schlocky

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Sandberg, Dauberman and Butler work in a familiar kind of schlocky groove, delivering well-worn horror stereotypes we’ve already seen too many times, before upending the whole thing with wild surprises.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025

In a single-star review, the Guardian's Benjamin Lee called the film "as dumb and schlocky as the worst of the genre, with lousy network TV effects, uninvolving action and unfunny and inelegant dialogue".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024

In the absence of novelty, the franchise’s flaws — schlocky dialogue, uninspired CGI, paper-thin baddies — are glaring.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

As for that “Diamond Eyes” idea conceived two years ago, the number made it into a scene in which Legend, playing a 007-wannabe named Agent 187, prowls through a schlocky spy-flick trailer.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

It's like the artist who makes a beautiful picture, but is not content then to churn out schlocky copies of that for tourists for the next forty years.

From Salon • May 15, 2022