David N. Butterworth

David N. Butterworth

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Biography:
David Neil Butterworth was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1961. He studied Film & Television Production at West Surrey College of Art & Design in Farnham, Surrey, and relocated to the United States in early 1983. David started writing movie reviews in 1988 for the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. His first review was of Geoffrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi; he figured it should get a little easier after that! David is currently the editor of 'La Movie Boeuf,' a film review website, as well as a staff writer for OFFOFFOFF.com (an alternative guide to New York arts, entertainment, and culture) and a freelance writer for various print and online publications (having worked for the Ritz Filmbill, the printed guide to movies playing at Philadelphia’s Ritz Five, Ritz at the Bourse, Ritz East, and Voorhees’ Ritz Sixteen/NJ theaters, and the Las Vegas Weekly among others). In addition, his weekly movie review column The Moving Pictures appears in the Philadelphia-based Broad Street Community Newspapers. David is also an avid contributor to various print/online forums dedicated to the work of Oscar®-winning British film composer John Barry (Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Dances with Wolves, and Out of Africa). David lives in Merchantville, New Jersey with his wife Emily Lockwood Corse and their four daughters Zoë, Grace, Lilla, and Bailey.
Publications:
Movie Boeuf , rec.arts.movies.reviews
Total Reviews:
674
Location:
Merchantville, NJ (10 mins. outside of Philadelphia)

