Caryn James

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For 294 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Caryn James' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Lowest review score: 0 The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 130 out of 294
  2. Mixed: 120 out of 294
  3. Negative: 44 out of 294
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Caryn James
    Getting Even with Dad
    Both Mr. Danson and Mr. Culkin make the film's predictable ending far more effective than it might have been. They are warm without being sappy. It's too bad that the audience, parents and children, are likely to have grown restless long before then.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Caryn James
    The Starling
    With a predictable trajectory and cringeworthy metaphors, The Starling is so slushily sentimental it makes the typical tearjerker look like a noir. Despite the lived-in performances from its three high-profile stars, this attempt at heartfelt drama is hopelessly by-the-numbers.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Caryn James
    Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
    Despite a few lighter touches, the film is still a gory waste of time that plays its murders for all the blood and guts they're worth. There are plenty of cliched reaction shots of faces in terror, more than enough frames filled with bloody knives and severed heads. There is not, however, any suspense about Jason or his victims. He stalks, they scream, he kills. None of it is enough to make you jump out of your seat, though it may be enough to make your stomach churn. [2 Aug 1986, p.9]
    • The New York Times
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Caryn James
    Hot Pursuit
    Hot Pursuit is just what you'd expect from such a stale formula: a misadventure in paradise that makes ''Gilligan's Island'' look like ''The Night of the Iguana.''
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Caryn James
    AfrAId
    Chris Weitz (most famously About a Boy and most recently Operation Finale) works hard to make Afraid a smarter-than-average horror movie, but the effort is conspicuous, and in the end the film is bland and obvious. And if horror can’t make us feel frightened in a way we couldn’t imagine ourselves, why bother?
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