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Matt Pais

Matt Pais

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:
Chicago Tribune , Metromix.com , RedEye , The Cinema Source
Critics' Group:
Chicago Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
1348
Location:
Chicago

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/4 28% L!fe Happens (2012) " Not only offers no insight on relationships but seems completely unfamiliar with normal human behavior." — RedEye
Posted Apr 12, 2012
0/4 9% Answers to Nothing (2011) " Will make you hate words--and these idiots who refuse to stop saying them without actually saying anything at all. " — RedEye
Posted Dec 1, 2011
0/4 7% All's Faire in Love (2011) " If you don't like the word 'penis' but crack up at the use of 'wang,' 'ding dong,' 'wenis' and 'wiener,' this is your movie." — RedEye
Posted Oct 27, 2011
0/4 61% Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011) " Hypocritical Gleekaganda ... Makes Justin Bieber: Never Say Never look like Inception." — RedEye
Posted Aug 11, 2011
0/4 15% Something Borrowed (2011) " Something Borrowed is really cute if your definition of 'cute' is 'emotionally abusive people being horrible to each other all the time.'" — RedEye
Posted May 5, 2011
0/5 10% Saw 3D (2010) " Um, lack of multi-dimensional flying body parts wasn't this series' problem." — Metromix.com
Posted Oct 28, 2010
0/5 67% Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010) " The most infuriating movie I've seen this year, and I saw Marmaduke." — Metromix.com
Posted Jul 15, 2010
0/5 21% Birdemic: Shock And Terror (2008) " Birdemic, which literally has no ending, is actually two totally different movies, linked mostly by their complete, hilarious crapitude." — Metromix.com
Posted Jun 16, 2010
0/5 5% Old Dogs (2009) " A great opportunity to gather family members you clearly think are stupid." — Metromix.com
Posted Nov 24, 2009
0/5 —— 21 and a Wake-Up (2009) " I've seen better acting by hungry animals in dog food commercials." — Metromix.com
Posted Oct 28, 2009
0/5 34% The Burning Plain (2009) " A monotonous, suffocating experience with no payoff or purpose, other than noting bad decisions have consequences and pain lasts a long time." — Metromix.com
Posted Sep 23, 2009
0/5 6% All About Steve (2009) " A salute to stalkers not recommended for cops, celebrities or anyone else." — Metromix.com
Posted Sep 3, 2009
0/5 44% Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) " Nothing but an impersonal product manipulating kids who don't know better. All Hannah Montana does is steal their lunch money." — Metromix.com
Posted Apr 9, 2009
0/5 13% Saw V (2008) " It doesn't just insult your intelligence; It assumes you have none." — Metromix.com
Posted Oct 24, 2008
0/5 2% Disaster Movie (2008) " Like the bastard child of Best Week Ever and the mud that runs off of football players' cleats after a rainy game, this isn't a movie you see. It's one you survive." — Metromix.com
Posted Aug 29, 2008
0/5 43% Death Race (2008) " A guy movie for guys whose only turn-on is death." — Metromix.com
Posted Aug 20, 2008
0/5 5% The Hottie and the Nottie (2008) " [Hilton] delivers every line as if she's still practicing the English language ... as if her mouth and her brain live in different states." — Metromix.com
Posted Feb 7, 2008
0/5 17% Saw IV (2007) " Boasting more posthumous recordings than Tupac, Jigsaw should have spent time devising clever new traps instead of buying Radio Shack's entire inventory of tape recorders." — Metromix.com
Posted Oct 26, 2007
0/4 61% Death at a Funeral (2007) " To call this rubbish would be an insult to rubbish." — Metromix.com
Posted Aug 16, 2007
0/4 1% Daddy Day Camp (2007) " The actors obviously see the movie only as a paycheck, but the check should have a note at the bottom that says, 'Shame on you!'" — Metromix.com
Posted Aug 7, 2007
0/4 6% Who's Your Caddy? (2007) " Rap isn't the irritant; you'd get dirty looks at a golf course for blasting Kenny G too." — Metromix.com
Posted Jul 27, 2007
0/4 12% Little Man (2006) " Little Man is so childish and absurd that there should probably be a law against seeing it. The penalty: seeing it again." — Metromix.com
Posted Jul 14, 2006
0/4 40% Running Scared (2006) " With a herky-jerky visual style and a plot riddled with bullet holes, Running Scared is a brutal, misanthropic and downright nasty excuse for bang-bang entertainment." — Metromix.com
Posted Feb 24, 2006
0/4 14% London (2006) " London is a coke-snorting catastrophe, full of endless scenes of chiseled morons trying to be Socrates. You're better off getting relationship advice from a Magic 8-ball." — Metromix.com
