Bill Gallo

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Dallas Observer, New Times (L.A.)
For 249 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bill Gallo's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 American Beauty
Lowest review score: 10 Deterrence
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 143 out of 249
  2. Mixed: 77 out of 249
  3. Negative: 29 out of 249
249 movie reviews
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Bill Gallo
    Chicago
    The singing and dancing in this Chicago are uniformly splendid, right down to Gere's tap dancing. The high wit and dark eroticism Marshall brings to the famous "Cell Block Tango" number are matchless.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Bill Gallo
    American Beauty
    It gracefully defies the usual categories, gets under your skin in ways you cannot anticipate, then works its way straight toward the heart. It's far and away the bravest and best movie of the year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Bill Gallo
    The Man Who Wasn't There
    For all its long shadows and ominous atmosphere, this is a very funny movie -- as funny as the Coens' masterful "Fargo."
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Bill Gallo
    Happiness
    Weaving many interconnected plot lines and more than a dozen lives together, this gifted writer-director has fashioned a bleak, brilliant comedy about loneliness, lovelessness, and alienation--a film that constantly upends our assumptions about what is heartbreaking, what is hilarious, and what is both.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Bill Gallo
    The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The result is a vivid anthropological document suffused with plenty of emotion and a touch of ancient magic.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Brokeback Mountain
    If, in its groundbreaking assault on the mythology of the American West, Brokeback Mountain gets a lot of people into a furious lather, so be it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Saving Grace
    In short, Just Say Yes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Requiem for a Dream
    A fluent, intelligent piece of work whose sex and violence are anything but gratuitous, and exactly the kind of highly personal, no-holds-barred vision of life on the ragged edge that independents always aspire to but rarely have the goods to achieve.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Ronin
    As is common in a Frankenheimer picture, the plot lines get a bit tangled in Ronin, but the atmosphere is tense, the style impeccable.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Cold Mountain
    In the end, what Minghella has wrought is a nearly perfect drama of love and war (still the great subjects, after all), an epic that's fluent, frightening and beautiful all at once, that lifts the heart and dashes our dreams in about equal measure.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Corpse Bride
    Not just great fun but high art.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    North Country
    Happily, North Country is not all social-realist grit or straight sermonizing. Not only is Theron achingly real, the fine supporting performances here lend even more dramatic reach and human scale.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    You Can Count on Me
    In this modest but brilliant little movie, we find ourselves immersed in life itself.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    A Time for Drunken Horses
    It's difficult to imagine a more eloquent tribute.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    L.I.E.
    Despite a little rough stuff here and there, this is one of the more insightful and affecting teen-trauma films of recent years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Lost in La Mancha
    An ideal film for movie buffs, who are bound to delight in each new misfortune even as they sympathize with the documentarians' sometimes inflated vision of a tortured genius at work.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Me You Them
    This lovely movie, simply and beautifully shot in Brazil's northeastern countryside by cinematographer Breno Silveira, is satisfying from start to finish.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    La Ciénaga
    For better or worse, the filmmaker says nothing directly political about the cruel fate suffered by her people, but the dark poetry of her allusions is powerful.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    The House of Mirth
    Davies has nailed Wharton's bitter satire of the flights and follies of New York society in the Gilded Age, and leading lady Gillian Anderson shows dazzling range in her portrayal of the book's doomed heroine.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    The Son's Room
    Wise and surprisingly witty, the film is a minor masterpiece and could serve as a fitting companion piece to America's "In the Bedroom," another superb film about the torments of bereavement.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Waking Ned Devine
    Waking Ned Devine works up enough feel-good momentum that in the end it's irresistible.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    A Civil Action
    Not just another lawyer movie, but rather one of the most striking dramas of the year.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    By the time Sprecher's skeins, set forth in 13 related episodes, come together, we've got as clear a view of the big picture as we got assembling the elements of "Nashville," "Lantana" or "Magnolia".
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Elling
    Beautifully observed, miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Blue Car
    Karen Moncrieff makes an extraordinary debut as a feature film writer and director with this observant drama about a budding teenage poet who, amid many traumas, finds the courage to become herself and set out as an artist.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    A fascinating, frequently hilarious meditation on delusion, self-loathing and personal salesmanship
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    The Woodsman
    So thoughtful and provocative that we cannot help but become engrossed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Affliction
    This is anything but pleasant stuff, but it's a must-see for anyone interested in men and women, fathers and sons, and the kind of murder mystery in which the real casualty is the human soul.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    An authentic and thrilling glimpse into Inuit culture and tradition.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Gallo
    Babí léto
    The bittersweet charm of this extraordinary film is trumped only by its wisdom. Without resorting to schmaltz or sticky pathos, director Vladimír Michálek (a child of 49) fashions an allegory about aging, friendship and love that equals (and often surpasses) the best American movies on those tricky subjects, from "Cocoon" to "On Golden Pond."
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