Ben Kenigsberg

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For 1,126 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 29% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ben Kenigsberg's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 The Girl and the Spider
Lowest review score: 0 Date Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 395 out of 1126
  2. Mixed: 595 out of 1126
  3. Negative: 136 out of 1126
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Ben Kenigsberg
    Journey's End
    Early screen depictions of World War I, like “The Big Parade” and “All Quiet on the Western Front,” show more passion and visual invention. A rattling sound design and the cinematographer Laurie Rose’s excellent use of low light aren’t enough to make the experience immediate.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Ben Kenigsberg
    Postman Pat: The Movie
    Viewers unencumbered by nostalgia will probably see this zippy, occasionally funny movie as no more frantic or pop-culture-addled than the average multiplex fodder.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Ben Kenigsberg
    The Host
    An "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" retread told from a postoccupation vantage point, this adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s YA romance novel unfolds in a dystopian future when alien parasites have nearly won the battle for Earth.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Ben Kenigsberg
    A Picture of You
    Mr. Chan’s skill with actors — particularly with Ms. Mei and Mr. Pang’s persuasive, easygoing banter — compensates for the story’s limitations.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Ben Kenigsberg
    Almost Holy
    A good example of how a charismatic figure doesn’t automatically generate a deep or compelling documentary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Ben Kenigsberg
    93Queen
    Without denying that these women face discrimination in reaching their goal, the movie shows how its subjects are able to find ways to combine strict observance and progress.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Ben Kenigsberg
    Shithouse
    Raiff deserves credit for an unexpectedly elliptical coda, but much of the chatter between the leads has the emo-tedium of dorm room blather.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Ben Kenigsberg
    Fanny
    Mr. Auteuil’s passion project is sincere but not successful, honorable but not alive.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Ben Kenigsberg
    Swim Team
    Swim Team mostly aims to educate and inspire; on those counts, it succeeds.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Ben Kenigsberg
    Public Trust
    The documentary is conventionally structured and sometimes placid, but it has an alarming message.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Ben Kenigsberg
    One Week and a Day
    This sentimental film takes things one step at a time.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Ben Kenigsberg
    The Wedding Plan
    In a complicated role, the excellent Ms. Koler exudes a kind of flighty confidence: For all her nuptial-related anxieties, Michal is completely comfortable with who she is.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Ben Kenigsberg
    No Good Deed
    Even without Mr. Rice in the news, No Good Deed would be damaged goods: an inert “Cape Fear” rehash that can’t seem to choose its favorite contrivance.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Ben Kenigsberg
    The Skyjacker's Tale
    The Skyjacker’s Tale could stand to lose its gimmicky re-enactments. Why supplement a story this crazy?
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Ben Kenigsberg
    Meeting Gorbachev
    But if Meeting Gorbachev finds its subject mostly staying on a pro-peace, antinuclear message — and it’s a script that’s hard to argue with — Herzog shapes the film into a study in how world events often come down to quirks of character and circumstance.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Ben Kenigsberg
    Midsummer in Newtown
    Some tragedies defy conventional representation. Unlike the play it documents, this documentary shows few signs of thinking outside the box.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Ben Kenigsberg
    First They Killed My Father
    It is gorgeous and suspenseful, and it rushes heedlessly into dangerous terrain.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Ben Kenigsberg
    Luce
    To say that it unfolds like a play is both accurate and undersells how gorgeously it has been rendered for the screen.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Ben Kenigsberg
    Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
    "Miller’s Point” is a Christmas movie more invested in atmosphere, and the qualities of wintry light, than in holiday cheer — and that somehow makes it all the more warm.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Ben Kenigsberg
    Extra Ordinary
    While Extra Ordinary overextends its ghosts-are-blasé conceit, Higgins and Ward are appealing leads, and the movie has plenty of charming moments, such as Rose watching an episode of her dad for guidance.
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