"Empire Records" made $293,000 in its opening weekend against a $10 million budget. Warner Bros. pulled it from wide release almost immediately and shuffled it off to cable, where it quietly became one of the most-watched films of the late 1990s. It has a 29% on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics in 1995 called it shallow, formulaic, Singles knockoff without the music. Those critics were dead wrong and the audience who wore out their VHS copies of Empire Records agree with me. You may

There is only one Michael Bay film that has a positive Rotten Tomatoes score. It’s the same one that Roger Ebert awarded 3.5 out of 4 stars. It’s not Pearl Harbor and doesn’t involve drilling asteroids. It’s The Rock and it happens to be a great action movie. You may think The Rock doesn’t deserve to be underrated because it made a truckload of money, received mostly positive reviews and isn’t exactly obscure. That was before the Michael Bay problem. Look, I’m not really a Mi

Critics shrugged and gave it a polite 61% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences laughed and moved on. We’re the Millers made a very respectable $270 million at the box office in 2013, but nobody talks about this movie.