|
0/4
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
At best it's perversely interesting as a major misstep for both stars."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
"Red Riding Hood" is entertainment for the village idiot."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Mar 10, 2011
|
|
0/4
|
21%
|
Gulliver's Travels (2010) |
"
Some films are phoned in. The staggeringly awful "Gulliver's Travels" was texted."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Dec 24, 2010
|
|
0/4
|
22%
|
Repo Men (2010) |
"
With its radiantly ugly visuals, mean-spirited worldview and gut-wrenching levels of gore, Repo Men is about as entertaining as a burst appendix."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Mar 18, 2010
|
|
0/4
|
14%
|
The Spirit (2008) |
"
It's not easy to make a thriller that's both incredibly convoluted and intensely boring, laboriously narrated yet befuddled, but Miller -- creator and co-director of Sin City -- triumphs on all counts."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Dec 29, 2008
|
|
0/4
|
0%
|
One Missed Call (2008) |
"
The deadliest call the cast and crew of One Missed Call ever received was the one from their agent telling them that this was the best work available."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jan 4, 2008
|
|
0/4
|
20%
|
The Invasion (2007) |
"
The Invasion is a science fiction nightmare, the spectacle of actors who can do first-rate work trapped in a soul-destroying mechanism created by madmen."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2007
|
|
0/4
|
6%
|
I Know Who Killed Me (2007) |
"
The film is so cheap, lurid and overwrought it could be made up of lost reels from Grindhouse, except it lacks the knowing, self-referential humor of that B-movie parody."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 27, 2007
|
|
0/4
|
1%
|
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"
If you took the 100 worst ideas ever conceived for a science-fiction film, rattled them around in a Lotto tumbler and spilled them out onto the screen at random, you could not produce a more asinine hodgepodge than Alone in the Dark."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jan 27, 2005
|
|
0/4
|
46%
|
Eurotrip (2003) |
"
Eurotrip gives smut a bad name."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Feb 19, 2004
|
|
0.5/4
|
12%
|
Alex Cross (2012) |
"
From its cliché opening -- an irrelevant gun battle and chase -- to its derivative climax, this is a film with decades of dust on it."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
"The Paperboy" suggests something Tennessee Williams might have come up with, if he didn't know how to string together a plot."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
34%
|
Butter (2012) |
"
This film is dumb, blunt-instrument parody."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
21%
|
That's My Boy (2012) |
"
Lowbrow comedy goes subterranean in "That's My Boy," a product of the Adam Sandler movie factory unpolluted by a trace of ambition or wit."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
70%
|
The Hunter (2012) |
"
It's all intended to be darkly metaphorical. In actuality, it's a mediocre film unfolding without plan, purpose or enthusiasm."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
23%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
Director James McTeigue has no feel for humor or terror, making what could have been a witty pastiche into another cheesy slice-and-dice horror flick."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
27%
|
Project X (2012) |
"
This is a film desperately in need of a McLovin. Also, jokes would help. And comedic chemistry between the actors. And an ending that isn't a bolted-on cop-out. Save yourselves. It's too late for me."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Mar 5, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
26%
|
This Means War (2012) |
"
"This Means War" is the worst McG film yet. And good Lord, that is saying something."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
7%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
The movie plays like a time warp to 1951. The opening shot of the movie is a horse and buggy. Jon Bon Jovi plays pop music's hottest superstar. You half expect the actors to pass a kissing booth or an organ grinder with a leashed monkey."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
33%
|
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011) |
"
You don't review a movie like "A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy." You autopsy it."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
25%
|
The Change-Up (2011) |
"
Universal Pictures has filed for creative bankruptcy."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 5, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
21%
|
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2011) |
"
It's the No-Joy, Bad-Luck Club."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 22, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
67%
|
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011) |
"
The movie just blows chunks."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
15%
|
Something Borrowed (2011) |
"
I can't imagine an audience for this other than backers, relatives or friends of the filmmakers, and even they will find their mettle tested."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
26%
|
Your Highness (2011) |
"
