Amy Biancolli

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San Francisco Chronicle
For 217 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Amy Biancolli's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Lowest review score: 0 Vanishing on 7th Street
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 99 out of 217
  2. Mixed: 78 out of 217
  3. Negative: 40 out of 217
217 movie reviews
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 75 Amy Biancolli
    Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    In this case, it's considerably better, adapting the 007 template in a story of a crazed bald cat named Kitty Galore (voiced by a hissing, chichi Bette Midler) and her malevolent plot to conquer the world. It's brilliant in its simplicity
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Biancolli
    Inception
    This is spellbinding, transporting, damn near indescribable and the latest indication that Christopher Nolan might be the slyest narrative tactician making movies today.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Amy Biancolli
    Countdown to Zero
    This is a sobering piece of advocacy cinema.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Biancolli
    Winnebago Man
    A little movie with a lot of hilarious swearing and an unexpectedly big heart.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Amy Biancolli
    Kisses
    It isn't a long journey. Kisses clocks at 72 minutes, which feels something less than feature length. It's long enough to include a few cliches and nagging questions, yet it's short enough to leave you wanting more.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Amy Biancolli
    Let Me In
    Although this one indulges in unnecessary CGI enhancements, it's still a striking piece of character-driven horror, and it ranks among the more understated fright fests to hit the mainstream in recent memory.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Biancolli
    Freakonomics
    The movie as a whole is a mixed bag, offering up stiff shots of skepticism and a few provocative thoughts on correlation and causality.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Biancolli
    Life as We Know It
    The movie's name is Life as We Know It, but that seems incomplete. The predicate's missing. The full sentence should be "Life as we know it is over," i.e., nuked by the sudden and irreversible arrival of a human infant.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Biancolli
    Secretariat
    In Secretariat, the fictionalized bits are simple exaggerations - broad, Disneyish adjustments in races and other realities.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 25 Amy Biancolli
    Centurion
    There are six standard types of violence in film these days: Tarantino, comic book, Scorsese, martial arts, horror and stupid. For stupid, look no further than Centurion.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Biancolli
    Flipped
    Flipped succeeds when it backs off the gluey nostalgia and focuses instead on the subtler pitfalls of adolescence - the tough stuff, the moral stuff, the constant tacking between fear and courage.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Biancolli
    Takers
    After sitting through Takers with my stomach rearranged by hyperactive camera spazzing, I hereby formally request all directors and cinematographers to just get a grip already and STOP. WIGGLING. THE CAMERA.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Amy Biancolli
    Never Let Me Go
    Never Let Me Go is gorgeous. And depressing. It's exquisitely acted. And depressing. It's romantic, profound and superbly crafted, shot with the self-contained radiance of a snow globe. And it's depressing.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 Amy Biancolli
    Machete
    The whole thing is monumentally gruesome and just as monumentally cynical, a riot of grisly cliches designed to titillate and amuse.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Amy Biancolli
    Grown Ups
    The film has some chuckles, if no belly laughs; it has some warmth, if no great heat.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Amy Biancolli
    Buried
    Inky-black humor does strike on occasion, and when it does, it's surprising. So is the movie's star, who sweats and shrieks with game intensity and a capacity for discomfort that would impress a Byzantine saint.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Biancolli
    [Rec] 2
    A passable follow-up - more ludicrous, less taut, still creepy - that picks up exactly where the original left off.
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