Louis Black

Louis Black

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:
Austin Chronicle
Total Reviews:
82

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 26% Escape From Planet Earth 3D (2013) " The best thing I can say about Escape From Planet Earth is that I didn't end up hating it as much as I thought I was going to during the first half." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 22, 2013
0/5 —— Street Knight (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/5 15% Striking Distance (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/5 57% The Thing Called Love (1993) " River Phoenix gives a somnambulant impersonation of Christian Slater impersonating Jack Nicholson, and Samantha Mathis spends much of the movie trying to figure out exactly who her character is." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 11% Year of the Comet (1992) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 4% Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) " Spottiswoode directs action well but at about 90 minutes, this film is about 60 minutes longer than its material." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 32% For Love Or Money (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 8% Surf Ninjas (1993) " They surf in the first half and ninja in the second, but this light comedy adventure never really takes off." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 53% A Goofy Movie (1995) " It is bland, a barely television-length cartoon stretched out to fill a feature, and not much fun." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 17% Cop and a Half (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 22% Life with Mikey (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 23% K2 (1992) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1.5/5 28% G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) " As to be expected, Johnson actually imbues his character with some humanity, but in the cacophony that is this movie, this doesn't really amount to much." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 5, 2013
1.5/5 67% Grumpy Old Men (1993) " I'm not even really sure where it gets lost, but it ends up going nowhere." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1.5/5 0% Highlander II: The Quickening (Highlander 2) (1991) " The acting is terrible,with Connery, at his lowest common denominator, stealing the show." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 68% The Iceman (2013) " There is an enormous amount of effort put into this film which at its end just seems like noise, wind, and dust." — Austin Chronicle
Posted May 17, 2013
2/5 24% Arthur Newman (2013) " Arthur Newman is overwhelmed with arty ambitions and a heavy-handed acting style. Ultimately, all the weight prevents the film from taking off and soaring." — Austin Chronicle
Posted May 10, 2013
2/5 50% Home Run (2013) " This slightly better-than-average family film is all paint-by-numbers." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 26, 2013
2/5 —— The New Juarez (2012) " Ultimately, The New Juarez is too passionately partisan regarding a very important and hard-to-fully-comprehend human tragedy." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 19, 2013
2/5 15% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " The plot -- which takes a while to get going, not in terms of action but in creating interest -- is a series of long, violent set-pieces." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 13, 2013
2/5 20% Identity Thief (2013) " Ultimately unsatisfying, not as laugh-out-loud funny as it promises to be in the opening." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 7, 2013
2/5 47% Bullet to the Head (2013) " A soap-opera-predictable cavalcade of violence." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 31, 2013
2/5 18% Allegiance (2012) " What begins as a drama devolves by the halfway point into an overly long chase film, which only grows more and more boring." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 4, 2013
2/5 4% Playing for Keeps (2012) " It is perplexing as to how such an unambitious, paint-by-numbers work got made." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 6, 2012
2/5 75% Under Siege (1992) Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 2, 2002
2/5 44% Delirious (1991) Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 26, 2002
2/5 62% The Public Eye (1992) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 57% Far From Home - The Adventures Of Yellow Dog (1995) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 44% Straight Talk (1992) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 33% Married to It (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 60% Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1994) " It's another right of passage movie that pinballs off of clichés as though that is a way to achieve meaning." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 73% Tombstone (1993) " The film is a mess, there are two or three pre-climaxes but no climax." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 31% The Three Musketeers (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 57% Noises Off... (1992) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 11% The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 77% White Men Can't Jump (1992) " Shelton's enthusiasm is remarkably refreshing, but it's not enough to mean well, and we don't know much more about these people or their world at the end than we learn at the beginning." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2/5 24% Medicine Man (1992) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2.5/5 78% Iron Man 3 (2013) " The film provides more of the same and nothing startlingly innovative, but what's here is good." — Austin Chronicle
Posted May 2, 2013
2.5/5 46% Pain & Gain (2013) " Yes, the canon invoked for this film is that of the Three Stooges, but it's still not as magnificently berserk as they can be. Set your expectations carefully for this one." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 25, 2013
2.5/5 55% Oblivion (2013) " Admirable in its look and style, the film is not unique or exceptional. Nevertheless, given the state of current science-fiction fare, the film does hold its own." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 18, 2013
2.5/5 52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " A terrific cast, intelligent direction, state-of-the-art special effects, a strong story, and skilled narrative construction all end up being much ado about not very much." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 28, 2013
2.5/5 58% Snitch (2013) " Unfortunately, Snitch is torn between being an ideological drama and a more traditional action film -- and Johnson's presence only contributes to the confusion." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 21, 2013
2.5/5 32% Gangster Squad (2013) " A virtual catalog of uneven filmmaking, which includes the plot and many of the performances." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 10, 2013
2.5/5 38% The Guilt Trip (2012) " This film completely surrenders to its premise, with everything else following in a predictable way." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 20, 2012
2.5/5 50% Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) " As with all the films in the Universal Soldier series, this is mostly a catalog of increasingly brutal fights, which are the main attraction in and of themselves." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 30, 2012
2.5/5 53% Geronimo - An American Legend (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2.5/5 57% Chaplin (1992) " This film wanders and dallies and much of it is fun to watch, but you really know about as much about Chaplin when you leave the theatre as when you enter, and what's missing is the magic." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2.5/5 25% Nowhere to Run (1993) " If you don't expect much (and the developer vs. land owner plot is ridiculous) you may be surprised at what's here." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2.5/5 27% Major Payne (1994) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2.5/5 45% A Home of Our Own (1993) Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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