Bob Mondello
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68% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Bob Mondello's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 73 | |
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| Highest review score: | 12 Years a Slave | |
| Lowest review score: | I Am Number Four | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 214 out of 276
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Mixed: 55 out of 276
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Negative: 7 out of 276
276
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reviews
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- Bob Mondello
I Am Number Four's CGI sequences are murky and dark, its performances negligible, its script genuinely inept. There is, I should note, a puppy, which arguably keeps the film this side of completely unbearable, but just barely.- NPR
- Posted Feb 18, 2011
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- Bob Mondello
Such a catalog of missed opportunities, it probably makes sense just to list them.- NPR
- Posted Feb 8, 2013
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- Bob Mondello
If what audiences are looking for is a thrill ride, or even a pervasive eeriness, The Happening's just not happening.- NPR
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- Bob Mondello
The film's tension comes partly from a raft of terrific performances — everyone's good, and Fassbender's stellar — and partly from juxtaposing Jobs' public and private personas. He could make cheering audiences believe he was changing the world, but backstage ... not so much.- NPR
- Posted Oct 13, 2015
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- Bob Mondello
Hard to say what's dumber, the premise or the characters in William Olsson's trashily preposterous An American Affair.- NPR
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- Bob Mondello
There's no chemistry between Zellweger and Connick, and there's not a moment in which anything anyone does feels remotely plausible.- NPR
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