Caroline Westbrook

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Empire
For 53 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Caroline Westbrook's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Jurassic Park
Lowest review score: 40 Michael
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 53
  3. Negative: 0 out of 53
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Empire Records
    For all its faults, the good-natured, quirky humour that this for the most part offers ultimately makes it very hard to dislike.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Shopgirl
    It's enjoyable and visually impressive, but this is a slender trifle of a film, one which charms you as you're watching it and then is all too quickly forgotten.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    The Karate Kid
    Ralph Macchio's transformation from high school geek to butt-kicking tough guy, thanks to a little help from Chinese sage Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita) and his homespun Oriental wisdom, is entertaining enough.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    Dangerous Minds
    Pfeiffer's performance supersedes any of the material, but the rest of the film is a seething mass of clich's despite the "true story" origins.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    She's the One
    A pleasant package then, easy on the eye, and gently charming but, like The Brothers McMullen, one which places Burns as a comfortable rather than cutting-edge moviemaker.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
    Despite the stars best efforts this is neither funny or original.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    Jungle 2 Jungle
    It does become marginally less cringe-making in the latter half, but aside from a hilarious set piece involving a cat/tranquilliser dart interface and a vaguely entertaining Russian Mafia subplot, this is tired stuff which should have stayed at home.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    The Wedding Date
    This is a leaden mess that offers only brief moments of respite.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    The Disappearance of Finbar
    An ambitious and sloppy, yet occasionally likeable, cross-European fable.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    Nell
    It comes across as a man's eye view of what a women's film should be like, and although it's not altogether clunky, you can't help but feel that in the hands of a more sympathetic director it could have been something really quite special.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    Congo
    What begins as mildly intriguing stuff with some genuinely unsettling moments, quickly melts into a plot so confusing that it almost begins to look as though the editor was taking some mind-altering substance.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    Jack
    The formula for Robin Williams' childish stick wares dangerously thin this time out.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Ice Age: The Meltdown
    It's charming enough.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Nine Months
    While not exactly poised to bother the old grey matter too much, will provide a great night's entertainment for sitcom lovers everywhere. But doing for childbirth what Four Weddings And A Funeral did for nuptials remains an unlikely proposition.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    The Craft
    With suitable suspension of disbelief this makes for agreeable enough nonsense.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    Fallen
    An arch mix of police procedural and supernatural chiller, this is bleak, edgy, sometimes silly stuff.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Mean Girls
    Despite its shortcomings -- it’s still one of the better teen movies to come along in a while.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Circle of Friends
    Despite its glaring obviousness, this is charming enough to captivate the viewer, producing unexpectedly strong female characters and faultless attention to detail.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Caroline Westbrook
    Michael
    The script is clichéd and uninspired, the tone veering uneasily between unamusing comedy and over-sincere drama, all theological issues are weakly circumvented and the characters hardly relate to each other, let alone to any of their onscreen activities.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Matilda
    Matilda is a blackly comic, delightfully off-the-wall picture that both kids and adults will lap up.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Dante's Peak
    This is yet another one of those mindlessly enjoyable outings which eschews such unimportant details as plot or characterisation in favour of the biggest, flashiest special effects money can buy. Twister with lava, if you will.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Along Came Polly
    It’s not bad, but given all the talent involved, it would have been nice for Hamburg to push the envelope a bit further and deliver something with real bite. As it is, this is more of a pleasant, but forgettable, time-filler.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Muppets from Space
    The best Muppet movie for some time, adding film references a-plenty, dark, edgy comedy and even a touch of post-modernism to the usual all-singing, all-dancing ridiculousness.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Mrs. Winterbourne
    It's all a little too coincidental for comfort, and surprisingly short on laughs for a comedy, but nonetheless this is a light, well-meaning flick, improved considerably by Lake's scatty heroine.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Caroline Westbrook
    Muppet Treasure Island
    The sight of the Muppets making their first movie appearance since 1992's Christmas Carol - with no technological wizardry or flashy special effects applied to update the simple but effective puppetry techniques - proves to be a sobering experience. And the attempt of Jim Henson's bug-eyed creations to keep up with the times results in a breezily entertaining yet old-fashioned brew.

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