Bill Weber

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For 88 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bill Weber's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Vertigo
Lowest review score: 25 The Big Year
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 55 out of 88
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 88
  3. Negative: 18 out of 88
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Go for Sisters
    LisaGay Hamilton and Yolonda Ross play persuasively embody modern urban feminine strength, but they're eventually stranded in a recycled road movie.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Francine
    In a character study of an ex-con who gives her heart and mind to animals rather than people, Melissa Leo's risky performance is ultimately framed with a disappointing, distanced pity.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    The Campaign
    A lumpy spoof of electoral mudslinging that offers some bracing bipartisan contempt amid the lowbrow, labored slapstick.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Gypsy
    A Slovakian character study of a boy ambivalently caught between worlds that ultimately squanders its promise.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Dark Shadows
    A mixed bag of Nixon-era pop burlesque and vampire kitsch is ultimately undone by pedestrian gags and bloated genre boilerplate.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Four Lovers
    This handsome mate-swapping drama never moves beyond the erotic to become incisive about the barriers built into sexual experimentation for committed couples.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
    A bubbly 90-year-old mascot from the golden days of the American musical, this doc's subject is certainly larger than the conventional testimonial treatment she's given.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    The Front Line
    Both brutal and sentimental, this Oscar-submitted Korean war drama offers up rusty tropes as telling ironies.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Knuckle
    A documentary of bareknuckle fights among feuding Irish Traveller clans can't give the participants' self-perpetuating, dead-end rivalry the scope of tragedy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Moneyball
    True to Hollywood's tireless efforts to fit square-peg material into roundish genre niches, this wavering, intermittently smart story of daring to think differently flattens its narrative into formula.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    My Afternoons with Margueritte
    Germain's bonhomie with the bistro regulars has the feel of a TV comedy pilot, which is more than can be said of the monologues he speaks to his cat, one on the inadequacies of the dictionary.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    The Whistleblower
    It reaches a peak of dramatic anguish in star Rachel Weisz's single moment of naked fury, rather than through the tenacity and compassion that define her crusading title character.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Arizona Dream
    Recalling the ‘70s shaggy-dog stories of Makavejev, Ashby, and Schatzberg, Kusturica’s French-financed American venture deserved better than the neglect it suffered in the blockbuster age.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Quantum of Solace
    Updating this anachronistic cash cow with the scrappy and sexy Craig still looks like a wise move, but it requires a greater quantum of style than Solace provides.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Weber
    Europa
    Von Trier and his three cinematographers fashioned a handmade, retro pastiche with a small, dried-out heart.

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