Movie Reviews by J30 - Page 2 of 9

21-40 of 173 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Waterworld (1995)

By J30 (173) on 13 Feb 2012

Before Titanic came out, Waterworld was the most expensive film ever produced. Comparing the two is like night and day…

Read Review

Review of Mortal Kombat (1995)

By J30 (173) on 13 Feb 2012

Video game movie adaptations haven't always been the greatest idea…

Read Review

Review of Anaconda (1997)

By J30 (173) on 13 Feb 2012

Anaconda is one of those movies you watch again late at night and think what's the big deal…

Read Review

Review of Half Nelson (2006)

By J30 (173) on 13 Feb 2012

A close to perfect film with a wonderful acting job from Ryan Gosling. He's turning into one of the great actors from this generation…

Read Review

Review of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

By J30 (173) on 13 Feb 2012

Even though Ace Ventura; When Nature Calls excedes it's predecessor, it's hard to get over how annoying Jim Carrey's character is…

Read Review

Review of The Fifth Element (1997)

By J30 (173) on 13 Feb 2012

It's hard to top the imagination and ambition of The Fifth Element…

Read Review

Review of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

By J30 (173) on 13 Feb 2012

The first Mortal Kombat movie made a lot of money, why not make another one? Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is exactly why you don't make another one…

Read Review

Review of The Godfather (1972)

By J30 (173) on 13 Feb 2012

You hear all this hype surrounding The Godfather, such as it's a masterpiece, and the movie is included in countless critics and moviegoers…

Read Review

Review of Hell and Back Again (2011)

By J30 (173) on 09 Feb 2012

After hearing about Hell and Back Again on NPR I was hoping for a poignant documentary about the horrors of coming back from war (The Hurt…

Read Review

Review of Rushmore (1998)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

The cynical Rushmore is hilarious and in some way depressing…

Read Review

Review of The Ides of March (2011)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

It's amazing to me that The Ides of March, with all the things it wants to say about modern politics, not only says what it needs to, but turns…

Read Review

Review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is simply awful. Even the writer Joss Whedon has made it clear that this is not what he had envisioned…

Read Review

Review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

A nicely wrapped up 3rd installment to Steig Larsson's movie adapted trilogy…

Read Review

Review of Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

In Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrel's turns his best dramatic performance to date, while working with a fantastic original screenplay by Zach Helm…

Read Review

Review of If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

A compelling, well told story of one particular ELF member named Daniel McGowan. I don't want to give away too much of the story…

Read Review

Review of The Road (2009)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

Cormac McCarthy's adapted novel The Road is powerful story telling in some sort of Biblical way…

Read Review

Review of Alien Resurrection (1997)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

Alien: Resurrection looks like something Joel Schumacher would make with all the style and and no soul…

Read Review

Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

This film is by far the best in the Swedish trilogy of films…

Read Review

Review of Sleepy Hollow (1999)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

Sleepy Hollow is a visually brilliant piece of work from Tim Burton, but other than that I can't say there's anything I like about the movie…

Read Review

Review of The Faculty (1998)

By J30 (173) on 30 Jan 2012

Robert Rodriguez follows up his other B-movie (From Dusk Till Dawn) with another B-movie The Faculty, which screams for a cult following…

Read Review

Page 2 of 9

Top critics this month:

Ben S (1,411)
Nigel Andrews (1,359)
Carlos I (1,309)
Josh Larsen (2,042)
Peter H (1,359)
Ann Hornaday (1,919)
Kyle Smith (1,916)
Paul W (1,226)
Lawrence Toppman (1,654)
Brian R (1,372)

Popular Movies Right Now

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Love

2015

54%174 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Upgrade

2018

76%696 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

Bullet Train

2022

66%170 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

August Rush

2007

68%881 Reviews

Iceberg

2012

54%1 Review

Devil

2010

58%778 Reviews

Everything, Everything

2017

60%314 Reviews

French Exit

2021

57%38 Reviews

Polyester

1981

73%195 Reviews

Daybreakers

2010

59%656 Reviews

Inside

2006

56%28 Reviews