Posted Feb 9, 2006
0.5/5 19% Just Go with It (2011) " Previously known by its original title, Hooray For Boobies!" — Metromix.com
Posted Feb 10, 2011
0.5/5 14% Yogi Bear (2010) " More painful than the average bear attack." — Metromix.com
Posted Dec 16, 2010
0.5/5 9% Marmaduke (2010) " No animals were used, and no humans were entertained in the making of this movie." — Metromix.com
Posted Jun 3, 2010
0.5/5 19% The Back-up Plan (2010) " Please, ladies, stay away or movies like this will never stop." — Metromix.com
Posted Apr 22, 2010
0.5/5 12% The Bounty Hunter (2010) " Butler and Aniston, earning zero laughs, can't even bicker with any heat; Jessica Simpson and John Mayer would see this (separately) and say, 'You call that resentment?'" — Metromix.com
Posted Mar 18, 2010
0.5/5 18% The Tooth Fairy (2010) " Another excruciating film about an unlikable hero who is somehow considered a badass despite making jokes like, 'You can't handle the tooth.'" — Metromix.com
Posted Jan 21, 2010
0.5/5 21% Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) " Surely this qualifies as cruelty to humans." — Metromix.com
Posted Dec 22, 2009
0.5/5 30% The Final Destination (2009) " This isn't a franchise, it's an arcade game." — Metromix.com
Posted Aug 28, 2009
0.5/5 17% The Marc Pease Experience (2009) " As pointless and obnoxious as someone pulling on your ears." — Metromix.com
Posted Aug 20, 2009
0.5/5 21% Next Day Air (2009) " The thing about a script comprising 60 percent words that rhyme with stitch, spit and mothertruckers is it doesn't allow for many jokes." — Metromix.com
Posted May 7, 2009
0.5/5 64% The Merry Gentleman (2009) " Keaton and writer Ron Lazzeretti pick tones like someone pulling out lotto numbers ... veers from creepy to festive to sad to twinkly to spiritual to bright to depressing." — Metromix.com
Posted May 3, 2009
0.5/5 37% Gigantic (2009) " Just a bunch of strange character traits strung together for no reason other than quirk." — Metromix.com
Posted Apr 2, 2009
0.5/5 26% Seven Pounds (2008) " It should've been about weightlifting. Or British currency. Anything but this." — Metromix.com
Posted Dec 18, 2008
0.5/5 5% 88 Minutes (2008) " Wears its stupidity with pride, like a kid who's super-excited about stuffing pencils up his nose." — Metromix.com
Posted Apr 17, 2008
0.5/5 4% In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2006) " Worse than a high school production of Lord of the Rings and as incoherent as a Miss Teen USA contestant." — Metromix.com
Posted Jan 11, 2008
0.5/5 13% First Sunday (2008) " Has more bathroom humor than an elementary school cafeteria and so many stereotypes up the wazoo that the wazoo is officially full." — Metromix.com
Posted Jan 10, 2008
0.5/4 4% A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) " Sending Marley an escort who is a little person for comic effect represents a major foul; the guy saying people call him 'a little bit of heaven' is hitting the ball backwards out of the stadium. " — RedEye
Posted May 3, 2012
0.5/4 47% Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) " When people jumped from the burning towers of the World Trade Center, no pretty piano music accompanied their fall." — RedEye
Posted Jan 21, 2012
0.5/4 7% New Year's Eve (2011) " Perhaps at some point in the future, a great movie will feature the line, 'Ladies, may the best va-jay-jay win!'" — RedEye
Posted Dec 8, 2011
0.5/4 23% Conan the Barbarian (2011) " Muscles! Swords! Grunting!" — RedEye
Posted Aug 18, 2011
0.5/4 36% One Day (2011) " Also known as When D-Bag Met Sourpuss." — RedEye
Posted Aug 18, 2011
0.5/4 19% Rush Hour 3 (2007) " Tucker must not need to be funny since the loudmouth can take his $25 million payday and laugh all the way to the bank." — Metromix.com
Posted Aug 9, 2007
0.5/4 45% Cashback (2007) " Offers such a 13-year-old boy's perspective on love and sex that you wouldn't even trust it to unhook a bra." — Metromix.com
Posted Jul 19, 2007
0.5/4 7% Captivity (2007) " If this is Cuthbert's idea of being, as she claims, choosy about the horror offers she accepts, heaven help us from the ones she's turned down." — Metromix.com
Posted Jul 13, 2007
0.5/4 15% The Condemned (2007) " It looks like thinking hurts [Austin's] head, and watching him hurts mine." — Metromix.com
Posted Apr 26, 2007
0.5/4 9% Norbit (2007) " If you survive the maddening Norbit without hurting yourself or those around you, consider it a triumph of self-restraint." — Metromix.com
Posted Feb 8, 2007
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