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21 Movies That Were Loved or Hated By Critics and Fans (Whether It Affects Your Opinion or Not)

Did Siskel & Ebert do one of your favorite flicks dirty?

21 Movies That Were Loved or Hated By Critics and Fans (Whether It Affects Your Opinion or Not)

May 07, 2025

There’s something kind of cool about loving a movie that got shredded by stuffy film critics. You feel like it’s your own cool thing that those know-it-all suits just don’t understand. Like, of course Roger Ebert tore Freddy Got Fingered a new one. That didn’t stop us from wanting Tom Green’s sausage.

Wow, there was a lot going on in those last couple sentences. Anywho, what do you think? Did these critics and film fans hate on one of your favorite movies, or did they hit the nail on the head?

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Old Dogs

CRACKED ROBIN WILLIAMS - OLD DOGS Robin Williams' lowest rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, 2009's Old Dogs is widely referred to as his worst movie. Fremont — Daily Mail / MLADP

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Citizen Kane

WEIRD WORLD An 80-year-old review surfaces to drop Citizen Kanes 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. After Rotten Tomatoes added the negative review for the 80 year old picture, it drove down the Tomatoemeter score from a 100% to a measly 99%. The review, originally published in the Chicago Times Tribune, says, Citizen Kane' Fails to Impress Critic as Greatest Ever Filmed.OM — BoingBoing

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Michael Bay

Michael Bay has only one movie that's certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It's 1996's The Rock, which has a rating of 66%. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Super Troopers

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM SUPER TROOPERS How did this movie with a 35% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes get a sequel 17 years later? Most likely because the audience score is 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't know who this movie is for other than a middle school sleepover, but they are out there. — Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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Caddyshack 2

CADDYSHACK 2 CRACKED.COM Did you know it existed? 1980's Caddyshack is a comedy classic. It wasn't an initial success, but it slowly grew into a cult classic, warranting a sequel in 1988. With no Rodney Dangerfield, no Bill Murray, and a family friendly PG-rating, this forgettable flop has a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. — Source: rottentomatoes

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Baby Geniuses 2

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Baby Geniuses 2: Super Babies BAUCA Bay When your key demographic is babies, what can you expect? The 20 million dollar film received a zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes, mostly likely because babies can't type. — Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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The Ref

Richard LaGravenese made Gene Siskel an unflattering character in The Ref. Desde Lory July Devis Kovin Spaces the REF The - - - - - - - - - In 1992, the famous critic gave The Fisher King a negative review, so the film's screenwriter, LaGravenese, created a balding, unfaithful military officer being blackmailed by a young boy, in his follow-up movie. His name? Siskel. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Celebs Who Got Revenge (In Hilariously Nasty Ways)

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Cars 2

The critically panned Cars 2 made $561 million, over 20 percent more than Cars. CRACKED.COM — Source: 24 Pop Culture Iconic Things (That Bombed Initially)

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Critiquing Critics

CRACKED VS. Criticism (against) ROGER EBERT ROTTEN TOMATOES Rotten Tomatoes Was accused of dumbing Some directors have said the that RT killed the for down film critic space nuance in film criticism profession, especially because their scores are following the thumbs too simple, and audiences up, thumbs down TV can't see past these scores soundbite he did with and read the actual reviews. Siskel and regardless of Which is kind of insulting his countless, nuanced and also oversimplifying, reviews. but t whatever. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Variety, Entertainment Weekly

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Critics vs. The Audience

CRACKED VS. Ultimate winner: ROGER EBERT ROTTEN TOMATOES Rotten Tomatoes The audience. In the end, while critics can inform many things pertaining to filmmaking and movies, audiences tend to have the last say. For example, Constantine (2005) has a one-and-a-half star rating from Ebert and a Rotten critics score of 48% on RT. The audience score? Fresh at 72%, with a cult status to boot. (In their defense, RT admitted that they were probably wrong about their score.) CRACKED.COM — Sources: Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert, GQ

