Andrea Gronvall

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For 376 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Andrea Gronvall's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Paprika
Lowest review score: 0 Old Dogs
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 169 out of 376
  2. Mixed: 147 out of 376
  3. Negative: 60 out of 376
376 movie reviews
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Andrea Gronvall
    You Again
    Bitchy cheerleaders and swimming pool catfights are just two of the tedious cliches propping up this brittle comedy.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Season of the Witch
    As usual, Cage alternates between leaden line readings and thunderous outbursts, making his accomplished costars Ulrich Thomsen and Stephen Campbell Moore look even better.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Spy Next Door
    In middle age Jackie Chan can't keep coasting on boyish charm, as evidenced by this dreadful family comedy that does him no favors with its opening title sequence.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Women
    Ryan, barely refining her "When Harry Met Sally" persona, is a dud; Annette Bening, playing the best friend who sells her out to a tabloid, is better in the scenes she doesn't share with her.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Andrea Gronvall
    The Fog
    The production values are above par, but as in Carpenter's original, seeing ghosts is less scary than imagining them.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Andrea Gronvall
    Little Man
    The slapstick is funnier for the nifty CGI, and the script gets in some sly digs at racist cops and multitasking soccer moms.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Because I Said So
    Throughout most of her career Diane Keaton has shown sound instincts, so it's a mystery why she failed to sniff this false, brittle comedy out as a waste of her gifts.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Salon
    A romance between Fox and the attorney trying to force her out (Darrin Henson) taxes belief and leads to a sappy ending that doesn't come soon enough.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Andrea Gronvall
    Hell Ride
    The narrative is murky and ludicrous, the action violent and nihilistic, the contemporary western ethos painfully pretentious.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    When in Rome
    Josh Duhamel plays the smitten sports reporter who helps her mount her big art show, "Pain"--a fitting title, given the agony induced by this godawful comedy.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Bride Wars
    With artifice as layered as the tiers of a marzipan cake, this resembles nothing so much as a stale Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedy.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Captivity
    It's not scary because not one second is believable.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Love Guru
    This Mike Myers vehicle exemplifies American comedy's continuing slide into infantilism.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Andrea Gronvall
    Doogal
    The results are flat-out tedious.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Couples Retreat
    A more helpful title for this date movie would have been Couples, Retreat!
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Condemned
    As an actor Austin is still a lightweight, but Rick Hoffman (Hostel) fleshes out a recognizable character.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Bounty Hunter
    Inexplicably, Butler continues to get work in romantic comedies despite his limited range and boorish persona.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Killers
    Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin wrote the script, whose plummeting one-liners leave no actor unscathed.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Son of the Mask
    Too low-key and amiable to match the lubriciousness Jim Carrey brought to the original.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 0 Andrea Gronvall
    Old Dogs
    A total train wreck.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    BloodRayne
    Just when you thought camp was dead, along comes this bizarre cross between a Tarantino knockoff and a Hammer horror film.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    88 Minutes
    Al Pacino chews up so much scenery it's surprising there's any left by the end of this fetid thriller.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Andrea Gronvall
    What Love Is
    Romantic comedies should never be this exhausting. Despite a few good zingers, Mars Callahan's vitriolic take on the sexes sinks under the weight of its secondhand psychobabble and smug apercus.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 10 Andrea Gronvall
    Daddy Day Camp
    Like its methane-filled outhouse that explodes right on cue, this sequel to "Daddy Day Care" (2003) smells.
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