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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Publications:
Entertainment Weekly
Critics' Group:
National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
2182

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
F 12% A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 33% Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 27% Major Payne (1994) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 3% Bless the Child (2000) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 13% The King and I (1999) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 33% Gummo (1997) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 15% My Father The Hero (1994) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 0% On Deadly Ground (1994) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 6% Exit to Eden (1994) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
F 18% Valentine's Day (2010) " Every skit is lame, every line of dialogue is stale, every joke falls flat, and every performance has been phoned in between text messages to agents blinking, ''SOS!''" — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 12, 2010
F 5% Old Dogs (2009) " The movie includes an interminable scene of the men taking the wrong medications for their various boomer ailments, with weirdly horrible comedic side effects." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 24, 2009
F 15% Hounddog (2008) " Under the circumstances, Fanning is remarkably collected and even dignified. As for the rest of the gang, they ought to be returned to sender." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 17, 2008
F 5% 88 Minutes (2008) " It takes eight minutes, tops, to know that even by the conventionally lax standards of watch-and-toss serial-killer movies, 88 Minutes is a stinker, the more so for the thespian excesses of the accomplished cast." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 17, 2008
F 13% Bigger Than the Sky (2005) " Are the filmmakers making meta use of a bland, uncharismatic actor to play a bland, uncharismatic actor who plays one of the theater's most memorable men? Nah, thinking like that requires panache." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 23, 2005
F 7% Surviving Christmas (2004) " Rarely has a happy ending felt less like a gift freely given or truly earned." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 20, 2004
F 9% My Boss's Daughter (2003) " Zucker ... directs this mess like a substitute teacher soldiering through a day's work for a day's pay at a decertified school." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 27, 2003
F 7% Boat Trip (2003) " Unless their names are Frasier and Niles Crane, no men can survive such a shipwreck as this one." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2003
F 18% Saving Silverman (Evil Woman) (2001) " In one rotten production ... all involved have managed to create the most unlikable, man hating, woman hating, unfunny idiots since Whipped." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 9, 2001
F 19% Love Stinks (1999) " Holy mother of the bride, what bile was Jeff Franklin drinking when he came up with this curdled revenge fantasy?" — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 12% Hanging Up (2000) " A smug, self-serving, charmless exercise in niche-marketed sentiment." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 24% Gun Shy (2000) " A half hour in and still, the plot, tone, and setting are incomprehensible." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 23% Patch Adams (1998) " Offensive and deeply false 'inspirational!'" — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 7% Woo (1998) " [An] unsexy, unfunny mess." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 8, 1998
D- 4% A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) " As embodied with clueless good humor by Kate Hudson, fatal sickness looks more like a lifestyle and wardrobe choice than a tragedy." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 2, 2012
D- 24% What's Your Number? (2011) " Lighting, camerawork, and editing are all a slapdash mess, one that further hinders the actors trying their best to get through this failed hookup of a comedy." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 30, 2011
D- 21% Congo (1995) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 27% Kissing A Fool (1997) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 13% Chairman of the Board (1997) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 10% The Tie That Binds (1995) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 12% The Air I Breathe (2008) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 15% Metro (1997) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- —— Tishe! (Hush) () Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 11% Two if By Sea (1995) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 0% Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 9% Trial by Jury (1994) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 4% Gone Fishin' (1997) Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
D- 32% I Am Number Four (2011) " The sci-fi-teen romance I Am Number Four is witless, insultingly derivative, muddy-looking, and edited in the hammering epileptic style that marks so many films produced, as this one is, by Michael Bay." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 19, 2011
D- 28% Life as We Know It (2010) " A comedy as disposable -- and stinky -- as loaded Pampers." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 6, 2010
D- 0% Stolen Lives (2010) " [A] graceless piece of tragedy porn..." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 10, 2010
D- 8% Crazy on the Outside (2010) " Each actor appears to have received the script to a different movie, while Allen adds his own directorial touch of sexual vulgarity." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 13, 2010
D- 18% Gentlemen Broncos (2009) " The audience may have bought the act in Napoleon Dynamite. But this time, the act bombs." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 28, 2009
D- 63% The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) (2008) " As a Holocaust-for-kids fable, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an appalling, jaw-dropping movie that will cause serious nightmares." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 5, 2008
D- 19% Firewall (2006) " If you feel like you've seen it before, it's because you have -- action heroes beating the crap out of people in the pious name of protecting their loved ones." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 8, 2006
D- 32% Pretty Persuasion (2005) " The movie wants so badly to be mentioned in the same breath as Heathers or Election that it's not even funny. Really, I mean it, this charred-black comedy is not even funny." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 10, 2005
D- 81% Dear Frankie (2005) " A Scottish weepie of such bathos and balderdash that it deserves a drinking game in its rotten honor: Bend an elbow every time you've underestimated how low screenwriter Andrea Gibb and director Shona Auerbach will go to wring a tear." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 9, 2005
D- 32% Eulogy (2004) " If Eulogy were a sitcom pilot, it would be dead on arrival." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 13, 2004
D- 14% Welcome To Mooseport (2004) " When did feature-length comedies like this one come to settle for indistinguishably 'colorful' characters as a substitute for anything really funny or sharp to say about American daily life?" — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 19, 2004
D- 2% The Master of Disguise (2002) " An awful, stillborn comedy assembled out of rusty spare parts from secret agent movies and run-of-the-mill Saturday Night Live skits." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Aug 8, 2002
D- 10% What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001) " A worst-case comedy that answers its own title question in every scene." — Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 31, 2001
D- 32% The Waterboy (1998) " Dehydrated!" — Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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