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F	" *A lurid sort of Christopher Hitchens vision of history pervades Elizabeth: The Golden Age* … How is it possible that this orgy of anti-Catholicism has been all but ignored by critics?*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Oct 12, 2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)	34%
F	" That it is risible and dim-witted doesn't make it less disgusting." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 19, 2006	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	25%
F	" After being burned in effigy for 400 years, you'd think Guy Fawkes would appreciate a little rehabilitation, but he could hardly approve of the way the Wachowskis have done it." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Mar 17, 2006	V For Vendetta (2005)	73%
F	" A jaundiced portrait of maleness in crisis… extending not only to… the central characters, but also to the validity of manhood as exemplified by every other male character in the film." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Feb 11, 2006	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	86%
F	" Deeply troubling and potentially gravely harmful artifact of the culture of death." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Feb 17, 2005	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	91%
F	" Sheer dishonesty." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jan 21, 2005	Kinsey (2004)	90%
F	" Shamelessly manipulative and sadistically violent… a new low for both Washington and Scott, and one of the nastier bits of business in quite some time." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jun 18, 2004	Man on Fire (2004)	39%
F	" Expects the audience to enjoy the prospect of a beleaguered white man suffering at the hands of a smug, self-righteous black man who never owns up to what he's done, never gets his comeuppance, and is rewarded in the end with a badge." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jan 17, 2003	National Security (2003)	13%
F	" *In a year of cinematic good intentions defeated by flaws in execution, The Hours* stands out from the crowd: there's nothing wrong with the execution. It's the intentions that are the problem.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Jan 17, 2003	The Hours (2002)	80%
F	" [Segal’s] rising age and weight increasingly render him implausible in the action-figure role. As for Ja Rule and the other convicts, they’re about as dangerous as a schoolyard game of cops and robbers." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Nov 15, 2002	Half Past Dead (2002)	2%
F	" Gives imaginative and visual shape to as it were the very soul of misogynism, perversion, depravity, sadism, and the supreme nihilism and egotism of the damned." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 8, 2002	The Cell (2000)	43%
F	" *No, it doesn’t rise to the appalling heights of awfulness of such legendary mega-bombs as Ishtar* or Burn Hollywood Burn. It hasn’t the wit.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 8, 2002	Battlefield Earth (2000)	3%
F	" Smith isn’t content merely to promote his own generic “faith”; he has to tell us, again and again, what’s wrong with orthodox Catholic belief." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 8, 2002	Dogma (1999)	68%
F	" Gender and relationships shift and merge and re-form like blobs of goo in a lava lamp… a profoundly anti-human fantasy." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 8, 2002	Being John Malkovich (1999)	92%
F	" There is beauty to which this movie is stone cold blind: beauty it tramples on as ignorantly as Buddy Kane or Col. Fitts." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 7, 2002	American Beauty (1999)	89%
F	" *For a movie that makes such a big deal about color, Pleasantville* is awfully black and white.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 8, 2002	Pleasantville (1998)	86%
F	" *Would anyone go for a sequel to The Wizard of Oz* that catapulted Dorothy and Toto into the world of Once Were Warriors or Escape From New York?*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 8, 2002	Babe: Pig in the City (1998)	61%
F	" How has this vibrant human firebrand, this unpredictable, leaping, shouting zealot, been transformed into the sheepish, subdued, self-deprecating cypher played by Rourke?" -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 30, 2004	Francesco (1994)	n/a
F	" *Cross a certain line, and message overwhelms medium, substance overwhelms style, what* you have to say drowns out how you might be saying it.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 8, 2002	The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)	81%
D-	" Had the filmmakers deliberately set out to insult, demean, and trample upon Lee and Kirby's legacy, they could hardly have done a more efficient job." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jul 8, 2005	Fantastic Four (2005)	26%
D-	" *Having omitted virtually everything of interest from Arthurian legend and fact, Fuqua and Franzoni substitute a plot apparently borrowed from Fuqua's Tears of the Sun." -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Jul 9, 2004	King Arthur (2004)	31%
D-	" *With Kangaroo Jack, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director David McNally have done for the PG rating what they did for PG-13 with Coyote Ugly." -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Jan 17, 2003	Kangaroo Jack (2003)	8%
D-	" I’m not convinced that there’s anything more at the center of the finished picture than the director�s own interest in the subject matter." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 24, 2002	Gangs of New York (2002)	76%
D-	" A few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film, but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time, and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Nov 27, 2002	Extreme Ops (2002)	6%
D-	" "What John does is heroic, but we don't condone it," one of the film's stars recently said, a tortuous comment that perfectly illustrates the picture's moral schizophrenia." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 9, 2002	John Q (2002)	22%
