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Karen Karbo

Karen Karbo's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Oregonian film reviewer.

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Eragon (2006) 15% C- EDIT “Eragon's mythic journey to discover the truth behind his heritage and battle evil hews so closely to the story lines of other famous fantasy epics that it's hard to believe there aren't a few lawsuits in the works.” – Oregonian Dec 15, 2006 Full Review The Yes Men (2003) 87% EDIT “Anyone who suspects that satire is dead need look no further than The Yes Men to realize the art of lampooning is alive and well.” – Oregonian Oct 15, 2004 Full Review Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003) 69% EDIT “Charming but overly long, a pleasant, smile-producing movie reminiscent of doing a jigsaw puzzle at a rented beach cottage on a rainy day.” – Oregonian Sep 17, 2004 Full Review Lost Boys of Sudan (2003) 98% B+ EDIT “The scenes of Peter and Santino's adjustment to life in Houston -- a garbage disposal does what? -- are at once quotidian, poignant and absurd.” – Oregonian Sep 17, 2004 Full Review Wimbledon (2004) 61% C EDIT “Ho-hum offering by the producers of crowd-pleasing bon bons Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill.” – Oregonian Sep 17, 2004 Full Review Criminal (2004) 69% EDIT “L.A. looks hip in its lemonade light, and the low-budget Ocean's Eleven attitude gives Criminal a certain down-and-out swing.” – Oregonian Sep 10, 2004 Full Review Cellular (2004) 56% EDIT “The movie has more flawed logic, lame coincidences and plot holes than the average cell phone has ring tones.” – Oregonian Sep 10, 2004 Full Review Vanity Fair (2004) 50% B EDIT “A lively retelling of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale.” – Oregonian Sep 3, 2004 Full Review We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) 65% B EDIT “An absorbing relational Rorschach test masquerading as a domestic drama, a sardonic examination of marriage and friendship that invites the audience to think for itself.” – Oregonian Aug 27, 2004 Full Review Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) 26% C+ EDIT “It's not particularly ingenuous, the acting is only serviceable, the killer snakes have adapted most of their scariest riffs from the star of Jaws, but it's a species of low-grade fun that really does appeal to the whole family.” – Oregonian Aug 27, 2004 Full Review She Hate Me (2004) 19% D- EDIT “A turn-off.” – Oregonian Aug 20, 2004 Full Review The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) 25% EDIT “Panders to the worst traits in the target audience of spoiled third-grade girls.” – Oregonian Aug 13, 2004 Full Review Maria Full of Grace (2004) 97% A EDIT “A spellbinding drama rife with both tragedy and hope.” – Oregonian Aug 6, 2004 Full Review A Home at the End of the World (2004) 50% EDIT “The film equivalent of the blind date described as 'really nice.' It's neither bad nor good, just sort of earnest and well-meaning.” – Oregonian Aug 6, 2004 Full Review Little Black Book (2004) 22% B- EDIT “Given the fact that it's August, you could do worse than hide out from the heat with the cute-as-a-bug Murphy, who manages to be funny and entertaining despite the material.” – Oregonian Aug 6, 2004 Full Review Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) 88% A EDIT “Some Kind of Monster is some weird kind of wonderful.” – Oregonian Jul 30, 2004 Full Review The Intended (2002) 35% EDIT “The pace is stultifying, and even though the ensemble looks realistically stinky and sweaty, the stately progression of events mirrors far too well the torpor of the tropics.” – Oregonian Jul 30, 2004 Full Review The Village (2004) 43% C+ EDIT “Thriller is hardly the word for this tedious exercise in clue-hiding.” – Oregonian Jul 30, 2004 Full Review The Door in the Floor (2004) 67% C+ EDIT “By turns absorbing, unsettling and, for lack of a better word, icky.” – Oregonian Jul 16, 2004 Full Review A Cinderella Story (2004) 11% D- EDIT “Poorly written, poorly acted exercise in banality and studio greed.” – Oregonian Jul 16, 2004 Full Review Before Sunset (2004) 94% A EDIT “Says more about the mystery of love and attachment than any overblown Hollywood romance that comes to mind.” – Oregonian Jul 9, 2004 Full Review Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) 66% D EDIT “Nothing more than an extended skit, and a lame one at that.” – Oregonian Jul 9, 2004 Full Review Napoleon Dynamite (2004) 72% B EDIT “He makes Geekus Hollywoodium -- always played by someone such as Ben Stiller, whom we know to be fundamentally cool beneath his nerdy veneer -- look like the fraudulent genus we know it to be.” – Oregonian Jul 2, 2004 Full Review Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) 82% A- EDIT “Supporters of the president will find this reprehensible. Detractors of the president will rub their hands with glee.” – Oregonian Jun 25, 2004 Full Review The Terminal (2004) 61% B- EDIT “Hanks' perfectly rendered Navorski offsets the hogwash and makes the film's shortcomings bearable.” – Oregonian Jun 18, 2004 Full Review
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