Just a banal, boring kind of awful.

| Jan 7, 2021

Much like one of Elizabeth's classes, there are no lessons to be learned, but this mischievous, borderline amoral little number passes the time in a surprisingly amusing fashion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2018

While a few of Diaz's scenes with Timberlake and his gift for the deadpan seem as if they're going to amount to something, the script's dialogue fails them.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 19, 2011

I was wary going in, as I tend to be whenever a Hollywood movie announces through its advertising how "outrageous" it's going to be. The only outrageous thing about Bad Teacher is that director Jake Kasdan and two writers who earned an...

Full Review | Jul 8, 2011

Its trash-can humor is tasteless, no doubt, but hey, that doesn't make it unpalatable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 1, 2011

If you can see past the dismal sexual politics of "Bad Teacher," which I couldn't, you might applaud the gall of a film that expends so little effort in forcing us to like its central character.

| Jun 27, 2011

Somehow we are supposed to feel sympathy for this wreck of a woman.

| Jun 27, 2011

A frustrating mix of smart flash and smirking impudence.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 27, 2011

[Even] if I can't give it a gold star the two and a half I'm slipping it is still enough to be considered a passing grade.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 25, 2011

If you're looking for a funny comedy about a cynical, hard-partying school teacher transformed by his students into a paragon of pedagogical awesomeness, skip Bad Teacher and go rent School of Rock instead.

| Jun 24, 2011

There are plenty of quality gags seeping through from the margins.

| Jun 24, 2011

I've always liked Cameron Diaz, who brings a spark to every part she plays, but she's only as good as her material, and Bad Teacher is bad news for her and her fans. I was wary going in, as I tend to be whenever a Hollywood movie announces through its...

Full Review | Jun 24, 2011

Has its lewd funniness, though not often enough to make it worthy of not only Bad Santa but, more to the point, School of Rock.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 24, 2011

Everyone loves an anti-hero, but usually there's something redeeming about the character that makes you want to root for them in the end. Not so much in Bad Teacher.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 24, 2011

The best lines were harvested for the trailer -- so if you've seen that, you've seen it all.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 24, 2011

Shame the flick's just a one-note joke because, sight unseen, Bad Teacher had me at the title.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 24, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2011

This fitfully funny but mostly dull misfire defines exactly where the line can be drawn between truly subversive humor and lazy cynicism.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 24, 2011

As film school assignments go, Bad Teacher is a potentially "A" topic with a "C" result that would require considerable remedial writing to upgrade.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 24, 2011

A fitfully amusing comedy that promises far more outrageousness than it actually delivers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 24, 2011