I have found that anything with a score above the 30's is likely to be crap. Nearly anything with the Rotten Tomatoes reviewers' score above 50 I just avoid.
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That was my feeling about "Siskel and Ebert". If they gave a movie two thumbs down....I'd be the first one in line to see it.
Siskel & Ebert were reviewing for more high-brow viewers, appearing first on PBS. So naturally, the more common folks among us don't have such high-brow tastes that we might watch a boring documentary or another moderized adaptation of a Shakespeare play. I recently watched Richard III, an updated version including Nazi soldiers and such idiocy, and was underwhelmed by it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_(1995_film)
But there is only one recent film adaptation of a Shakespeare play that is worth watching and it is magnificent. Kenneth Branagh's version of "Henry V" is definitely worth watching, and the "Band of Brothers" speech is one of the most moving moments in literature:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097499/