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john_dies_at_the_end | 2120782 | 2013-01-02 | William Goss | true | null | 1fresh
| Film.com | Coscarelli's direction seems well-suited to the free-wheeling material, bringing a critically light touch to a story with apocalyptic stakes. | 1Positive
| http://www.film.com/movies/john-dies-at-the-end-review |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2119642 | 2012-12-20 | Harvey S. Karten | false | B | 1fresh
| Compuserve | A loopy satire of "Alien" and similar horror tales with more laughs than scares and an incredible array of visual effects. | 1Positive
| http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ws-showbiz&tid=24893 |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2105163 | 2012-09-20 | David Nusair | false | 2.5/4 | 1fresh
| Reel Film Reviews | ...a passable yet unspectacular horror effort that could (and should) have been much better... | 1Positive
| http://reelfilm.com/tiff1206.htm#john |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2057455 | 2012-02-07 | Rob Nelson | true | null | 1fresh
| Variety | Give or take the titular disclosure, John Dies at the End is a thoroughly unpredictable horror-comedy -- and an immensely entertaining one, too. | 1Positive
| null |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2057226 | 2012-02-03 | Michael Nordine | false | 2.5/5 | 0rotten
| Film Threat | What it expects of the audience is disproportionate to what it offers. | 0Negative
| null |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2055139 | 2012-01-27 | Jason Bailey | true | 2/5 | 0rotten
| DVDTalk.com | null | 0Negative
| http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/54308/john-dies-at-the-end/ |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2055138 | 2012-01-27 | Chris Bumbray | false | 4/10 | 0rotten
| JoBlo's Movie Network | Strikes me as a work-in-progress, but as it stands, the film isn't very good. However, the first forty minutes are terrific, and the two leads are great. | 0Negative
| http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=40566 |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2054751 | 2012-01-26 | John DeFore | true | null | 0rotten
| Hollywood Reporter | Horror-comedy from Phantasm director starts with a bang but quickly loses speed. | 0Negative
| http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/john-dies-at-end-sundance-film-review-284849 |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2054582 | 2012-01-25 | Simon Abrams | true | null | 0rotten
| House Next Door | In Coscarelli's reprehensibly lazy adaptation, much of which is copied note-for-note from Pargin's book, shit happens at a furious pace, and almost none of it is adequately explained. | 0Negative
| http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/01/sundance-film-festival-2012-the-surrogate-and-john-dies-at-the-end/ |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2054570 | 2012-01-25 | Nathan Rabin | true | B | 1fresh
| AV Club | It's a mess, but its best moments are exhilarating, getting hopelessly lost in Pargin's surreal, completely disorienting world. | 1Positive
| http://www.avclub.com/articles/nathan-rabin-sundance-2012-day-six,68252/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=channel_film |
john_dies_at_the_end | 2054505 | 2012-01-25 | Drew McWeeny | false | B | 1fresh
| HitFix | I think it's a movie with real mainstream possibilities, even if it is willfully strange. | 1Positive
| null |
four_2013 | 2619769 | 2019-08-28 | Nicholas Bell | false | null | 1fresh
| IONCINEMA.com | The film manages to create a brooding atmosphere that slowly tightens its grip, sloughing off familiar tropes concerning race and sexuality and hitting enough subtle notes to become more intense the more quiet it becomes. | 1Positive
| https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/four-review |
four_2013 | 2416517 | 2017-09-06 | Candice Frederick | true | C | 0rotten
| Reel Talk Online | Directed by first time feature filmmaker Joshua Sanchez, Four is an intimate look at four characters... who are all on the brink of determining who they are. | 0Negative
