Amy Taubin

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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 5.4 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
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    • 94 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger's dramatic line is so blurry that the central character is only a bystander to the climactic fight between forces of good and evil.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Romance
    A dark and unsparing study of female masochism and a brittle sex comedy of manners, Romance is unsettled in tone, to say the least.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Boiler Room
    Takes us inside the consciousness and the coded masculine world of a single character.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Sound and Fury
    Josh Aronson's thoroughly engrossing documentary Sound and Fury is as much about children's rights as it is about the impact of cochlear-implant technology on a family in which deafness runs through three generations.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    Arik Kaplun's smart, scrappy romantic comedy Yana's Friends displays an insouciance rarely found in Israeli film.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    The Sentinel
    What’s remarkable—and Kafkaesque—about La Sentinelle is how Desplechin grounds the phantasmagoric aspects of his tale in the details, routines, and conflicts of daily life.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    La bûche
    By turns hilarious and wounding.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Divorce Iranian Style
    A small, direct, tantalizing documentary.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Under the Sand
    Rampling has never been as beautiful, not to mention as emotionally naked, nuanced, and affecting as she is here.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Southern Comfort
    Eads's wit, generosity, insight, and courage are irresistible.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    All I Wanna Do
    A smart, sweet, and altogether smashing evocation of teenage girlhood.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Too Much Sleep
    An understated gem.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
    While the acting ensemble is crucial, it's not the only asset here.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Animal Factory
    Tender, poignant, and homoerotically charged, this complicated father-son relationship is brought to life by two brilliant actors and a director who's canny enough to give them all the room they need.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    The Fast and the Furious
    (You) might be charmed by the film's blend of kineticism, car-culture rituals, and hilariously flat-footed dialogue.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Little Voice
    The show that Horrocks puts on when she finally takes to the stage is more than worth the wait.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Train of Life
    It's entertainment that never lets us off the hook.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Startup.com
    Has all the hallmarks of a Pennebaker production. The editing is seamless, the drama builds throughout, and the arc of the central character is as shapely as in a Hollywood fiction.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Training Day
    Antoine Fuqua's propulsive, elegantly written police thriller, offers the unsettling spectacle of Denzel Washington.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    A Good Baby
    Made with intelligence and formal sophistication.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Loser
    The most progressive, good-hearted studio film of the summer.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    East Is East
    Largely a showcase for Puri, and he rises to the occasion with a performance that bursts from the screen and tears into your heart.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Human Traffic
    Sweet, ribald, and even inspired in an off-the-cuff way.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Jump Tomorrow
    The relationship between the hysterical Gerard and the careful, compulsive George is classic screwball material and more compelling than the relationship between George and Alicia.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    A Trial in Prague
    Justman's A Trial in Prague acts as something of a corrective to the exuberant but oversimplified "Fighter."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Titanic Town
    Isn't convincing on every front, but as a political conversation piece, it's potentially effective.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Chalk
    What gives the film extra weight is the sense that these are not just actors trying to enhance their careers but real people seizing a chance for immortality.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Alma
    As fragmented and unresolved as the experiences of mother and daughter, Alma bears witness to a situation for which there are no easy answers.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
    Goodman and Anker adroitly shape a cohesive drama out of a complicated history.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Vénus beauté (institut)
    Thanks to some brilliant casting, Venus Beauty Institute provokes ideas about women, movies, sexuality, and age that extend beyond its frothy fiction.
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