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 8.2 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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Andrea Gronvall
    The Good Shepherd
    Perhaps it's fitting that a movie about the early CIA be tangled and opaque, but this drama loosely based on the life of uberspook James Angleton verges on incoherence.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Praying with Lior
    Lior is an irrepressible character as he works a room, doing exactly what a bar mitzvah boy should: challenging, instructing, and, in his own way, healing the world.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Andrea Gronvall
    Bottle Shock
    Light-bodied comedy.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Hotel for Dogs
    A bright, funny family movie that gets everything right, from story to production design to cast (both human and canine).
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    5x2
    Austere and formally complex, the drama may nevertheless be Ozon's most accessible film due to the physical attractiveness and vitality of the intelligent couple.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Andrea Gronvall
    The Flying Scotsman
    Brian Cox does sturdy work as the minister who helps Obree combat depression, and first-time director Douglas Mackinnon gets a big assist from Obree himself, who doubled for Miller in some shots and filmed others with a camera strapped to his handlebars.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Andrea Gronvall
    Never Back Down
    Jeff Wadlow directed this exploitation flick, which seems designed for students on spring break.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 0 Andrea Gronvall
    RocknRolla
    Frenetic and self-conscious to the point of tedium.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Vajra Sky Over Tibet
    Endorsed by the Dalai Lama and narrated by his nephew Tenzin L. Choegyal, this delivers an impassioned plea to save Tibet's endangered culture but little new information.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Andrea Gronvall
    Chaos Theory
    The comic scenes can be arch or shrill, but director Marcos Siega (Pretty Persuasion) does better when the story turns somber and the emotions feel genuine.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    Still Walking
    Koreeda was inspired by his guilt over having neglected his own parents, and the story is remarkable for the quiet, seemingly casual way he depicts the fallout of bitterness and grief.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    The Providence Effect
    This uplifting documentary breaks no new ground stylistically, but the story it tells is urgent and compelling.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Girls Rock!
    In one slender documentary codirectors Shane King and Arne Johnson accomplish what Hollywood routinely bungles: incisively depicting the inner lives of complicated young females.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Cadillac Records
    The electrifying music helps camouflage the screenplay's hyperbole.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    The singing dolphins opener is a giddy prelude to an imaginative romp that's helped along in the slow patches by mind-bending visuals.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Casanova
    Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat) directs a sparking screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher (Stage Beauty) and Kimberly Simi; it starts as a frothy boudoir comedy but evolves into a masquerade by turns sweetly meditative and sharply satirical.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Andrea Gronvall
    The Secret Life of Bees
    Thanks to Gina Prince-Blythewood's treacly screenplay and plodding direction, the movie quickly congeals into a mess of sentimental cliches.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore steal from the best, gleefully cribbing from "A Christmas Carol" to fashion a screenplay with heart and sharp one-liners.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Unmistaken Child
    Films that address faith and love as eloquently as this moving 2008 documentary are rare.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Downfall
    Under the harsh lights of the meticulously re-created, claustrophobic bunker, that scrutiny is relentless.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Andrea Gronvall
    The Karate Kid
    This is a smart departure for Chan, who's been wasting his talent in mediocre comedies; the other actors don't fare as well. The plot takes forever to get rolling, and the movie is hamstrung by numerous tourism sequences.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    The Unknown Woman
    The melodrama form allows Tornatore to examine such current issues as human trafficking and black-market babies within a yarn that, for all its sentiment, is never less than gripping.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    A Good Woman
    Director Mike Barker elicits a marvelously agile performance from Hunt, who's well matched by Tom Wilkinson as her new admirer.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    The Boss of It All
    Screwball office comedy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Mrs Henderson Presents
    Posh meets prole in this period drama elegantly directed by Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, Prick Up Your Ears).
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Ponyo
    Compared to "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Kiki's Delivery Service," this is one of the anime master's weaker efforts.
    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Andrea Gronvall
    Exist
    Bartlett and Mevoli give appealing performances, and Bell adds to the authenticity by peppering their radical clique with real-life activists.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Last Train Home
    Disappointment, inhuman work schedules, sluggish exports, and the crush of a two-day rail journey ratchet up the familial tensions, which finally explode over a holiday dinner.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Andrea Gronvall
    Hunger
    The fulcrum of this deeply humanist work is an extended two-shot of the strike's leader, Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), as he converses with a priest (Liam Cunningham); the virtuosic sequence encapsulates the whole sorry history of a horrific civil war.
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