| http://www.reeltalkonline.org/2013/09/wendell-pierce-headlines-quiet.html |
four_2013 | 2164766 | 2013-09-18 | Brian Tallerico | true | 3.5/5.0 | 1fresh
| HollywoodChicago.com | Four goes believable places but avoids the trappings of traditional melodrama. | 1Positive
| http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/reviews/22478/great-performances-anchor-melancholy-four |
four_2013 | 2163969 | 2013-09-13 | Sam Weisberg | true | null | 0rotten
| Village Voice | [It] never achieves its intended weightiness. | 0Negative
| http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-09-11/film/four/ |
four_2013 | 2163751 | 2013-09-12 | Stephen Holden | true | 3.5/5 | 1fresh
| New York Times | The close-ups of faces convey reams of inchoate emotion and enhance the stumbling poetry mouthed by characters whose urge to connect conflicts with their innate sense of caution. | 1Positive
| null |
four_2013 | 2163411 | 2013-09-11 | Kam Williams | false | 3/4 | 1fresh
| AALBC.com | A cautionary tale featuring spectacular Fourth of July fireworks of the emotional variety. | 1Positive
| http://aalbc.it/fourfilm |
zero-bridge | 2288351 | 2015-10-11 | Derek Smith | false | 1.5/5 | 0rotten
| Tiny Mix Tapes | While the film's minimalist nature is its greatest asset in the first act, it ultimately makes its flaws and screenwriterly touches all the more apparent, resulting in some great individual slice-of-life sequences and some truly hackneyed ones. | 0Negative
| http://www.tinymixtapes.com/film/zero-bridge |
zero-bridge | 1960695 | 2011-02-20 | Marcy Dermansky | false | 4/5 | 1fresh
| About.com | Almost effortlessly, the plot of Zero Bridge grabs you. | 1Positive
| http://worldfilm.about.com/od/independentfilm/fr/Zero-Bridge.htm |
zero-bridge | 1960644 | 2011-02-19 | Nora Lee Mandel | false | 6/10 | 1fresh
| Film-Forward.com | Despite story elements that don't jive, successfully personalizes new generation's sadly thwarted yearnings for freedom from traditional restrictions in a stymied place. | 1Positive
| http://film-forward.com/history/zerobridge.html |
zero-bridge | 1960520 | 2011-02-18 | Mike Hale | true | 2.5/5 | 1fresh
| New York Times | [Director Tariq Tapa's] neorealist approach, not supported by much technique, gets dreary, but he has an ace up his sleeve. | 1Positive
| http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/movies/16zero.html?ref=movies |
zero-bridge | 1960503 | 2011-02-18 | Mark Keizer | false | 3/5 | 1fresh
| Boxoffice Magazine | A winning example of modesty in front of the camera and intelligence behind it. | 1Positive
| null |
zero-bridge | 1960173 | 2011-02-17 | Chris Cabin | false | 3/5 | 0rotten
| Filmcritic.com | The fact that Tariq Tapa's Zero Bridge has been forged on such bare, simple terms makes it hard to quibble with the film's more glaring faults | 0Negative
| null |
zero-bridge | 1960151 | 2011-02-17 | Scott Tobias | true | C+ | 0rotten
| AV Club | The wisp of a story that drives the film follows the neo-realist template a little too closely. | 0Negative
| http://www.avclub.com/articles/zero-bridge,52015/ |
zero-bridge | 1960119 | 2011-02-17 | Louis Proyect | false | null | 1fresh
| rec.arts.movies.reviews | An amazing first film by a 29 year old director/screenwriter/cameraman on location in war-torn Kashmir. Not explicitly a radical film, it has references to this beautiful country's war-related suffering in almost every frame. | 1Positive
| http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/zero-bridge/ |
zero-bridge | 1959954 | 2011-02-16 | Frank Scheck | true | null | 1fresh
| Hollywood Reporter | Rough hewn neo-realist drama from India has its sociological fascinations. | 1Positive
| http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/zero-bridge-film-review-100384 |
zero-bridge | 1959940 | 2011-02-16 | Prairie Miller | false | null | 1fresh
| WBAI Radio | The gritty tale, crafted in the social realist tradition, is a raw metaphor touching on the psychology of mass misery in that Indian occupied police state, where even the movie theaters are now expropriated military headquarters. | 1Positive
