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Beth Accomando

Beth Accomando

"No matter where you go, there you are. Buckaroo Banzai"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Biography:
I've been a film critic for more than 20 years, in addition to reviews I freelance for NPR and Public Radio International, and I edited the sequels to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I am a past president of the San Diego Film Critics Society and I help program 2 film festivals in San Diego.
Favorites:
Recent favorites: Shaun of the Dead, Mysterious Skin, Irreversible, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Millennium Mambo, In the Mood for Love... Old faves: Anything with Monty Python or the Marx Brothers, The Godfather, Hard-Boiled, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Raging Bull, Trust, Police Story, Full Contact, Adam's Rib...oh there's too many.
Publications:
KPBS.org , NPR.org
Critics' Group:
Broadcast Film Critics Association, San Diego Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
616
Total QuickRatings:
75
Location:
San Diego CA

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/10 23% Sucker Punch (2011) " It's so bad that the Director's Guild should revoke Snyder's membership and he should never be allowed to direct again." — KPBS.org
Posted Mar 24, 2011
0/10 3% The Covenant (2006) " I think the men were cast more for their abs than their acting." — KPBS.org
Posted Oct 28, 2006
0/5 47% Johnny Dangerously (1984) " A mob comedy that shoots only blanks." — KPBS.org
Posted Mar 30, 2003
0/10 87% Chicago (2002) " Rob Marshall's style is to make everything relentlessly brassy and fake, and his Chicago simply looks like a filmed stage play." — KPBS.org
Posted Mar 14, 2003
0/5 0% Rooftops (1989) — KPBS.org
Posted Mar 13, 2003
1/10 25% Friday the 13th (2009) " This Friday the 13th commits the worst sin a horror movie can be guilty of - it was boring." — KPBS.org
Posted Mar 17, 2009
1/5 46% Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) " Been there and done that better." — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 18, 2008
1/5 17% Man Trouble (1992) " A sad reunion for director Bob Rafelson and actor Jack Nicholson, considering their brilliant collaboration on Five Easy Pieces." — KPBS.org
Posted Jan 17, 2008
1/5 36% Michael (1996) — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 5, 2003
1/5 15% No Mercy (1986) " Gere and Basinger fizzle rather than sizzle in this lame Bayou thriller." — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 5, 2003
1/5 50% Pete's Dragon (1977) — KPBS.org
Posted Mar 13, 2003
49% The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) " May I suggest that the only way to enjoy the Twilight films is with the Rifftrax." — KPBS.org
Posted Jul 2, 2010
15% Sex and the City 2 (2010) " Carrie is presented as some kind of empowering female image. That's scary because she's really more of an old school stereotype as she chases romantic clichés while pretending to write her own rules. " — KPBS.org
Posted May 27, 2010
13% The Bounty Hunter (2010) " The Bounty Hunter has already been done before and better. It was called Midnight Run." — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 17, 2010
35% The Room (1998) " And that's the conundrum of "The Room." It's so very bad that it becomes riveting." — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 1, 2010
58% Edge of Darkness (2010) " Give this one a pass and see Winstone in 44 Inch Chest instead." — KPBS.org
Posted Feb 9, 2010
37% From Paris with Love (2010) " From Paris With Love is even more mindless than Taken and is more fun than the recent Edge of Darkness. But that still leaves it lagging far behind Morel's District B13." — KPBS.org
Posted Feb 9, 2010
37% Nine (2009) " Now we come to "Nine," which on a scale of 1 to 10 scores a negative 20. And that's being generous." — KPBS.org
Posted Jan 5, 2010
56% It's Complicated (2009) " This film about divorce and late blooming romance was so painful that it made my own divorce seem fun." — KPBS.org
Posted Jan 5, 2010
83% Avatar (2009) " And for the epic battle at the end, well let me just say it's as believable as the Ewoks beating the Empire at the end of Return of the Jedi." — KPBS.org
Posted Dec 19, 2009
7% Whiteout (2009) " Whiteout offers nothing to satisfy fans of the comic and nothing to satisfy even the casual filmgoer just looking for diversion or escape from the heat." — KPBS.org
Posted Sep 11, 2009
48% Taking Woodstock (2009) " Lee's Taking Woodstock serves up so many clichés and stereotypes that it feels like a film made by someone who had never met a real Jew, Vietnam vet, homosexual, or hippie" — KPBS.org
Posted Sep 5, 2009
22% Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) " The best thing that can come from this film is that it will be so poorly received both by critics and audiences that it will put a damper on Hollywood's current interest in remaking anime." — KPBS.org
Posted Jul 16, 2009
33% Terminator Salvation (2009) " Wright is a machine who thinks he's human and in that conundrum is the interesting story that the film essentially misses." — KPBS.org
Posted May 31, 2009
38% Outlander (2009) " As with Cloverfield, I started rooting for the monster to eat the people at a faster rate." — KPBS.org
Posted Jan 27, 2009
