Preposterous plot, bad acting, and dialogue that provokes more laughs than shivers.

Adam Sandler's creative songs and silly expressions on "Saturday Night Live" may have turned him into a celebrity, but this movie based solely on his antics doesn't work.

Paying homage to drug comedies of the '70s, Half Baked is high on getting high and low on laughs.

Beverly Hills Cop III is perhaps the dumbest of the cop trio. There are no surprises, there's no real police work to unravel, and there are no mysteries. It's all very predictable with lots of gunplay, noise, and blood. [3 Jun 1994]

Hop away from this one fast!

The thriller makes up in moody weirdness what it lacks in horror-tale originality.

Downright awful.

Veteran comics like Steve Martin and Madeleine Kahn wrestle valiantly with the incoherent story and ham-fisted dialogue, but it's a losing battle all the way. [30 Dec 1994]

A strong candidate for worst picture of the year.

Be warned that the results are in aggressively awful taste from beginning to end.

Fans of unregenerate underground moviemaking will have a ball.

Get cracking, filmmakers. It'll take a lot of doing to beat this creep-show for worst picture of the year. It's about a computer programmer who beats the devil in a series of spooky challenges. No fewer than seven directors worked on it, and it doesn't make any sense at all. [23 May 1985, p.25]

Pauly Shore is less a comedian than a class clown, and his dim-witted mugging makes Jim Carrey's antics seem creative triumphs by comparison. Vapid, vulgar, and more to the point, not funny.

The results are unbelievably tedious, but Mansfield buffs may find it intermittently worthwhile.

Made near the end of Buñuel's career, it's not his greatest movie, but it contains some of his most memorable moments.

With its skillful blend of documentary, confessional, and comic moods, this is one of the infrequent avant-garde movies that's as amusing and entertaining as it is artful and sophisticated.

This engaging 1966 comedy isn't de Broca's best movie, but it was so popular with American audiences in the late '60s that it's still one of the era's most fondly remembered cult classics.

Interesting as anthropology, although the subject won't appeal to many people.

Documentary about stock trading, with some vivid images but no clear perspectives or opinions on the material it presents.

The film is decidedly hagiographic but, in a time of heightened racial unrest, it’s worth being reminded of the fighter Ali’s origins.