| http://wbai.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11187&Itemid=2 |
zero-bridge | 1959929 | 2011-02-16 | Maria Garcia | false | null | 1fresh
| Film Journal International | This excellent debut film provides an insider's view of life in Kashmir. | 1Positive
| http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/reviews/specialty-releases/e3i7e53877825d82c204fd7384a29eb5ba5 |
zero-bridge | 1959759 | 2011-02-15 | Ella Taylor | true | null | 1fresh
| Village Voice | Made for a song with a non-pro cast and DV camera gear out of his backpack, Tariq Tapa's debut feature shows the young Kashmiri-American as a filmmaker of enormous promise and precocious maturity. | 1Positive
| http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-02-16/film/zero-bridge-poetic-neorealism-in-beleaguered-kashmir/ |
zero-bridge | 1958213 | 2011-02-13 | Bill Weber | true | 2.5/4 | 1fresh
| Slant Magazine | An anecdotal, frequently evocative debut feature chronicling a teenage pickpocket's restless life in a Kashmiri town. | 1Positive
| http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/zero-bridge/5279 |
once_i_was_engaged | 2810322 | 2021-07-31 | Sean P. Means | false | 3/4 | 1fresh
| The Movie Cricket | There are several unforced moments of humor, and most of them ... capitalize on [Lisa Valentine] Clark's sharp comedic skills and [Clare] Niederpruem's bubbly charm. | 1Positive
| https://moviecricket.net/blog/2021/7/20/review-once-i-was-engaged-finds-the-universal-humor-in-pre-wedding-craziness-with-a-hint-of-latter-day-saint-culture |
once_i_was_engaged | 2808531 | 2021-07-24 | Rachel Wagner | false | 4/10 | 0rotten
| rachelsreviews.net | The problem with a movie like this is if the chemistry is off and the jokes aren't working the whole thing feels very self-absorbed and tiresome quickly | 0Negative
| https://wp.me/p4VRGy-4Cs |
the_lie_of_the_land_2008 | 2412576 | 2017-08-22 | Dorothy Woodend | false | null | 1fresh
| The Tyee (British Columbia) | What I found most enthralling about this film was simply the farmers themselves. Blunt, plainspoken and wonderfully idiosyncratic, the opportunity to be in their company was a deeply compelling experience. | 1Positive
| https://thetyee.ca/Entertainment/2008/09/19/VIFF2008/ |
24_2021 | 2849214 | 2021-12-26 | Panos Kotzathanasis | false | 7.5 | 1fresh
| Asian Movie Pulse | "24" is a truly remarkable film, a masterclass in deadpan humor, cinematography and sound, while also featuring a documentary-level presentation of the work of the sound man. Definitely among the best of the year. | 1Positive
| https://asianmoviepulse.com/2021/10/film-review-24-2021-by-royston-tan/ |
24_2021 | 2830932 | 2021-10-12 | John Berra | false | null | 1fresh
| Screen International | Filmed over the course of three years in Singapore and Thailand, this is a spellbinding meditation on life and mortality which incorporates Tan's trademark absurdist humour within a beguiling framework. | 1Positive
| https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/24-busan-review/5164132.article |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1286464 | 2004-06-04 | Chris Hewitt | false | 2/4 | 0rotten
| St. Paul Pioneer Press | Dull and ugly. | 0Negative
| null |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1274119 | 2004-04-20 | Dan Jardine | false | 76/100 | 1fresh
| Cinemania | In Just an American Boy, Steve Earle proves that he just may be the most important American troubadour of his generation | 1Positive
| http://djardine.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_djardine_archive.html |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1229193 | 2003-12-12 | Richard Harrington | true | null | 0rotten
| Washington Post | Decidedly low-tech and not always particularly coherent or cohesive. | 0Negative
| null |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1228161 | 2003-12-10 | Frank Scheck | true | null | 1fresh
| Hollywood Reporter | While the film's coziness toward its subject is ultimately frustrating, it does provide a welcome portrait of one of the music industry's genuine and rare iconoclasts. | 1Positive
