Carlo Cavagna

Carlo Cavagna

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography:
A few years ago, frustrated by the daily grind of working as a surly government troglodyte, Carlo began pestering his friends with unsolicited e-mailed critiques of movies he had seen. With a surfeit of reviews clogging his hard drive and no Web experience whatsoever, Carlo eventually decided that the only thing to do was to create a film criticism site. With the assistance of Dreamweaver, a book on how to use Dreamweaver, and a couple reluctant friends, AboutFilm.com was born in March 1999. AboutCultFilm.com, administered by Marc Slanger, followed in 2000. AboutFilmBoards.com, the AboutFilm community site, was launched in 2002. At present, Carlo aspires to recognition as a great hegemon of cinematic critique, but has instead found his niche as a shifty-eyed site administrator. Composing diatribes in his ratty paper-lined lair, Carlo expends great energy quixotically scheming to topple the bloated ranks of the Hollywood hierarchy. Not possessed of a lengthy attention span, however, Carlo can instead often be found consuming unhealthy quantities of cheese. Carlo has been a member of the Online Film Critics Society since June 2000.
Publications:
AboutFilm.com
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
384
Total QuickRatings:
40
Location:
Marina del Rey, CA

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
F 79% Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant) (1972) " Irresistibly soporific." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jul 23, 2004
F 44% Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2004) " A concoction that contains nothing recognizable from the lives of real people and no recognizable truth." — AboutFilm.com
Posted May 1, 2004
F 71% The Big Empty (2003) " Some may praise The Big Empty as a poor man's David Lynch-meets-The X-Files, but it's more of a starving homeless man's David Lynch-meets-The X-Files." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Nov 15, 2003
F 67% Kurt & Courtney (1998) " A sloppy, irresponsible, self-promoting p.o.s. that documents little more than people with an axe to grind. Broomfield would be better off writing for the Enquirer." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Nov 1, 2003
F 19% City Slickers 2 - The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) " As broad as a barn." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Oct 20, 2003
F 2% Speed 2 - Cruise Control (1997) " When some people talk about how much they loathed 1997's Big Boat Movie, I think they must mean this one." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Oct 20, 2003
F 64% The X-Files - Fight the Future (1998) " I'm sure that fans of the show were satisfied, but others may find this movie uninvolving and its conspiracy theories juvenile. It's nothing more than a two-hour promotion for the television series that fails to resolve any of the conflicts it introduces." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 11, 2003
F 6% Tarzan and the Lost City (1998) " Occasionally getting drawn into movies like this is the downside of having HBO when you're stuck at home with nothing to do. Do whatever you have to--mow the lawn, clean the garage, re-grout the bathroom tiles--but stay away." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 11, 2003
F 50% Dream for an Insomniac (1996) " ...the sort of insufferably pretentious, urbanite poseurs that insufferably pretentious, urbanite poseurs wish they could be" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 10% Soldier (1998) " Inexplicably, David Webb Peoples, the screenwriter of Blade Runner and Unforgiven, is responsible for this awful mess" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 27% House on Haunted Hill (1999) " If Geoffrey Rush has any sense, he's sitting in his kitchen right now with a stack of his press materials and a bottle of correction fluid" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 18% Red Sonja (1985) " Fleischer could have directed this movie from his living room via speaker phone and achieved the same result" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 25% Mission To Mars (2000) " De Palma has nothing new to say and no new way of saying it." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 11% Double Team (1997) " If you're honestly wondering whether this film is any good, I can't help you." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 27% Lost in Space (1998) " Lost in Script" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 22% Mannequin (1987) " The epitome of the cheezy 1980s movie" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 26% Kull the Conqueror (1997) " A transparent attempt to cash in on the success of TV's Hercules and Xena" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 0% Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996) " Sample dialogue: 'Over here!' 'What?' 'Arrrg!'" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
F 11% Highlander - Endgame (2000) " The fourth sequel to a film designed to stand alone... In the end, there should have been only one." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D- 90% Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) " A thin slice of a not-very-interesting nothing... The book they said was unfilmable turns out to be a film that is unwatchable." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 17, 2006
D- —— North Star (2009) " A crude straight-to-video production of a crude straight-to-video story." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Apr 14, 2005