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Ebert’s Influence

CRACKED VS. Influence on directors and filmmaking ROGER EBERT ROTTEN TOMATOES CERTIFIED FRESH Rotten HOLLYWOOD Directors like Spike Film marketing has Lee, Bennett Miller, been affected by those and Martin Scorsese RT scores. In 2017, have been influenced Baby Driver used its and inspired by both 92% RT score to Ebert's presence and promote the film and his work. get people to watch it. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Roger Ebert, Digital Innovation And Transformation, Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert vs Rotten Tomatoes

Sources: Variety, Roger Ebert, Fast Company

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The Hot Chick

The Hot Chick EBERT'S RATING: 1/2 STAR CRACKED.COM Among many other rthings,heo-McAdams umbrage with the ratio: The movie's conviction that we would rather see the outside of Rob Schneider's body than the outside of Rachel McAdams' body is not the least of its miscalculations. — Source: Roger Ebert

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Catwoman

Catwoman EBERT'S RATING: 1 STAR CRACKED.COM He thought they spent too much time making Halle Berry look like a sexy cat, and not enough time developing her character: She gobbles down tuna and sushi. She sleeps on a shelf. The movie doesn't get into the litter box situation. What does she think about all of this? — Source: Roger Ebert

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Joe Dirt

Joe Dirt EBERT'S RATING: 1.5 STARS CRACKED.COM On behalf of movie critics everywhere, Ebert is begging David Spade for less scatalogical slapstick: We are not prudes. We are prepared to laugh. But what these movies, including Joe Dirt, often do not understand is that the act of being buried in crap is not in and of itself funny. — Source: Roger Ebert

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Godzilla

Siskel and Ebert weren't fans of Roland Emmerich. SO EMMERICH PARODIED THEM IN GODZILLA. He wasn't subtle about it, either. In the 1998 movie, Mayor E

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Armageddon

Armageddon EBERT'S RATING: 1 STAR CRACKED.COM The movie claims the asteroid is the size of Texas, so Ebert made some hyper-specific Texas references to explain how arbitrary that description is: Let's face it: Even an object the size of that big Wal-Mart outside Abilene would pretty much clean us out, if you count the parking lot. — Source: Roger Ebert

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Freddy Got Fingered

Freddy Got Fingered EBERT'S RATING: THUMBS DOWN about over Summer can can The CRACKEDG He hated this movie so much that he went on a paragraph-long metaphoric tirade: This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel... This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels. — Source: Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert

Pulitzer Prize- -Robust American winning film FUNMove! Russ Meyer's critic Roger ulp! Ebert wrote soft porn Mespolknchestu screenplays. If you don't s — Source: 7 Celebrities Who Had Badass Careers You Didn't Know About

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Gene Siskel

CRACKEDCON The late Gene siskel spent his dough on the suit from saturday Night Fever. A big fan of the movies, the former film critic and journalist

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Rotten Tomatoes

Organized trolling made Rotten Tomatoes less useful. RO' Movies ITVSH X https://www.rottentomatoes.com Rotten Tomatoes Search movies. TV actors. iie S

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The Pick of Destiny

CRACKED COM TENACIOUS D IN PICK OF DESTINY THE This Jack Black rock comedy is critically panned, but it deserves more love. It's a lovingly crafted tr

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Pixels

DESPITE A ROTTEN TOMATOES CONSENSUS OF HARDLY WORTH A QUARTERU PIXELS (2015 GROSSED OVER $244 MILLIDN WORLDWIDE, NEARLY DOUBLE ITS BUDGET. CRACKED

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The Smurfs

The Smurfs (2011) was critically panned, scoring only 22% positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but that didn't stop it from making more than five time

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Willow

The hero in Willow must defeat a two- headed dragon. It's narned after Siskel and Ebert. Willow is a George Lucas film, and Lucas decided the two-head

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