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Martin Scribbs

Martin Scribbs

Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Biography:
MARTIN SCRIBBS: The Philadelphia-based pedant, poet, and sot writes on the staffs of Flak Magazine and Mixed Reviews. Scribbs also bloviates at his own site, Low IQ Canadian. LIC's all-puppet version of Daniel Defoe's "Journal of The Plague Year" won grudging respect at every nursing home in which it appeared. LIC is a Member Critic at Cinemarati, and contributes regularly to the Cinemarati Roundtable.
Publications:
Flak Magazine , Low IQ Canadian , Mixed Reviews
Total Reviews:
203
Total QuickRatings:
118
Location:
Philadelphia, PA

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 46% Secret Window (2004) " Another lousy movie adapted from Stephen King's writing; another slander against the mentally ill; another energetic Depp performance in a losing cause." — Mixed Reviews
Posted Aug 6, 2004
70% Ocean's Thirteen (2007) " A subpar A-Team episode with George Clooney as Face." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 10, 2007
7% License to Wed (2007) " Forget blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, wasting our time with License to Wed is the one unpardonable sin." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 8, 2007
23% Evan Almighty (2007) " Feebleminded slapdashery." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 23, 2007
75% Secret Honor (1984) " Does anyone have a clue what Altman was driving at with this intense glob of lunacy?" — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 19, 2005
92% Gabriel Over the White House (1933) " Gabriel Over the White House encourages its viewers to live the fantasy of the philosopher-king, but never counts the costs of such a regime." — Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 19, 2005
25% Bewitched (2005) " I'll have some of what Nora Ephron's having, as long as I don't have to watch her movies." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 19, 2005
65% Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) " If you guessed, 'a wheezy social problem drama,' you're right." — Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 19, 2005
93% Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) " Not only was Good Night, and Good Luck filmed in black-and-white, it was written and acted that way, too. This is Good versus Evil for Political Dummies." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 5, 2005
85% Batman Begins (2005) " The class dynamics of Batman Begins are just insufferable. Thank heavens we have our incorruptable masked moneybags to keep the criminal poor in line. " — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 17, 2005
—— Leap Year () " Slow-moving silent comedy which didn't get screened for sixty years because of Arbuckle's scandal; mainly of historical interest." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 7, 2005
72% Primer (2004) " I didn't understand Primer; worse yet, I didn't care." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 1, 2005
45% The Day After Tomorrow (2004) " Preposterous, slow, and unimaginative." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 20, 2005
81% Ray (2004) " Yet another ho-hum man of genius biopic, showcasing a scenery-chewing lead-behaving-badly, shoddy Freudian psychoanalysis, and cliche bottom-of-the-ninth redemption." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
0% Mars Needs Women (1966) " If Plan 10 From Outer Space, a.k.a. Mars Needs Women, doesn't tickle your funnybone, you really don't have one." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
56% Ocean's Twelve (2004) " Ocean's 12 is malt-liquor-on-a-Monday stupid." — Mixed Reviews
Posted Dec 12, 2004
21% Caligula (1979) " Caligula turns the Julian dynasty's most violent chapter into a sleazy snoozefest. Even the Penthouse Pets look pained to be decorating this historic bomb." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 25, 2004
56% The Polar Express (2004) " This praiseworthy film has been awarded highest honors from Puissant Guide and All-Fertile Giftgiver Kris Kringle." — Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 17, 2004
84% The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004) " An unexpected renaissance in Soviet filmmaking." — Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 25, 2004
10% Taxi (2004) " License revoked." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Oct 16, 2004
48% A Home at the End of the World (2004) " All roads lead to ruin in Home's world, lending an unexpectedly reactionary tone to the work." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Oct 3, 2004
69% Porn Star - The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001) " Porn Star runs out of insight and surprises long before the closing credits roll." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Oct 2, 2004
90% Going Upriver - The Long War of John Kerry (2004) " John Kerry may well be the conscience that America needs at its helm. But I'd never trust a 90-minute campaign ad like Upriver to tell me that. " — Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 2, 2004
40% Bounce - Behind the Velvet Rope (2000) " Self-important knuckleheads bloviate on club life. Though docs are reknown as tools to create empathy, Bounce merely confirms the worst prejudices of its audience." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
