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Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Mortal Kombat (1995) 44% 1.5/4 EDIT “Mortal Kombat is like being inside, well, a video game. Which is exactly the point, I suppose, but it's still not much of a movie.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 3/4 EDIT “The screenplay may be a mess, but De Palma's expert direction, combined with Cruise's starpower and Industrial Light and Magic's special-effects sorcery, makes this a Mission worth accepting.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 6, 2025 Full Review La Haine (1995) 96% 3/4 EDIT “A razor-sharp, brutal look at violence, racism and alienation.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul 19, 2023 Full Review Clockers (1995) 75% EDIT “What all but sinks Clockers is its muddled script, an indulgent mess that is by turns dull and disorienting.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Apr 9, 2020 Full Review Space Jam (1996) 44% EDIT “Space Jam is not a movie. It's a feature-length infomercial for Michael Jordan Inc. and a host of related corporations that made their product-placement arrangements early.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Mar 22, 2019 Full Review Cruel Intentions (1999) 54% EDIT “The misbegotten Cruel Intentions serves up great glittering gobs of cheap, without the thrills.” – New York Post Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Antonia's Line (1995) 69% EDIT “The movie is so pastorally lovely to look at, its characters so likable and its lulling rhythms so soothing that it's easy to forget that it's a lot of pleasant, plotless hooey.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Oct 4, 2016 Full Review The Pillow Book (1996) 68% EDIT “Pillow Book may be a dull, heartless, cruel film, but for what it's worth, it looks marvelous.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 2, 2016 Full Review GoldenEye (1995) 80% EDIT “Despite a promiscuous number of explosions on screen, don't expect many genuinely big bangs out of this one.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Oct 28, 2015 Full Review Men in Black (1997) 91% EDIT “What makes this wildly imaginative setup so much fun is the contrast between the deadpan gruffness of Jones and Torn, and the spectacularly strange environment in which they work.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Aug 12, 2014 Full Review Trippin' (1999) 19% EDIT “An after-school special posing as Booty Call, stumbling badly over its clunky message-movie scripting.” – New York Post Jul 28, 2014 Full Review Fathers' Day (1997) 26% EDIT “The plot is full of the kind of holes necessary to set up cream-puff moments where everybody turns huggy and learns Valuable Lessons. Ugh.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul 14, 2014 Full Review Batman & Robin (1997) 11% EDIT “Batman & Robin is as bad as anything on screen this year.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jun 18, 2014 Full Review Striptease (1996) 11% EDIT “Moore, the most overrated star since Comet Kohoutek, is dreadful, dreadful in this thoroughly disappointing film version of Carl Hiaasen's hilarious novel.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jun 18, 2014 Full Review L.A. Confidential (1997) 99% EDIT “Though their spirits may seem all but entombed by sin, these men are vividly human, this film savagely alive.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jun 4, 2014 Full Review The Rock (1996) 68% EDIT “The camera is always too close, and the editing extremely choppy, dizzyingly so.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 27, 2014 Full Review For Love of the Game (1999) 47% EDIT “For love of the God, what is wrong with the once-likable Kevin Costner?” – New York Post May 8, 2014 Full Review A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) 5% EDIT “It looks and feels junky.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 5, 2014 Full Review Heat (1995) 84% EDIT “Though it's a tad too schematic, Heat, written and directed by Michael Mann, provides a venue for white-hot acting by De Niro and Pacino.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Apr 29, 2014 Full Review Seven (1995) 84% EDIT “The two actors misfire here: Freeman is so low-key he's almost drowsy, and Pitt jumps around like a chihuahua to no effect. It doesn't help that the sound mix is so murky that much of their dialogue sinks into the murk.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Mar 25, 2014 Full Review Titanic (1997) 88% EDIT “Titanic is an awesome achievement, a traditional Hollywood epic that dazzles your eyes, breaks your heart and shivers your soul.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Feb 25, 2014 Full Review Ransom (1996) 74% EDIT “Ransom benefits handsomely from a story that remains compellingly believable, even as the plot twists become more baroque. Be warned, though, that Ransom is a violent film, with bloody shootouts that will not be easy to watch.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jan 22, 2014 Full Review The English Patient (1996) 86% EDIT “The English Patient's considerable pleasures are chiefly aesthetic, not emotional.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jan 6, 2014 Full Review Trainspotting (1996) 90% EDIT “A grimy bolt of celluloid lightning unspooling at 24 crackling frames a second, this episodic tale of smart-aleck Scottish lads on heroin is the year's most exciting film -- and surely its most controversial.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jun 26, 2013 Full Review Kazaam (1996) 5% EDIT “Good ol' Shaq, the big happy galoot, makes you smile just by showing up. Because of him, Kazaam is a minimal kid-pleaser, but because the trailers made us dream of genie, we can't help being disappointed when we get a turbaned social worker.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 29, 2013 Full Review
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