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Low IQ Canadian

Low IQ Canadian is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Martin Scribbs.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/10
Larry Crowne (2011) Martin Scribbs Could have been a solid, straightforward rom com coasting on likable leads; half-hearted additions trying to link the movie to economic crisis just detract.
Posted Dec 05, 2011  Edit critic review
I'm Not There (2007) Martin Scribbs I'm Not There may inspire great movies, but doesn't have the discipline to be one itself.
Posted Nov 25, 2007  Edit critic review
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) Martin Scribbs The wild, unstoppable commercial success of the Pirates franchise has freed Verbinski to spend a lot of time on flights of fancy and mythological asides.
Posted Jul 10, 2007  Edit critic review
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) Martin Scribbs A subpar A-Team episode with George Clooney as Face.
Posted Jul 10, 2007  Edit critic review
Knocked Up (2007) Martin Scribbs Goodhearted and refreshingly messy.
Posted Jul 10, 2007  Edit critic review
License to Wed (2007) Martin Scribbs Forget blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, wasting our time with License to Wed is the one unpardonable sin.
Posted Jul 08, 2007  Edit critic review
These Are the Damned (1962) Martin Scribbs Slow-building but creepy story of biker pug uglies, radiation poisoning, and prissy Brit schoolkids.
Posted Jul 08, 2007  Edit critic review
Evan Almighty (2007) Martin Scribbs Feebleminded slapdashery.
Posted Jun 23, 2007  Edit critic review
Secret Honor (1984) Martin Scribbs Does anyone have a clue what Altman was driving at with this intense glob of lunacy?
Posted Nov 19, 2005  Edit critic review
Bewitched (2005) Martin Scribbs I'll have some of what Nora Ephron's having, as long as I don't have to watch her movies.
Posted Nov 19, 2005  Edit critic review
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) Martin Scribbs 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.
Posted Nov 05, 2005  Edit critic review
Bad News Bears (2005) Martin Scribbs Bad News Bears is a late summer hoot, and hopefully what your kids are really seeing when they tell you they're going to Sky High.
Posted Aug 07, 2005  Edit critic review
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) Martin Scribbs Belafonte is magic in his loneliness.
Posted Jun 26, 2005  Edit critic review
Batman Begins (2005) Martin Scribbs The class dynamics of Batman Begins are just insufferable. Thank heavens we have our incorruptable masked moneybags to keep the criminal poor in line.
Posted Jun 17, 2005  Edit critic review
Leap Year (1924) Martin Scribbs Slow-moving silent comedy which didn't get screened for sixty years because of Arbuckle's scandal; mainly of historical interest.
Posted Jun 07, 2005  Edit critic review
Primer (2004) Martin Scribbs I didn't understand Primer; worse yet, I didn't care.
Posted Jun 01, 2005  Edit critic review
F for Fake (1973) Martin Scribbs A little gem, full of vintage Welles ruminations on the ephemeral nature of personal celebrity and the elusiveness of ultimate truth.
Posted May 22, 2005  Edit critic review
The Yes Men (2003) Martin Scribbs Chris Smith is the next great documentarian for mainstream American audiences to discover, and he richly merits a wide release.
Posted May 15, 2005  Edit critic review
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) Martin Scribbs Preposterous, slow, and unimaginative.
Posted Feb 20, 2005  Edit critic review
College (1927) Martin Scribbs Madcap fun as the supremely athletic Keaton plays a bookworm who, for love of a jock-loving girl, tries but fails heroically at every possible sport in every possible way.
Posted Feb 19, 2005  Edit critic review
Nikita (1990) Martin Scribbs Superb thriller scored to Eurotrash synth pop, La Femme Nikita sets out a whole world of espionage and violence, and engages with a wild yet sympathetic lead.
Posted Feb 04, 2005  Edit critic review
Finding Neverland (2004) Martin Scribbs A celebration of artistry, not as mere ornament, but as the very stuff of life.
Posted Feb 03, 2005  Edit critic review
Million Dollar Baby (2004) Martin Scribbs Mystery of the Universe #237: the same Clint Eastwood who once co-starred with an orangutan is now America's finest director of tragedy.
Posted Feb 03, 2005  Edit critic review
Bad Education (2004) Martin Scribbs Sexy and complicated as between its adult leads, Bad Education also marks the most insightful critique yet of the pedophile scandals in the Catholic Church.
Posted Feb 03, 2005  Edit critic review
Ray (2004) Martin Scribbs 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.
