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Brian Holcomb

Brian Holcomb

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Beyond Hollywood , CinemaBlend.com , Kinetofilm , PopMatters , Slant Magazine
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
171
Location:
South Jersey/Philadelphia

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/5 18% The Fourth Kind (2009) " The arrogance and ignorance on display is truly amazing. Arrogance of its superiority over the audience's intellect and ignorance of filmmaking craft." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Mar 16, 2010
2/10 —— Roy Shaw - Brute Force (2006) " The real shame is that Roy's story is riveting stuff and would've made a great honest documentary or at least an amazing '70s crime picture with Oliver Reed as Shaw." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 7, 2008
—— Ghost Image (2009) " The kind of movie that is best seen at about 3:45 a.m. on TV. At that hour, your mind is only half awake and is unable to think critically about the story that is unfolding." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jan 14, 2010
14% Mirrors (2008) " In SUSPIRIA, Udo Kier says that "Bad luck isn't caused by broken mirrors, but by broken minds"-Well after making this silly movie, director Alexandre Aja might think otherwise" — Kinetofilm
Posted Feb 9, 2009
9% I Know Who Killed Me (2007) " Lindsay Lohan wears more clothes in this movie then she does clubbing in real life." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
1/4 —— Bionic Woman - Volume 1 (2008) " Constructed from spare parts in a bionic writing room, the show has the arms and legs of "Alias" and "Heroes" but without a heart and brain of its own." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 22, 2008
24% Lady in the Water (2006) " What is most annoying about "Lady" is that no one ever considers the possibility that nothing magical is actually occurring.The film starts out silly and just gets sillier." — Beyond Hollywood
Posted Apr 20, 2008
26% The Omen (2006) " If you thought Van Sant's "Psycho" reshoot was weird, check this out. It's a community theater version of that old classic "The Omen", filled with all your favorite scenes." — Beyond Hollywood
Posted Apr 19, 2008
24% Halloween (2007) " Some may think it isn't fair to compare Zombie's film to the original. Too bad. It's called "Halloween" and I'm pretty sure it's a remake of a movie called "Halloween"." — Beyond Hollywood
Posted Apr 19, 2008
20% The Invasion (2007) " This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked." — Beyond Hollywood
Posted Apr 19, 2008
15% The Return (2006) " Built from spare parts left over by American remakes of Japanese copies of "Ringu", "The Return" is at least two steps removed from the first generation copy." — Beyond Hollywood
Posted Apr 18, 2008
36% Sleuth (2007) " Once the homosexual subtext is brought to the surface, everything seems to be a joke. Are they gay, kidding, or just considering?" — PopMatters
Posted Apr 10, 2008
35% Southland Tales (2007) " Moment to moment, the film makes a random kind of sense, but after about 30 minutes of this, it's clear that the author has no clue how it's all supposed to go together." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Apr 9, 2008
1.5/5 3% Passion Play (2011) " A vanity project from successful Hollywood screenwriter Mitch Glazer, this film should really be much funnier than it is. Oh, it's not a comedy, by the way. Not at all. " — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 27, 2011
1.5/5 83% Hide (2008) " For two thirds of the film, Hide plays as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino-lite and not those filmmakers as they are today but as they were in, say, 1994." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 26, 2009
1.5/5 19% Righteous Kill (2008) " Pacino. DeNiro. Armed and dangerous. In a cop drama. In NYC. Together. Written by the writer of Inside Man. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, what could've gone so wrong?" — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jan 11, 2009
1.5/5 18% The Happening (2008) " While not as laughable as the narcissistic Lady in the Water ,it fails just as miserably as narrative and even more miserably with its flat characters and tone deaf dialogue." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 12, 2008
2/5 20% The Traveler (2011) " The film seems to be straining at times for an existentialism way outside of its grasp. This isn't Camus; it's Rod Serling by way of Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter. " — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 14, 2011
2/5 69% The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) " Records onto film all the important moments found in the novel. These moments aren't made into compelling drama so much as crossed off some narrative checklist. " — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 27, 2010
2/5 100% The Gravedancers (2006) " The title tells all in this jumbled mess of a horror film." — Kinetofilm
Posted Feb 1, 2010
2/5 26% Saw III (2006) " Images jump, blip, strobe, and shock like an epileptic seizure - all the result of director Darren Lynn Bousman's lack of trust in his screenplay." — Kinetofilm
Posted Feb 1, 2010
2/5 24% Exorcist II - The Heretic (1977) " It may be that the best way to watch The Heretic is to shut off the soundtrack and play a CD of Goblin's Suspiria score as accompaniment." — Kinetofilm
Posted Jan 31, 2010
4/10 59% W. (2008) " Stone's film is like an affectionate kick in the groin of a good old boy you'd like to have a beer with, or with W today, a near Beer." — Kinetofilm
Posted Jan 25, 2010
2/5 17% The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) " The movie works hard for your money and should theoretically be scarier than the cut rate television production. But it's not. Not by a mile." — Kinetofilm
Posted Sep 25, 2009
2/5 12% The Unborn (2009) " There is a senseless scare every 5-7 minutes. Now, after one or two you start to get the giggles but after the third or fourth false scare you begin to Laugh Out Loud." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jul 15, 2009
