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0/5
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50%
|
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010) |
"
There are terrible movies and there are loathsome movies. And then there's that rare breed so idiotic, exploitative and sickening one wishes they could be scrubbed from memory."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 6, 2010
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1/5
|
10%
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Saw 3D (2010) |
"
Cinema's premier torture-porn franchise at long last comes to a grisly end with Saw 3D, its seventh and possibly most meritless entry. And that's saying something."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 29, 2010
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|
1/5
|
40%
|
Walkaway (2010) |
"
Only 97 minutes but feels much longer."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 28, 2010
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1/5
|
0%
|
Scar (2007) |
"
As one character asks, "It never stops, does it?" Well, no. Not as long as people keep paying to see such dreck."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 7, 2010
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1/5
|
22%
|
Looking for Palladin (2008) |
"
Looking for Palladin meanders around Antigua (Guatemala) at a leisurely gait and enjoys the presence of Ben Gazzara in its central role. That's about all there is to find, however."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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|
1/5
|
22%
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Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) |
"
Often-unwatchably dim."
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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1/5
|
11%
|
Pathfinder (2007) |
"
This one is an instant Mystery Science Theatre 3000 classic, ideal for watching on TV with loud friends."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2007
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1/5
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7%
|
Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (Van Wilder 2) (2006) |
"
The film's incompetence is not limited to the writing, acting and directing. There are jarring jump cuts and continuity errors, and a laugh-out-loud eyeline mishap during a supposedly intimate conversation. One keeps expecting a boom mike to peek out."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 30, 2006
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|
1/5
|
3%
|
The Covenant (2006) |
"
The Covenant is a terrible movie, a bucket of water on the teen-witch genre."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 10, 2006
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|
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40%
|
Callback: The Unmaking of Bloodstain (2008) |
"
A mockumentary-thriller-broad-comedy-psychological-drama-sex-farce-insider-Hollywood satire that . . . wait for it . . . could use some focus."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2008
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|
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63%
|
Sixty Six (2006) |
"
Sixty Six may find a niche audience, but instead of depicting a boy's first steps toward manhood -- ceremony aside -- it turns into an uninvolving portrait of self-absorption."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 6, 2008
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|
1.5/5
|
14%
|
My Best Friend's Girl (2008) |
"
Ultimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 22, 2008
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|
1.5/5
|
2%
|
Disaster Movie (2008) |
"
Perhaps they'll eventually make one called Spoof Movie, which would brilliantly parody the genre by being consistently funny."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 2, 2008
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|
1.5/5
|
17%
|
Homo Erectus (National Lampoon's The Stoned Age) (2007) |
"
Thanks to natural selection, without the script, direction or comedic chops to survive, Homo Erectus will be extinct from theaters soon enough."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 11, 2008
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|
1.5/5
|
49%
|
Hatchet (2006) |
"
Even after appropriately lowering expectations, it's kind to call this one a cut below."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 7, 2007
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|
1.5/5
|
12%
|
The Salon (2007) |
"
This movie abruptly becomes a too-convenient black history lesson, complete with a truly egregious deus ex machina. The Salon is a cut below."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 11, 2007
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|
1.5/5
|
26%
|
Stomp the Yard (2007) |
"
There's athleticism and frenetic artistry here, but the film's attempts to make busting moves seem dramatic are about as effective as the hilarious chess-piece slamming in Searching for Bobby Fisher."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 11, 2007
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|
1.5/5
|
12%
|
Let's Go To Prison (2006) |
"
Because the movie can't bring itself to take that leap into full-on absurdity, the characters and comic opportunities stay confined to their cells."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 20, 2006
|
|
2/5
|
83%
|
Legacy () |
"
Aspiring for psychological drama rather than action movie, the film takes itself far too seriously."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 14, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
I Spit On Your Grave (2010) |
"
Certainly, the rape and killings are more intricate, graphic, excruciating and nauseating. Hooray."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Chain Letter (2010) |
"
Chain Letter is a nonsensical, bloody mess that, well, is missing a few links."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 1, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
Bitch Slap (2010) |
"
The target audience must be that awfully precise niche that never tires of women punching each other."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 7, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
I Sell the Dead (2008) |
"
The worst fault visually, probably intended as a charm against the spell of low-budget-itis, is relentless darkness. Pervasive shadows in most shots do not evoke atmosphere, but eye strain."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 14, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Passengers (2008) |
"
It's a long ride to a familiar destination."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 30, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
9%
|
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"
