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 5.8 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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    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Paranoia
    Paranoia is ostensibly a thriller, but there’s nothing remotely thrilling about it. This slick, plodding bore is as exciting as watching somebody else tap out text messages.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Meet the Mormons
    You'd learn a lot more if you went out and, well, actually met a Mormon.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 50 Barbara VanDenburgh
    The Choice
    What grates is the lack of attention to details. There is a grating sloppiness to much of The Choice, both narratively and stylistically.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    R.I.P.D.
    It's an unpleasant way to pass a couple summer hours.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Rings
    It just feels desperate.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Ripped
    There is no substance, legal or otherwise, that can make this tolerable.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 30 Barbara VanDenburgh
    Barefoot
    It’s a spectacularly wrong-headed, chemistry-free romance, and too dumb to know how sexist it is.
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