Critics » Stephen Farber » Rotten
Stephen Farber

Stephen Farber

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Biography:
Critic for Movieline.com
Publications:
Hollywood Reporter , Movieline
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
296

Worst Reviewed Films

Showing 1 - 50 of 254
Previous | Next
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
16% When in Rome (2010) " A bunch of eager performers troll for laughs that never come." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 29, 2010
28% Extraordinary Measures (2010) " Harrison Ford is always watchable in this otherwise routine tear-jerker." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 22, 2010
83% Pontypool (2009) " This low-budget picture is a little too claustrophobic, and it grows tedious. The ominous, overbearing musical score tries but fails to jack up the tension." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 17, 2009
39% 2012 (2009) " Eye-popping special effects ensure that this movie will be a smash hit, and while it's entertaining for most of its excessive running time, the cheesy script fails to live up to the grandeur of the physical production." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 10, 2009
77% Bronson (2009) " A pointless exercise in morbidity." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 30, 2009
25% Fame (2009) " Rated PG, it's almost laughably bland and watered-down in its desire to appeal to the widest possible audience." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 24, 2009
17% Love Happens (2009) " The title is a good indication of this movie's blandness and predictability." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 17, 2009
62% I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) " Tyler Perry's latest hodgepodge has its moments." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 12, 2009
7% Whiteout (2009) " Stupefying journey to the bottom of the earth." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 10, 2009
13% The Ugly Truth (2009) " Hit-and-miss comedy delivers the unsurprising news that opposites attract." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 20, 2009
14% I Love You Beth Cooper (2009) " One high school graduation party that you won't want to attend." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 10, 2009
66% Dead Snow (Død snø) (2009) " The superior craftsmanship helps to sustain the film until the horrific violence makes it literally unwatchable." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 11, 2009
24% Little Ashes (2009) " All of the technical credits are outstanding; it's the diffuse script that disappoints." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 5, 2009
16% Crossing Over (2009) " The film is rife with coincidences, and it frequently strains credulity." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 17, 2009
31% The Uninvited (2009) " In truth it's just a gimmicky thriller that doesn't play fair with the audience." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 30, 2009
39% Tru Loved (2008) " This plodding plea for tolerance would barely pass muster as an after-school special." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 24, 2008
65% High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) " Even within the confines of G-rated fluff, it could have been a lot sassier." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 20, 2008
36% Igor (2008) " Although the visuals tantalize and the actors providing the voices add a lot of sass, the result is only so-so." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 16, 2008
0% Surfer, Dude (2008) " [A] lackluster vanity production." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 9, 2008
13% The Women (2008) " These women are ready for action, but the fur never flies." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 9, 2008
2% Disaster Movie (2008) " No one expects sophisticated wit from this type of movie, but would it be too much to ask for more than a chuckle every 10 minutes?" — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 29, 2008
43% Death Race (2008) " Actors try to add a touch of class to a picture that's utterly crass." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 22, 2008
40% Hancock (2008) " Great concept, shaky execution." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 24, 2008
64% The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) " The fight scenes are fun, but the filler in between is deadlier than one of Li's lethal kicks." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 16, 2008
72% American Zombie (2007) " Performances vary widely in quality. Some of the "experts" who expound on zombie culture are portrayed by such amateurish actors that the film threatens to collapse." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 24, 2008
71% Definitely, Maybe (2008) " The romantic banter between Will and his three paramours strains for sparkling wit and only occasionally achieves it." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 12, 2008
15% How to Rob a Bank (2007) " It seems especially depressing when so-called independent filmmakers have nothing on their minds except aping the style of Hollywood's hip caper movies." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 5, 2008
—— Anywhere, USA () " A genuinely odd duck, a quirky regional comedy that doesn't quite resemble anything else you've seen." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 30, 2008
—— The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008) " You won't want to get to know these obnoxious characters." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 28, 2008
—— The Deal (2008) " A wacky Hollywood satire that never catches fire." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 25, 2008
50% Assassination of a High School President (2008) " Doesn't find enough novel insights to make for essential viewing." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 25, 2008
66% The Escapist (2008) " All of this mayhem keeps us watching, but it would be hard to describe the experience as pleasurable." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 23, 2008
50% Dirty Laundry (2006) " The film's plea for tolerance is commendable but would have more weight if only it were executed with more panache." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 4, 2007
9% Sex and Breakfast (2007) " Turgid and pointless." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 22, 2007
14% The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) " A ho-hum exercise in mysticism and hocus-pocus." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 5, 2007
23% Raising Flagg (2007) " Most of the confrontations play out tepidly and predictably." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 1, 2007
5% Good Luck Chuck (2007) " Laughs are MIA in this month's comic raunchfest." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 20, 2007
51% The Kingdom (2007) " Peter Berg's movie is no more than an action movie with an exotic backdrop. That would be fine, if only the movie were more exciting." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 14, 2007
53% Across the Universe (2007) " Despite all the inventive work, the film never achieves the soaring sense of bliss that would place it in the pantheon of movie musicals." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 14, 2007
56% Weirdsville (2007) " The film jumps around following the misadventures of the characters, and the whole enterprise comes to be frenetic and convoluted rather than pleasingly impudent." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 10, 2007
88% Superbad (2007) " Like American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused, the film all takes place during a single day and night. But it doesn't have the smarts or the depths of those ensemble comedies." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 8, 2007
36% Descent (2007) " You'll want to avert your eyes from this intense and intensely unpleasant drama about rape and revenge." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 31, 2007
61% Arctic Tale (2007) " The film would be more enjoyable if one could turn off the soundtrack and simply revel in the stunning visual evocation of this white-on-white world." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 19, 2007
34% I Am Sam (2001) " A fairly formulaic (and terribly overlong) tearjerker." — Movieline
Posted Dec 2, 2002
72% Patriot Games (1992) " It moves along at a speedy clip, though it substitutes sadism for such niceties as wit and style." — Movieline
Posted Mar 4, 2002
44% Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) " Branagh's directing style is soupy and derivative of all the wrong movies." — Movieline
Posted Jan 28, 2002
80% The Business of Strangers (2001) " Stiles's character is finally too opaque, and the mind games she plays on Channing aren't clever or cruel enough to produce a satisfying denouement." — Movieline
Posted Jan 15, 2002
15% The Affair of the Necklace (2001) " An impressive achievement on the part of the writer, John Sweet, as well as the director, Charles Shyer." — Movieline
Posted Jan 15, 2002
47% Life as a House (2001) " Glosses over some hard truths in order to resurrect the notion of cozy family bonding that is still a sacred tenet of our national mythology." — Movieline
Posted Jan 15, 2002
63% Ride with the Devil (1999) " There's absolutely no emotional or sexual heat between Maguire and Jewel; they seem like kids playacting at grand passion." — Movieline
Posted Jan 9, 2002
Showing 1 - 50 of 254
Previous | Next
  • Sort by Rating:

    Sort results by this critic's rating. This option is only available for critics with a rating system (4 star, letter grade, 1-10, etc.)

  • Sort by T-meter:

    Sort results by the Tomatometer (percentage of critics recommending a certain movie)

Best to Worst Sampling

Best Reviewed

More...

Worst Reviewed

More...
Help | About | Jobs | Newsletter | Critics Submission | API | Licensing | Mobile
Copyright © Flixster, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright, Privacy Policy, Terms of Service | Ad Choices
In partnership with TMZ.com