There's a charming restaurant scene, some nifty hand-to-hand combat and the cast is great looking. But pretty much all the things that made the original so original are filtered out of this un-original."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 8, 2008
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|
2/5
|
7%
|
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"
Babylon feels like an almost random pastiche of good and bad. There may be a deadly virus, or genetic engineering, or a virgin birth, or some combination of all, it's not clear."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 2, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
Bottle Shock (2008) |
"
The soul of the grape, that thing that elevates a wine to greatness, proves here as elusive on screen as in the bottle."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 6, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
Space Chimps (2008) |
"
There's probably not enough fuel beyond cute chimps in Candyland to achieve orbit for the kids."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
——
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Polar Opposites (2008) |
"
More disastrous than disaster movie."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Solar Flare (2008) |
"
The film tries to be a cautionary tale against corporate interference in both the environment and technology, but it really serves as a warning beacon against enervated staging and ineffectual dialogue."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Look (2007) |
"
With its emphasis on its interweaving stories, the movie offers no commentary on the phenomenon of increasingly pried-apart privacy, positive or negative."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 14, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Self Medicated (2006) |
"
Self-Medicated must have been cathartic for writer-director-producer-star Monty Lapica to make, but its therapeutic value for audiences is questionable."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 31, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
The Condemned (2007) |
"
A zillionaire collects 10 hard cases from death rows around the world (how about that, even Running Man rip-offs are being outsourced)."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 27, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Hoboken Hollow () |
"
Writer-director-producer Glen Stephens does occasionally have grim fun, but something as irredeemably sadistic as this packaged as entertainment is almost depressing."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 9, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
TMNT (2007) |
"
Despite the doll-like cartoonishness of the human figures (O Pixar, what hast thou wrought?), the filmmakers seem to expect us to take this animated romp seriously. Too seriously."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 23, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
53%
|
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"
The film is clearly well-meaning but hampered by the heavy-handed direction of Robert Shaye and egregious use of James Horner's score, constantly cuing the warming of the heart."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 23, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Tortilla Heaven (2007) |
"
The film and its makers simply try too hard. Director and co-writer Judy Hecht Dumontet can't stop 'helping' with overactive editing and scoring."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 16, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
6%
|
Full of It (2007) |
"
The genre usually gets the super-slick, smash-cutting, roving-camera treatment, but Full of It feels oddly low key despite the fantastical elements. Some pre-fab parts don't quite fit together."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 1, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Living the Dream (2006) |
"
There is undeniable heart in Living the Dream, with its implicit criticism of mercenary values, but its world is populated solely by hustlers, recruiters and salesmen with nothing to sell."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 24, 2006
|
|
2/5
|
95%
|
Commune (2006) |
"
Fitfully interesting, but would have benefited from tighter focus and finer detail."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 9, 2006
|
|
2/5
|
26%
|
Saw III (2006) |
"
More gore is really all III has to offer."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
El Cortez (2006) |
"
El Cortez, like so many before it, searches for that nugget in the genre mine but just doesn't find it."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 19, 2006
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Shock to the System (2006) |
"
Where film noir is often punch-drunk with a jab of snappy patter and a left hook of world-weary cynicism, Shock tries to clinch with understanding."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 3, 2006
|
|
2.5/5
|
38%
|
Jim (2010) |
"
Morris-Burke does deserve applause for what he has accomplished technically on a shoestring budget. His location scout is a hero. But the over-complicated, under-emotional Jim's reach ultimately exceeds its grasp."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 14, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
89%
|
Teza () |
"
The herky-jerky quality of the experience, exacerbated by writer-director Gerima's restless editing, makes Anberber's story difficult to follow."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 24, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Chasing 3000 (2008) |
"
This sincere, nostalgic, brothers-on-the-road movie has its strong points but sadly fails to do what Clemente so famously did in his final at-bat - finish on a high note."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 26, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
32%
|
My Last Five Girlfriends (2009) |
"
My Last Five Girlfriends is a stab at an anti- romantic comedy, but with too dull a blade."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 2, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
88%
|
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (2010) |
"
The rough-edged film gets major points for originality. But its ending utterly flames out, as if the filmmakers suddenly found they had nowhere to land, so hit the self-destruct button."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 24, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
29%
|
Survival of the Dead (2010) |
"
Romero is using better actors than in the past, which helps. But they are hobbled by a sometimes nonsensical script with logical lapses even genre fans will find hard to swallow."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
43%
|
Mercy (2010) |
"
Mercy is a romantic drama with some good qualities -- among them earnestness and strong performances -- but not enough to completely overcome the strain of its clichés."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 6, 2010
|
60%
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97%
