Criticle — the reviews are terrible on purpose

"Little people trusted with one piece of jewelry; tragic results." Criticle serves five one-star reviews a day, each describing a famous film with deliberate, deadpan wrongness — technically accurate, spiritually criminal. Name the film being panned.

How to play

  1. Read the review. Everything it says genuinely happens in the film — the joke is the framing.
  2. You get one guess per review, so make it count. The answer is revealed either way.
  3. Five rounds daily, arranged from blockbuster-famous to properly obscure. Score out of five, with a spoiler-free share grid.

Hints

Each round's lightbulb reveals the film's top-billed star — often all you need to collapse the possibilities. Hints are tallied in your share result.

Tips

Reviews never use title words, character names or actor names, so the clues live in plot logistics: objects, occupations, locations and numbers. Treat oddly specific details as anchors — "twenty-two miles", "pottery class", "coconut-based transport" each identify exactly one film. The round order is a difficulty curve: round one is a film everyone has seen, round five rewards the deep-catalogue viewer. And if a review sounds like the most boring film ever made, you're probably reading about a masterpiece — that's the whole bit.