For 511 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Gene Siskel's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 A Clockwork Orange
Lowest review score: 0 UHF
Score distribution:
511 movie reviews
    • 10 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    A dim-witted teen comedy and romance about an ace high school football player who has to fight off college recruiters as well as the father of the girl he's dating. Neither part of the film works, save for a few throwaway gags about recruiting. [25 March 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    The movie slogs along in between combat scenes. Only a precious few of the bantering jokes among the green quartet hold any amusement for those over the age of 10.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    Director Arthur Penn (Bonnnie and Clyde) may have intended this to be a campy homage to Hitchcock, but instead he gives us a boring, frustrating and stupid story. [06 Feb 1987, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    A stupid, stylized road picture. [10 Sept 1993]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    Has a terrific premise but no script.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 12 Gene Siskel
    Responsible for this trash is director Fritz Kiersch, and remember that name. Last year Kiersch gave us one of 1984`s worst films, his adaptation of Stephen King`s ''Children of the Corn.'' Now, with Tuff Turf, Kiersch has made the ''worst'' list two years in a row.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 12 Gene Siskel
    It stinks from top to bottom. Even Tom Cruise ("Risky Business"), one of the most appealing actors of his generation, can now claim to have made his first truly awful film. And the same goes for director Ridley Scott ("Alien"), who specializes in artful, heartless movies. Legend, however, isn't the least bit artful. [18 Apr 1986, p.N]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    That`s right, Fever Pitch receives ''zero stars,'' a rating given infrequently and most often to a film that is morally offensive. There`s no other way to describe Fever Pitch, which, aside from its multitude of filmmaking sins, has the gall to do a complete turnabout with its ending, twisting a supposedly antigambling, message movie into nothing less than a promotional film for casino betting, feeding off the chronic gambler`s pathetic hope to ''get even'' through one more toss of the dice.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    A disgusting, artless shocker...A cruel film that offers teen-age girls in peril, as well as a gruesome beheading. Only for sickies. [11 July 1980, p.8]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    UHF
    Viewing UHF may be injurious to your sense of humor. Rarely has a comedy tried so hard and failed so often to be funny. [21 Jul 1989, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    A nauseating thriller that reaches down from the screen and defies you to stay in the theater to see what desecration of the human body it will present next. [24 Feb 1986, p.C3]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    This is easily one of the worst films I`ve ever seen.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    Nothing, absolutely nothing, at either location is the slightest bit funny. [13 Sep 1985, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 23 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    A laughably bad, offensive movie with holes in its story that you could drive a truck though.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    A most unfunny comedy about hijinks on the slopes, featuring a short ski patrol leader, a flatulent dog, assorted cutups and a stereotypical black patrol member who sings and dances a lot more than he skis. [19 Jan 1990, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 19 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    A hideously violent shocker about a woman who is repeatedly raped and castrates her victims. [18 July 1980, p.8]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Gene Siskel
    I didn't laugh once during the entire film-not at the slapstick, not at the humor, all of which is pitched at the preschool level. [25 March 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune

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