| null |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1225259 | 2003-12-04 | Monica Eng | true | 2/4 | 0rotten
| Chicago Tribune | Even for a big fan like me, parts of this documentary (especially musical performances) just go on too long. | 0Negative
| http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-031203-movies-review-me-justanamericanboy,0,4502922.story |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1223110 | 2003-11-28 | Joan Anderman | true | 3/4 | 1fresh
| Boston Globe | Earle's song introductions, like those of his mentors Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, are as meaty, pointed, and touching as the tunes themselves, and his spoken words -- full of humor and humanity -- are the heart of the film. | 1Positive
| http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=5167 |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1217661 | 2003-11-12 | Ken Hanke | false | 4/5 | 1fresh
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Did it make me want to run out and buy his albums? Well, maybe not, but it did make me like the man and respect the activist -- and the artist. Three out of four ain't bad | 1Positive
| http://mountainx.com/movies/j/justanamericanboy.php |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1216741 | 2003-11-07 | Lou Lumenick | true | 2/4 | 0rotten
| New York Post | A mediocre music documentary. | 0Negative
| null |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1216737 | 2003-11-07 | Ken Fox | false | 1.5/5 | 0rotten
| TV Guide | Earle -- and his fans -- deserve better. | 0Negative
| http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/ShowMovie.asp?MI=44996 |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1215998 | 2003-11-06 | Stephen Holden | true | 3/5 | 1fresh
| New York Times | A crude but stirring video documentary. | 1Positive
| null |
steve_earle_just_an_american_boy | 1213954 | 2003-11-04 | Josh Goldfein | true | null | 0rotten
| Village Voice | There's a tantalizing excerpt from Earle's performance of 'John Walker' on Fox News, but otherwise we mostly see him working his broad catalog for adoring crowds. | 0Negative
| http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0345/goldfein2.php |
left_behind_2014 | 102689663 | 2022-05-15 | Eddie Harrison | false | 1/5 | 0rotten
| film-authority.com | …Left Behind seems entirely preoccupied with the mechanics of landing a jet aircraft on a motorway rather than any advanced theological questions... | 0Negative
| https://film-authority.com/2022/05/15/left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2763092 | 2021-02-02 | Richard Crouse | false | 2/5 | 0rotten
| Richard Crouse | Cage is a practitioner of the Nouveau Shamanic school of acting but here he has dialled it down perhaps out of respect to the religious nature of the material, or perhaps he's saving the wild stuff for Con Air 2: This Time it's Biblical. | 0Negative
| http://www.richardcrouse.ca/left-behind-2-stars/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2748065 | 2020-12-04 | Mike Massie | false | 1/10 | 0rotten
| Gone With The Twins | Rather than focusing primarily on the religious aspects, the film mishmashes multiple genres, desperately hoping for a wider appeal. | 0Negative
| http://gonewiththetwins.com/new/left-behind-2014/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2622076 | 2019-09-05 | Nicholas Bell | false | 0.5/5 | 0rotten
| IONCINEMA.com | For a film concerning the beginning of the end of times, Left Behind sure is bereft of any kind of tension. | 0Negative
| https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/left-behind-review |
left_behind_2014 | 2504168 | 2018-08-28 | Pat Padua | false | 2/5 | 0rotten
| Spectrum Culture | Left Behind is essentially a bad disaster movie, but I swear to God I've seen worse movies this year, and worse Nicolas Cage movies at that. I can't in good faith tell you to see it, but I'd be lying if I told you I didn't enjoy it. | 0Negative
