Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
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publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following
Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
Judith Egerton
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3.5/4
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Chinatown propelled Jack Nicholson to a higher level of stardom, and Devil in a Blue Dress should do the same for Washington.
Posted Oct 20, 2021
2
4/4
Sideways (2004)
Shame on the academy if Giamatti isn't on the ballot this year
Posted Dec 2, 2004
3
2.5/4
The Forgotten (2004)
The Forgotten is kinetic enough to keep you in your seat, but it slips from memory quickly.
Posted Sep 25, 2004
4
3/4
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004)
In the end, it is the complex aura surrounding Owen's character...that stay with the viewer long after the threads of the story have unraveled in one's mind.
Posted Aug 13, 2004
5
3/4
Collateral (2004)
Nice guy Tom Cruise is bad - very bad - in Michael Mann's new movie, Collateral. And that's good.
Posted Aug 6, 2004
6
3.5/4
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
With Meryl Streep in an updated version of the Angela Lansbury role, Denzel Washington in the Frank Sinatra part...the movie is a virtual master class of acting.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
7
5/5
Better than the movie
Posted Jul 26, 2004
8
3/4
De-Lovely (2004)
Kevin Kline's acting and musical talent combine to make Irwin Winkler's beautiful yet flawed De-Lovely a movie to see.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
9
2/4
I hoped for far more laughs, a sharper edge to the humor and a comedy that would attain the rank of other SNL alum works such as Caddyshack.
Posted Jul 9, 2004
10
3/4
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
No, it's not a movie about two first ladies married to adulterous husbands.
Posted Jul 7, 2004
11
3/4
Affliction (1997)
One wonders why Dafoe is even in the movie. But Nolte is, and that's what enriches Schrader's bleak drama.
Posted Jul 7, 2004
12
2/4
In Dreams (1999)
Someday, Annette Bening is going to star in a movie that's as interesting and powerful as she can be as an actress.
Posted Jul 7, 2004
13
3/4
The General (1998)
Neither Boorman's cinematic expertise nor Gleeson's canny performance is enough to make us care about Cahill's destruction.
Posted Jul 7, 2004
14
4/4
The English Patient (1996)
It's Casablanca set amid the swirling Sahara sands of North Africa and the voluptuous hills of Tuscany.
Posted Jul 6, 2004
15
3/4
Unhook the Stars (1996)
Cassavetes' film reveals that he has a sharp eye for human nature.
Posted Jul 6, 2004
16
3/4
Tin Cup (1996)
Like other Shelton movies, it's dappled with interesting characters.
Posted Jul 6, 2004
17
2.5/4
Career Girls (1997)
More modest and less involving than Secrets & Lies.
Posted Jul 6, 2004
18
2.5/4
A political thriller with a cautionary message, but it doesn't carry out its mission.
Posted Jul 6, 2004
19
3.5/4
A Civil Action (1998)
A legal drama that doesn't follow the usual Hollywood-John Grisham formula.
Posted Jul 6, 2004
20
2.5/4
Existenz (1999)
Brave moviegoers and fans of writer-director David Cronenberg will find funny dialogue and grotesquely engrossing scenes in his latest sci-fi horror tale.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
21
2.5/4
Mysteries of Egypt (1998)
22
2.5/4
It is disconcerting to see {Jackson}...after watching his exceptional performances as crazy criminals in two Quentin Tarantino movies.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
23
3/4
Wild Wild West (1999)
I recommend you suspend any whiff of disbelief and enjoy Sonnenfeld's hammy sci-fi Western, set in the late 1860s.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
24
3.5/4
The Eel (Unagi) (1998)
Imamura composed The Eel with an artist's eye and takes his time, so don't expect a fast-paced American-style film.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
25
3.5/4
Music of the Heart (1999)
Doesn't revolve around a self-centered main character or possess the schmaltz of Mr. Holland's Opus.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
26
3.5/4
Anna and the King (2000)
The third major screen version of the story, has much to recommend it.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
27
2/4
Where the Heart Is (2000)
The script, based on a novel by Billie Lett, is sprinkled with phrases meant to be poignant and funny, but sound like repackaged cliches.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
28
2.5/4
Dinosaur (2000)
The movie follows a rather dull tale similar to the 1988 animated film The Land Before Time.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
29
3.5/4
Men of Honor (2000)
The decision to shift some of the attention to De Niro's character...dilutes the power of Brashear's fascinating life story.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
30
3/4
The Cat's Meow (2001)
Dunst gives us a bright, bubbly woman with comedic talent.
Posted Jul 2, 2004
31
2.5/4
Down in the Delta (1998)
Employs too many redundant, stagy flashbacks to tell the story of Loretta's ancestors.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
32
3/4
Cousin Bette (1998)
A revenge drama, with Lange's Bette pulling the strings.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
33
2.5/4
Halloween H20 (1998)
The selfish pea brains who brought their bright-eyed infant to...this violent horror movie deserve a private, late-night visit from the uncompromising Michael Myers.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
34
2/4
I Married a Strange Person (1998)
Newlyweds often discover that their mates have odd quirks once they begin living together, but in Plympton's movie, that truth is taken to cartoon extreme.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
35
3/4
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
It's both a daring composition and a repelling look at gender warfare.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
36
2/4
54 (1998)
One can only hope "54" will hammer the final nail in disco's coffin. It's music that I don't want stayin' alive.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
37
4/4
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Based on Russell Banks' tragic novel about a town grieving for 14 children killed in a bus crash, easily makes my list of top 1997 films.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
38
3/4
The Crucible (1996)
Arthur Miller's story of hysteria, persecution and social injustice, is classy and powerful with some marvelous acting.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
39
3.5/4
Michael Collins (1996)
A way to relate pivotal events to an audience who probably knows little about the Irish republic's creation.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
40
3/4
Multiplicity (1996)
It's a showcase for Keaton.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
41
2/4
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
In the end, it adds up to nothing more than a humorless, forgettable nostalgia piece with carefully re-created costumes and settings from the Eisenhower years.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
42
4/4
The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
The latest movie from the great director Milos Forman is a sensational, irreverent docudrama. And, as they say in the porno trade, it's adult entertainment.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
43
3/4
A Thousand Acres (1997)
Fans of Jane Smiley's enthralling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, will find the movie version disappointing.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
44
3/4
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Part fantasy-adventure, part musical, part nutty romance and part boy-girl crime spree.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
45
2.5/4
Weed (1997)
A loopy visit to an extended pot party in Amsterdam where a bong is so large that it has to be lit with a blowtorch.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
46
3.5/4
Kundun (1997)
Scorsese skillfully indulges his propensity for obsessive detail. Visually, the direction is varied and exhilarating
Posted Jul 1, 2004
47
2.5/4
The Matchmaker (1997)
There are two reasons to see "The Matchmaker" and neither involves the two characters at the center of this far-fetched romantic comedy.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
48
2/4
Godzilla (1998)
If only one could fast-forward past the idiot characters to the parts where the creature nests in Madison Square Garden, crushes Fifth Avenue and chomps a taxicab.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
49
3/4
Space Cowboys (2000)
It's tempting to pin a derisive label like Geezers in Space on this comedy-drama, but its veteran stars...make Space Cowboys hard to dislike.
Posted Jul 1, 2004
50
4/4
Secrets & Lies (1997)