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 11.9 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
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    In "Buffalo 66," Gallo was an unfunny prankster. In The Brown Bunny, wearing his heart on his sleeve, he's a real filmmaker.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Taylor
    Airy and enchanting, this romantic comedy works overtime to sprinkle moonlight and stardust over itself.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    This Saint is a glum piece of post-Cold War paranoia, and director Phillip Noyce approaches it with the same plodding earnestness he brought to his Tom Clancy adaptations ("Patriot Games," "A Clear and Present Danger").
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    Lean, fast and undeniably entertaining.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    You need a pair of huge, hairy ones to make a picture this bad and call it Flawless.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Conspiracy Theory doesn't know whether it wants to be a comedy, a political thriller, a romance or a satire.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Todd Solondz's newest debacle drips with contempt for his audience, his characters and his critics.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Lacks any layers beyond its own amiable inconsequentiality. It needs the spark of the distinctively American slapstick craziness that has distinguished Frye's previous work.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Hoary epic of British Empire valor and cowardice, remade for seventh time, remains rot, old boy.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    A pretty good example of how the studios have taken over the junk that used to be left to the exploitation hacks. The hacks here have millions to work with and the end result isn't nearly as much fun as a cheap, gross horror movie can be.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Put Bruce Willis and this bewildering World War II movie in front of the firing line.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    The good-natured silliness of it all kept me laughing.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Taylor
    What keeps the movie going, besides Softley's intelligent direction and Mathieson's inventive cinematography, is the actors' duet between Spacey and Bridges.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    This adolescent comic-noir trounces Shakespeare's "Macbeth," but Maura Tierney sizzles as a vengeful Lady Frycook.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Taylor
    Lush, even juicy entertainment.
    • 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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Chan is still one of the most amazing -- and one of the most charming -- physical performers the movies have given us.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    I walked out of Scary Movie feeling as if I'd been whacked around with a two-by-four for an hour and a half.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Wants to be a dizzy, precarious thrill ride. Glenn provides the only gravity that doesn't seem dull, literal and earthbound.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    High Crimes does offer good, often sharp and funny work from its two stars. But you can't fake excitement, and it's a lousy feeling to know that the best commercial movie I can point you to right now is this shallow, self-erasing nonsense.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Everything the first "Mummy" was fun for not being. It's loud and chaotic, jammed with effects that don't wow us precisely because they are trying so hard to wow us.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Delightful screwball comedy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    It could be funnier, sharper, more probing, but at its best it is sexy, and that's always something to celebrate.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Lost the friskiness and wildness and charm the movie might have had.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Legally Blonde was content to tickle you. The new one is something akin to a band that has a surprisingly successful debut deciding to rerecord all their originals and release a "Greatest Hits" collection for their second CD. It's both familiar and off.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Mirkin hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Spacey mucks up an otherwise pretty and pleasantly vague take on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    The movie feels choppy and rhythmless. And he's (Chelsom) rather hopeless at dance sequences.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Blade in no way resembles a good movie, but its combination of music-video bombast, goth-rock sensibility, high-tech industrial production design, cold-blooded glossy magazine visuals, high-fashion club culture, horror movies, blaxploitation movies, Hong Kong movies and comic-book nihilism make it diverting trash.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Toback's method of presenting the evidence without judgment backfires, finally appearing just as shapeless as the movie's structure.

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