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Scott Rosenberg
Scott Rosenberg's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Movies reviews only
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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) |
Four Weddings and a Funeral could use more of Atkinson's comic spirit. But what really prevents the film from achieving the kind of touching amusement it aims at is MacDowell's ungainly performance. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 29, 2024
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Pulp Fiction (1994) |
Pulp Fiction's bursts of ingenuity and wit are swimming in a big pool of screen time that's been awfully casually frittered away. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 29, 2024
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Dune (1984) |
In cramming a 500-page novel into a 140-million film, Lynch has salvaged the names and faces of Dune but lost its ideas, its social resonance, even its suspense. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Feb 14, 2024
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992) |
What stirred the soul of Michael Mann, chronicler of today's alienated urban criminals and their equally alienated opponents, to undertake this grand but ultimately foolish project about an alienated wilderness hero from two centuries ago? - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Dec 15, 2023
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The Day After (1983) |
It blends right in with the surrounding mediocrities on the TV schedule; and once you let it into your living room, it will turn off the lights, block the exits, and proceed to dismember your psychological defenses. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Nov 22, 2023
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Heavenly Creatures (1994) |
Jackson plainly remembers what it's like to be a teenager. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted May 15, 2023
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Army of Darkness (1992) |
It sounds better in concept than in execution. It's not that Raimi has run out of cheerily spectacular effects and giddily dumb jokes... The trouble with the movie is that it parades its own lameness without ever finding a way to transcend it. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Mar 31, 2023
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Groundhog Day (1993) |
Groundhog Day could have been a dull one-joke film, but Murray and Ramis make it work by doggedly pursuing the implications of their outlandish premise. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Dec 21, 2022
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Addams Family Values (1993) |
It joins the select roster of sequels that defy the natural half-life of inspiration and somehow surpass their predecessors in quality... You won't mistake it for art, but you'll probably be tickled ghastly. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Amadeus (1984) |
Forman's film is an improvement on Shaffer's play, but wherever Amadeus turns up, in whatever medium, it's a poor excuse for art. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jul 11, 2022
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El Mariachi (1992) |
Rodriguez makes his limitations serve the film: The underpopulated landscape has a poetic feel, and the jittery hand-held shots add to the tension. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 08, 2021
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Schindler's List (1993) |
A thoughtful, rigorous and thereby moving piece of work. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Apr 14, 2021
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Bhaji on the Beach (1993) |
Meera Syal's screenplay treads lightly through such potential melodramas, finding surprises and contradictions that add depth to' their colorful surfaces. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Mar 18, 2021
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The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) |
Little Jo is resolutely unsensationalistic about its material... Yet the movie's earnestness is also its biggest flaw: Writer-director Maggie Greenwald's manner is more that of a bright sociologist than that of a creative storyteller. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Mar 18, 2021
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Starship Troopers (1997) |
Lacks the courage of the book's fascist conclusions. - Salon.com
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| Posted May 29, 2002
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I Am Cuba (1964) |
It still has power to surprise and, occasionally, to enchant. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 21, 2001
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The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) |
The sitcom elements are strung together rather than interwoven; there's no sense of movement or development in the film. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Quick and the Dead (1995) |
Perhaps another director could have gotten both tribute and parody to work together; in Raimi's hands, they instead cast doubt upon each other. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Living in Oblivion (1995) |
A smart, funny send-up of the trials and joys of filming on big egos and low budgets - subjects that writer-director Tom DiCillo and his collaborators presumably know first-hand. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Losing Isaiah (1995) |
Losing Isaiah raises hopes for itself by dealing with a social issue as a disturbing dilemma rather than, in typical Hollywood style, as a heroic cause. But it's unwilling to follow through. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Small Soldiers (1998) |
Fortunately, it's possible to ignore the morals entirely and simply enjoy the filmmakers' skill at creating carefully contained mayhem in a microcosm. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Death and the Maiden (1994) |
The lesson shapes the drama, rather than arising from it. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) |
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has its loopy appeal, and anyone with a taste for gore or Gothic will get at least one or two galvanic kicks out of it. But there's a deep psychological void at the film's center. - San Francisco Free Press
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Event Horizon (1997) |
It's as if any glint of subtlety has been swallowed by a black hole. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Fifth Element (1997) |
As you sit through the interminable two-hours-plus that constitute The Fifth Element -- a colossally stupid, overbearingly pompous new movie by Luc Besson -- you can expect to become acquainted with boredom on the most elemental level. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Something to Talk About (1995) |
Director Lasse Hallstrom glazes the film with too much faux bluegrass music, and the equine fantasy-world of the King Ranch is so enveloping that it suffocates all aspirations to more serious drama. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Virtuosity (1995) |
There's a tiredness to its action sequences and a dullness about its plotting that no amount of special-effects legerdemain can hide. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) |
Lightweight fun. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The War (1994) |
Some stories get told because somebody has an itch to tell them. Others get told because somebody wants to teach you a lesson. - San Francisco Free Press
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Bandit Queen (1994) |
Seema Biswas, who plays the protagonist, conveys a remarkable range of suffering - bleeding, at its extremes, into a kind of pure, white-hot hate that makes the anger of Thelma and Louise look like playground stuff. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Murder in the First (1995) |
It's a sorry excuse for a serious movie. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Floundering (1994) |
Floundering has floundered so thoroughly by the time of this catharsis that it, like everything else in the film, falls flat. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Hamlet (1996) |
Every little triumph seems to inspire in Branagh some accompanying act of bad taste or judgment. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Independence Day (1996) |
There's precious little reward in plumbing the world-historical implications of the screenplay. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Shallow Grave (1995) |
Loathsome people can make for absorbing entertainment, but after a while you may want to say: not today, thank you. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) |
Without ostentation or self-consciousness, the film immerses you in the spume, fog and glare of the seaside life, with its temporal mysteries and its organic metamorphoses. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
I assumed that this was what all movies ought to be: treasures for moral and aesthetic contemplation that did not provide all their answers on first contact. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Flower of My Secret (1995) |
It slowly unfolds from a narrow satire into a romance that's rich with real-life bitterness. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Tank Girl (1995) |
She may not be to everyone's taste, but she's certainly refreshing. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Gattaca (1997) |
When they sculpted the DNA for the perfect race in Gattaca, somebody left out the gene for self-knowledge. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Doctor Zhivago (1965) |
When the bland epics of Sir Richard Attenborough and Roland Joffe are long forgotten, people will still be watching David Lean's work. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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12 Monkeys (1995) |
What's remarkable about 12 Monkeys is that, despite its decade-hopping abandon, the film makes a chilling kind of narrative sense. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Net (1995) |
The movie, it turns out, isn't about the Internet at all. That's no crime, but it's a sad waste of a good title. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Nobody's Fool (1994) |
It's in dealing with Sully's past that Nobody's Fool succumbs to the kind of didactic sentimentality that Hollywood's visions of everyday people and lives so often rely upon. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Strange Days (1995) |
An ambitious but ultimately disappointing attempt to assemble the latest in fringe-culture byproducts ... into a Hollywood package. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Legends of the Fall (1994) |
Zwick seems to have taken Terrence Malick's gorgeous Days of Heaven as his model, but he lacks Malick's sense of geometry, and his aspiration to mythic quality feels more pretentious than heartfelt. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Mars Attacks! (1996) |
A throwaway piece of pop ephemera, like a '90s Casino Royale, momentarily arresting and soon forgotten. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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