Despite being peppered with dynamic fight scenes, the film drags. And the tacked-on vigilante subplot...doesn't help.

It’s an action movie without an exciting moment. It’s a special effects flick with chintzy visuals. And it’s a Gerard Butler vehicle without enough Gerard to go around.

General Education is kind of like a science-fair project slapped together at the last minute -- a sad, withered potato pierced with copper wires, rotting on the counter next to a resplendent baking-soda volcano. You can't help but feel a little sorry for the poor spud.

Life Itself is one of the worst kind of bad movies, because it achieves nothing that it sets out to do.

A harmless little mess of a movie whose cast you've mostly heard of, including Tim Allen, who also directed.

It means to be an interconnected story, in which one coupling leads to another in increasingly ridiculous fashion, until you're not only no longer interested, you're grinding your teeth, hoping it will end.

While the special effects are impressive enough, M. Night Shyamalan's film doesn't make a lick of sense.

It’s hard to imagine another comedy coming along this year that is this abrasive and free of laughs. It’s like everyone involved intentionally tried to create a horrible movie.

Beyond the leaps in logic, the most troubling part of this film is that it just feels like a defense of the excess of Christmas.

Two very important things to note about Vampires Suck: The film is a spoof of the "Twilight" movies, and the title is a good indication of where the level of wit lies.

Perhaps because the bar was set so low, Mother’s Day turns out to be surprisingly watchable.

Dinesh D'Souza's America: Imagine a World Without Her paints a genuinely troublesome portrait of the country — just not at all in the way he intends.

There is nothing the slightest bit heavenly about this project, which is wrong-headed in just about every department.

Moronic mace-and-mail mischief. [02 Jul 2004, p.1p]

Left Behind is a terrible movie, bad in almost every way, not even qualifying as so-bad-it's-good material.

Pure preaching-to-the-choir poppycock.

We get it, we get it: Capitalism is good, government is bad. But Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? is worse.

All I can say is, no matter who made it, no matter who paid for it, no matter who it's about, "Melania" is a singularly bad movie.

In the past, I’ve given D’Souza the benefit of the doubt, going out of my way to be extra objective. I actually gave “2016: Obama’s America” a somewhat positive review in 2012 (3 out of 5 stars). But this thing is madness.

D'Souza fans and Trump apologists will flock to this, misguided moths to a misleading flame. In that way, it's a perfect representation of the current climate. In every other way, it's a mess.

What it lacks in originality, it makes up for in Lee’s performance. He is effectively stern as the king. More importantly, he makes Ha-seon funny and movingly genuine.

An amateurish-looking disaster that makes you wonder if it isn’t some kind of in-joke, a stunt to see how bad a movie can be and still find its way into theaters.

It doesn’t offer anything new to the genre, but chugs along pretty well until the plot holes begin to pile up.

Sole Survivor is a puzzle whose pieces don’t fit together perfectly, but still create an cohesive whole.

The project drips with sincerity, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. What doesn't work is the tin-eared dialogue and the utter lack of momentum, both in the script or the direction by Nikita Zubarev.

The filmmaker's seeming lack of skepticism makes for rough going if you don't buy into Kenyon's vision.

At once hopeful and melancholy, it won't necessarily leave you with deep thoughts to think, but rather a feeling that you can't quite name but sticks in your head like a wistful tune in a minor key.

Murray doesn't ignore the abuse of power. He just eases into it.