| https://spectrumculture.com/2014/10/05/left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2435391 | 2017-11-14 | Reagan Gavin Rasquinha | false | 2/5 | 0rotten
| The Times of India | The basic premise of the film could have made for an engaging and far-out watch. The very concept of the Rapture could have been depicted with power and mystery, but instead the opposite is achieved in a film that just looks slapdash. | 0Negative
| https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/movie-reviews/Left-Behind/movie-review/44770518.cms |
left_behind_2014 | 2420966 | 2017-09-21 | Matthew Paul Turner | false | null | 0rotten
| The Daily Beast | Overt Christian messages and Cage's omnipresence are not the only reasons why Left Behind is a terrible movie. And yes, it's indeed terrible-god-awful, a less interesting, more convoluted version of the original Left Behind. | 0Negative
| http://www.thedailybeast.com/left-behind-review-nicolas-cages-bible-movie-is-god-awful |
left_behind_2014 | 2409546 | 2017-08-10 | Sr. Rose Pacatte | false | null | 0rotten
| National Catholic Reporter | This new film is a watered-down and somewhat changed version of the earlier movie with a bigger budget and not much else. There is barely enough undercooked scriptural theology to critique in the vacuous writing and painful acting. | 0Negative
| https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/left-behind-or-lost-space |
left_behind_2014 | 2351880 | 2016-09-20 | Rebecca Pahle | false | null | 0rotten
| Pajiba | There's no drama. No suspense. No real stakes, even, because most of the movie takes place after the Rapture already happened. | 0Negative
| http://www.pajiba.com/seriously_random_lists/everything-wrong-with-left-behind.php |
left_behind_2014 | 2330539 | 2016-05-30 | Jason Bailey | true | null | 0rotten
| Flavorwire | The effects are hilarious, the sets are rinky-dink, and the character names are funnier than a full season of 'Big Bang Theory,' and the "narrative arc" of our heroine is laughably predictable. | 0Negative
| http://flavorwire.com/498111/so-bad-its-good-nicolas-cage-goes-christian-in-the-bafflingly-misguided-left-behind |
left_behind_2014 | 2261660 | 2015-05-12 | Sean Burns | false | null | 0rotten
| North Shore Movies | The only prayers Left Behind inspires are for Nicolas Cage's career. | 0Negative
| https://northshoremovies.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/review-left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2253315 | 2015-03-26 | John Noonan | false | 2/5 | 0rotten
| FILMINK (Australia) | Ostensibly an exploration of biblical themes, Left Behind avoids any theological debate to revel unsuccessfully in the mass-hysteria created by God's Rapture. | 0Negative
| http://www.filmink.com.au/reviews/left-behind-dvd/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2242013 | 2015-01-13 | Randall Colburn | false | D- | 0rotten
| Consequence | I never thought I'd write this, but Kirk Cameron's Left Behind, flawed as it is, looks and sounds better in almost every single way. | 0Negative
| http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/film-review-left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2232797 | 2014-11-09 | Linda Cook | false | 0/4 | 0rotten
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | Outlandishly inept in every way, 'Left Behind' is easily one of the worst movies of 2014. | 0Negative
| http://qctimes.com/entertainment/columnists/linda-cook/left-behind-takes-faith-based-movies-to-new-low/article_d1df6b80-58b5-59cb-96c3-f73d8cc68b3e.html |
left_behind_2014 | 2231451 | 2014-10-31 | Robert Levin | false | 1.5/4 | 0rotten
| amNewYork | My goodness, what on earth is Nicolas Cage doing in this movie? | 0Negative
| http://www.amny.com/entertainment/left-behind-movie-review-1-5-stars-1.9460335 |
left_behind_2014 | 2230370 | 2014-10-25 | Tim Brayton | false | 2/10 | 0rotten
| Antagony & Ecstasy | A very circumscribed, boring thriller that director Vic Armstrong hobbles with a very quiet, non-urgent tone throughout. | 0Negative
| http://antagonie.blogspot.com/2014/10/all-rapt-up.html |
left_behind_2014 | 2229345 | 2014-10-20 | Alonso Duralde | true | null | 0rotten
