Charles Taylor

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For 379 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 63% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Charles Taylor's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score: 100 McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 97 out of 379
379 movie reviews
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Such an inept bundle of work -- crying out for the filmmaking equivalent of Ritalin, but still sluggish as syrup -- that it doesn't even provide an opportunity to ogle properly.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    The pacing is off, the emotional tone is wobbly, and none of the actors seem to be acting in the same style or the same movie.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    Kubrick's much-anticipated final film boils down to the most elaborate monogamy lecture ever.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    The embodiment of every conservative paranoid's slathering fantasies about Paula Jones, Vince Foster and Whitewater.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    Seems best suited to all the couch-potato swinging dicks who get off watching the police on "Cops" keep the public safe from people in possession of marijuana.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    It's not just our emotions that are being played on here, it's not just our intelligence being insulted because of Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman's presumption that we won't have any interest in a character whom it's not always possible to like. It's John Nash's life, being turned into an Oscar machine and an easy way to jerk tears.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 10 Charles Taylor
    I understand how hard it is for parents to find movies to take their kids to, but the thought of them or their children getting stuck at this stinker galls me. Summer vacation feels short enough as it is.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    The picture starts off slick and amusing, gets convoluted, draggy and strange round about the midway point, and ends up just plain ludicrous.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 10 Charles Taylor
    Sandler deserves to be damned to the pits of hell for this witless masturbatory comedy.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    Even dressed up in tabloid lighting and cut with jagged edits, this pulp nihilism never goes beyond daytime TV banality.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    It's mostly terrible. The movie has no sparkle, no charm, nothing to sweep us off our feet.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    A dreary, ludicrous thriller.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Charles Taylor
    I think you'd have to be comatose or mentally incompetent not to find Enough ludicrous.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
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    The film is a plodding, earnest adaptation that strips the source of its richness and ambiguity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    One of those movies that you continue to pull for even after it becomes clear that it isn't very good.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    It's like receiving a box of Valentine's chocolates in which someone has deliberately hidden ground glass. Flee.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    It's hard to remember a movie that has asked us to care, without giving us reason to, about a character who is so thoroughly and relentlessly a prick.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    This alleged thriller, which might be described as "'Gaslight' Goes to College," is one of the most incoherent features in recent memory.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    54
    It's a flat, clumsy piece of filmmaking. When Phillippe and Ward are in bed, the shots are so badly matched that I believed they were having sex, just not with each other.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Charles Taylor
    Who cares about old guys and young girls? This handsome romantic slop finds other problems.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    The movie is flat-footed, and the pacing gives you time to rest between laughs.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Stay away from this cautionary tale about the gay porn industry -- it blows.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    Ben Affleck provides a charismatic star turn, but John Frankenheimer's out-of-season heist thriller is dead on arrival.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 10 Charles Taylor
    It's a terrible movie, stuck in plot idiocies and big, noisy set pieces like a tire mired in mud.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    LaBute is some kind of find: an auteur for people who don't like movies.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 0 Charles Taylor
    If you've ever sat in a jet waiting on the runway, feeling it lumbering along in place and then bucking and shaking when it's cleared for take-off, you know what it's like to sit through Air Force One.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    A sustained piece of showboating mythmaking, and something of a snow job.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Charles Taylor
    There's a vacancy in The Million Dollar Hotel, and it's between Wim Wenders' ears.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Middlebrow kitsch, but kitsch straining for respectability and therefore without the energy that can make kitsch entertaining.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    So clumsy and crass that it makes you doubt the pleasure of the first movie.

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