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. Negative: 44 out of 294
294 movie reviews
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Caryn James
    The background is energetic; too bad the foreground is just as chaotic...Mr. Lowenstein - whose work includes many rock videos and ''Strikebound,'' a film about Australian miners - prefers sensory overload to coherence.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 40 Caryn James
    But the formula is pretty long in the tooth by now, and all the extra turns of plot can't disguise that.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Caryn James
    Here are the bones of an ordinary ghost story. But the writer and director Frank LaLoggia brings them to life with exceptional vitality.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Caryn James
    Captain Kirk and his crew go where too many film makers have too often gone before.

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