Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 13%
| September Dawn (2007) | "
What a strange, confused, unpleasant movie this is." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 53%
| Wolf Creek (2005) | "
There is a line and this movie crosses it. I don't know where the line is, but it's way north of Wolf Creek." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 22, 2005 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 4%
| Dirty Love (2005) | "
Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 22, 2005 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 10%
| Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) | "
Aggressively bad, as if it wants to cause suffering to the audience." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 11, 2005 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 6%
| Chaos (2005) | "
I urge you to avoid it. Don't make the mistake of thinking it's 'only' a horror film, or a slasher film. It is an exercise in heartless cruelty and it ends with careless brutality. The movie denies not only the value of life, but the possibility of hope." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 11, 2005 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 27%
| The Prince & Me (2004) | "
The Prince & Me has the materials to be a heartwarming mass-market love story, but it doesn't assemble them convincingly." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 2, 2004 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 36%
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) | "
A contemptible film: Vile, ugly and brutal." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 17, 2003 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 20%
| The Life of David Gale (2003) | "
I am sure the filmmakers believe their film is against the death penalty. I believe it supports it and hopes to discredit the opponents of the penalty as unprincipled fraudsters." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 21, 2003 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 10%
| Slackers (2002) | "
It made me feel unclean, and I'm the guy who liked There's Something About Mary and both American Pie movies. Oh, and Booty Call." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 1, 2002 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 11%
| Freddy Got Fingered (2001) | "
A vomitorium consisting of 93 minutes of Tom Green doing things that a geek in a carnival sideshow would turn down." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 20, 2001 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 15%
| Tomcats (2001) | "
A comedy positioned outside the normal range of human response." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Mar 30, 2001 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 33%
| Frogs For Snakes (1999) | "
Not a film so much as a filmed idea. That could be interesting, but alas it is a very bad idea." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 25%
| Sour Grapes (1998) | "
I can't easily remember a film I've enjoyed less." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 13%
| B.A.P.S. (1997) | "
Jaw-droppingly bad, a movie so misconceived I wonder why anyone involved wanted to make it." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 8%
| Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) | "
A spectacularly bad film -- incompetent, unfunny, ill-conceived, badly executed, lamely written, and acted by people who look trapped in the headlights." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 20%
| Mad Dog Time (1996) | "
The first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 50%
| The Doom Generation (1995) | "
This is the kind of movie where the filmmaker hopes to shock you with sickening carnage and violent amorality, while at the same time holding himself carefully aloof from it with his style." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 12%
| North (1994) | "
I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 13%
| Little Indian, Big City (1994) | "
If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| N/A | Breaking the Rules (1992) | "
Breaking the Rules is a movie about a guy who finds out he has a month to live, and decides to spend it in the worst buddy movie ever made." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| N/A | Frozen Assets (1992) | "
This movie is seriously bad, but what puzzles me is its tone. This is essentially a children's movie with a dirty mind." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 13%
| Dice Rules (1991) | "
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice Clay if it had been made as a documentary by someone who hated him." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Fresh 69%
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) | "
As a movie, this material, freely adapted by Stoppard, is boring and endless. It lies flat on the screen, hardly stirring." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| N/A | Speed Zone (1989) | "
Cars are not funny. Speeding cars are not funny. It is not funny when a car spins around and speeds in the other direction. It is not funny when a car flies through the air. It is not funny when a truck crashes into a car." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 14, 2003 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 30%
| Erik the Viking (1989) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 14%
| Rude Awakening (1989) | "
The dialogue of the characters is half-witted, their actions are inexplicable, and to the degree that they possess personalities, they are boring, self-important clods." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 7%
| She's Out of Control (1989) | "
She's Out of Control is simultaneously so bizarre and so banal that it's a first: the first movie fabricated entirely from sitcom cliches and plastic lifestyles, without reference to any known plane of reality." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| N/A | Last Rites (1988) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 0%
| Jaws 4 - The Revenge (1987) | "
The shark models have so little movement that at times they seem to be supporting themselves on boats, instead of attacking them. Up until the ludicrous final sequence of the movie, the scariest creature in the film is an eel." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 40%
| Walker (1987) | "
Some bad movies are in no hurry to announce themselves, but Walker declares its badness right from the opening titles." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| N/A | Dangerously Close (1986) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 0%
| Fever Pitch (1985) | "
The opening segments of the movie are simply odd, distracting and unconvincing. It's the movie's final act that is sick." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
Rotten 0/4
| Fresh 63%
| The Hitcher (1985) | "
I would have admired it more if it had found the courage to acknowledge the real relationship it was portraying between Howell and Rutger, but no: It prefers to disguise itself as a violent thriller, and on that level it is reprehensible." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| N/A | Key Exchange (1985) |
Click here to read article — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 14%
| Hardly Working (1981) | "
I was absolutely stunned by the vast stupidity of this film." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 17, 2007 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 25%
| Caligula (1979) | "
Caligula is sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash. If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful: People with talent allowed themselves to participate in this travesty." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 8, 2007 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 39%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
[Jarmusch] is making some kind of a point. I think the point is that if you strip a story down to its bare essentials, you will have very little left. I wonder how he pitched this idea to his investors." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 43%
| Death Race (2008) | "
It is an assault on all the senses, including common. Walking out, I had the impression I had just seen the video game and was still waiting for the movie." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 17%
| Revolver (2007) | "
A frothing mad film that thrashes against its very sprocket holes in an attempt to bash its brains out against the projector. It seems designed to punish the audience for buying tickets." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 21%
| Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) | "
A film without interest, wit, imagination or even entertaining violence and special effects." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 10, 2004 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 55%
| The Girl Next Door (2004) | "
This is a dishonest, quease-inducing 'comedy' that had me feeling uneasy and then unclean." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 25%
| Masked and Anonymous (2003) | "
A vanity production beyond all reason." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 15, 2003 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 7%
| Boat Trip (2003) | "
This is a movie made for nobody, about nothing." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Mar 21, 2003 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 21%
| The Hot Chick (2002) | "
The movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation, and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 13, 2002 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 2%
| Half Past Dead (2002) | "
It goes through the motions of an action thriller, but there is a deadness at its center, a feeling that no one connected with it loved what they were doing." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Nov 15, 2002 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 0%
| Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) | "
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is an ungainly mess, submerged in mayhem, occasionally surfacing for cliches." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 20, 2002 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 21%
| Jason X (2002) | "
A low-rent retread of the Alien pictures." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 26, 2002 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 42%
| Death to Smoochy (2002) | "
In all the annals of the movies, few films have been this odd, inexplicable and unpleasant." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Mar 29, 2002 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 13%
| Sorority Boys (2002) | "
Because the intelligence level of the characters must be low, very low, very very low, for the masquerade to work, the movie contains no wit, only labored gags." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Mar 22, 2002 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 3%
| Rollerball (2002) | "
An incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 8, 2002 |
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