13% The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) " I know The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is nothing more than a popcorn movie... But even silly pop movies have standards and this one falls short of those." — KPBS.org
Posted Aug 12, 2008
41% Hancock (2008) " I'm willing to give a superhero film some leeway in terms of realism but a film has to remain true to its own inner logic and this one keeps changing the ground rules." — KPBS.org
Posted Jul 2, 2008
30% War, Inc. (2008) " ...there's plenty of material ripe for savage satire out in the world right now, and while I approve of the targets War, Inc. took aim at, I can't say that it ever scored a direct hit." — KPBS.org
Posted Jun 29, 2008
53% The Promotion (2008) " Tone and pace are absolutely crucial to comedy. If the tone is wrong or the pace is off - by even a hair - the comedy will shrivel up and die. And that's precisely what happens in The Promotion." — KPBS.org
Posted Jun 14, 2008
14% Made of Honor (2008) " Although the film seems very proud of its clever gender bending "twist," there's really nothing fresh about Made of Honor. It's a one-gag movie that wears out its gag well before the halfway mark." — KPBS.org
Posted Jun 11, 2008
24% The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) " The Life Before Her Eyes has the core of an inventive narrative and a twist that probably worked better as a literary device." — KPBS.org
Posted Jun 8, 2008
14% Deception (2008) " You'd think that with all the focus groups and test marketing Hollywood does that somewhere along the line someone would have said, "hey, don't you think this one strains credibility a bit too much?"" — KPBS.org
Posted Jun 8, 2008
50% Then She Found Me (2007) " Then She Found Me is a commendable but not very exciting feature-directing debut by actress Helen Hunt. Although she wields most of the creative power on the film she doesn't turn this into a vanity project." — KPBS.org
Posted Jun 8, 2008
50% Sex and the City (2008) " I spent most of the film's 148 minutes just wanting to slap these women because I grew weary of their whining." — KPBS.org
Posted Jun 8, 2008
30% The Children of Huang Shi (2008) " The Children of Huang Shi means well and actually has a solid story at its core. But what Spottiswoode and company do to that good story is unforgivable." — KPBS.org
Posted Jun 8, 2008
5% 88 Minutes (2008) " The film had no opening credits, except for the title 88 Minutes. Maybe that's because no one wanted to take credit for this mess." — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 18, 2008
51% Nim's Island (2008) " I haven't felt this embarrassed for a star since Robert DeNiro donned a tutu and did the can-can in Stardust." — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 7, 2008
40% The Grand (2008) " The new film The Grand should have been called Werner Herzog Steals the Show because that's precisely what he does in this mockumentary about a poker tournament." — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 7, 2008
48% The Ruins (2008) " To sum up The Ruins, I'll quote one of the characters: "This is so not okay."" — KPBS.org
Posted Apr 4, 2008
7% Shutter (2008) " The choice of a Japanese director and a number of key Japanese crew seems to have helped make this American remake a notch better than the other atrocious remakes such as One Missed Call, Pulse and The Eye." — KPBS.org
Posted Mar 21, 2008
8% 10,000 B.C. (2008) " ...lovesick prehistoric man traverses the globe to rescue the woman he loves." — KPBS.org
Posted Mar 12, 2008
22% The Eye (2008) " Moreau and Palud decide to trade in the creepy, atmospheric style of the Pang Brothers for a more amped up Hollywood approach...it fails to distinguish itself either as a remake or on its own terms as a horror film." — KPBS.org
Posted Feb 17, 2008
16% Jumper (2008) " Jumper is so bad that it might be useful in film classes to show students what not to do." — KPBS.org
Posted Feb 17, 2008
37% Rambo (Rambo IV) (2008) " This film is like a bull in a China shop -- it just keeps charging forward, destroying everything in its path." — KPBS.org
Posted Feb 3, 2008
28% The Game Plan (2007) " It's dumb but you know exactly what you are getting into from the very beginning... so you only have yourself to blame if you watch this and feel ripped off." — KPBS.org
Posted Jan 29, 2008
77% Cloverfield (2008) " After seeing Cloverfield, I was so frustrated and disappointed that I felt like I needed a palate cleanser. I wanted to immediately go home and watch South Korea's The Host." — KPBS.org
Posted Jan 18, 2008
40% The Bucket List (2007) " The Bucket List dies long before the characters do." — KPBS.org
Posted Jan 12, 2008
12% Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (AVP 2) (2007) " Now the studio has smartly served up an R-rated sequel so the blood could flow, and it does. Unfortunately, it doesn't flow with much imagination." — KPBS.org
Posted Dec 28, 2007
70% I Am Legend (2007) " This new version of I am Legend completely perverts the meaning of the title, losing the clever, dark irony and turning it instead into something heroic rather than something tragic." — KPBS.org
Posted Dec 15, 2007
14% Hitman (2007) " Hitman is by no means great filmmaking but as video game adaptations go, it proves mindlessly entertaining and at least it's not irritatingly stupid." — KPBS.org
Posted Nov 28, 2007
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