[6] The nickname "BadComedian" is derived from the name of Comedian, a character from the Watchmen comic book and film, while "Bad" implies that Bazhenov himself thinks of his reviews as sarcastic rather than humorious.

[6][10] Bazhenov stated that Yuri Bykov, Viktor Shamirov, Roman Karimov and Evgeny Shelyakin are among the Russian movie directors he likes.

[3] Alexander Nevsky called Bazhenov "a hater", while Mikhail Galustyan stated that he "offends persons, violates copyright and expresses unconstructive criticism".

[16] Famous Russian translator and film critic Dmitry "Goblin" Puchkov commented on Bazhenov's reviews, calling him "merry and smart" and noting his "surprisingly deep view of life according to his young age".

[23] In 2017, Bazhenov published a devastating review of the film To Hack Bloggers, in which BadComedian heavily criticized the work of Gosfilmofond, a state-controlled foundation which has the declared goal of supporting the Russian cinema.

BadComedian stated that To Hack Bloggers was extremely poorly made and called Gosfilmofond's money spending useless.

Russian Minister of Culture, Vladimir Medinsky, called the film "a creative failure",[25] while Gosfilmofond's executives announced an investigation about spending of budget money.

[27] On the night of 31 May 2018, BadComedian uploaded a highly negative review of the feature film Going Vertical, which revolved around the 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final.

[28] During the night, after uploading the review, it gathered over one million views and even influenced Going Vertical’s ratings: it lost 30 positions in KinoPoisk′s Top 250 Best Movies; after that, the film disappeared from the list completely.