D-	" *So many characters suffer such ghastly things, yet none of it seems to matter* much.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 9, 2002	Hannibal (2001)	38%
D-	" *There was one thing about The Animal* that did surprise me: the extent to which it systematically rips off Wolf.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 9, 2002	The Animal (2001)	31%
D-	" Does LaBute feel any sympathy for his victimized women, or merely contempt for their weakness?" -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 8, 2002	Nurse Betty (2000)	85%
D	" Neophytes may be left in the dust for lack of narrative connections and clarifications, while Pullman admirers of all stripes may feel short-changed on mood and atmosphere." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 6, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	41%
D	" Follows closely in the original's footsteps, except for all the business about honor, recovered self-worth and justice… There's no spiritual duel, no earned respect and debt of honor… just a broken man and a capricious one." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Sep 7, 2007	3:10 to Yuma (2007)	89%
D	" I haven't come across a fairy-tale premise calling for such childlike wonder and acceptance since the taxation of trade routes was in dispute and the greedy Trade Federation set up a blockade around the planet Naboo." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Aug 9, 2006	Lady in the Water (2006)	24%
D	" *Lacks precisely what is, at least arguably, the most haunting element in [Crimes and Misdemeanors]: its sense of genuinely conflicted existential drama." -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Jan 6, 2006	Match Point (2005)	77%
D	" Mirrors the plot of the original point for point. All that's missing is little things like subtlety, nuance, characterization, and human interest." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 17, 2004	Flight of the Phoenix (2004)	29%
D	" Makes the colossal mistake of making Luther's obsession seem almost a valid protest against conformity -- then lets the neighbors not only win but claim the moral high ground." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 8, 2004	Christmas with the Kranks (2004)	5%
D	" Thinks a happy ending is not for the boy to get to keep the dog, but for the dog to go to Hollywood… the first family film [that ends with] the father getting arrested." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Aug 18, 2004	Benji Off the Leash (2004)	32%
D	" When the high point of your movie involves a Queen Elizabeth lookalike getting down to a Euro-pop version of Edwin Starr's 'War,' something has gone disastrously wrong." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Mar 22, 2004	Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)	12%
D	" What's next? Will the Sneetches get wild and crazy? / Will the Lorax get jiggy with Daisy-Head Mayzie?" -- Decent Films Guide Posted Nov 21, 2003	Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)	12%
D	" Disney animation's attempts to recover from the collapse of its renaissance have come to an end not with a bang, or even a growl, but with a whimper." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Nov 17, 2003	Brother Bear (2003)	39%
D	" So woefully misconceived, so completely devoid of even generic, safely banal Hollywood spiritual uplift, that it made me long for the spiritual depth and religious meaning of [even] Sister Act and Bruce Almighty." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Sep 15, 2003	The Fighting Temptations (2003)	42%
D	" Thinks it is enlightened because it is down on white culture and down with black culture. It is not. Along with National Security, it represents a step backward for race relations, and for black characters in Hollywood." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Mar 7, 2003	Bringing Down the House (2003)	34%
D	" 'It's narcissistic -- solipsistic� pathetic.' It's very important that Charlie say this, just as Woody Allen must constantly condemn himself in his movies, on the theory that whatever you do on purpose, or at least knowingly, is art." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 6, 2002	Adaptation (2002)	90%
D	" *Some viewers will find Solaris* difficult or dull. My complaint is different: I think it’s dishonest.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Nov 27, 2002	Solaris (2002)	64%
D	" What the director can’t do is make either of Val Kilmer’s two personas interesting or worth caring about." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 9, 2002	Salton Sea (2002)	63%
D	" Lanie's professional success means she must be a failure at life, because she's driven by ambition and Doesn't Know How to Have Fun." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 9, 2002	Life or Something Like It (2002)	26%
D	" Pitiful entertainment, succeeding neither as spectacle, as action-adventure, or as love story." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 9, 2002	The Time Machine (2002)	28%
D	" A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The problem is, the mystery and the enigma are in one movie, and the riddle’s in an entirely different movie." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 9, 2002	Vanilla Sky (2001)	39%
D	" *The most shameless psychological quackery to come out of Hollywood since Mumford." -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 9, 2002	K-Pax (2001)	41%
D	" *By the time that you read this short essay of ours / The Grinch* will have made ten squintillion more dollars!*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 8, 2002	How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)	53%
D	" What’s with the film’s odd preoccupation with such adult themes as class, money, and sex?" -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 8, 2002	The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)	25%
D	" A film without conviction, about a town full of people with problems without depth, aided by a guru without soul." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 8, 2002	Mumford (1999)	55%

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