57% Kurt & Courtney (1998) " Unenlightening." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
76% L'Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)(Euro Pudding)(The Spanish Apartment) (2003) " European Union navel-gazing plus braying youth worship equals L' Auberge Espagnol." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 1, 2004
79% Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2002) " Stoked gives a young woman's rape and murder almost no narrative weight -- it is merely the disappointing spoiler to a talented skateboarder's career." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 1, 2004
22% AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) " If you're aching for lines like, 'Well, that tunnel didn't dig itself,' and 'My enemy's enemy...is....my friend?,' run don't walk to AVP." — Mixed Reviews
Posted Aug 14, 2004
81% The Bourne Supremacy (2004) " Bourne himself hovers above mere physical threats, draining this action movie of any urgency." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 13, 2004
71% Cold Mountain (2003) " Cold Mountain is one cold teat -- tough and lifeless, yielding nothing. When even a semi-nude Jude Law can't save a movie, it's time to go direct to video." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 31, 2004
2% The Master of Disguise (2002) " Master of Disguise may be a real hoot, if you're under 10 years old, or drunk, or both. Not a bad time-waster on a rainy Sunday, but a time-waster nonetheless." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 25, 2004
—— Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow (1994) " Easily the worst in a miserable franchise, Mission to Moscow makes Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol look like Battleship Potemkin." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 24, 2004
0% Police Academy 6 - City Under Siege (1989) " Par for the Academy course, the comedy is so-so but the 'action' sequences are dull beyond belief." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 24, 2004
88% Titanic (in 3D) (2012) " Abyss-mal." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 23, 2004
47% The Mummy Returns (2001) " The mummy may, but the audience shouldn't." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 21, 2004
84% The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) " Imaginative sci-fi elements and intense performances ruined by leaden pacing." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 21, 2004
26% Godzilla (1998) " Where's stock footage of Raymond Burr when you need it?" — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 19, 2004
—— Murder at Devil's Glen (1999) " Fraternity pranks that go beyond beer, barnyard animals, and industrial adhesive." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 18, 2004
20% Heavyweights (Heavy Weights) (1995) " The first American movie to explore the link between processed cheese and the need for love. A Hamburglar Joint." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 18, 2004
43% Revolution OS (2002) " Tells a lot about the rationale of the open-source movement, but shows virtually none of its fruits. Interviews only open-source advocates. " — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 18, 2004
31% Head of State (2003) " Chris Rock suffers from painful verbal constipation in this PG-13 clunker. Hollywood, make it NC-17 when Chris and Bernie run for re-election. " — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 18, 2004
—— Police Academy 5 - Assignment Miami Beach (1988) " Surprisingly close to good, surprisingly close to fun, and the best Police Academy movie, No. 5 still reeks of desperation." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 18, 2004
0% Police Academy 4 - Citizens on Patrol (1987) " Quite possibly the least essential movie ever made. A call to arming the elderly." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 16, 2004
40% Police Academy 3 - Back in Training (1986) " Deadly-dull pacing and overuse of old gags ruin Police Academy 3, the first of the franchise to come anywhere near 'enjoyable.'" — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 16, 2004
25% Double Jeopardy (1999) " Double Jeoprady has all the legal savvy of the O.J. Simpson jury." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 16, 2004
14% View from the Top (2003) " Miss Paltrow? We're gonna need that Oscar back." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 16, 2004
23% Police Academy 2 - Their First Assignment (1985) " More trash, though graced with the franchise's best actor, Bobcat Goldthwait." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 16, 2004
47% Police Academy (1984) " A Reagan-era screed against affirmative action, Police Academy warns what misfits and lowlifes wait to pour through the floodgates." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 16, 2004
58% Splendor (1999) " Splendor, purportedly a a sex farce, has had all of its joy and energy surgically removed." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 14, 2004
50% The Babe (1992) " The weakest baseball movie not to star Tom Selleck, Corbin Bersen, or a team of lovable black inner-city tots." — Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 14, 2004
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