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Jack Mathews

Jack Mathews

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Publications:
Los Angeles Times , New York Daily News , Newsday
Critics' Group:
New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
971

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/4 24% Awake (2007) " Possibly the worst movie of 2007, and certainly the worst movie ever made featuring the spirits of dying people discussing their futures and sharing mortal flashbacks." — New York Daily News
Posted Dec 2, 2007
0/4 0% Perception (2006) " An early and daunting contender for worst movie of the year ..." — New York Daily News
Posted Jan 20, 2006
1/5 42% BASEketball (1998) " If you're old enough to see this movie without a parent or guardian and all that sounds encouraging, this review has failed, and failed badly." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 4% Kazaam (1996) " The gloomy psychology detracts from the film's magic elements." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 9% Celtic Pride (1996) " This is a bad time for NBA fans in Boston. Just as their beloved Celtics are about to wrap up a dismal season, with nearly 50 losses and no berth in the playoffs, Hollywood comes out with a comedy about the Celtics that's even worse than the team." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 7% Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers (Halloween 6) (1998) " 'Enough of this Michael Meyers B.S.!,' says a disgruntled Haddonfielder, as news spreads of the returning native son. Dream on." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 50% When Night Is Falling (1995) " It is so focused on its own boldness, its dare-to-shock sensuality (the film got an NC-17 from the MPAA, but is being released unrated), that nothing else comes through." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2001
1/4 55% Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006) " Canada may have a better health care system than ours, but the popularity of the TV show Trailer Park Boys proves that when it comes to low-brow entertainment, they can go lower than Jerry Springer." — New York Daily News
Posted Jan 25, 2008
1/4 20% Death Sentence (2007) " Bacon's performance in Saw creator James Wan's laughably extreme revenge thriller Death Sentence is six degrees of ham." — New York Daily News
Posted Aug 31, 2007
1/4 17% The Last Legion (2007) " I have too much respect for Kingsley and Firth to believe they did this for anything other than the money, and to their credit, they give their best efforts." — New York Daily News
Posted Aug 20, 2007
1/4 36% Descent (2007) " No moviegoer has done anything to deserve the images that director Talia Lugacy would throw in their face." — New York Daily News
Posted Aug 10, 2007
1/4 34% DOA: Dead or Alive (2007) " Charlie's Angels, Survivor, American Gladiators and Girls Gone Wild are just some of the bad influences on Hong Kong action director Corey Yuen's laughably silly adaptation of the video game DOA: Dead or Alive." — New York Daily News
Posted Jun 18, 2007
1/4 21% The Invisible (2007) " Layers of the story are jammed into the script, but what might work as a narrative device in a novel -- the spirit guiding readers through Nick's revelations -- is just plain ridiculous in a movie." — New York Daily News
Posted Apr 30, 2007
1/4 7% Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (Van Wilder 2) (2006) " Taj plays like a very bad combination of Revenge of the Nerds and Harry Potter." — New York Daily News
Posted Dec 4, 2006
74% Sherrybaby (2006) " ... for all the missteps, Gyllenhaal gives such a riveting central performance, the others tend to blend into the background." — New York Daily News
Posted Sep 8, 2006
1/4 10% Pulse (2006) " Hideously ugly to look at and not even worth following." — New York Daily News
Posted Aug 14, 2006
1/4 27% Revoloution (2006) " Less a movie than an 80-minute promo for a self-help program for the seriously desperate." — New York Daily News
Posted May 19, 2006
1/4 41% The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) " This is an execrable movie." — New York Daily News
Posted Mar 10, 2006
1/4 9% Ultraviolet (2006) " Wimmer has created no logical framework for flashy, ultraviolent and frankly cheesy sequences." — New York Daily News
Posted Mar 3, 2006
1/4 22% The Pink Panther (2006) " Under his coat, the Panther must be pink with embarrassment." — New York Daily News
Posted Feb 10, 2006
1/4 31% Pizza (2005) " At the end of her spontaneous date, she says it's been the best night of her life. It will not be one of yours." — New York Daily News
Posted Jan 20, 2006
1/4 44% The Comedians of Comedy (2005) " While there is a great deal of laughter among the quartet, there's scarcely a giggle in it for the audience." — New York Daily News
Posted Nov 11, 2005
1/4 29% Walking on the Sky (2005) " I haven't spent an hour and a half with worse company since high school detention." — New York Daily News
Posted Sep 9, 2005
1/4 4% The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2005) " So dully written and executed that you'll be wishing the production had collapsed instead of the swaying bridge of San Luis Rey. " — New York Daily News
Posted Jun 10, 2005
1/4 25% Mindhunters (2005) " The murderer may not be obvious because the script breaks every law of probability, and 'ridiculous' is too mild a word to apply to the deaths." — New York Daily News