| Linoleum Knife | The first movie made from this material was all about the Anti-Christ taking over the UN. This one's about landing a plane. | 0Negative
| http://bit.ly/1rmgvRg |
left_behind_2014 | 2228932 | 2014-10-17 | Joshua Starnes | false | 3.5/10 | 0rotten
| ComingSoon.net | I am now relatively certain there is a Hell and it is a darkened theater with no doors showing Left Behind on a loop for eternity. | 0Negative
| http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=123645 |
left_behind_2014 | 2227201 | 2014-10-09 | Susan Granger | false | 1/10 | 0rotten
| SSG Syndicate | Faith-driven audiences deserve better... | 0Negative
| http://susangranger.com/?p=7918 |
left_behind_2014 | 2227126 | 2014-10-09 | Monica Castillo | true | 2.5/10 | 0rotten
| Paste Magazine | The movie unravels in its own destruction. Every effort to milk the tragedy of the apocalypse is met with terrible music, acting and effects that soak (and drown) the pathos in camp fare. | 0Negative
| http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/10/left-behind.html |
left_behind_2014 | 2227125 | 2014-10-09 | Max Nicholson | false | 2/10 | 0rotten
| IGN Movies | Unfortunately, even after the rapture starts, Left Behind never picks up steam. | 0Negative
| http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/03/left-behind-review |
left_behind_2014 | 2226949 | 2014-10-08 | William Goss | true | null | 0rotten
| Austin Chronicle | ...may be one of the most inept films to ever see a wide theatrical release. | 0Negative
| http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2014-10-03/left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226593 | 2014-10-05 | Nell Minow | true | D | 0rotten
| Movie Mom | "Left Behind" is being marketed as Christian entertainment, but it does not qualify in either category. | 0Negative
| https://moviemom.com/left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226564 | 2014-10-05 | Martin Scribbs | false | 0/4 | 0rotten
| Mixed Reviews | I can't wait for Nic Cage to explain THIS one to God on Judgment Day. | 0Negative
| null |
left_behind_2014 | 2226539 | 2014-10-04 | Matt Brunson | false | 1/4 | 0rotten
| Creative Loafing | Left Behind isn't a movie for progressive Christians any more than it's a movie for people who appreciate top production values, convincing acting or superlative dialogue. | 0Negative
| http://clclt.com/charlotte/left-behind-pray-that-it-ends/Content?oid=3540619 |
left_behind_2014 | 2226476 | 2014-10-03 | William Bibbiani | false | 3.5/10 | 0rotten
| CraveOnline | It's bad alright, but not so bad it's good. It's just so bad it's bad. And that's too bad. | 0Negative
| http://www.craveonline.com/film/reviews/769641-left-behind-review-god-enfreude |
left_behind_2014 | 2226475 | 2014-10-03 | Kevin Carr | false | 1/5 | 0rotten
| Fat Guys at the Movies | the most boring version of the Rapture I could have ever imagined | 0Negative
| http://www.fatguysatthemovies.com/left-behind-movie-review/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226425 | 2014-10-03 | Todd Jorgenson | false | null | 0rotten
| Cinemalogue | The heavy-handed sermonizing tends to compromise most of the suspense, and the overwrought climax is both ridiculous and unintentionally hilarious. | 0Negative
| http://www.cinemalogue.com/2014/10/03/capsule-reviews-for-oct-3/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226424 | 2014-10-03 | Luke Y. Thompson | false | null | 0rotten
| The Robot's Voice | ...it's a much better film many times over than the 2000 version with Kirk Cameron...which is to say it's still a slightly below-average movie. | 0Negative
| http://www.toplessrobot.com/2014/10/tr_review_left_behinds_a_sermon_without_substance.php |
left_behind_2014 | 2226386 | 2014-10-03 | Gary Goldstein | true | null | 0rotten
| Los Angeles Times | A shoo-in to clean up at the next Razzie Awards. | 0Negative
| http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-left-behind-movie-review-20141003-story.html |
left_behind_2014 | 2226385 | 2014-10-03 | James Berardinelli | true | 0.5/4 | 0rotten
