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Stephen Holden 10
Although the concept seems promising enough, it is undone by disastrous casting decisions and an utter lack of ensemble unity. -
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Dana Stevens 10
The whole business has a breathless, determined, student-film quality that makes it especially hard to watch. Mr. Cunningham and his cast are clearly trying to do something they feel is important, and there is no pleasure in watching them do it so ineptly. -
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A.O. Scott 10
It's the element of condescension, as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch, that finally makes Sex With Strangers so distasteful. -
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Dana Stevens 10
Not only is it excruciatingly boring -- but its central premises are so banal and dubious as to border on offensiveness. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
Suffers from clumsy exposition and uneven acting, except in the case of Eddie T. Robinson. -
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Dana Stevens 10
By the end, even the irrepressible Mr. Foxx seems tired and defeated, and we can only hope he perks up in time for his next movie. -
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Dana Stevens 10
So poorly written, badly acted and ineptly directed that it denies you even the modest pleasure of making fun of it. -
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Dave Kehr 10
A youth comedy so relentlessly sordid and depressing that it's likely to send its audience straight into the arms of the nearest psycho-pharmacologist. -
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Dana Stevens 10
Has nothing on its mind besides the squirming discomfort of its audience, the achievement of which it holds up as a brave political accomplishment. -
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Stephen Holden 10
Beneath its studiedly ugly surface, this bargain-basement answer to "Thelma and Louise" is as loathsome as any mindless, blood-drenched Hollywood action-adventure yarn. -
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A.O. Scott 10
Has the dreary one-track banality of a feature-length version of an episode of "Red Shoe Diaries," Showtime's series for people who like soft core but are too lazy to leave the house. -
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A.O. Scott 10
Wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite. -
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A.O. Scott 10
Looks like a big-budget version of a Miller's Genuine Draft commercial. -
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Stephen Holden 10
Once Ice-T sticks his mug in the window of the couple's BMW and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue, all credibility flies out the window. -
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Janet Maslin 10
It's a film to gall fans of the old television series and perplex anyone else. -
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Stephen Holden 10
So lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun. -
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Dana Stevens 10
The story is so crowded with incident and implication as to be both nonsensical and impossible to act, so the actors, when they are not bursting into fits of temper, smile mysteriously. -
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Critic Score 10
Not a satire of the idiocy of professional wrestling, but a long, self-satisfied wallow in it. -
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Stephen Holden 10
A confusedly misconceived hybrid of interracial buddy comedy and imitation Marx Brothers farce. -
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A.O. Scott 10
The cast of The Core deserve Oscar nominations just for being able to speak most of the lines without succumbing to the chortles. -
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A.O. Scott 10
A dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery. -
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A.O. Scott 10
Ops is too brain-dead to play the incognito war criminal segment for comedy, although when Will is seen thumbing through the pages of a newspaper called USA Daily, the picture has inadvertently tumbled down a Mad magazine wormhole. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
All the special effects in the world cannot compensate for an inability to generate tension, establish and sustain pace or create any character whose survival is worth rooting for. -
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A.O. Scott 10
Festooned with yards of gross-out jokes, sniggering allusions and, astonishingly, a sentimental climax that's more repellent than any of the crude effluvia the film is drenched with. -
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Dana Stevens 10
Just as the vast, square Imax screen magnifies panda-haunches and steep, jungle-clad gorges, its relentless scale also enlarges a half-baked, mediocre little adventure story into something almost grotesquely bad. -
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A.O. Scott 10
Few people other than future airline passengers should be subjected to such misery. -
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A.O. Scott 10
The only people who could be surprised at this movie will be those who wandered into the wrong multiplex theater by mistake. -
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Dana Stevens 10
As five or six bad movies squished together, it almost seems like a bargain. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