Posted Feb 03, 2005  Edit critic review
Sideways (2004) Martin Scribbs A funny, heartfelt coming-of-middle-age story by, for, and about snobs.
Posted Feb 03, 2005  Edit critic review
Carandiru (2003) Martin Scribbs Humanity struggles out from under a maximally oppressive system, commenting by haunting metaphor on life outside the prison walls.
Posted Feb 03, 2005  Edit critic review
Mars Needs Women (1966) Martin Scribbs If Plan 10 From Outer Space, a.k.a. Mars Needs Women, doesn't tickle your funnybone, you really don't have one.
Posted Feb 03, 2005  Edit critic review
Gacy (2003) Martin Scribbs Gacy channels its horror through bicentennial suburban kitsch, clowns-in-the-closet visuals, and a heaving, foul, maggot-carpeted crawlspace deep with death and lies.
Posted Dec 31, 2004  Edit critic review
Caligula (1979) Martin Scribbs 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.
Posted Nov 25, 2004  Edit critic review
Alfie (2004) Martin Scribbs What at first seems a glossy ad for the swinging single life gradually reveals itself as an stinging indictment of the emotional impotent.
Posted Nov 17, 2004  Edit critic review
Taxi (2004) Martin Scribbs License revoked.
Posted Oct 16, 2004  Edit critic review
A Home at the End of the World (2004) Martin Scribbs All roads lead to ruin in Home's world, lending an unexpectedly reactionary tone to the work.
Posted Oct 03, 2004  Edit critic review
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001) Martin Scribbs Porn Star runs out of insight and surprises long before the closing credits roll.
Posted Oct 02, 2004  Edit critic review
The Lion in Winter (1968) Martin Scribbs A must-see for perhaps the most scathing verbal pyrotechnics ever committed to film.
Posted Sep 26, 2004  Edit critic review
5/5
Pink Flamingos (1972) Martin Scribbs The alpha and omega of shock filmmaking.
Posted Sep 26, 2004  Edit critic review
The Mouse That Roared (1959) Martin Scribbs A welcome return to a more innocent time in geopolitics. Also be sure to catch the mod! fab! DVD preview for Dr. Strangelove.
Posted Sep 26, 2004  Edit critic review
Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope (2000) Martin Scribbs 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.
Posted Sep 26, 2004  Edit critic review
007: Goldfinger (1964) Martin Scribbs Goldfinger remains the gold standard for the Bond movies. Recent entries can't compare to this lustrous thriller, a throwback to when the term "thriller" had meaning.
Posted Sep 26, 2004  Edit critic review
Kurt & Courtney (1998) Martin Scribbs Unenlightening.
Posted Sep 26, 2004  Edit critic review
3/5
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) Martin Scribbs Arranged in short episodes, each composed entirely of awkward and embarassed conversation between midlevel celebs, Coffee and Cigarettes entertains fitfully.
Posted Sep 26, 2004  Edit critic review
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Martin Scribbs With wit as dry as the chapped lips of a constant mouth-breather, Napoleon Dynamite finds moments of painful reserve even in slapstick.
Posted Sep 04, 2004  Edit critic review
Hero (2002) Martin Scribbs Truly beautiful, but undeniably resigned to peace through tyranny.
Posted Sep 04, 2004  Edit critic review
The Spanish Apartment (2002) Martin Scribbs European Union navel-gazing plus braying youth worship equals L' Auberge Espagnol.
Posted Sep 01, 2004  Edit critic review
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003) Martin Scribbs 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.
Posted Sep 01, 2004  Edit critic review
Westray (2001) Martin Scribbs Westray explains in painful detail how communities will themselves into fatal ignorance.
Posted Aug 13, 2004  Edit critic review
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) Martin Scribbs Bourne himself hovers above mere physical threats, draining this action movie of any urgency.
Posted Aug 13, 2004  Edit critic review
4/5
Thelma & Louise (1991) Martin Scribbs Super-charged, Amazonian feminism hijacks the caper, buddy, revenge, and road trip genres. One hell of a ride.
Posted Aug 08, 2004  Edit critic review
A Nous la Liberte (1931) Martin Scribbs The French have no equal when it comes to perfectly aligned bottom-kicking, showing revulsion at the ill-breeding of others, or performing semi-socialist slapstick.
Posted Aug 07, 2004  Edit critic review
Cold Mountain (2003) Martin Scribbs 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.
Posted Jul 31, 2004  Edit critic review
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