2/5 68% Public Enemies (2009) " There are powerful images that sear into your brain upon contact with your eyes but PUBLIC ENEMIES clearly wants to alienate the audience as much as it engages them." — Kinetofilm
Posted Jul 3, 2009
2/5 —— Killing Ariel (2009) " I don't know how many times I've asked myself, "How come they're aren't more films about the Incubus?" Well, here's one for you." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 21, 2009
2/5 0% S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale (2009) " The entire project seems to sweat from the exertion of its writer Nathan Atkins and director Chris Fisher to do something-anything-to make the film worthwhile." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 20, 2009
2/5 59% Quarantine (2008) " Real no frills filmmaking. Anything that gets in the way of the main idea is stripped to the bone. This includes certain niceties like character, humor, and even story." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 25, 2009
2/5 50% Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) " While a marked improvement over the utter lameness of Troopers 2, Marauder tries too hard to telegraph its satirical tone..." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 8, 2008
4/10 38% Summer Love (Dead Man's Bounty) (2007) " In attempting to create a shock effect of the new within the old, the baby is tossed out with the bathwater. The core pleasures of genre still have to be respected." — PopMatters
Posted May 29, 2008
4/10 17% Jailbait (2004) " It's really not much fun watching the non drama of our hero Randy (Michael Pitt) staring at the walls and keeping the hands of the more brutish Jake from clawing up his skirt." — PopMatters
Posted May 5, 2008
2/5 12% The Messengers (2007) " Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupid and easily duped." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
2/5 36% The Tripper (2007) " It's different, but is it any good? As another former President might say, "Depends on how you define 'good'."" — CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
2.5/5 53% The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010) " The third and final entry in Stieg Larsson's enormously successful series is perhaps the least thrilling, but it's easily the most satisfying. " — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jan 27, 2011
2.5/5 50% Chloe (2010) " This isn't a particularly deep story but it does a good job at making what would be obvious in a Skinemax movie much more ambiguous." — Kinetofilm
Posted Sep 25, 2010
2.5/5 33% Flyboys (2006) " It may indeed be inspired by a true story, but what we see onscreen is simply "Star Wars" set in some fantasy French air base circa 1917." — Kinetofilm
Posted Feb 1, 2010
2.5/5 —— Encounter With the Unknown () " Something in the slipshod style begins to get under the skin.The blurry images and stiff line readings create a sense of dislocation and mystery, a separate reality." — Kinetofilm
Posted Feb 1, 2010
2.5/5 84% The Descent (2006) " Director Marshall has obviously kept his DVD player spinning for days studying all of the classics and simply taking everything he needed like a Vanilla Ice "Under Pressure"" — Kinetofilm
Posted Jan 31, 2010
2.5/5 33% Blood Creek (2009) " "Blood Creek" is a whole hell of a lot better than any movie called "Blood Creek" has a right to be." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jan 27, 2010
5/10 70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " The film called "Sherlock Holmes" that has been raking in the money at the box office this Christmas season does not really exist at all. It's an illusion. A Jedi Mind Trick." — Kinetofilm
Posted Jan 16, 2010
2.5/5 75% Invictus (2009) " INVICTUS works better than it deserves to as an old fashioned,predictable entertainment. In another filmmaker's hands the Capra-corn would be just too much." — Kinetofilm
Posted Dec 11, 2009
2.5/5 82% Paranormal Activity (2009) " Expect less and you will appreciate it more. The film isn't unique or even very well made. Peli only seems able to come up with HALF of a good idea throughout the film." — Kinetofilm
Posted Nov 14, 2009
2.5/5 37% X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) " Packed with claw-shredding action and adventure, the film more or less delivers what it promises. The problem lies with what it promises." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 23, 2009
2/4 —— True Blood - The Complete First Season (2009) " Pity the poor vampire. Walking the earth for eternity and forced to drink blood to survive, he can't even be taken seriously as a monster these days. Except as a metaphor." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2009
2/4 50% Taking Chance (2009) " Lazy filmmaking that fails to engage anyone who doesn't have a personal connection to the story. It's so well-meaning that it ultimately means nothing much at all." — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2009
2.5/5 14% Deception (2008) " This film would make a perfect commercial thriller for James Spader and Rob Lowe were it still 1994." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 28, 2008
5/10 76% Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas) (2006) " Nominated for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award, "Noel" is the kind of sentimental tripe the Academy loves to honor in order to justify their own sentimental tripe." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 7, 2008
5/10 100% Puzzlehead (2006) " A gothic tale with roots deep in Shelly's Frankenstein. Bai takes the part that most adaptations toss out, the moral education of the monster, and puts it front and center." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 7, 2008
2.5/5 55% Marie Antoinette (2006) " This could be the story of Paris Hilton if she were to be married off to an impotent French Prince instead of dating meatheads armed with camcorders." — CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
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