When it comes to entertainment, children deserve better than Pokémon 4Ever. -
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Dana Stevens 10
A witless, gruesome barrage of jokey violence and lame trans-Atlantic humor, kept moving by the pointless, derivative kineticism of Mr. Yu's hyperactive cuts and splices. -
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Vincent Canby 10
It's not the worst movie ever made; it just seems to be. Its 134 minutes induce a state of simulated brain death, an effect as easily attained in half the time by staring at the blinking lights on a Christmas tree. -
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Stephen Holden 10
It is painful to watch an actor as skillful as Mr. Dorff reduced to delivering flat repetitive dialogue that would make any actor look foolish. -
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A.O. Scott 10
The film isn't even as good as the second-rate game it is based on, which is nothing but a shootout. -
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Dana Stevens 10
Lacks the wit to do anything new and instead recycles tired jokes and attitudes. -
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Stephen Holden 10
Why Mr. Foxx, who was so impressive in "Any Given Sunday," chose to make a movie so boring and idiotic that it barely meets minimal standards of lowest- common-denominator entertainment. -
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Dana Stevens 10
What better to do with such a quiet, majestic landscape than to liven it up with the noise and vulgarity of lowest-common-denominator American pop culture? -
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Dana Stevens 10
It's instructive to compare Bully with Jean-Pierre Ameris's "Bad Company," which tackles similar themes and manages to be explicit without stooping to cheap salaciousness. It's a genuinely disturbing film. Bully, in contrast, is merely disgusting. -
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Anita Gates 10
The film is painfully boring and funny in the wrong places. -
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Stephen Holden 10
Teeters from a noisy sitcom (only one step removed from "The Beverly Hillbillies") to brickbat satire until it collapses in a pool of redemptive mush. -
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A.O. Scott 10
After about 20 minutes of "Thing," a concussion begins to look enormously appealing. -
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Dana Stevens 10
Chandler's script has, by my count, exactly one sort-of-funny line and not a single scene whose comic possibilities are successfully exploited. -
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Stephen Holden 10
As this chaotic barrage of muscle flexing, swordplay, fireballs, crude digital effects and comic-book quips hurls itself off the screen, it's like having several garbage cans clogged with stale pizza, lukewarm cola, soggy French fries and greasy, ketchup-stained napkins emptied over your head. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
Mostly dross, an unintentionally hilarious compendium of time-tested cinematic clichés that illustrates the chasm between hopeful imitation and successful duplication. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
Not very funny, intellignet or grippingly plotted, it is likely to appeal only to those who think that anything to do with marijuana - smoking, sharing, stealing or selling - constitutes the Everest of rip-roaring hilarity. [17 Jan 1998] -
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Dana Stevens 10
Both grueling and dull. Imagine (if possible) a Pasolini film without passion or politics, or an Almodóvar movie without beauty or humor, and you have some idea of the glum, numb experience of watching O Fantasma. -
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Dana Stevens 10
Bad and tasteless. You laugh neither with it nor at it but rather sit counting the minutes while the movie laughs, for no good reason, at itself. -
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A.O. Scott 10
If Boat Trip were screened on a cruise ship, most of the passengers would be dog-paddling back to shore. -
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Dana Stevens 10
Endure the long, slow, unraveling of this movie, which can't even muster the intelligence to be pretentious or the bravado to be amusingly bad. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
A mound of standard-issue parent-child conflicts and enough self-help cliches to drive Polonius to the aquavit barrel at Elsinore. -
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Dana Stevens 10
Extremely good-looking people tend to be shallow, self-involved and not very bright. Let's call this statement what it is: a form of prejudice, a stereotype. It is, sadly, a stereotype that Down to You does everything in its power to promote. -
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Dave Kehr 10
Plays more like a catalog than a movie... a tedious, unimaginative affair. -
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A.O. Scott 10
As good as cut-rate animation that seems to consist of screen savers can be. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
To imagine the life of Harry Potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized Woody Allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. -
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Stephen Holden 10
The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality -
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Dana Stevens 10
As the movie dragged on, I thought I heard a mysterious voice, and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign. I have returned from the beyond to warn you: this movie is 90 minutes long, and life is too short. -