Posted May 13, 2005
1/4 16% xXx: State of the Union (2005) " The chases, shootouts and explosions in this deafening, lamebrained wreck of a movie make the Road Runner cartoons look like National Geographic specials." — New York Daily News
Posted Apr 29, 2005
1/4 29% Madison (2005) " There isn't a scene, an action or a character that rings true, yet the narrative summary of the events that inspired it is a matter of record." — New York Daily News
Posted Apr 22, 2005
1/4 42% Palindromes (2004) " There is simply no way to get or stay involved in a movie when the main character has more physical forms than Count Dracula, especially when most of the amateur actors assuming the role cannot act at all." — New York Daily News
Posted Apr 13, 2005
25% Dot the I (2003) " Far too clever for his own good, Parkhill has fashioned a Chinese box of a story where the first twist sets up a second, that one sets up a third, and so on." — New York Daily News
Posted Apr 1, 2005
1/4 76% Assisted Living (2005) " Tedious, film-school level exercise in self-indulgence and exploitation." — New York Daily News
Posted Feb 4, 2005
1/4 1% Alone in the Dark (2005) " Alone in the Dark is no better than whatever you might pick up while wearing a blindfold at Blockbuster, even if you happen to reach into a trash can." — New York Daily News
Posted Jan 28, 2005
1/4 15% The Hillside Strangler (2004) " Here's one for the Sick Voyeurs Club." — New York Daily News
Posted Oct 12, 2004
1/4 10% Taxi (2004) " We often hear about movie scenes and characters being left on the cutting-room floor. In the case of the would-be comedy Taxi, that's apparently where all the laughs were left." — New York Daily News
Posted Oct 6, 2004
1/4 18% Suspect Zero (2004) " If it's true that the state of New Mexico floated an interest-free, $7.5 million loan for the makers of Suspect Zero in exchange for 2.5% of the film's profits, look for a taxpayer revolt in the Land of Enchantment." — New York Daily News
Posted Aug 26, 2004
1/4 0% Chooch (2004) " It's an earnest affair that looks like a neighborhood project on film (16-mm, in fact, blown up to 35) for someone's anniversary or birthday party." — New York Daily News
Posted Aug 26, 2004
1/4 22% AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) " The actual fights between the predators and the serpents are too silly to contemplate. Both shiny and metallic, they look like kitchen appliances fighting it out." — New York Daily News
Posted Aug 16, 2004
52% The Notebook (2004) " Two hours of the worst sort of sentimental sap." — New York Daily News
Posted Jun 25, 2004
1/4 4% Godsend (2003) " Next to The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, this is the worst movie De Niro has ever been in." — New York Daily News
Posted Apr 30, 2004
1/4 46% Close Your Eyes (Doctor Sleep) (2002) " May be the worst-directed movie exported by England in this young century." — New York Daily News
Posted Apr 22, 2004
1/4 33% The Butterfly Effect (2004) " If you approach this movie in the right frame of mind -- that is, with total contempt -- you can still enjoy it as a comedy." — New York Daily News
Posted Jan 22, 2004
1/4 12% Timeline (2003) " An instant contender for cult status on the midnight-movie circuit, where lines like 'Do we look like quantum wormhole specialists?' will be given the respect they deserve." — New York Daily News
Posted Nov 26, 2003
37% Sylvia (2003) " Paltrow does this role exceptionally well, but it is underwritten." — New York Daily News
Posted Nov 6, 2003
1/4 2% The Master of Disguise (2002) " The film contains no good jokes, no good scenes, barely a moment when Carvey's Saturday Night Live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment." — New York Daily News
Posted Aug 3, 2002
50% Dance with Me (1998) " Throughout the film, Haines treats...banal moments as epiphanies, telegraphing every feeling and thought with annoying coyness." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
16% Most Wanted (1997) " Keenen Ivory Wayans ... is said to have done some of the research for his story on the Internet, which is just one more reason to fear the influence of this technological monster." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
48% My Fellow Americans (1996) " A gang-written comedy that doesn't have a political bone in its body, or much evidence of a funny one, either." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
14% Vegas Vacation (1997) " There is nothing more memorable about Vegas Vacation than the flatness of the writing in Elisa Bell's script and the uninspired direction of first-timer Stephen Kessler." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
13% The Glimmer Man (1996) " Most of the action scenes occur in the dark and are so heavily edited, it's hard to know whose limbs and faces are being splintered by Cole." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
12% The Crow: City of Angels (1996) " The city of overacting, the city of bad writing and the city of truly dreadful sequels." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
78% Beautiful Girls (1996) " The dialogue isn't the only problem with Beautiful Girls. The characters are bad, too." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
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