Bill White

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
For 178 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bill White's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Holy Mountain
Lowest review score: 0 Underclassman
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 100 out of 178
  2. Mixed: 57 out of 178
  3. Negative: 21 out of 178
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Bill White
    The Ten
    As sketch comedy, The Ten often is imaginative and sometimes hilarious...Still, like precursors from "The Groove Tube" to "Jackass," it doesn't make for much of a movie.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Bill White
    Dreaming Lhasa
    The script is undone by confusing romantic developments, a convoluted murder mystery and a facile and maudlin resolution.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 67 Bill White
    Queens
    The cast is perfect, but the script is like a low ceiling, keeping a lid on what should have been a confluence of riotous misadventures.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Bill White
    Flannel Pajamas
    In what essentially is a two-character play, Kirk and Nicholson behave more like acting partners than real people. Their lack of appetite for each other is particularly awkward in the frequent scenes requiring casual nudity and sexual activity.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Bill White
    Just Friends
    Although set 10 years after high school graduation, Just Friends is a dumb teen comedy.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Bill White
    El cantante
    A special film, one that refuses to package a person's life into a comfortably familiar genre.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 0 Bill White
    Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    A disaster on all levels.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 83 Bill White
    Blindness
    Meirelles adds another perspective, that the epidemic might be a good thing if, by being thrown into the darkness together, we may once again recognize the human family to which we all belong.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 58 Bill White
    Chandni Chowk to China
    Its combination of maudlin sincerity, cruel slapstick, exotic romanticism and boogie-down dance sequences may befuddle more than it entertains.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 0 Bill White
    Cthulhu
    This shambling mess -- offers nothing but a lesson in how not to make a movie.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Bill White
    Stoned
    The soundtrack is a mess, with period music out of sync with the period, as when the 1967 song, "White Rabbit," underscores a 1965 acid trip.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Bill White
    Running Scared
    Writer/director Wayne Kramer's approach to storytelling is to withhold any information that might give away the plot.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 67 Bill White
    America the Beautiful
    A wide-ranging, disturbing look at our obsession with our looks.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 42 Bill White
    Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    Three movies gasp for life inside the clumsily titled Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Bill White
    The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
    Mostly unfabulous.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Bill White
    The Life Before Her Eyes
    The Life Before Her Eyes is like one of those puzzles. There is something wrong in each scene, and the viewer zeroes in on the elements that don't fit, wondering if there is a purpose behind them.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Bill White
    War, Inc.
    Its comedy too often blunders into meaningless slapstick, with bombs and bloodshed replacing pratfalls and pies in the face.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Bill White
    Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    The movie has a soul, and its good-natured charm may well win over the most cynical heart.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 58 Bill White
    How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    The result is an initially hilarious picture that grows perplexingly trite as screenwriter Peter Straughan transforms Young's sly observations into assembly-line pap.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Bill White
    Meet Bill
    For those whose idea of hilarity is an adult and a kid throwing fireworks at each other, then getting stoned and playing piggyback in the mall, this movie should be a refreshing tonic.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 58 Bill White
    Lake City
    Garity, son of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, gives the kind of performance rarely seen in today's movies.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Bill White
    Undiscovered
    Undiscovered promotes one of the stupidest visions of the entertainment industry since "American Idol" opened the celebrity gateway to the dregs of the karaoke generation.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Bill White
    Nobel Son
    What finally sinks the film is that the more it tries to dazzle us, the more uninterested we become.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Bill White
    Zen Noir
    The actors, all unprofessional with the exception of Kim Chan as the Zen master, step on each other's clipped lines so regularly that it becomes a stylistic affectation, like Mamet directing Beckett.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Bill White
    Tideland
    When the little girl tells her decapititated doll, "It's not just a bad dream," she is right. It's just a bad movie.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 0 Bill White
    Underclassman
    The inconsistencies and continuity errors are staggering.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Bill White
    Goodbye Bafana
    The life of a prison guard is dull, no matter who is in the cell. Director Bille August makes what he can of this material, always holding our interest but never fulfilling the promise of a close encounter with one of the 20th century's most controversial leaders.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Bill White
    Shrooms
    The film's one original moment comes when Bluto has a conversation with a cow. The rest of it, from the distorting lens used randomly to suggest unreality, to the twist ending lifted verbatim from the superior "High Tension," is about as imaginative as a portobello steak with onions.
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