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Stephen Holden 10
The movie's computer animation is so cut-rate and its direction (by Joe Chappelle) so slack that the attacks are virtually terror-free. -
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Stephen Holden 10
What sets this syrupy swatch of kitsch apart from other films peddling a dogmatic religious agenda is the serious money that obviously went into it. -
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Dave Kehr 10
Quickly moves beyond the oppressive into the cruel and unusual. -
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Stephen Holden 10
Might have generated a laugh or two had it not forced the actors into uncomfortable extremes of caricature. -
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Dave Kehr 10
Inhabited by a genuine spirit of cruelty, both toward its characters and its audience. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
Throughout this lame film, directed by Stephen Kessler and written by Elisa Bell, situations are developed -- complicated directions to a hotel room, Clark clinging to the face of Hoover Dam, Ellen the object of Mr. Newton's seductive charm -- and left to wither without a payoff. -
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Stephen Holden 10
Spike Lee carries his political exasperation beyond outrage into chaos. The carelessness with which he hurls his feelings about hot-button topics onto the screen is the filmmaking equivalent of last-ditch marketing: grab everything in sight, roll it up into a big messy mud ball, and hurl it against the wall, hoping that something sticks. -
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Dave Kehr 10
The character designs are flat and derivative, the backgrounds crude and uninviting, and the movements jerky and minimal. It's a sad excuse for a movie, but then, it isn't really meant to be one. It's a commercial with a ticket price. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
Anatomy of Hell is more than a lapse; it is a brutal self-parody of a filmmaker who, having stripped down to the nitty-gritty once too often, may finally have nothing left to show. -
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Stephen Holden 10
Every truly awful movie epic has a point of no return, a moment when the accumulated bad lines and bogus sentimentality become so cloying that the best defense against a mounting queasiness is an awed amusement. The Postman, offers a new opportunity for levity every few minutes after its first hour. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
As high concept and rife with cliché as anything ever churned out by Hollywood, but with worse production values and a load of sanctimonious political correctness. -
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Dana Stevens 10
By the end of The Watcher you'll need your own prescription. -
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Stephen Holden 10
This stomach-turning exercise in gratuitous sadism -- wears a nasty smirk on its face right down to its end title comment, "Gotcha." -
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Critic Score 10
To say that this movie is true to life is only to say that it's banal, boring and confusing. -
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Dana Stevens 10
An irredeemable mess, a computer-animated Punch and Judy show without wit, heart or a single memorable performance. -
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Stephen Holden 10
More than sad, it's slightly sickening to consider the technology, talent and know-how squandered on Hostage, a pile of blood-soaked toxic waste dumped onto the screen in an attempt to salvage Bruce Willis's fading career as an action hero. -
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Stephen Holden 10
The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist. -
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Stephen Holden 10
The range of Ms. Locklear's lobotomized acting runs from mild irritation to mild melancholy, expressed without expression. -
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Lawrence Van Gelder 10
Here's the lowdown on the latest chapter in Mortal Kombat: deadly dull. -
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Dana Stevens 10
The story is laughably incoherent, which would be less bothersome if the movie were not also so unremittingly pretentious. -
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Stephen Holden 10
As the jaundiced, disjointed, drug-infested story heads toward its dismal conclusion, its reputable actors vainly struggle to infuse the goings-on with a deadpan psychotic zaniness. But even when viewed sideways, Perception is not funny; it's hardly anything at all. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
An early candidate for worst film of the year is Freedomland, an inept, lethally dull drama. -
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Janet Maslin 10
Wide-eyed and mirthlessly peppy, Mr. Arnold soon wears out his welcome as a bumbling would-be bank robber who commandeers a group of young hostages. -
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Nathan Lee 10
An unflinching look at bullfighting and debasement in the Yucatán Peninsula - will entail witnessing animal torture and death. And that's not the worst of it. -
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Nathan Lee 10
From first frame to last, not a second of the film has a grip on reality. Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, it is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares. It takes us to the sort of world where hell is round the corner, secret doors abound and faux-blond policewomen outfit themselves in skin-tight leather. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