D- 0% Highlander II: The Quickening (Highlander 2) (1991) " The director's cut elevates this misconceived sequel from one of the worst stinkers ever to merely dreadful." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Nov 26, 2003
D- 11% Striptease (1996) " Funniest moment: Demi Moore rips open her top with a snarl, revealing the decidedly unattractive and wholly unnatural results of her cosmetic surgery." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Oct 20, 2003
D- 44% Stepmom (1998) " A sloppily scripted, formulaic tear-jerker about spoiled rich people who whine a lot. I defy you to feel anything for these characters other than the desire to slap them--even Sarandon's obligatorily terminally-ill Mom." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 11, 2003
D- 39% Armageddon (1998) " Armabludgeon is like a roller coast--occasionally exciting, but in the end you've been taken for a long, nauseating ride." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 11, 2003
D- 76% My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) " Now, Nia Vardalos will jump out of your movie screen or television set...and club you over the head with a bottle of Windex until you give in to her aggressively overbearing humor!" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Feb 8, 2003
D- 29% Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) " It's a wonder Corelli doesn't bring his gondola and striped shirt with him from Italy." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 9, 2001
D- 65% Hideous Kinky (1998) " The title and the movie are a perfectly matched pair. Both are pretentious, and neither makes any sense." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D- 29% Conan the Destroyer (1984) " Ugh." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D- 16% The Avengers (1998) " Even with extensive use of the rewind function on my VCR, I couldn't piece the story together" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D- 30% Deep Rising (1998) " It's a pity the creatures don't eat the cast up faster" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D- 52% Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) " No longer lethal, Detective Riggs is a crotchety middle-aged weapon now" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D 24% Fierce People (2005) " Dunne weighs down a light social satire with a ponderous anthropological analogy." — AboutFilm.com
Posted May 22, 2006
D 51% Manderlay (2006) " The most self-important, heavy-handed film since...well, since DOGVILLE." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 17, 2006
D 76% The Holy Girl (La Nina Santa) (2005) " Martel is determined to make an impressionistic film out of miniscule moments, fragmented sounds, and fleeting images-so miniscule, fragmented, and fleeting they never cohere." — AboutFilm.com
Posted May 26, 2005
D —— The Point Men (2001) " The sort of movie you get drawn into if you're bored out of your mind in a hotel room." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Apr 14, 2005
D 88% The Animatrix (2003) " Far from fleshing out the universe of THE MATRIX, this cynical, self-indulgent marketing tie-in renders it less coherent. Boasts only a few memorable visual moments, and suffers from a paucity of narrative." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Oct 20, 2003
D 34% Returner (Ritana) (2002) " Yes, apparently Yamazaki takes breaks from his repeated viewings of E.T. by relaxing with THE MATRIX. Occasionally, just for a bit of variety, he might also pop INDEPENDENCE DAY into the DVD player." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 1, 2003
D 12% Sphere (1998) " Let's face facts: Michael Crichton is a hack. He comes up with innovative concepts, but his characters are cardboard cutouts. Given the psychological foundations of the story, that's an egregious flaw, and the ending is absurdly dissatisfying." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 12, 2003
D 56% Dagon (2002) " No one other than H.P. Lovecraft fans should bother." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jun 22, 2002
D 11% The Musketeer (2001) " Justin Chambers...is a thoroughly vapid lead, lacking the flair, charm, or acting ability to cut a suitably heroic figure." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 20, 2001
D 19% Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001) " half-sketched and tedious" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jun 25, 2001
D 64% The Rapture (1991) " The Rapture at first plays like a religious propaganda film and later a misconceived parable with bad special effects" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D 56% Star Trek - Insurrection (1998) " Lurches clumsily between drama, hammy comedy, and moral lecturing" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D 20% The Crew (2000) " Hey, you've seen these jokes only a hundred times before." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D 68% Analyze This (1999) " Billy Crystal could turn "Othello" into an insipid, feel-good movie." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
D+ 70% A Wake In Providence (2005) " A film for those people who think My Big Fat Greek Wedding is the greatest comedy of the past ten years" — AboutFilm.com
Posted Apr 14, 2005
D+ 86% Subway (1985) " A relic of the '80s best forgotten." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Dec 30, 2004
D+ 40% Fabled (2002) " The recurring fairy-tale narrative device might fool viewers into thinking FABLED has more of a story than is actually there." — AboutFilm.com
Posted Dec 5, 2004
D+ 4% Godsend (2003) " It's not that cloning is bad; it's that cloning done by bad people is bad." — AboutFilm.com
Posted May 1, 2004
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