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 5.4 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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Boiler Room
    Takes us inside the consciousness and the coded masculine world of a single character.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Outside Providence
    Cross "Rushmore" with "Cheech and Chong" and you might get Outside Providence.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    All I Wanna Do
    A smart, sweet, and altogether smashing evocation of teenage girlhood.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Taubin
    Pop & Me
    The most revelatory moment is provided not by the spectacle of the Roes clinging to each other on a bungee cord, but by Julian Lennon, who pops up on the beach in Monaco to give a terse evaluation of his father.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Train of Life
    It's entertainment that never lets us off the hook.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Restaurant
    Director Eric Bross has a smooth nonstyle that serves him well until the screenplay turns melodramatic at the end.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Crazy/Beautiful
    Overproduced as a Super Bowl soft-drink commercial, so much so that even its potentially insightful moments seem like movie fakery.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    One
    Even more than the subtlety of the writing and acting, it's this sophisticated and emotionally potent visual strategy that suggests Barbieri's promise as a filmmaker and lifts One above the low-budget indie heap.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    The Dream Catcher
    A highly talented filmmaker, Radtke draws intense, focused performances from these two inexperienced young actors.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    The Best Man
    Everything about the film is familiar except that the twentysomethings are all African American.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Luminous Motion
    If Lloyd's performance is the film's near-fatal flaw, Unger's is its saving grace.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    Keeping the Faith
    Its exploration of faith and love is skin deep.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Lakeboat
    Forster not only makes this unlikely story emotionally believable, he moves you to tears. Lakeboat isn't much of a film, but for Forster fans, it's indispensable.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    The Sticky Fingers of Time
    Psychologically resonant despite the intermittently clunky performances...one of the only Amerindies in recent years to match intellectual with formal ambitions.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    Session 9
    The script for Session 9 is so underwritten that even such lively character actors as David Caruso, Peter Mullan, and Brendan Sexton III are left stranded.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Taubin
    Stepmom
    Loathsome though Stepmom is, the eternally coltish Roberts is always a pleasure to watch and Sarandon's mordant wit occasionally comes to the fore.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 90 Amy Taubin
    Bamboozled
    Primary story line is clumsy and badly acted. But he (Lee) reminds you that movies have power, that they matter, and for a few brilliant moments, Bamboozled matters more than any other American movie this year.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    The Anniversary Party
    The film's greatest failure, however, is the absence of any convincing emotional or sexual relationship between Sally (Leigh) and Joe (Cumming).
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    The Legend of Bagger Vance
    More mushy than mystical.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Series 7: The Contenders
    Series 7 could have turned out as ugly as the second season of "Survivor," were it not for the pleasure Minahan takes in melodrama.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Taubin
    All the Pretty Horses
    The film is too eager to please and falls short of the novel's tragic dimension.
    • 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Angela's Ashes
    Lacks development and dramatic coherence.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Human Traffic
    Sweet, ribald, and even inspired in an off-the-cuff way.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Amy Taubin
    Enemy at the Gates
    It does offer Annaud the opportunity to show his directorial muscle in elaborate battle scenes, where many bodies are torn apart and blood flows freely.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    O
    Had Nelson and Kaaya been less concerned with following Othello to the letter and rather had pursued this love affair into uncharted cinematic waters, O might have been more than an unresolved mixture of gimmickry and good intentions.
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