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Justin Chang

Justin Chang

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:
Variety
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
274

Worst Reviewed Films

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51% Nim's Island (2008) " Nim's Island is a picturesque adventure-comedy that quickly capsizes under the weight of its obnoxious slapstick, pedestrian dialogue and general unwillingness to rise above stock ideas and situations." — Variety
Posted Apr 3, 2008
13% College Road Trip (2008) " The two leads have considerable screen appeal and decent chemistry, but are ill served by the material's sitcomish beats and mawkish resolution." — Variety
Posted Mar 6, 2008
35% Vantage Point (2008) " A 23-minute movie dragged out, via some narrative gimmickry, to a punishing hour and a half." — Variety
Posted Feb 21, 2008
—— The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008) " An anemic grab-bag of Sundance cliches." — Variety
Posted Jan 30, 2008
66% Sleep Dealer (2009) " Despite some clever virtual-reality concepts and projections about the next frontier of globalization, Alex Rivera's ambitious directing debut lacks the vision, or the budget, to pull off its fusion of sci-fi and aspirational saga." — Variety
Posted Jan 28, 2008
40% Otto; or Up with Dead People (2008) " Canadian queer-cinema provocateur Bruce LaBruce continues his trademark blend of sexual explicitness and shoddy technique with his numbing necro-porno, Otto; or, Up With Dead People." — Variety
Posted Jan 28, 2008
—— North Starr () " Gets off to a clunky start, grows on the viewer through its leisurely midsection, then bogs down in an over-edited jumble of flashbacks, hallucinations and labored symbolism." — Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2008
50% Assassination of a High School President (2008) " Basically Brick for remedial viewers." — Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2008
22% Mad Money (2008) " This strained heist comedy about three cash-strapped femmes is watchable enough for a few reels, but lacks the requisite wit and amoral energy to capitalize on its get-rich-quick premise." — Variety
Posted Jan 14, 2008
35% National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) " This diminishing-returns sequel sends Nicolas Cage on another quest to strike it rich, get young auds excited about history and solve puzzles that are generally less stimulating than yesterday's Sudoku." — Variety
Posted Dec 21, 2007
73% The Mist (2007) " The film can't sustain this momentum en route to a highly calculated ending that departs from King's more ambiguous denouement to mostly shrug-worthy effect." — Variety
Posted Nov 12, 2007
71% Beowulf (2007) " For all its visual sweep and propulsively violent action, this bloodthirsty rendition of the Old English epic can't overcome the disadvantage of being enacted by digital waxworks rather than flesh-and-blood Danes and demons." — Variety
Posted Nov 12, 2007
14% The Genius Club (2006) " Smart characters don't always mean smart movies, and The Genius Club is no exception." — Variety
Posted Nov 1, 2007
13% Mr. Woodcock (2007) " There's more genuine humor to be gleaned from saying 'Woodcock' over and over again than from watching Mr. Woodcock." — Variety
Posted Sep 13, 2007
49% Hatchet (2006) " Draggy stretches in the first few reels could easily have been pruned from an already tight 83-minute running time." — Variety
Posted Sep 11, 2007
13% September Dawn (2007) " This handsome indie Western damningly recounts the 1857 slayings of 120 settlers passing through Utah, but the didactic presentation, grim speechifying and tacked-on love story all signify a less-than-healthy regard for the audience's intelligence." — Variety
Posted Aug 21, 2007
16% Underdog (2007) " The sort of noisy, over-produced affair in line with much recent family-friendly programming." — Variety
Posted Aug 3, 2007
27% Evening (2007) " A woman's deathbed reveries provide a poignant but rather obvious counterpoint to her daughters' present-day emotional concerns in Evening." — Variety
Posted Jun 21, 2007
37% Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) " Faithfully mining one of the Marvel franchise's more intriguing mythologies, the sequel proves every bit as disposable as its predecessor, with even less character definition and several tons more poundage in the f/x department." — Variety
Posted Jun 14, 2007
—— Tout Est PardonnĂ© () " While its succession of emotionally loaded moments never crystallize into a vivid whole, the strong performances and highly effective use of music should put audiences in a forgiving mood." — Variety
Posted May 23, 2007
48% Wind Chill (2007) " Wind Chill blows into increasingly nightmarish and ludicrous territory, introducing frostbitten ghouls, priestly apparitions, a nasty cop, and a cycle of hallucinations." — Variety
Posted Apr 28, 2007
28% Next (2007) " The tagline says, 'If you can see the future, you can save it.' For that matter, if you don't see Next, you can save 96 minutes. What starts out as a mildly diverting thriller blows itself to smithereens in the final reel." — Variety
Posted Apr 26, 2007
