Good-bad

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

“Road House” exists right on the edge between the “good-bad movie” and the merely bad. I hesitate to recommend it, because so much depends on the ironic vision of the viewer. This is not a good movie.

Touch of Evil is not a good movie, but it is a good bad movie, which is more fun than the mediocre or even the adequate.

Is Showgirls good-bad or just bad-bad?

The Shoes of the Fisherman is a good-bad film that owes no duty to history or to what were then current affairs.