It is a pox on comedy."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Apr 7, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
10%
|
Little Fockers (2010) |
"
I thought it would take years for Owen Wilson to appear in a movie worse than "How Do You Know," but he has outdone himself."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Dec 22, 2010
|
|
0.5/4
|
20%
|
The Tourist (2010) |
"
Enduring "The Tourist" is like going for a ride in a sinking gondola."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Dec 9, 2010
|
|
0.5/4
|
55%
|
La Siciliana Ribelle (The Sicilian Girl) (2010) |
"
Watching this is like going to the dentist for a root canal, but he makes a mistake and injects the novocaine into your brain."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 30, 2010
|
|
0.5/4
|
9%
|
Grown Ups (2010) |
"
This bone-lazy film is a comedy only if you believe Kevin James falling off a rope swing is funny."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jun 24, 2010
|
|
0.5/4
|
12%
|
Jonah Hex (2010) |
"
This is industrially processed entertainment at it cheapest, nastiest and greasiest."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
0.5/4
|
21%
|
Oh My God (2009) |
"
A mashup of slick tourist photos, a cacophony of contradictory sound bites yielding zero insight. Watching this disorganized essay on organized religion may actually make you stupider."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Dec 3, 2009
|
|
.5/4
|
21%
|
Next Day Air (2009) |
"
A fiasco. A flop. A failure's failure. Next Day Air aims low but still misses the target."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted May 7, 2009
|
|
.5/4
|
54%
|
Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert (2008) |
"
No, he didn't."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 2, 2008
|
|
.5/4
|
37%
|
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) |
"
Instantly forgettable except that it contains the worst performance of Dustin Hoffman's long and illustrious career."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Nov 15, 2007
|
|
.5/4
|
11%
|
Pathfinder (2007) |
"
Loud and overbusy but never exciting, Pathfinder is an action film only insofar as airborne prop heads and severed appendages equal action."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Apr 12, 2007
|
|
0.5/4
|
8%
|
The Number 23 (2007) |
"
It's so cheesy that it's almost transcendent."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Feb 22, 2007
|
|
.5/4
|
21%
|
The Hitcher (2007) |
"
The screenplay disastrously rewrites the original's climax, turning Bush's college waif into an indestructible female Terminator who can unerringly fire a police-issue riot gun and kick a steel paddy-wagon door off its hinges."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jan 19, 2007
|
|
0.5/4
|
30%
|
Tideland (2006) |
"
The literal train wreck that caps the film is an apt metaphor for this hallucinatory fiasco."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Nov 2, 2006
|
|
.5/4
|
3%
|
The Covenant (2006) |
"
Movies like this are why we have eyelids."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 13, 2006
|
|
0.5/4
|
4%
|
The Celestine Prophecy (2006) |
"
Believer and skeptic alike can agree on one thing: It is a transcendentally awful movie."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted May 25, 2006
|
|
.5/4
|
8%
|
See No Evil (2006) |
"
It might be hard to imagine a career move that is a step down from directing porn videos, yet Gregory Dark has accomplished just that with his feature-film debut, See No Evil."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted May 23, 2006
|
|
0.5/4
|
57%
|
Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) |
"
Moby ick."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted May 18, 2006
|
|
.5/4
|
50%
|
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) |
"
Using considerable creative intelligence and millions of dollars with no purpose other than profit by inspiring bloodlust is monstrous."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Mar 9, 2006
|
|
.5/4
|
19%
|
Doom (2005) |
"
Too often Doom is mindless entertainment minus the entertainment."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 20, 2005
|
|
.5/4
|
19%
|
Domino (2005) |
"
Here is a movie so bad it's ... no, actually it's still bad."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 13, 2005
|
|
0.5/4
|
11%
|
The Cave (2005) |
"
Ten things I learned watching The Cave. 1. 'Beneath heaven lies hell. Beneath hell lies the cave.' 2. Beneath that lies the theater showing The Cave."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 25, 2005
|
|
0.5/4
|
43%
|
The Brown Bunny (2004) |
"
So mind-numbingly dull it makes you yearn for one of those World War II-spy instant-death pills."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 30, 2004
|
|
0.5/4
|
31%
|
The Forgotten (2004) |
"
The warped yardstick by which this year's stinkers will be measured."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 23, 2004
|
|
0.5/4
|
48%
|
De-Lovely (2004) |
"
What worse hell could a showman endure than a tin-eared procession of his greatest hits?"
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 15, 2004
|
|
.5/4
|
22%
|
Van Helsing (2004) |
"
More and more summer movies depend on relentless action sequences at the expense of coherent narrative, but Van Helsing might be the first whose overkill reaches nuclear capacity."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted May 6, 2004
|
72%
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