This delectable fusion of New Age babble and luridly bad filmmaking may not "open" you up, to borrow one of the film's favorite verbs, but it might leave your jaw slack and your belly sore from laughter. -
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Nathan Lee 10
That's the one with a car that explodes and gets put back together by magic, right? Yeah, that’s pretty much the coolest part. -
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Laura Kern 10
Hands down the most excruciatingly inept film to creep its way into theaters in some time. -
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Neil Genzlinger 10
When a movie aspires to be gay pornography but can't even manage that, well, you know you've got a bad movie. -
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A.O. Scott 10
A Viagra suppository for compulsive action fetishists and a movie that may not only be dumb in itself, but also the cause of dumbness in others. -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 10
Silly, slack and unforgivably tedious, Thomas Harris's screenplay is padded with interminable flashbacks and a bombastic score that telegraphs every emotion Hannibal represses. And there are a lot of them. -
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Janet Maslin 10
Staged as pure fluff without an ounce of ballast, Mixed Nuts succeeds only in getting its cast into Halloween-caliber crazy costumes by the time it's over. -
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Critic Score 10
Beverly Hills Cop III is a generic action movie, an Eddie Murphy film with only a trace of Eddie Murphy. -
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Vincent Canby 10
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is the most barren comedy I've seen in years, maybe ever. -
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Vincent Canby 10
The Neverending Story is a graceless, humorless fantasy for children, combining live actors and animated creatures in mostly imaginary settings. -
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Stephen Holden 10
The movie is so witless and confused in tone that its seedy racetrack clientele only emerge as dim, inarticulate cartoons. -
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Janet Maslin 10
Renny Harlin, who did a much better job directing ''Die Hard 2,'' displays no sense of humor and takes the film's nonsensical action scenes much too seriously, at one point even blowing up a beach house in the process. -
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A.O. Scott 10
The only thing that kept me watching License to Wed until the end (apart from being paid to do so) was the faith, perhaps misplaced, that I will not see a worse movie this year. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
Because its director, Tom Vaughan, brings nothing of interest to the movie, including filmmaking, there isn't anything to say other than to note its insulting ugliness and ineptitude. -
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Nathan Lee 10
Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max, Postal explodes with bad attitude and lousy filmmaking. -
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Rachel Saltz 10
It's depressingly self-conscious and turgid, and a cast that includes Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, Michael Madsen and Eric Balfour can't drag Hell Ride out of the mire. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
It's no wonder the faithful continue to forsake the movies, given junky embarrassments like Nights in Rodanthe. -
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Nathan Lee 10
Skips back and forth in time, trying to piece together who did what, when and why. The only question really worth asking here: Who cares? -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 10
Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties, a clammy meditation on sex, death and the endless fascination of unclothed innocence. -
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Stephen Holden 10
The movie’s most disturbing aspect, of which the filmmakers could not have been unaware, is the physical resemblance between Mr. Elba and Ms. Larter to O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson. It lends Obsessed a distasteful taint of exploitation. -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 10
Unlike Michael Knowles's similarly plotted and vastly superior "Room 314," The Trouble With Romance is visually stagnant and tonally bewildered. -
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A.O. Scott 10
So shameless in its pandering, sentimental vision of Frenchness as to constitute something of a national embarrassment. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
If you thought Abu Ghraib was a laugh riot then you might love Observe and Report, a potentially brilliant conceptual comedy that fizzles because its writer and director, Jody Hill, doesn't have the guts to go with his spleen. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
This pricey, juiceless pulp could never have been killed by critics, simply because it was already dead. -
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Manohla Dargis 10
A junky-looking romantic comedy that’s neither remotely romantic nor passably comic. -
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A.O. Scott 10
An R-rated version of this mess would be only more gratingly dishonest as it tried to hide its weak sentimentality behind a fig leaf of vulgarity. -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 10
This laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders. -
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Neil Genzlinger 10
Someone really needs to take away Patrick McGuinn’s camera equipment. A few years ago he made a spectacularly bad gay-sex movie called “Sun Kissed,” and now he has made another, Eulogy for a Vampire. -
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The result is, more than anything else, a slickly produced 76-minute commercial for the union; to call it a documentary is to stretch the term almost beyond meaning. -
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Stephen Holden 10
The queasiness produced by this sentimental weepie builds into a wave of nausea during its interminable finale. -
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A.O. Scott 10
What makes Leap Year so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction -- so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense. -
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The film would be a mere nuisance if not for its shameless exploitation of school shootings to advance its agenda. -
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A.O. Scott 10
The ugly smell of unexamined privilege hangs over this film like the smoke from cheap incense. -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 10
Unless you’re trapped on an airplane or enjoying movie night at the penitentiary, you have no excuse for watching Killers. A brain-deadening collision of high concept and low standards. -
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A.O. Scott 10
There is nothing here to enjoy, beyond the tiny satisfaction in noting that the movie lives up to its name.- Posted Mar 24, 2011
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Stephen Holden 10
You might reasonably assume that any movie starring Mr. Rourke and Mr. Murray would have to have something to recommend it. But aside from a haunting musical interlude, in which Mr. Rourke, with pathetic ineptitude, mimes playing a trumpet, Passion Play is barely palatable.- Posted May 5, 2011
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Jeannette Catsoulis 10
A movie that feels like punishment for a crime you can't remember committing.- Posted Jun 2, 2011
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Stephen Holden 10
The only reason I can think of to watch Vivi Friedman's flat, satirical farce The Family Tree - and it's not a good enough reason - is the opportunity to play a game of spot the semi-star.- Posted Aug 25, 2011
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A.O. Scott 10
This may be the worst movie Pauly Shore has ever been in. Think about that.- Posted Sep 10, 2011
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Critic Score 10
In place of novelty we have dank interiors (shades of "Saw") and black-and-white photography (à la "Eraserhead"). Still missing is that lingering subtext, leaving only a lurid, splattery wallow in grime, blood and excrement.- Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Stephen Holden 10
When a sheriff's deputy (Carla Gugino) visits the house, I Melt With You turns into a ludicrous, cheap horror thriller that sheds any claims to integrity. By the end, you feel nothing, not even contempt.- Posted Dec 8, 2011
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Stephen Holden 10
Rarely has a film exhibited a bigger disconnect between urban realism and utter ludicrousness.- Posted Jan 26, 2012
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Neil Genzlinger 10
The lovebirds' dialogue has the sophistication of a junior high school romance, and Mr. Schaeffer appears to have pasted his story together from the button-pushing plotlines of other films.- Posted Jan 26, 2012
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A.O. Scott 10
The movie is a noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension.- Posted Mar 1, 2012
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Jeannette Catsoulis 10
Veering from ridiculous to revolting, The Tortured would like to be about more than singed nipples and seared skin. And it is: It's also about cracked toes and lanced eardrums.- Posted Jun 15, 2012
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A.O. Scott 10
His (Fleischer) first feature, "Zombieland," was a half-witty genre parody. This one might be described as genre zombie-ism: the hysterical, brainless animation of dead clichés reduced to purposeless, compulsive killing. Too self-serious to succeed as pastiche, it has no reason for being beyond the parasitic urge to feed on the memories of other, better movies.- Posted Jan 10, 2013
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Jeannette Catsoulis 10
Men are pigs, and women are sick of it, says Girls Against Boys, a dumb, dreary, let's-get-back-at-them slasher in which pulverized genitals pass for feminist critique.- Posted Jan 31, 2013
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Nicolas Rapold 10
This tedious chronicle has the interest level of a home movie of a vacation with bickering and yammering left intact.- Posted Mar 7, 2013
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Critic Score 10
It also offers cold, sterile, cheap-looking computer animation vastly inferior to that of most video games. Ron Paul acolytes, help yourself. Everyone else, stay away.- Posted Mar 21, 2013
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Stephen Holden 10
To say that Justin Zackham’s farce The Big Wedding takes the low road doesn’t begin to do justice to the sheer awfulness of this star-stuffed, potty-mouthed fiasco.- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Stephen Holden 10