36% The Tripper (2007) " A mostly dull-blade exercise that offers little to think or scream about." — Variety
Posted Apr 20, 2007
38% Firehouse Dog (2007) " A likable but ungainly mutt of a movie." — Variety
Posted Apr 3, 2007
8% The Reaping (2007) " For all its high-minded aspirations, The Reaping really shows its cards in the final reels, with a descent into visual bombast and spiritual chaos that is almost riveting in its silliness." — Variety
Posted Mar 31, 2007
25% Tortilla Heaven (2007) " As flat as a tortilla and consid-erably less nourishing." — Variety
Posted Mar 20, 2007
8% The Number 23 (2007) " Gimmicky numerology plus Jim Carrey minus narrative coherence equals The Number 23." — Variety
Posted Feb 21, 2007
35% Finishing the Game (2007) " The search for the next Bruce Lee goes comically awry, but not comically enough, in Finishing the Game, a rice-paper-thin spoof that tries to poke fun at the endangered Hollywood species that is the Asian male actor." — Variety
Posted Feb 7, 2007
39% Dark Matter (2008) " A middling academic drama that passes pleasantly enough for roughly an hour before detouring into a tacked-on tragic climax." — Variety
Posted Jan 30, 2007
—— If I Had Known I Was A Genius (2007) " A handful of chuckles, mostly courtesy of Whoopi Goldberg as the world's least encouraging mother, are weighed down by sluggish direction and an awful lot of dead time." — Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2007
72% Under the Same Moon (2008) " Manipulative storytelling and overly simplistic handling of a divisive issue." — Variety
Posted Jan 24, 2007
26% Stomp the Yard (2007) " The dancing is more dynamic than the plotting in Stomp the Yard, an energetic if formulaic underdog tale." — Variety
Posted Jan 11, 2007
44% Night at the Museum (2006) " Rarely has so much production value yielded so little in terms of audience engagement." — Variety
Posted Dec 22, 2006
16% Eragon (2006) " Appropriating all the external trappings of big-budget fantasy but none of the requisite soul, this leaden epic never soars like the CG-rendered fire-breather at the core of its derivative mythology." — Variety
Posted Dec 14, 2006
30% Running With Scissors (2006) " The royally screwed-up adolescence of Augusten Burroughs has made it to the bigscreen with several nips, tucks and a noticeably duller edge in Running With Scissors." — Variety
Posted Oct 14, 2006
3% The Covenant (2006) " [A] muddled and most unmagical offering." — Variety
Posted Sep 30, 2006
83% Expiration Date (2006) " Too stringy and disjointed for its sporadic charms to amount to much." — Variety
Posted Sep 14, 2006
61% Crank (2006) " For all its busyness, Crank never develops much momentum, not least because an exploding heart doesn't carry quite the same stakes as an exploding bus." — Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2006
63% The Ant Bully (2006) " The Ant Bully is lovely to look at but a headache to listen to." — Variety
Posted Jul 24, 2006
12% Little Man (2006) " The brothers' work on the Scary Movie franchise notwithstanding, Little Man may just be their scariest movie yet, with credit going entirely to its mesmerizingly freaky title character." — Variety
Posted Jul 13, 2006
36% Park (2006) " Enjoyably rude but uneven." — Variety
Posted Jun 24, 2006
33% Click (2006) " Cleverly conceived but conspicuously unfunny." — Variety
Posted Jun 23, 2006
27% Waist Deep (2006) " For all helmer Vondie Curtis Hall's aspirations to grittiness, his script (co-written by Darin Scott) is mired in a violent fantasy L.A. where the stereotypes fly almost as fast as the bullets." — Variety
Posted Jun 21, 2006
56% Civic Duty (2006) " The well-structured scenario is arresting but ill-served by an overly fussy visual treatment from helmer Jeff Renfroe." — Variety
Posted Jun 12, 2006
38% 2:37 (2006) " A queasy exploitation picture masquerading as a serious dramatic treatment." — Variety
Posted May 27, 2006
86% Colossal Youth (Juventude Em Marcha) (2006) " Far-reaching study of poverty, loneliness and hope amid suffering is weighed down by its soporific structure, deliberately indolent pacing and endlessly attenuated conversations among a clutch of ill-defined personalities." — Variety
Posted May 26, 2006
69% A Scanner Darkly (2006) " Plot point by plot point, the film seems more concerned with achieving a lucid retelling of the novel's events, resulting in an almost disappointingly well-behaved sci-fi noir that's mildly provocative rather than visionary." — Variety
Posted May 25, 2006
38% Congorama (2007) " The suffocatingly neat construction strains credibility, leaving the central characters -- feeling like the punchlines of an elaborate cosmic joke." — Variety
Posted May 25, 2006
57% X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) " A wham-bam sequel noticeably lacking in the pop gravitas, moody atmospherics and emotional weight that made the first two Marvel comicbook adaptations so rousingly successful." — Variety
Posted May 22, 2006
13% Just My Luck (2006) " As disposable as a broken mirror, Just My Luck plays like a focus-group compilation of everything a 12-year-old girl could want in a Lindsay Lohan movie." — Variety
Posted May 11, 2006
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