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 5.3 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
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    R2PC: Road to Park City
    An Indiewood spoof that's more winning than anyone who wasn't a close friend of the director could possibly expect, R2PC satirizes not only wannabe auteurs but also that overworked genre, the faux documentary, while functioning as a credible study guide for Filmmaking 101.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Taubin
    Training Day
    Antoine Fuqua's propulsive, elegantly written police thriller, offers the unsettling spectacle of Denzel Washington.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    It's this strategy (however unconscious), and not simply a lack of directing talent, that makes Hedwig so relentlessly assaultive, heavy-handed, and emotionally monochromatic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    Adorenarin doraibu
    Little more than a cartoon, and not a funny one at that.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Place Vendôme
    Inept as a thriller, Place Vendôme nevertheless intrigues.
    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    The Big Tease
    A sub-sitcom stretched to an interminable 85 minutes.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    An Ideal Husband
    His film is hardly memorable, but it's amusing enough for two hours, and it never panders or cloys.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    Miss Julie
    Figgis's frenetic and grossly self-aggrandizing adaption of Strindberg's worse-for-wear two-hander about the battle between the sexes and the classes.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Amy Taubin
    Eureka
    A film of rare tenderness and mystery.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    A Room for Romeo Brass
    So low-key it could be mistaken for a throwaway. But Meadows's understanding of childhood fears and fantasies and the yearning, heartfelt performances he draws from his two young actors should not be underestimated.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    Last Night
    A witty, trenchant script, lots of complicated characters, and a few actors who turn human frailty into something nearly sublime.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes
    Filled with people who cut Holmes more slack than he deserved.
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