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Larry Carroll

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography:: Larry Carroll is a Senior Writer for MTV News.
Favorites:: FAVORITE FILMS OF ALL TIME (TIE): Pulp Fiction Citizen Kane The Wild Bunch Airplane! Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Publications:: Big Picture , Countingdown.com , E! Online , FilmStew.com , IGN Movies , MSN.com , MTV , Valley Scene Magazine
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 324
Total QuickRatings:: 57

Location:: Los Angeles, CA

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
F	10%	Catwoman (2004)	" Swordfish; Gothika; this howler. Best Actress winner Halle Berry is getting dangerously close to exhausting her nine Hollywood lives." — FilmStew.com Posted Jul 23, 2004
F	15%	White Chicks (2004)	" The only real laugh to be had at a screening of White Chicks is during the trailer for the goofy upcoming film Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 24, 2004
F	71%	Napoleon Dynamite (2004)	" Like a confused film school student, director Jared Hess is happy to pay homage to his film heroes, but doesn't have enough passion to say much of anything in his own voice." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 12, 2004
F	13%	Agent Cody Banks 2 - Destination London (2004)	" Cody Banks 2 is everything you fear in a sequel and more." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 12, 2004
F	46%	Eurotrip (2003)	" If Eurotrip were a comedian saying, 'Stop me if you've heard this one,' he'd get little more than half a syllable into his act. " — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 23, 2004
F	16%	You Got Served (2004)	" You Got Hosed might be a more accurate title for those suckered into putting down ten dollars for this waste of celluloid. " — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 30, 2004
F	28%	It Runs in the Family (2003)	" Five years from now this will be remembered as the most expensive home movie ever made by a family. The DVD will look great on the Douglas family shelf - but God knows it won't be on anybody else's." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 28, 2003
0/5	50%	Flatliners (1990)	" A horrible, dumb movie that wastes the time of the good actors involved. This should have been an early indication that Joel Schumacher needed to be stopped." — Countingdown.com Posted Aug 8, 2002
F	3%	Deuces Wild (2002)	" I can't remember the last time I saw an audience laugh so much during a movie, but there's only one problem...it's supposed to be a drama." — Countingdown.com Posted May 2, 2002
F	12%	Double Take (2001)	" ...this film goes beyond bad; it's borderline racist." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 23, 2002
F	29%	Clockstoppers (2002)	" This could be the first movie since "Cool As Ice" that was outdated before it hit the screen." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 19, 2002
D-	9%	White Noise (2005)	" Michael Keaton stares at a fuzzy TV image, waiting for something to happen; we stare at Michael Keaton, waiting for the same." — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 6, 2005
D-	2%	Twisted (2004)	" A complete jumble of a movie that could have a talking albino gnu wander into the last frame and not make any less sense" — Countingdown.com Posted Feb 27, 2004
D-	52%	The Fast and the Furious (2001)	" A jaw-droppingly bad movie." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 16, 2002
D-	25%	Showtime (2002)	" As I try to think back to "Showtime" and type up a review, I'm getting a headache." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 16, 2002
D	88%	Metallica - Some Kind of Monster (2004)	" The worst kind of rockumentary: a boring, self-important, uninspired portrayal of a band more than a decade past its prime. " — FilmStew.com Posted Jul 9, 2004
D	7%	Kaena - The Prophecy (Kaena: La proph�tie) (2004)	" With George Lucas' lawyers eager to justify undoubtedly Jabba-sized retainers, writer-director Delaporte may want to start the tie selection now for his court appearance." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 29, 2004
D	4%	Godsend (2003)	" A young boy scans the movie theater and whispers, 'I see bored people.' Welcome to Hollywood's latest attempt to duplicate The Sixth Sense." — FilmStew.com Posted May 2, 2004
D	87%	Under the Skin of the City (Zir-e Poust-e Shahr) (2003)	" A series of melodramatic moments that will have the audience rolling their eyes in disbelief - if they can keep them open, that is." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 9, 2003
D	39%	Men in Black II (2002)	" After you laugh once (maybe twice), you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot." — Countingdown.com Posted Jul 8, 2002
D	45%	Peter Pan in Return to Never Land (2002)	" ...a lame attempt to manipulate the love that children and their parents have for a classic fairy tale character in the name of a quick buck." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 16, 2002
1/5	29%	Riding the Bullet (2004)	" Goes beyond simply being a bad movie, to the point where it becomes one that insults your intelligence." — IGN Movies Posted Oct 15, 2004
	78%	Humpday (2009)	" The script feels about ten re-writes short of being filmable." — MTV Posted Aug 3, 2009
	6%	Son of the Mask (2005)	" If your idea of a good time is watching your favorite cartoon classics butchered by a CGI dog and a creepy baby resembling a deleted scene from The Polar Express, then..." — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 18, 2005
	58%	Fear X (2003)	" Imagine an hour of birds flying backwards and rooms with red curtains, and there's the rest of your movie." — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 3, 2005
