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Jeannette Catsoulis

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
Las Vegas Mercury , New York Times , NPR , Reverse Shot
Critics' Group:
Las Vegas Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
832

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 26% The Best and the Brightest (2011) " A repellent comedy that's less fun than a parasite infection..." — New York Times
Posted Jun 23, 2011
0/5 0% Tied to a Chair (2011) " Insulting several nationalities and most of the filmgoing public, "Tied to a Chair" lurches through acting atrocities, continuity glitches and narrative gaps with grating insouciance." — New York Times
Posted May 26, 2011
0/5 7% Captivity (2007) " Captivity the movie has been thoroughly eclipsed by Captivity the marketing." — New York Times
Posted Jul 14, 2007
0/5 21% Eternal (2004) " Lush, lurid and completely besotted with itself, Eternal is one of those movies normally found slinking around the ether of late-night cable television." — New York Times
Posted Aug 25, 2005
.5/5 4% Vampires Suck (2010) " Aside from the difficulty of spoofing a saga that has always been winkingly aware of its own angsty excesses, there is the inadvisability of angering a tweeniverse whose emotional investment in the originals borders on pathological. " — New York Times
Posted Aug 18, 2010
0.5/5 11% Killers (2010) " A brain-deadening collision of high concept and low standards." — New York Times
Posted Jun 4, 2010
.5/5 14% Steam (2007) " So cheesy and so poorly acted that it should never have seen the light of day." — New York Times
Posted Mar 20, 2009
0.5/5 14% Black Christmas (2006) " Glen Morgan's disastrous remake smothers terror beneath a blanket of unnecessary information, revealing too much and teasing too little." — New York Times
Posted Dec 27, 2006
0.5/5 26% Saw III (2006) " Saw III, with its barrage of grungy rooms, mortified flesh and elaborate torture, is a highly creative exercise in bloodletting, with a bleak view of human nature." — New York Times
Posted Oct 28, 2006
0.5/5 5% Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) " Unpleasant, uncouth and painfully unfunny, Larry the Cable Guy attempts lowbrow humor with neither the wit of the Farrelly brothers nor the raunchy inventiveness of Keenen Ivory Wayans." — New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2006
0.5/5 23% Wicker Park (2004) " It's a sad day indeed when a movie's most memorable performance belongs to Scooby Doo's Matthew Lillard." — Las Vegas Mercury
Posted Sep 8, 2004
1/5 0% Deadline (2012) " Too lifeless for Lifetime and too inept to do justice to its source material..." — New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
1/5 —— 16-love (2012) " Pablum tarted up with tennis racquets, "16-Love" is, in a sense, the perfect movie for teenagers: you can text and tweet to your heart's content and never miss a thing." — New York Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
1/5 11% The Darkest Hour (2011) " Really, how slovenly is it to use invisible aliens? If you're going to tease us with nothing but pinwheels of light for three-quarters of the film, you'd better have one heck of a reveal up your sleeve." — New York Times
Posted Dec 26, 2011
1/5 86% Silver Bullets (2011) " "Silver Bullets" neither pleases the eye nor stimulates the mind." — New York Times
Posted Oct 27, 2011
1/5 —— The Road to Freedom () " Drags us through miles of jungle and reams of stilted, soul-sucking dialogue." — New York Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
1/5 —— Prince of Swine (2011) " A film with nothing to please the eye and even less to excite the mind." — New York Times
Posted Sep 15, 2011
1/5 50% Grave Encounters (2011) " The filmmakers seem unaware that they're beating a dead horse. As the uniformly annoying characters stumble around, screaming and cursing, we don't give a hoot for their survival." — New York Times
Posted Sep 8, 2011
1/5 0% Fading Of The Cries (2011) " "How are we going to get out of here?" Sarah squawks at one point, a question that Mr. Dourif ought to have asked his agent long before the cameras began to roll." — New York Times
Posted Jul 8, 2011
1/5 0% Love Wedding Marriage (2011) " If there is a special hell for film critics, it probably has movies like "Love, Wedding, Marriage" on continuous rotation." — New York Times
Posted Jun 2, 2011
1/5 0% The Abduction Of Zack Butterfield (2011) " A cringingly awkward tale of sexual predation and female lunacy." — New York Times
Posted May 26, 2011
1/5 0% An Invisible Sign (2011) " Cuter than a basket of puppies licking a litter of kittens, "An Invisible Sign" is an excruciatingly whimsical collision of adult themes and kid-friendly aesthetic." — New York Times
Posted May 6, 2011
1/5 79% Earthwork (2011) " Imagine spending an afternoon watching a bunch of vagrants putter around on an abandoned city lot, and you've pretty much nailed the viewing experience of "Earthwork," a painfully dull account of a year in the life of the Kansas crop artist Stan Herd." — New York Times
Posted Apr 28, 2011
1/5 17% Drawing with Chalk (2011) " Screaming "vanity project" from every hackneyed frame, "Drawing With Chalk" is yet another example of midlife American males doing all they can to avoid acting their age." — New York Times
Posted Mar 24, 2011
1/5 25% Certifiably Jonathan (2011) " Observing his subject both on and off medication (Mr. Winters says he is bipolar), Mr. Pasternak has produced a film that feels depressingly exploitative." — New York Times
