Barbara VanDenburgh

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Arizona Republic
For 253 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Barbara VanDenburgh's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Lowest review score: 20 Mothers and Daughters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 108 out of 253
  2. Mixed: 127 out of 253
  3. Negative: 18 out of 253
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    The Snowman
    The Snowman is like if aliens studied humanity and tried to make their own movie in an attempt to communicate with us. This simulacrum contains all the requisite pieces of a movie, but humanity got lost in translation.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    2 Jacks
    If there’s any social commentary being made here, it doesn’t come through in performances so wooden you can’t tell if the actors are that bad or the characters that vapid.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Rushlights
    A by-the-numbers thriller that wouldn’t even have made for a particularly good hourlong episode of a weekly crime procedural, never mind an honest-to-God feature-length movie.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Hardcore Henry
    While its audacity is laudable, the film ultimately has all the thrill of watching someone else play a first-person-shooter video game.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Rings
    It just feels desperate.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    The Aspern Papers
    Landais certainly brought little cinematic verve to The Aspern Papers, telling the story largely in turgid literary voiceover lifted directly from the original source material.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Acts of Violence
    The title Acts of Violence has less to do with the storyline of the movie it graces and more about what’s perpetrated against the audience watching it.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    R.I.P.D.
    It's an unpleasant way to pass a couple summer hours.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Pompeii
    It fails to offer as single compelling character as a sacrifice to the angry volcano.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Wonder Wheel
    The dialogue is agony.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Mothers and Daughters
    I predict that within a decade, Mother’s and Daughters will be mandatory viewing at film schools across the country. There are precious few such perfect examples of how not to make a film.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Ripped
    There is no substance, legal or otherwise, that can make this tolerable.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Show Dogs
    Yes, it recalls “Turner and Hooch,” a movie Show Dogs references so many times you start to feel nostalgic for it. And when you find yourself longing for “Turner and Hooch,” things are very bleak indeed.
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