What does it add up to? Um ... I have no idea and don’t really care. Just because the characters waste their time doesn’t mean you should waste yours watching them circle the drain.- Posted May 2, 2013
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Stephen Holden 0
An excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay. -
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Stephen Holden 0
It's a little sad to see actors of the quality of Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller struggling straight- faced to dignify this sewage. -
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A.O. Scott 0
It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but Battlefield Earth may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century. -
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Dana Stevens 0
A film that even a rabid lowbrow like Homer Simpson (or, when the mood strikes, this critic) would find beneath his dignity. -
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Dave Kehr 0
At 70 minutes, Cupid's Mistake is short, but then, so is our time on this planet. -
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Stephen Holden 0
Mush, delivered with a trembling, quasi-biblical solemnity, is what emanates from Anthony Hopkins most of the time in Hearts in Atlantis, a nostalgic fiasco so shameless it makes movies like "Simon Birch" and "Frequency" seem as austere as the work of Robert Bresson. -
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Elvis Mitchell 0
One way to get through Baby Geniuses is to think about whether it really is the worst movie you've ever seen. Probably not, but pretty darn close. -
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Dave Kehr 0
Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy, Vulgar is, truly and thankfully, a one-of-a-kind work. -
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Dana Stevens 0
At the end the picture seems to acknowledge its own ludicrousness, but by then it, like Beans, is beyond rescue. -
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Elvis Mitchell 0
The film makers had declared they were bravely exploring new levels of licentiousness, but the biggest risk they've taken here is making a nearly $40 million movie without anyone who can act. The absence of both drama and eroticism turns Showgirls into a bare-butted bore. [22 Sept 1995] -
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Stephen Holden 0
Thoroughly incoherent... A dreary fizzle. [12 Jan 1996, p.C12] -
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Elvis Mitchell 0
If someone left "1984," "Fahrenheit 451," "Brave New World," "Gattaca" and the Sylvester Stallone potboilers "Judge Dredd" and "Demolition Man" out in the sun and threw the runny glop onto a movie screen, it would still be a better picture than Equilibrium, a movie that could be stupider only if it were longer. -
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Stephen Holden 0
The Singing Forest was written and directed by Jorge Ameer, whose film "Strippers" opened three years ago and remained the single worst movie I had ever reviewed -- until now. -
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Stephen Holden 0
Ms. Ryan's lean, eagle-eyed golden girl is enough to curdle milk. -
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Stephen Holden 0
No doubt there are those who will deem Simon Birch ''heartwarming.'' It is exactly the kind of movie that has given that hackneyed superlative a bad name. -
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Dave Kehr 0
Villainy toward the infant class now comes from Jon Voight, descending to the depths of his 37-year-career. -
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It is hard to know what exactly Mr. Palumbo is trying to say in his debased film. -
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Stephen Holden 0
So inept on every level, you wonder why the distributor didn't release it straight to video, or better, toss it directly into the trash. -
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Stephen Holden 0
Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, Dirty Love clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage. -
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Manohla Dargis 0
The kind of witless production that should rightly be cluttering the discount bins at your local video store. -
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Manohla Dargis 0
Viewer discretion is advised, if only because it's well-nigh unwatchable. -
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Stephen Holden 0
The movie... hasn't the foggiest notion whether it's a soap opera or a horror film, and wanders around in a generic fog. -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 0
A scorching affront to Italians, Iraqis and the intelligence of movie audiences everywhere. -
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Janet Maslin 0
The results are so disastrous that absolutely no one is shown off to good advantage, with the possible exception of the hairdressers involved. -
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Like so many Eddie Murphy misfires, Vampire in Brooklyn has no idea how to capitalize on the actor's immense appeal. The film was directed by the horror master Wes Craven and it turns out to be an Eddie Murphy-Wes Craven movie that is not funny or scary. Now that's a nightmare. -
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This muddled film about a secret C.I.A. project in Laos in 1969 fails on every possible level: as action film, as buddy film, as scenic travelogue and even, sad to say, as a way to flaunt Mel Gibson's appeal. -
