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Michael Rechtshaffen

Michael Rechtshaffen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Hollywood Reporter
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
697

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
70% Ramona and Beezus (2010) " The cinematic adventures of Beverly Cleary's pint-sized big dreamer comes up short on scope and imagination." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 19, 2010
64% Predators (2010) " More is not necessarily scarier in this often lively but scattered reboot." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 8, 2010
10% Grown Ups (2010) " While it's nice to see they all got along so swell, it would have been nicer if we could have shared in all the frivolity." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 24, 2010
13% Jonah Hex (2010) " Although Josh Brolin rises to the occasion, much of this comic book adaptation appears to have been abandoned on the cutting-room floor." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 17, 2010
73% Get Him to the Greek (2010) " A giddy Diddy turn aside, this wildly uneven comedy doesn't travel very far." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 1, 2010
45% Just Wright (2010) " Just trite." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 10, 2010
15% A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) " Good luck staying awake." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 29, 2010
23% Repo Men (2010) " Let the 2010 Razzies race begin!" — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 18, 2010
19% Cop Out (2010) " Any actual action's an afterthought in this garrulous goof on the classic buddy-cop flick." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 24, 2010
34% The Wolfman (2010) " Not so much howlingly bad as it is disappointingly lifeless." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 10, 2010
37% From Paris with Love (2010) " Travolta has/is a blast in an action-thriller-comedy that otherwise comes up short on all three counts." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 1, 2010
21% Leap Year (2010) " An uneven romantic comedy that feels as fresh as a hunk of week-old soda bread." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 7, 2010
21% Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) " Ross Bagdasarian's enduring characters are a bit tougher to endure in this charmless sequel." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 21, 2009
42% Armored (2009) " An initially intriguing plot line makes a messy getaway in this throwback heist movie." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 4, 2009
18% The Fourth Kind (2009) " This stiff paranormal thriller could stand a lot more activity." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 5, 2009
23% The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) " If Duffy's decade away has proved to be a humbling experience, you wouldn't know it from this bloated follow-up, which tonally goes all over the place, but its primary direction is over the top." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 29, 2009
29% The Open Road (2009) " Despite its dependable cast, this ponderous road movie remains stuck in the slow lane." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 1, 2009
26% The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) " An aggressively hard-sell of a loud, abrasive comedy." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 13, 2009
29% The Collector (2009) " The Collector grafts a torture porn payoff onto a heist thriller setup with messy, illogical results." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 31, 2009
21% G-Force (2009) " A 3D ball of energy, but its furry characters are flatly run-of-the-treadmill." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 23, 2009
0% Homecoming (2009) " An unmitigated B-movie that isn't thrilling enough or cheesy enough to make it worth the trip." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 17, 2009
45% Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Ice Age 3) (2009) " Prehistory repeats itself in this dispiritingly slothful third installment." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 30, 2009
51% The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) " Despite the ever-energetic Tony Scott at the throttle, the sleek new edition isn't as transporting as it should have been." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 5, 2009
33% Terminator Salvation (2009) " The machines rise to the occasion. Too bad the dramatic element's just as robotic." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 18, 2009
43% The Limits of Control (2009) " Unfortunately, the whole seldom adds up to the sum of its illustrious parts, and Jarmusch's trademark deadpan quirks seem to have gotten lost in the translation." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 24, 2009
44% Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) " Miley's return to her Tennessee roots goes a little heavy on the country corn." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 7, 2009
0% Super Capers (2009) " This first feature by Ray Griggs wears its Mad Magazine influences like a badge of honor but fails to round up enough laughs to save the day." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 19, 2009
42% The Last House on the Left (2009) " Stripped of that sociological context, the extreme brutality here can't help but feel more than a little exploitative, especially where the film's female victims are concerned." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 13, 2009
25% Friday the 13th (2009) " It's business as usual at Camp Crystal Lake, with very little in the way of fresh jolts or an innovative visual style that would have really revitalized the hokey franchise." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 13, 2009
22% Fired Up (2009) " An over-cranked teen comedy that only travels so far on its one-gag premise." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 12, 2009
25% Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) " The packaging is appealing, but the previously owned contents are flimsy." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 11, 2009
22% Push (2009) " Director Paul McGuigan and screenwriter David Boula are content to rely on the usual suspects, taking their visual and dramatic cues from other, more clever and involving sci-fi capers." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 2, 2009
28% New In Town (2009) " This snowy Minnesota rom-com is as funny as frostbite." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 26, 2009
56% The Tale of Despereaux (2008) " The magic is minuscule in this handsome-looking but drearily told animated tale." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 15, 2008
36% Transporter 3 (2008) " The third time's the bomb -- and not in a good way." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 24, 2008
26% Eagle Eye (2008) " As tightly coiled as a Slinky, and for all their running around, LaBeouf and the normally engaging Monaghan are stuck with characters who aren't particularly lively and, more problematic, fail to spark the requisite chemistry." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 26, 2008
7% Babylon A.D. (2008) " [A] futuristic mess of biblical proportions." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 2, 2008
19% Fly Me to the Moon (2008) " Fly Me to the Moon is an awkward mix of proficient 3-D animation, detailed technical recreation and strained storytelling that stalls on takeoff." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 11, 2008
19% Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) " Anakin's a real mannequin in this stiffly-executed CG feature." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 8, 2008
62% Brideshead Revisited (2008) " A handsomely appointed but oddly unaffecting adaptation." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 21, 2008
19% Meet Dave (2008) " This sci-fi romp seriously skimps on the sort of wacky comedy that should have flown liberally from such an inspired premise." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 10, 2008
50% Sex and the City (2008) " The end product is a case of bigger not necessarily being better." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 15, 2008
3% Deal (2008) " Success isn't in the cards for this plodding poker drama." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 25, 2008
8% Prom Night (2008) " About as spine-tingling as an algebra exam." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 14, 2008
5% 88 Minutes (2008) " Pacino and company mark time in this preposterous copycat killer thriller." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 11, 2008
30% Chaos Theory (2008) " The premise is intriguing, but this intended satire never finds a convincing comedic footing." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 7, 2008
16% Jumper (2008) " All the state-of-the-art visual effects in the world can't compensate for spotty plotting and bland characters that prevent an intriguing premise from going the distance." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 12, 2008
11% Fool's Gold (2008) " Could have been called How to Lose an Audience in 10 Minutes." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 5, 2008
0% Strange Wilderness (2008) " Laughter is definitely an endangered species where Strange Wilderness is concerned." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 2, 2008
37% Rambo (Rambo IV) (2008) " Sorry Sly, not this time." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 24, 2008
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