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Chris Cabin

Chris Cabin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:
Filmcritic.com , House Next Door , MovieWeb , Reel.com , Slant Magazine
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
771
Total QuickRatings:
1

Worst Reviewed Films

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0/4 —— Struck by Lightning () " A class-five pity party so unbearably condescending and unconvincing that it might just make you run out and buy an "I'm With Mitt" t-shirt, it makes an inadvertent but hugely compelling pro-bullying argument." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2012
1/5 50% Sleeping Beauty (2011) " stunningly empty and one-note" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 27, 2011
1/5 75% Heartless (2010) " moralistic filmmaking so wrong-headed as to become mean-spirited " — Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 18, 2010
1/5 45% Just Wright (2010) " uninspired and humorless " — Filmcritic.com
Posted May 13, 2010
1/5 18% The Tooth Fairy (2010) " deeply unfunny" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 21, 2010
1/5 35% The Slammin' Salmon (2009) " Intolerable, aimless" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 10, 2009
1/5 20% Motherhood (2009) " gets stuck in the starting gate, unsure of what kind of film it wants to be." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 22, 2009
1/5 31% St. Trinian's (2007) " indifferent to storytelling, craft and, dare I mention, fresh ideas" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 8, 2009
1/5 14% I Love You Beth Cooper (2009) " a film of convoluted shallowness and bloated melodrama" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 9, 2009
1/5 5% Miss March (2009) " uses its R rating as perhaps an eight-year-old would: to drop the F-bomb constantly and to show poop." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 12, 2009
1/5 12% The Unborn (2009) " has the psychological weight and perversity of a mildly racy episode of Touched by an Angel" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 8, 2009
1/5 13% The Women (2008) " No cliché, no matter how it screams and pleads for mercy, makes it out of this baby untapped." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 11, 2008
1/5 5% 88 Minutes (2008) " Pacino feels like a bankable source to disguise mediocrity but a dud is a dud and Avnet is wholly indifferent" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 17, 2008
1/5 44% Hostel: Part II (2007) " Sets the horror genre back a solid decade." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 7, 2007
1/5 72% Inland Empire (2006) " This time Lynch has really lost his bananas, and the grapefruits aren't looking too ripe either." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 6, 2006
1/5 54% Mini's First Time (2006) " a bloated waste of time and money... an unequivocal low. " — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 13, 2006
1/5 17% Land of the Blind (2006) " Is this what we have stooped to for leftist political films? Robert Edwards' film for one reason or another really thinks it's saying something." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 8, 2006
1/5 37% Dear Wendy (2005) " a private joke for two guys who should know better." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 21, 2006
1/5 61% Find Me Guilty (2006) " It fails on almost every level possible to fail on" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 16, 2006
1/5 14% London (2006) " I've seen more ferocious, and entertaining, spectacles at Raffi concerts." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 11, 2006
1/5 6% Big Momma's House 2 (2006) " the audience can't help but feel the lack of effort and heart in this film" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 4, 2006
1/5 32% Tamara (2006) " has the stench of money over integrity." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 2, 2006
1/5 16% Revolver (2005) " I can't remember another time in my film-watching career where I sincerely hated a movie ... one of the worst films ever made" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 26, 2006
1/5 4% The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2005) " the worst film of the year... a fraud of the highest order" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 12, 2005
1/4 34% Tonight You're Mine (2012) " The film's narrative conceit is so rigidly formulaic and lethargically spun that even the looseness and spontaneity that the setting affords feels dull and constricting." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2012
1/4 50% Saint (2011) " Mythology bites back against centuries of whitewashing by capitalism and Catholicism in this holiday slasher, but it can't even manage to break the skin." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2011
1/4 71% Stuck Between Stations (2011) " Brady Kiernan's Stuck Between Stations has sweetness to it, but it's a sweetness borrowed from innumerable other films and constantly corrupted by biased politics and crass emotional digressions." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2011
2.5.5 43% Cracks (2011) " Cracks has the potential to be utterly devastating. Unfortunately, the film settles for being mildly unsettling. " — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 17, 2011
79% Cocoon (1985) " Ron Howard's cutely innocuous sci-fi tale of an alien race helping elderly white people arrives in an adequate Blu-ray package." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2010
1.5/5 52% Detachment (2012) " A temper tantrum so shallow, aimless, and self-serious that it makes the films of Larry Clarke look genuinely optimistic in comparison" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 15, 2012
1.5/5 55% Killing Bono (2011) " the story of what would charitably be called a wackadoo" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 3, 2011
1.5/5 53% Brighton Rock (2011) " a remake that recalls the most pestering and innervating facets that the word 'remake' summons in even optimists such as myself" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 25, 2011
1.5/5 58% It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) " there's a deficit of youthful vitality, sincerity and insight to be felt here" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 7, 2010
1.5/5 33% Ne Te Retourne Pas (Don't Look Back) (2009) " Anyone expecting more than the pleasure of seeing two of Europe's most ravishing actresses, Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, sharing the same scene ... should brace for disappointment" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 1, 2010
1.5/5 51% Agora (2010) " insipid... your time would be better spent staring at the stars" — Filmcritic.com
Posted May 27, 2010
1.5/5 64% Harry Brown (2010) " deeply conservative single-note exercise in self-righteous justice, as unfettered by its cruel and uncomplicated politics as any of its Death Wish forebears" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 29, 2010
1.5/5 67% Date Night (2010) " suggests the neutered offspring of Martin Scorsese's After Hours and James Cameron's True Lies" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 9, 2010
1.5/5 18% Valentine's Day (2010) " an alternate Los Angeles where coincidence is commonplace and (finally!) every white woman in America finds her Prince Charming in the span of one day" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 11, 2010
1.5/5 34% The Burning Plain (2009) " transitions so fluidly from an unremarkable multi-narrative to abhorrently over-sentimentalized trash" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 17, 2009
1.5/5 74% I Sell the Dead (2008) " Who knew you could make graverobbing boring?" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 6, 2009
1.5/5 29% Deadgirl (2008) " It's a tasteless film but it doesn't seem to even enjoy any of the politically correct totems it so openly sprays its bodily fluids over" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 23, 2009
1.5/5 30% The Answer Man (Arlen Faber) (2009) " about as memorable as the proverbial stock picture that came with the frame" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 23, 2009
1.5/5 59% Phoebe in Wonderland (2009) " Believable and engaging, Fanning nearly renders the ensuing bore watchable" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 16, 2009
1.5/5 —— Cadaver (2009) " Nothing else in Cadaver features an understated concept of horror; rigor mortis sets in during the film's first few minutes." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 18, 2009
1.5/5 35% The Edge of Love (2008) " Has about as much to do with Dylan Thomas as it does the 1984 Summer Olympics." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 12, 2009
1.5/5 43% Eden Log (2007) " accepts no emotional stakes in its premise and gives the viewer only the simple task of reaching its finale" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 29, 2009
1.5/5 50% Notorious (2009) " ignores what Biggie was, a great artist who believed in the power of storytelling, and transforms him into the flawed saint that he never was and, more importantly, never wanted to be" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 15, 2009
1.5/5 42% Blindness (2008) " What was a poetic, exhaustively-brilliant piece of fiction has now become a clunky, clattering, ever-collapsing film of bludgeoning rhetoric" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 2, 2008
1.5/5 46% Lakeview Terrace (2008) " by a wide margin, the director's weakest effort to date" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 18, 2008
1.5/5 41% The Rocker (2008) " Certainly nothing this year will compete with the inexcusable The Love Guru for its sheer inability to create laughs, but The Rocker does its best to at least come close." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 19, 2008
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