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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Taubin
    La Ciénaga
    A veritable Chekhov tragicomedy of provincial life.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Taubin
    Ratcatcher
    The most audacious debut feature of the year.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Timecode
    I suspect that Time Code was a lot more fun to make than it is to watch.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    The Cider House Rules
    This adaptation of John Irving's novel--- is as paternalistic, puffed-up, and dull as a congressional debate about abortion rights.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Loser
    The most progressive, good-hearted studio film of the summer.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Dark Days
    Singer achieves remarkable intimacy with his subjects.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Taubin
    The Others
    This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
    Goodman and Anker adroitly shape a cohesive drama out of a complicated history.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Taubin
    Wonder Boys
    Downey, who radiates more energy doing nothing discernible than most other actors do when they let it all hang out, takes the film to another level.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Gods and Monsters
    The relationship is touching, painful, revealing, and often funny, which is true of the film as a whole as well.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Liam
    Acting is the strongest element in Stephen Frears's Liam.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    A Good Baby
    Made with intelligence and formal sophistication.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    The Hurricane
    Far too tepid.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Place Vendôme
    Inept as a thriller, Place Vendôme nevertheless intrigues.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Joe the King
    The film belongs to Fleiss, and he makes Joe's inner life so transparent that it's heartbreaking to watch the boy dig himself into a hole.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Urbania
    Derails toward the end, becoming platitudinous, not to mention kitschy, but, given the Cheerios wholesomeness of most gay indies, its grief-stricken delirium is a welcome relief.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Divorce Iranian Style
    A small, direct, tantalizing documentary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Titanic Town
    Isn't convincing on every front, but as a political conversation piece, it's potentially effective.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Taubin
    Erin Brockovich
    This is the Julia Roberts performance her fans have been waiting for.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Taubin
    Love & Basketball
    Prince-Bythewood gives the film a style that's easy on the eye but also has muscle -- on and off the court.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Zheng hun qi shi
    An intelligent, perceptive film. It's good enough to make you wish Chen hadn't sacrificed emotional complexity for a last-minute surprise.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Taubin
    New Waterford Girl
    A tender and hilarious vision of female adolescence.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Felicia's Journey
    Egoyan, whose sophisticated eye is connected to a brain that seems, for the moment, to have gone dead.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Taubin
    The Opportunists
    Filled with vivid and likable characters, The Opportunists could be the basis for a TV series as captivating as "The Sopranos."
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Taubin
    Benjamin Smoke
    As ethereal, moving, and uncompromising as its subject.
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