Alex & Emma
"...chemistry, the supporting actors are even worse, and the script is a lifeless, draggy thing. In our post-game report,..."
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June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Deliver Us From Eva
"...Us also benefits from a tightly constructed and knowing script (from James Iver Mattson and B.E. Brauner) and stylish..."
Feb. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Kangaroo Jack
"...biggest advance for an idea ever. Not for a script, mind you -- just an idea. At the time,..."
Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
jackass the movie
"...of jackass the MTV show, meaning no plot, no script, just wall-to-wall idiocy. Led by gnarly Johnny Knoxville, the..."
Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Banger Sisters
"...its responsibility to provide these powerhouse actresses with a script half as smart or compelling as they. Hawn plays..."
Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Simone
"...was the dystopic, sci-fi paranoia-spree Gattaca, followed by his script for The Truman Show, neither of which will ever..."
Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Better Than Sex
"...have to wonder what kind of producer OK'd a script that actually includes women grousing about men leaving the..."
Dec. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
American Outlaws
"...which isn't often enough), it's writer Roderick Taylor's awful script, which takes the general lore of the James-Younger Gang..."
Aug. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Kiss of the Dragon
"...a coup to be working from an original Besson script, you have to wonder if anyone's going to think..."
July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Remember the Titans
"...Remember the Titans is a workmanlike production with a script -- however well-intentioned and morally sound -- that is..."
Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Watcher
"...cerebral piece -- assuming someone had handed him a script that didn't feel like a blueprint with little notes..."
Sept. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Woman Chaser
"...strenuous aping of film styles gone past is the script's pedigree. First-time writer-director Devor adapted the script from a..."
Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Held Up
"...Dogs is unable to rise above the painfully unfunny script and deliver more than a chuckle with his smart-ass..."
May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Bryan Poyser
The Next Best Thing
"...the director that he manages to keep a busy script (by Thomas Ropelewski) afloat as long as he does...."
March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Reindeer Games
"...rubber for a film that goes virtually nowhere. The script, by Scream 3's Ehren Kruger, toughs it out as..."
March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Hurricane
"...convicted Sixties-era prizefighter Rubin “Hurricane” Carter feels overlong and underscripted. It's a true story crammed to bursting with emotional,..."
Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
East of Hope Street
"...Hope Street took a misguided turn somewhere back around Script Street and, as a result, wanders aimlessly down blind..."
Aug. 27, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Ravenous
"...too far into Bird's multilayered plot twists (Ted Griffin's script is truly a shocker -- the less said the..."
March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Let's Talk About Sex
"...you deserve everything you get. Beyer, who wrote the script for B.A.P.S., graduates to writing, directing, and starring in..."
Sept. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Small Soldiers
"...Alan's budding romance is in the end a simplistic script device. As in almost all of Dante's films, regulars..."
July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
U.S. Marshals
"...millstone that Jones and company must carry is Pogue's script which, like The Jackal and Mission Impossible, seems to..."
March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Girls Town
"...daughter Tomy (Pratt). With its complex characterizations and nuanced script, Girls Town manages to flesh out these teenaged girls,..."
Sept. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor
Striptease
"...I'm talking about the recent trajectory of Demi Moore's script choices. I mean, really. First, there's The Juror in..."
July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Beyond Rangoon
"...a bit too heavy-handed. Compounding the problem is a script the dialogue of which rarely stretches beyond Zen 101...."
Aug. 25, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor
Only You
"...as Jewison's attempt to get Moonstruck again. Diane Drake's script has the same staunch belief in redemptive romance as..."
Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires
Blank Check
"...to Quit.”). It's also the first completed film of co-scriptwriter Colby Carr. His co-author Blake Snyder includes his script..."
Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Secret Garden
Neither talking down to children nor pandering to their parents, The Secret Garden functions something like a fairy tale in which the primordial and psychosexual concerns are made palpable and socially acceptable.
"...insights. It is, no doubt, felicitous that the film script was written by Caroline Thompson, the screenwriter of that..."
Aug. 20, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
In the Line of Fire
"...1963 assassination of JFK, is a classic creation. The script gets inside the little-explored personalities of those federal bodyguards..."
July 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fire in the Sky
"...but one that never reaches any depth because the script's characterizations run shallow. The script also suffers from lapses..."
March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Grown Ups 3 Comes to Life in Austin
Hot spec script gets a reading at ColdTowne to benefit RAICES
"...made, and no six-part Netflix series. But this spec script created by comedian Tom Scharpling doesn’t need to exist..."