| ReelViews | Not only is this an amateurish travesty combining fundamentalist Christian eschatology with disaster movie b.s., but it's plodding and tedious. | 0Negative
| http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=2812 |
left_behind_2014 | 2226384 | 2014-10-03 | Liz Braun | false | 1/5 | 0rotten
| Jam! Movies | When you are following in the footsteps of Kirk Cameron, nothing good can come from that. | 0Negative
| http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Reviews/L/Left_Behind/2014/10/03/21984406.html?cid=rssentertainment |
left_behind_2014 | 2226376 | 2014-10-03 | Nathan Rabin | false | 2.5/5 | 0rotten
| The Dissolve | Left Behind feels almost intentionally incomplete and unsatisfying. | 0Negative
| http://thedissolve.com/reviews/1116-left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226372 | 2014-10-03 | Steve Macfarlane | true | .5/4 | 0rotten
| Slant Magazine | Left Behind is one of those films so deeply, fundamentally terrible that it feels unwittingly high-concept. | 0Negative
| http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/left-behind |
left_behind_2014 | 2226366 | 2014-10-03 | Paul Chambers | false | F | 0rotten
| Movie Chambers | There are millions of Christians with average or above-average intelligence. I'd like to think that I'm one of them. So, what possessed the makers of "Left Behind" to produce such an ignorant piece of garbage that's easily one of the worst films of 2014? | 0Negative
| http://www.moviechambers.com/2014/10/03/movie-review-left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226357 | 2014-10-03 | Steve Persall | false | D | 0rotten
| Tampa Bay Times | The spiritual lesson of the Rapture disaster Left Behind is simple: If actors pray enough, they can get out of this movie. | 0Negative
| http://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/movies/review-just-pray-for-left-behind-to-be-over/2200481 |
left_behind_2014 | 2226283 | 2014-10-03 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | false | 1/5 | 0rotten
| Common Sense Media | Aside from [its] faulty conceit, the movie, on a pure thriller level, is a massive collection of awkward, poorly written character moments and supposedly spectacular set pieces that are stretched far too thin. | 0Negative
| https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/left-behind-0 |
left_behind_2014 | 2226266 | 2014-10-03 | Christy Lemire | true | 1/4 | 0rotten
| RogerEbert.com | It should have more smoldering panic bursting into full-blown freak-outs. It should have more passion, more intensity. It should have more bees. | 0Negative
| http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/left-behind-2014 |
left_behind_2014 | 2226265 | 2014-10-03 | Bilge Ebiri | true | null | 0rotten
| New York Magazine/Vulture | Left Behind is biblical in its silliness. | 0Negative
| http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/movie-review-left-behind.html |
left_behind_2014 | 2226252 | 2014-10-03 | Brian Orndorf | false | D+ | 0rotten
| Blu-ray.com | It's no shock to share that Cage is a major step up from Cameron, but it's surprising to see the new Left Behind refuse the benefit of hindsight, content to make the same corny, labored film all over again. | 0Negative
| http://www.blu-ray.com/Left-Behind/325360/#Preview |
left_behind_2014 | 2226236 | 2014-10-03 | Chris Bumbray | false | 0/10 | 0rotten
| JoBlo's Movie Network | Bargain-basement Evangelical stuff. Notice the devout Muslim passenger gets "left behind". Belongs in a church basement, not a movie theater. | 0Negative
| http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-left-behind-257 |
left_behind_2014 | 2226210 | 2014-10-02 | Fred Topel | false | null | 0rotten
| Nuke the Fridge | My version was the Jerry Bruckheimer Nicolas Cage running around an apocalyptic wasteland saving the world from the Antichrist. That's not what Left Behind is. | 0Negative
| http://nukethefridge.com/2014/10/02/left-behind-review/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226207 | 2014-10-02 | Amy Nicholson | true | D | 0rotten
