Dennis Lim

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For 287 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 29% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 69% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 16.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Dennis Lim's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 49
Highest review score: 100 The Intruder
Lowest review score: 0 Boat Trip
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 84 out of 287
  2. Mixed: 110 out of 287
  3. Negative: 93 out of 287
287 movie reviews
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    Clay Pigeons
    It's never clear, by the way, why any of this is supposed to be even remotely funny...This is the kind of movie asinine enough to believe that the mere juxtaposition of sadistic violence and a jaunty tune on the soundtrack is, in itself, clever.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    Remember the Titans
    Boorish and flatulent.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    Play It to the Bone
    The journey is a yawn -- an outpouring of backstory, punctuated by cute episodic diversions and ill-advised running gags.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    The Next Best Thing
    A vanity project -- hell-bent on playing barely human characters as themselves, they've created something quitebewilderingly ugly in the process.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    Equilibrium
    As this clueless, bulimic debacle madly regurgitates ideas and iconography from Lang to the brothers Wachowski, Leni Riefenstahl to L. Ron Hubbard, Ray Bradbury to Susan Faludi, it's not just Bale who has a hard time keeping a straight face.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    8 ½ Women
    The deeply ridiculous 8 1/2 Women could have been made only by a cranky dotard.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    Circuit
    Even from deep in a K-hole, you'd need about 10 seconds to figure out the remaining plot twists in this jaded muscle-queen morality tale.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    Scary Movie 2
    The Wayans brothers' new bottom-feeder signals its utter exhaustion -- and barely veiled contempt for the audience.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    Stolen Summer
    Made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss, it might as well be called "Pray It Forward."
    • 42 Metascore
    • 10 Dennis Lim
    The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    The film isn't short on ideas, it's just that those ideas are dumbfoundingly pretentious and trite.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    Love, Honor and Obey
    Superhumanly awful BBC bottom-feeder Love, Honour and Obey, which, paramount among its many faults, is not recognizably a film.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    Patch Adams
    The year's most repugnant movie.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    Jawbreaker
    Stein's script is slack and tin-eared, too feeble to pass for satire, and inadequate even by lazy-pastiche standards.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    Pay It Forward
    An overflowing septic tank of chicken-soupy sanctimony that proceeds from casually offensive hypocrisy to wretchedly inapt religiosity.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    8MM
    A nasty piece of work, and it's nasty in a particularly ostentatious and sophomoric way.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    Boat Trip
    The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    Dungeons & Dragons
    At once laboriously expository and defiantly incomprehensible.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    Followers
    So seamlessly and comprehensively dreadful that its very existence (let alone its appearance in theaters) beggars belief.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Dennis Lim
    The Sweetest Thing
    One of the cruddiest-looking movies ever made.
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