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
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    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Blindsight
    The kids are impressively plucky, but Weihenmayer comes off as an egomaniac, arguing with his team and endangering the youngsters' lives. Lucy Walker directed this cloying and manipulative 2006 documentary.
    • 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.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Couples Retreat
    A more helpful title for this date movie would have been Couples, Retreat!
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Love Guru
    This Mike Myers vehicle exemplifies American comedy's continuing slide into infantilism.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Ethan Mao
    "Soppy" doesn't begin to describe this 2004 drama by Quentin Lee.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Fame
    The high school is so sanitized that there are no drugs, cutthroat competition, or--inconceivably for a theatrical milieu--no gay students.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Automatons
    With its hypnotic pacing, blatantly nonsynchronous sound, clunky robot costumes, and graphic but unconvincing violence, the movie falls flatly between camp and art-house pretension.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    For a movie about the undead, this lacks any supernatural chills, and by the time its obligatory final showdown arrives, it seems as hollow as the terra cotta soldiers brought to life by CGI.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    What's Your Number?
    Grating romantic comedy.
    • 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.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Speed Racer
    Andy and Larry Wachowski barrel through this adaptation of the 60s animated series, hoping perhaps that no one will notice the story is as flat as roadkill.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    The Black Balloon
    Cringe-inducing when it's not cliched, this brassy, vulgar 2008 comedy from Australia mines mental disabilities for laughs.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    Remember Me
    Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland) directed this morose and sluggish drama, which gets more mileage from Pattinson's anguished profile than from Will Fetters's thunderously overwritten screenplay.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Andrea Gronvall
    College Road Trip
    Absolutely nothing funny happens during their drive to Georgetown for an interview, even with Donny Osmond along for the ride.
    • 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.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Andrea Gronvall
    Hell Ride
    The narrative is murky and ludicrous, the action violent and nihilistic, the contemporary western ethos painfully pretentious.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Andrea Gronvall
    Doogal
    The results are flat-out tedious.
    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 10 Andrea Gronvall
    The Game Plan
    Almost every note in this insipid comedy is strident or false, from the child's prodigious talent for deception to the jock's chaperoning her and her classmates at a Corolle doll boutique.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 0 Andrea Gronvall
    RocknRolla
    Frenetic and self-conscious to the point of tedium.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 0 Andrea Gronvall
    Old Dogs
    A total train wreck.
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