Adam Smith

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For 85 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Adam Smith's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Night of the Hunter
Lowest review score: 20 Without a Paddle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 53 out of 85
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 85
  3. Negative: 3 out of 85
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    The King of Comedy
    Scorses's skill as a scene-maker are fully evident and Lewis' quietly rageful performance offers to out-do De Niro in intensity, but neither funny enough to be an effective black comedy nor scary enough to capitalise on its thriller/horror elements, The King Of Comedy sits awkwardly between the two.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    The Omen
    Competently made, and enjoyably played. But you do really end up wondering what the point was. Cinematic déjà vu is the most likely response.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    Howl
    With a frustrating format and poor animation, it's still worth it for Franco and the chance to engage with a key work of poetry.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
    As an exploration of cultural discord, Nagisa Oshima's film is pretty thin stuff, despite its reputation. Bowie is a potent irritant, but Tom Conti is solid in support and Sakamoto's mesmerising score sparkles anew.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    The Rover
    This would have been a striking calling card, and it’s still an impressively solid piece of genre filmmaking with great cinematography and score. But there’s not much here of the ambition of Animal Kingdom, leaving Michôd in ‘difficult third movie’ territory. Let’s hope he gets a move on this time.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    Midnight Express
    Hard to call something this gratuitous entertainment but certainly lingers in the memory, thanks mainly to the bombast of Stone's script.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    Love, Rosie
    Likeable leads and the odd good joke makes this romance an amiable time-passer.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    Paycheck
    in the end, Paycheck never quite cashes out.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    The Edge
    Bart, the bear used in the dramatic attack sequences, gets top billing in the end credit crawl. Which is fair enough, but hardly inspiring.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    Criminal
    Apart from an irritating plot glitch this is a solidly entertaining ride, more than competently directed and played.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Adam Smith
    The Ninth Configuration
    Heavy but fascinating creepy drama, that lacks pace in the first half but has some genuinely thrilling moments.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    Gothika
    Gothika never delivers anything more than the occasional, cynically engineered jolt and often drifts close to provoking giggles.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    The Ice Harvest
    A decent enough little B-movie which delivers some pleasingly weird violence and endless plot reversals. But there’s still a mild sense of pointlessness to the whole thing and the feeling that in different hands it could have been much better.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    South of the Border
    Stone's film could have allowed political voices that are rarely present to get a fair, and critical hearing. Instead he near smooches them to death.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    The Fifth Estate
    Disappointingly dull account of a tale desperately in need of a sharper screenplay and some directorial vim. Might as well wait for the Blu-ray, Jules.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    Feeling Minnesota
    A director who can't decide whether he's aiming for high comedy or gritty noirishness combine to shoot the whole caboodle squarely in the foot.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    Batman Forever
    If you can see beyond the eye-scorching neon and don't mind the desecration of a superhero icon, there's a few crumbs of enjoyment to be had.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    Cry_Wolf
    A second-rate slasher, but it shows the odd bit of directorial promise and a great deal of ambition.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    Palindromes
    It’s occasionally sick-funny, but large swathes are unforgivably dull.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    Picture Perfect
    Aniston deports herself competently, here showing us nothing she hasn't on Friends, and Bacon is pretty much on autopilot as the company stud but it is Mohr who actually shines, skilfully giving an underwritten role a genuinely deft sense of nobility and charm.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    Blues Brothers 2000
    Nothing Landis can do makes up for a limp plot bolstered by distinctly Cannonball Run-ish car smashes and an irritating sprog. And the movie's not even out in the year 2000.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Adam Smith
    Trees Lounge
    There are effective moments, a dime clutching tot watching an ice cream van plough gently into a garden wall after its driver has a heart attack, gives a stylish laugh, but at the end of the day perhaps a trip to the bar will be more fun.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Adam Smith
    Without a Paddle
    Disappointing.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Adam Smith
    Operation Dumbo Drop
    As bad as cinema gets.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Adam Smith
    Black Sheep
    Utter, unforgivable bilge.
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