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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    • 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.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Amy Taubin
    Simon Birch
    That Simon Birch is not as maudlin as it might have been is largely due to the intensely thoughtful, prickly performance of 11-year-old Ian Michael Smith, who plays Simon.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    All the Rage
    More commendable as social protest than as filmmaking.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    But I'm a Cheerleader
    Not as skillful, subtle, or hilarious as "Some Like It Hot," but its anti-essentialism vis-à-vis gender roles is just as sharp and exhilarating.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    Reindeer Games
    Punishing, visceral violence is the key element.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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?"
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Amy Taubin
    Grind
    A logo-laden celebration of the joys of sponsorship wrapped inside an innocuous teen-pic package.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    The Musketeer
    East/West fusion aside, The Musketeer is a stale Euro-pudding.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Amy Taubin
    Shadow Hours
    Isaac Eaton wrote and directed; he evidences little talent in either department.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Amy Taubin
    Drowning Mona
    Bette Midler and Danny De Vito mug more shamelessly than usual.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    The Season of Men
    A very beautiful film, but its bleached desert colors and flatter perspectives are less inviting, and the back-and-forth between present and past can occasionally be confusing.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Amy Taubin
    No Sex Last Night
    Compelling viewing, even if there's nothing pretty (pictorially or emotionally) about it.
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