| L.A. Weekly | It believes people might buy a ticket to Left Behind and not know the twist, like someone sitting down to watch Godzilla and being shocked by the entrance of a giant lizard. | 0Negative
| http://www.laweekly.com/2014-10-02/filmtv/left-behind-is-sinfully-boring/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226204 | 2014-10-02 | Jim Judy | false | null | 0rotten
| Screen It! | While it might not be as cringe-worthy as the Kirk Cameron version, it still leaves a lot to be desired. (Full Content Review for Parents also Available) | 0Negative
| http://www.screenit.com/ourtake/2014/left_behind_2014.html |
left_behind_2014 | 2226197 | 2014-10-02 | Jeanne Kaplan | false | null | 0rotten
| Kaplan vs. Kaplan | A dismal, inane and laughable screenplay. | 0Negative
| http://www.kaplanvskaplan.com/new-releases/left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226196 | 2014-10-02 | David Kaplan | false | null | 0rotten
| Kaplan vs. Kaplan | The movie is astoundingly awful on so many levels. I suspect that Bible thumpers and end-of-the-world fanatics will be "en-raptured" by its doom-and-gloom message, but for the rest of the movie-going public, it is an unintentionally laughable experience. | 0Negative
| http://www.kaplanvskaplan.com/new-releases/left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226192 | 2014-10-02 | Mark Dujsik | false | 1/4 | 0rotten
| Mark Reviews Movies | [T]he movie is just too silly, roundabout, and bungling to feel anything other than a little pity for it. | 0Negative
| http://www.markreviewsmovies.com/reviews/L/leftbehind-2014.htm |
left_behind_2014 | 2226191 | 2014-10-02 | Anders Wright | false | 0.5/4 | 0rotten
| San Diego Union-Tribune | "Left Behind" is terrible because it's poorly written, flat in tone and generally pandering to the faithful by not offering any complexity whatsoever. | 0Negative
| http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/oct/02/left-behind-movie-review/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226116 | 2014-10-02 | Linda Barnard | true | 0.5/4 | 0rotten
| Toronto Star | Score one for Satan. | 0Negative
| http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2014/10/02/tusk_kite_and_left_behind_movie_reviews.html |
left_behind_2014 | 2226115 | 2014-10-02 | Sara Stewart | true | 1/4 | 0rotten
| New York Post | Featuring local-cable production values and dialogue that seems written by a crack team of Sunday schoolers, director Vic Armstrong's "Left Behind" does no favors for the Christian proponents of its belief system ... | 0Negative
| http://nypost.com/2014/10/02/audiences-get-an-earful-and-little-else-from-preachy-left-behind/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226114 | 2014-10-02 | Jeannette Catsoulis | true | null | 0rotten
| New York Times | Forced to wait at least half an hour for the skeletal plot to kick in, we have plenty of time to notice the awkward dialogue and slapdash logic. | 0Negative
| null |
left_behind_2014 | 2226097 | 2014-10-02 | Chris Knight | false | 2/4 | 0rotten
| National Post | Longtime stuntman-turned-director Vic Armstrong manages the pacing well enough, although writers Paul Lalonde and John Patus leave plot holes big enough to handle a jumbo jet. | 0Negative
| http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/10/02/left-behind-reviewed-nicolas-cage-rapture-carries-a-whiff-of-made-for-tv/ |
left_behind_2014 | 2226083 | 2014-10-02 | John Hazelton | false | null | 0rotten
| Screen International | [A] clumsy religious thriller, clearly intended to introduce the material to a more mainstream crowd. | 0Negative
| http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/left-behind/5078216.article |
left_behind_2014 | 2226078 | 2014-10-02 | Mark Jenkins | true | null | 0rotten
| NPR | American Idol champ Jordin Sparks .. sings the end-credits ditty, "I Wish We'd All Been Ready." Viewers will wish that director Vic Armstrong and scripters Paul Lalonde and John Patus had been ready, too. | 0Negative
| http://www.npr.org/2014/10/02/352989184/a-man-a-plane-a-rapture-left-behind?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=movies |