Cop Land (1997)	71%
	"This movie restores genre elements to a level of potency that's disturbing, satisfying, and rare as hell." Posted Apr 9, 2008	L.A. Confidential (1997)	99%
	"The blend of animation techniques somehow demonstrates mastery modestly, while the special effects are nothing short of magnificent." Posted Mar 19, 2008	The Prince of Egypt (1998)	79%
	"Subplots are woven stealthily into the story, taking the pressure off the central drama, allowing it to be affecting rather than melodramatic, and heightening the atmosphere of the lush Louisiana setting." Posted Mar 19, 2008	Eve's Bayou (1997)	80%
	"Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone." Posted Mar 17, 2008	Soul Food (1997)	80%
	"Director Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe adapted McCabe's novel for this bland 1998 shocker that fails miserably as satire, character study, and anything else it might have aspired to." Posted Mar 11, 2008	The Butcher Boy (1997)	79%
	"Though it strives for broad humor, pushing cuteness and light irony, this bland 1998 movie isn't exactly a comedy." Posted Mar 11, 2008	Waking Ned Devine (1998)	82%
	"TAn enchanting, life-affirming animation of love and redemption, made with no small measure of maturity and care - along with an all too rare respect for the art of storytelling." Posted Mar 10, 2008	Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)	96%
	"Possibly the most daring and honest drama about sexuality I've ever seen." Posted Feb 12, 2008	Chuck & Buck (2000)	84%
	"Writer-director James Toback must believe his audience is hopelessly prudish if he thinks this pedantic story, which takes place over several hours in a Manhattan loft, is provocative." Posted Feb 12, 2008	Two Girls and a Guy (1997)	50%
	"Cloying fancy gives way to gross-out comedy, twisted social commentary, affecting pathos, and weirdly sexualized romance in this lurid live-action version of the classic children's book." Posted Feb 5, 2008	How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)	53%
	"Some realist nuances in the characters' behavior become more intriguing than the belabored humor." Posted Jan 14, 2008	The Dinner Game (1998)	72%
	"The first half of this movie holds some promise, but time is not on its side." Posted Jan 11, 2008	Fallen (1998)	42%
	"This is the scariest movie I've ever seen." Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Mothman Prophecies (2002)	52%
	"[A] serious, atmospheric, character-driven supernatural drama." Posted Dec 10, 2007	Stir of Echoes (1999)	69%
	"Amazingly simple editing and sound design -- most scenes are complete in one shot and use only one or two sound effects or just music in addition to the dialogue-- create a minimally realist and hypertheatrical vision of class conflict and potential doom." Posted Nov 13, 2007	The Niklashausen Journey (1970)	60%
	"*If you liked Scream* there's no reason you shouldn't like this sequel.*" Posted Sep 23, 2007*	Scream 2 (1997)	79%
	"The assumption that there's something inherently clever about a slasher movie making reference to both its genre and the filmmaking process is a fundamental flaw of this tiresome, blood-filled comedy." Posted Sep 21, 2007	Scream (1996)	84%
	"This 1968 Beatles musical gets somewhat plot heavy near the end, but it's a marvel of innocence and free association, blending several animation techniques in a loose narrative full of gentle bad puns and flowing visual segues." Posted Sep 6, 2007	Yellow Submarine (1968)	94%
	"Drew Barrymore�s virtuoso performance smooths over the plot holes." Posted Aug 7, 2007	Never Been Kissed (1999)	56%
	"It's often impossible to distinguish what's meant to be cartoonish from what's meant to be dramatic, but the confusion seems appropriately adolescent." Posted Aug 7, 2007	She's All That (1998)	37%
	"It's not supposed to be a revelation--just a pleasant rendition of a teen-comedy trope." Posted Aug 6, 2007	Can't Hardly Wait (1998)	43%
	"Each sequence is introduced by an intertitle suggesting it will contain an isolated conversation, an archly inaccurate notion that deepens the drama by appearing to deny its complexity." Posted Jul 31, 2007	Private Confessions (1996)	80%
	"Overlapping the artist's biography and his work, writer-director Leon Ichaso pointedly reflects the chaos in his subject's shortish life, but he links the artist's frustrations and talent in the usual manner: as cause and effect." Posted Jul 31, 2007	Pi�ero (2001)	45%
	"This earnest and arch story -- so fast paced its formulas are wonderfully obscured -- has an adolescent energy and a tempered sexuality, and it's infused with the moral agenda of a warmly didactic sitcom." Posted Jul 25, 2007	Bring It On (2000)	64%
	"An issue movie, a comedy, and a love story, this is pretty good at being all three." Posted Jul 24, 2007	Get Real (1999)	77%
	"This powerful, funny romantic drama neatly integrates the dilemmas of a girl in love, the girl she loves, a boy who also loves that girl, and that girl's sister." Posted Jul 18, 2007	Show Me Love (1998)	90%
	"M. Night Shyamalan neutralizes Willis's star presence with impressive plotting that's a fine excuse for the powerful atmosphere." Posted Jun 26, 2007	The Sixth Sense (1999)	84%
	"The analogy to our dependence on, say, oil is soon abandoned, the better to blur the distinction between abstract and concrete--something older viewers of this 2001 animated adventure may appreciate more than younger ones." Posted Jun 20, 2007	Monsters, Inc. (2001)	95%

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