Bob Thomas

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For 124 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 77% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bob Thomas' Scores

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  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Tootsie
Lowest review score: 25 Red Dawn
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 124
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 124
  3. Negative: 8 out of 124
124 movie reviews
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    The Island of Dr. Moreau
    The latter stages of "Moreau" prove chaotic and confusing, negating what showed promise as a "Planet of the Apes" thriller...Any appearance by Marlon Brando is an event, if only to witness his latest transformation. He seems to have entered his Sydney Greenstreet period. Looking huge and sinister, he affects an upper-class English accent with lines such as, "I'm simply going to perish from the heat." He even sports a monocle in one scene...At times, Brando conveys a demented menace, but mostly his performance seems a mockery, of the film and himself...And Kilmer makes the most of his ambiguous role. [22 Aug 1996]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Romeo Is Bleeding
    Romeo Is Bleeding continues the trend of modern manifestations of the film noir. It has the basic elements: crooked cop, lethal female, vicious gang boss, tawdry locales, bloody corpses. Everything, in fact, but style. [14 Feb 1994]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Cutter's Way
    CUTTER AND BONE can't decide whether to be a buddy movie, a menage-a-trois drama, or a murder movie, and hence fails at all three. Too bad, because Czech-born Ivan Passer has an obvious talent for creating mood and atmosphere.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Light of Day
    Light of Day flounders because of Schrader's simplistic symbolism: the rebellious children, the unhearing mother, the lifeless father. The story limps from one predictable scene to the next. [17 Mar 1987]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    The Jewel of the Nile
    It is mainly the characters who have suffered in Jewel of the Nile. The bouncy relationship between Turner and Douglas has been lost; she appears mindlessly headstrong, he devotes his time to extricating her from trouble. A superior comic, DeVito has a one-note role of constant choler. [16 Dec 1985]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Quest for Fire
    The talk is mostly in grunts and whoops, and the film sometimes reaches the brink of a Mel Brooks travesty, but never falls over. [18 Jan 1982]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Superman III
    The creators of Superman III give us a picture puzzle of assorted plots that never meld coherently. [13 June 1983]
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Brewster's Millions
    Except for two or three explosive moments, the film plods along to the expectable, heartwarming climax, never achieving the potential of a new star in a time-proven role. [27 May 1985]
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    The Hunter
    Buzz Kulik has directed some slam-bang chases, but their effectiveness is blunted by a script that meanders between the bounty hunter's missions and a boring relationship with his housemate (Kathryn Harrold), who is heavy with child. [12 Aug 1980]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Power
    Power fails, not because it is badly done; Lumet and an exceptional cast do their best to bring it to life. But they are ultimately defeated by an overplotted script that offers few surprises and no real revelations about today's politics. [17 Feb 1986]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Chain Reaction
    Besides the muddled story, the script is burdened with some of the clunkiest dialogue for a major film in recent memory. [3 Aug 1996]
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Harry & Son
    Harry and Son is uneven, rambling into irrelevant subplots. But the strength of Newman's character holds the film together. [06 Mar 1984]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    The Mission
    Roland Joffe has directed an earnest and well-meaning film but the crushing inevitability of the climax makes it a less than rewarding experience. [17 Dec 1986]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    Lassiter
    Roger Young's direction is crisply paced, but the script shortchanges the women. Lauren Hutton is unconvincing as the murderous counterspy, and Jane Seymour does little more than wait for Lassiter to come home. [28 Feb 1984]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    The Human Factor
    A cerebral approach to espionage and defection, often suspenseful but sometimes dull. [26 Jan 1980]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Thomas
    The Big Town
    First-time director Ben Bolt, son of writer Robert Bolt, evokes excitement with the gambling scenes, but the climactic shooting is poorly staged, and the epilogue is a letdown. [21 Oct 1987]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Bob Thomas
    Yellowbeard
    Yellowbeard is a puzzlement. How could so many comedic talents produce such a mirthless movie? [27 Jun 1983]
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Bob Thomas
    The Man with One Red Shoe
    Hanks has proved in TV's "Bosom Buddies" and in "Splash" that he is one of the best of today's light comedians, but he has little chance to display his talents here. [12 Aug 1985]
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 38 Bob Thomas
    Turk 182
    The situation might have produced a funny, heartwarming movie, but not in the hands of director Bob Clark ("Porky's," "Rhinestone") and writers James Gregory Kingston and Denis and John Hamill. Every plot turn is predictable, the characters are either true-blue or rascals and the humor is labored. [18 Feb 1985]
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Thomas
    On Deadly Ground
    Clumsily derivative, completely predictable and leadenly directed by the star himself. [23 Feb 1994]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Thomas
    Fire in the Sky
    Tracy Torme's script is laden with plot holes and humdrum dialogue, and Robert Lieberman's direction does little to cure the deficiencies. [16 Mar 1993]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Thomas
    Red Dawn
    From beginning to end, his new film is packed with shootings, brutality and violence _ like one long video war game...Rarely since "Heaven's Gate" has a major movie been so painfully bad, not only in dialogue. The battle scenes are neither dramatic nor convincing, merely brutal. [21 Aug 1984]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Thomas
    Breathless
    BREATHLESS may attract attention because of the ample display of Richard Gere, but it is a hollow, cynically exploitive film. [23 May 1983]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Thomas
    RoboCop 2
    RoboCop 2 offers yet another argument against the issuance of sequels. [21 June 1990]
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