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The maudlin, grotesque western September Dawn, about the massacre on Sept. 11, 1857, of about 120 settlers by Mormons (and their Paiute Indian mercenaries), apes "Schindler’s List" in hopes of creating a Christian Holocaust picture. -
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Manohla Dargis 0
A relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil. -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 0
Custom designed for its smirking star (who is also an executive producer), this tasteless train wreck asks only that she preen and prance on cue. -
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A.O. Scott 0
The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again. -
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Nathan Lee 0
Harold is the type of one-note dead zone ideally suited for a bathroom break while sitting home on a Saturday night, alone and semidrunk, in front of the television. At feature length it's enough to make you tear your hair out. -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 0
Clueless, directionless and altogether pointless. -
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Manohla Dargis 0
The crushingly unfunny and slopped-together How to Lose Friends & Alienate People has neither the ambition nor the intelligence to do justice to its source material. -
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Stephen Holden 0
A convoluted, hysterical mess of a movie with grandiose spiritual airs and not a drop of humor. -
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Manohla Dargis 0
See the Holocaust trivialized, glossed over, kitsched up, commercially exploited and hijacked for a tragedy about a Nazi family. Better yet and in all sincerity: don't. -
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A.O. Scott 0
The most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made. -
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Manohla Dargis 0
A nasty exploitation flick tarted up with art-house actors and psychobabble. -
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Manohla Dargis 0
It seems doubtful that Surveillance, a would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering, would be taking up space in theaters if its director were not the daughter of a name filmmaker. -
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Stephen Holden 0
This imbecilic, mean-spirited farce, which sneers at adults, leaves you wondering: where are the Three Stooges when we really need them? -
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Neil Genzlinger 0
It’s like choking down 72 minutes of a stranger’s unedited home videos, only without the occasional cute kiddie or pet to lighten the tedium. -
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A.O. Scott 0
The law of diminishing returns is enforced so stringently that the movie succeeds not only in negating its own comedy, but its very being. -
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Stephen Holden 0
This strident exposé may gladden the hearts of some anti-’60s conservatives, but it is a shapeless mess steeped in prurience. Its grain of truthfulness, however, is just enough to leave you unsettled in the pit of your stomach. -
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Stephen Holden 0
It doesn't get worse than Grown Ups, Adam Sandler's sloppy entry into this year's man-child-comedy sweepstakes. Lazy, mean-spirited, incoherent, infantile and, above all, witless. -
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Stephen Holden 0
There is not a laugh to be found in this rancid, misogynistic revenge comedy. -
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Stephen Holden 0
For all the cinematic crimes against him, there has been no book-to-screen translation of his work quite as atrocious as Hemingway's Garden of Eden.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Jeannette Catsoulis 0
Soulless, joyless and depressingly graceless, Alien Girl plays like an early Guy Ritchie knockoff without the jokes or Cockney accents.- Posted Dec 16, 2010
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Laura Kern 0
The only thing this so-called cautionary tale will inspire audiences to do is to never sit through another insultingly awful piece of exploitative trash "conceived" by David DeFalco.- Posted May 6, 2011
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Stephen Holden 0
With its red lighting and Hades-like smoke and fog, the lurid look of The Big Bang suggests a tacky disco inferno. I have a mental picture of the film's creators, stoned out of their minds on who knows what, cackling crazily as they outline a movie that would have more appropriately been titled "The Big Goof."- Posted May 12, 2011
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Jeannette Catsoulis 0
A cringingly awkward tale of sexual predation and female lunacy.- Posted May 27, 2011
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Jeannette Catsoulis 0
Insulting several nationalities and most of the filmgoing public, Tied to a Chair lurches through acting atrocities, continuity glitches and narrative gaps with grating insouciance.- Posted May 27, 2011
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Jeannette Catsoulis 0
If you are going to be this mean-spirited, you had better deliver the jokes, but the film's attacks on pretentious parents - not to mention put-downs of hardworking immigrants - consistently come off as more hateful than humorous.- Posted Jun 24, 2011
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Jeannette Catsoulis 0
A film with nothing to please the eye and even less to excite the mind.- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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