Caroline Westbrook

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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
53 movie reviews
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Fiddler on the Roof
    It still stands up as an upbeat portrait of pre-revolutionary Russia, and will have you whistling If I Were A Rich Man for days.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Yellow Submarine
    A garish, gorgeous example of pop art at its finest.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Nobody's Fool
    Mesmerising, magical portrait of smalltown America, dominated by a performance from Paul Newman so outstanding it must surely make him front-runner to hoist the Best Actor statuette come Oscar night.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Caroline Westbrook
    Grease
    It's every bit the great songfest it's hailed as, with bucketloads of innuendo thown in behind some of the most energetic musical numbers ever to grace the inside of a movie theatre.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Roxanne
    Warm, charming comedy with one of the best one-liner scenes that remains a classic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Caroline Westbrook
    Raising Arizona
    Hilarious, madcap comedy from the Coen brothers that demonstrates just why they are the kings of quirk.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 100 Caroline Westbrook
    The Sound of Music
    One of the greatest screen musicals ever.
    • 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Mrs. Doubtfire
    Although the broad comedy of the first half soon gives way to a tidal wave of entirely uncalled for sentimentality, this is still a laugh riot - the sight of our hero setting fire to his falsies never fails to amuse.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Brief Encounter
    Beautifully monochrome rendering of a love that cannot be.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Say Anything...
    Avoiding the 80s staple of angsty adolescence, Crowe has constructed an intelligent, witty yet undeniably cute tale, showing the potential that would be realised in Singles and Jerry Maguire, and giving Cusack's warm-hearted Lloyd the perfect foil in Skye's prissy model of student perfection.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Caroline Westbrook
    Gremlins
    A delightfully offbeat reminder of how inventive and witty blockbusters seemed when you were a kid.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Sky High
    As derivative as it all may be, it’s still superb entertainment.
    • 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.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    American Splendor
    It's an hilarious, touching reminder that, sometimes, ordinary folk have the world's most interesting lives.
    • 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    A Little Princess
    Soppy and girlish in the extreme, this should keep even the tiniest viewer rapt, while all too many adults may fall victim to an inexplicable bout of eye-watering long before the closing credits.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Sid and Nancy
    Alex Cox’s retelling of the Sex Pistols’ story from the point of view of Sid (Gary Oldman) and girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) works as both spirited punk biopic and tragically touching love story. It’s a hard film to watch at times, as Vicious plunges deeper into his heroin-induced slump, but told with skill and compassion, which make up for the onscreen squalor.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Westbrook
    Hard Candy
    It's not always easy viewing, but Hard Candy is an intelligent, challenging film which deserves to be seen.
    • 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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