	90%	My Flesh and Blood (2003)	" The documentary debut of Emmy Award-winning Bay Area TV journalist Jonathan Karsh pays a price for its hands-off approach." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 1, 2003
	77%	Bad Santa (2003)	" John Ritter's final film is a sad reminder of how the double entendres of Three's Company have now been replaced by flagrant, in-your face fouls." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 26, 2003
D+	43%	Camera Obscura (2003)	" Thanks to a lack of innovation and a tired script, writer/director Hamlet Sarkissian is about as cutting edge as the out-of-touch friend who keeps trying to tell you that Michael Jackson's latest albums are as good as his old stuff." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 3, 2003
D+	34%	Bringing Down The House (2003)	" It relies on stolen gags for humor, forced relationships for empathy, and racist jokes for shock value." — Countingdown.com Posted Mar 7, 2003
D+	57%	The Guru (2002)	" If laughs were calories, The Guru would be the equivalent of a Weight Watchers breakfast bar." — Countingdown.com Posted Jan 31, 2003
D+	10%	Bad Company (2002)	" The pairing does sound promising in theory...but their lack of chemistry makes Eddie Murphy and Robert DeNiro in Showtime look like old, familiar vaudeville partners." — Countingdown.com Posted Jun 10, 2002
D+	7%	Dragonfly (2002)	" I screamed out, "What are you trying to tell me about this movie?" Just then, a milky white liquid landed on the windshield of my car." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 16, 2002
C-	72%	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)	" Let's hope Paramount's deal with AFLAC includes cinematic disaster insurance. Because this one's about as memorable as Carrey's old sitcom The Duck Factory." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 16, 2004
C-	68%	Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian di ying xiong) (2004)	" Presiding over it all is an absurdly indestructible baddie who combines Zamfir's mastery of the pan flute with a flawless mimicry of Prince circa Purple Rain." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 9, 2004
C-	54%	Cellular (2004)	" ...leaves the audience wondering whether it should laugh along or simply wince." — Countingdown.com Posted Sep 17, 2004
C-	21%	Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004)	" Rarely have so many bad accents been on display, from the wandering German of the evil Major Cain to could-that-be-Russian? of two soon to be chomped soldiers." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 10, 2004
C-	27%	Anacondas - The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)	" The CGI snakes are so blatantly computer-based that you expect them to occasionally pause and say 'You've got mail!" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 27, 2004
C-	35%	Returner (Ritana) (2002)	" Yamazaki has made himself into a cover band, content to play Van Halen classics for middle-aged boys looking for a trip down memory lane." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 20, 2003
C-	48%	Demonlover (2003)	" Gina Gershon, Chloe Sevigny, and Connie Nielsen each give the film far more effort than it provides them in return." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 23, 2003
C-	18%	The Jungle Book 2 (2003)	" Practically any one scene from the original film oozes more creativity and humor than the whole of Jungle Book 2." — Countingdown.com Posted Feb 14, 2003
C-	24%	A Guy Thing (2003)	" What's bothersome is the overall ethic of the film, the notion that every character needs to be outrageous, that any comical situation should be pushed nauseatingly far beyond plausibility, and most significantly, that the audience are a bunch of idiots." — Countingdown.com Posted Jan 17, 2003
C-	82%	Drumline (2002)	" There's a reason why people go to the bathroom during halftime." — Countingdown.com Posted Dec 13, 2002
C-	82%	Derrida (2002)	" Any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few minutes. Like a marathon runner trying to finish a race, you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it." — Countingdown.com Posted Nov 11, 2002
C-	60%	Tuck Everlasting (2002)	" Like the Tuck family themselves, this movie just goes on and on and on and on" — Countingdown.com Posted Oct 16, 2002
C-	9%	Stealing Harvard (2002)	" Quite frankly, I can't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a McCulloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out." — Countingdown.com Posted Sep 13, 2002
C-	51%	In Praise Of Love (�loge de l'amour) (2002)	" With Love, the 71 year-old Godard has created the film equivalent of a visit to your grandfather at the nursing home." — Countingdown.com Posted Sep 6, 2002
C-	61%	Blue Crush (2002)	" What you end up getting is the Vertical Limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between." — Countingdown.com Posted Aug 15, 2002
C-	34%	The Shadow (1994)	" A misfire meant to be a franchise. The film is based on an old radio show, and the concept is interesting enough, but this movie just drags." — Countingdown.com Posted Aug 9, 2002
C-	43%	Blue in the Face (1995)	" Improvisational film which was made as a companion piece to the far-superior "Smoke". This movie has some good parts to it, but is too disjointed to hold your attention." — Countingdown.com Posted Aug 9, 2002
C-	34%	World Traveler (2002)	" Somewhere inside the mess that is World Traveler, there is a mediocre movie trying to get out." — Countingdown.com Posted Apr 19, 2002

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