Posted Feb 11, 2011
1/5 4% The Roommate (2011) " We could not possibly care less." — New York Times
Posted Feb 4, 2011
1/5 33% Satan Hates You (2011) " Satan may not hate us, but the film's writer and director, James Felix McKenney, surely does. " — New York Times
Posted Dec 17, 2010
1/5 8% Alien Girl (2010) " Soulless, joyless and depressingly graceless, Alien Girl plays like an early Guy Ritchie knockoff without the jokes or Cockney accents. " — New York Times
Posted Dec 17, 2010
1/5 24% Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) " This witless installment features the usual ultra-slow-motion mayhem and helpful freeze-frames to allow us to admire the extra dimension. Fans will not be happy, however, to learn that Ms. Jovovich is more decently clothed this time around." — New York Times
Posted Sep 10, 2010
1/5 14% Our Family Wedding (2010) " Alternately rancid and ridiculous, strident and sickly sweet, Our Family Wedding offers plenty that's old, borrowed and blue; it's the something new that's missing." — New York Times
Posted Mar 12, 2010
1/5 —— Murder in Fashion () " According to Murder in Fashion, the real culprit in the murder of Gianni Versace was the aesthetic tyranny of gay culture." — New York Times
Posted Jan 22, 2010
1/5 —— Misconceptions (2010) " An asinine pileup of improbabilities." — New York Times
Posted Jan 22, 2010
1/5 14% How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009) " Inept, immature and terminally irritating, Mo is the kind of persistent clown who only responds to a slap in the kisser; would that the film were as easy to banish." — New York Times
Posted Oct 30, 2009
1/5 18% Stan Helsing (2009) " By the time we reach the climactic karaoke smackdown, we have learned more about Freddy Kruegerâ(TM)s personal hygiene challenges -- and how to make a shockingly bad movie -- than we ever wanted to know." — New York Times
Posted Oct 23, 2009
1/5 30% Gamer (2009) " In the press materials Mr. Butler informs us enthusiastically that the movie "has all the hallmarks of Neveldine's and Taylor's sick, yet genius minds." At least he's half right." — New York Times
Posted Sep 8, 2009
1/5 —— House of Numbers (2009) " Trafficking in irresponsible inferences and unsupported conclusions, the filmmaker Brent Leung offers himself as suave docent through a globe-trotting pseudo-investigation that should raise the hackles of anyone with even a glancing knowledge of the basic" — New York Times
Posted Sep 4, 2009
1/5 30% The Final Destination (2009) " Since not even 3-D can put your eyes out, our only hope is that this time, the title is a promise and not a tease." — New York Times
Posted Sep 1, 2009
1/5 29% The Collector (2009) " One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre." — New York Times
Posted Aug 3, 2009
1/5 22% Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) " Suffers from abusive close-ups, repetitive fight sequences and uninspired demon design." — New York Times
Posted Jul 10, 2009
1/5 63% Crank 2: High Voltage (2009) " Crank: High Voltage, starring Jason Statham as a man with a machine instead of a heart, is boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic." — New York Times
Posted Apr 20, 2009
1/5 28% Das Haus der Schlafenden Schönen (House of the Sleeping Beauties) (2008) " Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties." — New York Times
Posted Nov 14, 2008
1/5 0% The House of Adam (2006) " Had Jorge Ameer, the writer and director of The House of Adam, aimed for high-flying camp instead of low-rent earnestness, his movie might have stood a chance." — New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2008
1/5 9% Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007) " How atrocious is the comedy Everybody Wants to Be Italian? Let me count the ways." — New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2008
1/5 9% Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) " One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry." — New York Times
Posted Apr 18, 2008
1/5 8% Prom Night (2008) " For a film about erotomania, Prom Night is a curiously flaccid affair." — New York Times
Posted Apr 14, 2008
1/5 13% College Road Trip (2008) " Eyes popping and mouths agape, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné mug their way through College Road Trip as if it were a silent movie -- which, come to think of it, would have been a lot less irritating." — New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2008
1/5 5% The Hottie and the Nottie (2008) " Custom designed for its smirking star (who is also an executive producer), this tasteless train wreck asks only that she preen and prance on cue." — New York Times
Posted Feb 8, 2008
1/5 2% Meet the Spartans (2008) " Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the team behind Meet the Spartans, prove that ridiculing other movies is much easier than making your own." — New York Times
Posted Jan 25, 2008
1/5 24% Awake (2007) " Awake is filled with risible medical behavior (the sterility of the operating room is repeatedly compromised) and a horizontal Mr. Christensen screaming variations on "Oh no, I can feel that!"" — New York Times
Posted Dec 2, 2007
1/5 17% Saw IV (2007) " Over the course of [its] sequels, the Saw franchise took a novel, if distasteful, idea and basically tortured it to death." — New York Times
Posted Oct 27, 2007
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