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/4 14% Wild Hogs (2007) " All of a sudden there's hope for Gigli!" — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Mar 17, 2007
0/4 21% Catch and Release (2007) " Ugh." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Feb 13, 2007
0/4 —— Evilenko (2004) " A bloody, awful mess." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 7, 2006
0/4 68% The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004) " Any resemblance between this big screen debacle and the sweet-and-funny Nickelodeon cable show on which it's supposedly based is entirely coincidental. " — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 30, 2004
0/4 0% Run for the Money (Hard Cash) (2002) " When the opening scene makes you feel as though you've already missed about an hour of the plot you know you're in trouble." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Jul 3, 2003
0/4 40% 13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil (2002) " Anyone who quickly denounced Madonna's Swept Away as being the worst film of 2002 clearly hadn't seen 13th Child." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Oct 29, 2002
0/4 47% The Princess Diaries (2001) " A non-animated G-rated movie is a rarity these days but the rating here reflects the fact that all the guts, all the good stuff, has been exorcised from the finished product." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Aug 8, 2001
0/4 25% Shattered Image (1999) " The biggest piece of hooey since the Stallone/Stone 'thriller' The Specialist." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 19% Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001) " Makes Super Mario Bros. look like Rocco and his Brothers!" — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 —— The Demon Within (2001) " Laughable and ludicrous." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 38% Last Action Hero (1993) " A poorly executed in-joke where everyone in the audience -- Arnold Schwarzenegger fans included -- feels left out." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 47% The Perfect Storm (2000) " Perfectly wretched." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 9% Species II (1998) " You don't need to have seen the original Species to appreciate how utterly lousy Species II is." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 8% Knock Off (1998) " Unwatchable." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1.5/4 33% Morning Light (2008) " This flat, uninspired sailing documentary from the Walt Disney studios has surprisingly little to say." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 23, 2008
1.5/4 36% How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) " British funny man Simon Pegg continues his downwards spiral with this lame, 'Devil Wears Prada-styled "comedy."" — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 23, 2008
1.5/4 30% The Children of Huang Shi (2008) " A dull dramatization of -- and ill-fitting testament to -- British journalist George Hogg's experiences in war torn China." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jun 12, 2008
1.5/4 72% Stuck (2008) " Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon's murky misuse of Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea makes John Carpenter movies look like Art." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jun 12, 2008
1.5/4 52% Margot at the Wedding (2007) " A huge disappointment after Baumbach's sublime 'Squid and the Whale. Ugly and mean." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 22, 2007
1.5/4 5% Good Luck Chuck (2007) " Good Luck Chuck is a soft-core male indulgence posing as a hip Hollywood good luck chuckle." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Sep 29, 2007
1.5/4 1% Daddy Day Camp (2007) " If you like your outhouse humor explosive then this 'Camp's for you!" — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Aug 18, 2007
1.5/4 41% High Tension (Switchblade Romance) (2005) " A cinematically sound but sub-par horror flick readied for the American mass market by the addition of English credits and some truly atrocious dubbing." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jul 27, 2007
1.5/4 15% Hannibal Rising (2007) " Each follow-up to The Silence of the Lambs makes further sense of that 1991 film's top five Oscar sweep. Let's hope Rising is the last; it's certainly the least." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Mar 3, 2007
1.5/4 28% Saw III (2006) " The third Saw in the franchise loses its edge." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 11, 2006
1.5/4 27% Trust the Man (2006) " Mopey Manhattan thirtysomethings sounding off might be Bart Freundlich's idea of a good time but it's not mine." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Aug 29, 2006
1.5/4 24% Failure to Launch (2006) " There's nothing here a good dose of Viagra couldn't cure. Impotent and dull as dishwater." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Mar 30, 2006
1.5/4 9% Ultraviolet (2006) " Ultracrappy more like." — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Mar 25, 2006
1.5/4 60% Hostel (2006) " Viewers check in... and just as quickly check out!" — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 19, 2006
1.5/4 31% The Longest Yard (2005) " Environmentalists will tell you that recycling is a good thing but the Adam Sandler vehicle The Longest Yard goes out of its way to prove otherwise. " — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jul 21, 2005
1.5/4 18% After the Sunset (2004) " Spends so much time down Selma Hayek's shirt fronts that we come away suffocated." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Nov 22, 2004
1.5/4 21% Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004) " Makes Tomb Raider look like an epic." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Oct 11, 2004
1.5/4 26% Anatomy of Hell (2004) " Pretentious pornographic stuff and nonsense." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Oct 11, 2004
1.5/4 53% A Dirty Shame (2004) " What's shocking today is very different to what was shocking 20 years ago... but John Waters doesn't seem to have noticed." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Oct 11, 2004
1.5/4 72% Open Water (2004) " Open Water muddies a compelling subject matter via shoddy and incompetent filmmaking. A shallow and frustrating exercise in treading water." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Aug 30, 2004
1.5/4 74% Calendar Girls (2003) " 'They dropped everything for a good cause' would seem to refer more to the filmmakers than the gutsy, middle-aged women shedding their clothes for a hospital couch." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Aug 30, 2004
1.5/4 20% Thunderbirds (2004) " The filmmakers, clearly never having seen the original TV series, sideline the spacecraft and reduce this debacle to what essentially amounts to boys 'n' The Hood." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Aug 18, 2004
1.5/4 27% The Stepford Wives (2004) " A confused production, replete with weak jokes and embarrassing stereotypes, earn the film one star, but I'll throw in an extra half star for Kidman's engaging performance." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Jun 29, 2004
1.5/4 22% Van Helsing (2004) " Evil might have but one name to fear but intelligent, discerning moviegoers have two: Van Helsing." — Movie Boeuf
Posted May 20, 2004
1.5/4 63% Starsky & Hutch (2004) " Any resemblance between the original -- and fun! -- 1970's TV series and this in-name-only Todd Phillips's dud is entirely accidental." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Mar 18, 2004
1.5/4 26% Along Came Polly (2004) " Ben Stiller's latest comedic vehicle is amiable but strikingly underwritten." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Jan 19, 2004
1.5/4 61% Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) " Under the Tuscan Sun goes for the picture postcard look-and-feel and it succeeds admirably, a flighty contrivance that's thin, lightweight, and instantly disposable." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Jan 13, 2004
1.5/4 56% Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) " Dante favors the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to this Warner Bros. nostalgia trip when funny-and-affectionate would have worked better." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Nov 19, 2003
1.5/4 75% Intolerable Cruelty (2003) " Occasionally cruel and almost entirely intolerable." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Oct 14, 2003
1.5/4 88% 28 Days Later (2003) " The scariest thing about Danny Boyle's film is the surprisingly large percentage of people seemingly infected by its cheap and shoddy plagiarism." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Jul 25, 2003
1.5/4 48% Bruce Almighty (2003) " Even Jim Carrey, whose mere presence can often liven up a film lacking in luster, can't save the almighty turkey that is Bruce Almighty." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Jun 26, 2003
1.5/4 38% Full Frontal (2002) " Soderbergh should be ashamed of himself for trying to pass this off as entertainment." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Sep 3, 2002
1.5/4 86% 24 Hour Party People (2002) " Michael Winterbottom puts the Manchester, England music/club scene circa 1980 under the microscope... and forgets to take the lens cap off!" — Movie Boeuf
Posted Aug 22, 2002
1.5/4 64% Zoolander (2001) " The most disappointing thing about Stiller's film is that all it appears to be saying is that male models don't seem to have a lot between the ears." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Oct 2, 2001
1.5/4 54% Bully (2001) " A nasty piece of work." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Sep 11, 2001
1.5/4 21% Ghosts of Mars (2001) " As Ghosts of Mars movies go, John Carpenter's is probably the best." — Movie Boeuf
Posted Aug 27, 2001
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