Amy Taubin

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Village Voice
For 166 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Amy Taubin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Raging Bull
Lowest review score: 10 The Caveman's Valentine
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 83 out of 166
  2. Mixed: 49 out of 166
  3. Negative: 34 out of 166
166 movie reviews
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Brokedown Palace
    Part cautionary tale, part moral-uplift saga, Brokedown Palace is as dull as it's absurd.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    Father of the Bride
    Martin's grin-and-don't-bare-it performance lifts the picture above sitcom level. [31 Dec 1991]
    • Village Voice
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Although there's no evidence of sexual chemistry on the screen, the stars share a certain physical defensiveness that occasionally makes them seem simpatico; most of the time, however, they just look bored to death.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Breakfast of Champions
    Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Let It Snow
    An inert and inept romantic comedy.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Flirt
    Hal Hartley fans, Flirt may be too slight and schematic. [13 Aug 1996]
    • Village Voice
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    Drowning Mona
    Bette Midler and Danny De Vito mug more shamelessly than usual.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    New Rose Hotel
    What's on the screen is so dreadful that it inspires the ontological question "What are films and why is this not one of them?"
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Sugar Town
    Neither as lively nor as tough as the original, and compared to the hardcore punk of "Border Radio," the score for Sugar Town sounds like Muzak.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Jackpot
    Michael and Mark Polish's debut feature, "Twin Falls, Idaho," was a cloying oddball love story involving adult male Siamese twins; their follow-up, Jackpot, is another piece of whimsical Americana.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    The Cruise
    The Cruise is being hailed as a harbinger of a future in which indie film will be liberated by low-cost technology. If this is where we're going, I want off the bus.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    What's Cooking?
    Trades in sitcom stereotypes and crosscuts predictably from family to family as if under the misapprehension that equal time is a dramatic principle.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 10 Amy Taubin
    The Woman Chaser
    The queasiness it makes you feel is more like acid reflux than existential nausea.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Angela's Ashes
    Lacks development and dramatic coherence.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Amy Taubin
    Wild Wild West
    So extremely stupid and incompetent, I doubt that even the most impartial critic could find much to praise.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Shadow Hours
    Isaac Eaton wrote and directed; he evidences little talent in either department.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    Buddy Boy
    Mark Hanlon's ridiculous and repellent hash of "Repulsion" and "Psycho," with scenic elements of "Seven" thrown in for good measure.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Traveller
    The movie lacks any sense of subcultural specificity, though it has a superabundant country music score. [22 Apr 1997]
    • Village Voice
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    Snatch.
    For those who care, Madonna has found her match in Guy Ritchie, whose absence of talent when it comes to the film medium is equal to her own.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 10 Amy Taubin
    Boricua's Bond
    Despite its incoherence and inaudible dialogue, this slice-of-life film manages to be simultaneously thuggish and platitudinous.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    The Corruptor
    That in such a miserable film I could still care whether his character lived or died is, perhaps, the greatest proof that Chow Yun Fat's a movie star.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 10 Amy Taubin
    The Closer You Get
    Clichéd and condescending.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    The Musketeer
    East/West fusion aside, The Musketeer is a stale Euro-pudding.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    The Bone Collector
    So formulaic and predictable that you're bored even when you're scared.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    Hanging Up
    So hackneyed and so condescending to its potential audience (adult women) that even Lifetime might hesitate before running it.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    The Beach
    Barely a movie.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    It's a sign of how watered-down the movie is that only the supporting actors have any bite.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 10 Amy Taubin
    The Caveman's Valentine
    Valentine isn't exploitative or trendy in the manner of so many indie films. Rather, it seems like the kind of art film that might have been dreamed up by a feverish high schooler.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Where the Money Is
    A caper film hardly worthy of his (Newman's) presence.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Amy Taubin
    Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope
    Mindless, shoddy (lurching zooms, no color correction, an entire reel out of sync) depiction of some very big guys who work as bouncers.
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