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. Positive: 141 out of 379
  2. Mixed: 141 out of 379
  3. Negative: 97 out of 379
379 movie reviews
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    • 19 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    The Cat in the Hat
    The movie is crass and vulgar almost beyond belief.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Conspiracy Theory
    Conspiracy Theory doesn't know whether it wants to be a comedy, a political thriller, a romance or a satire.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Beloved
    When the movie isn't hitting us over the head, it's spooning out the material to us like broth to an invalid, drop by flavorless drop. The excruciating pace mirrors the sluggishness of Morrison's sonorous prose.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Guinevere
    It doesn't take Rea long to decide that he's more interested in extending his record for Longest Acting Career Sustained on One Expression, and he's back to his baggy-eyed, hangdog look.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Boogie Nights
    Moore, who may be the most unpredictably talented actress in movies right now, plays Amber with an inseparable mixture of maternal feeling and lust that's flabbergasting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Pleasantville
    It's tough not to respond to the visual cleverness of Pleasantville.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Charles Taylor
    All or Nothing
    Mike Leigh returns to the council flats of London -- and delivers a richly Dickensian masterpiece about working-class family life.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    The Loss of Sexual Innocence is a failure to be sure, but if it's not exactly a brave one, it's one whose foolhardiness deserves at least half a salute.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    It must be hard to misread the tone of a book as single-minded as Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, but Anthony Minghella manages somehow.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 0 Charles Taylor
    Hannibal
    Hannibal, which is very likely the worst film of this year and quite possibly the next, achieves what no movie I can recall ever even attempting: It somehow manages to be both repugnant and boring.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Honey
    There's an entertainingly ludicrous movie lurking somewhere inside of the ludicrous, mediocre one this actually is.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    The Contender
    The most gutless and naive political drama of recent memory.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 10 Charles Taylor
    Don't Say a Word
    A stupid, brutal and nonsensical picture.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    It's a noble undertaking. But why isn't it a better movie? Told in scattered fashion, the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject. Part of the problem is the narration.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Charles Taylor
    So Close
    Next to the Hong Kong action picture So Close, nearly every Hollywood thriller of the summer looks like an elementary-school project thrown together the Sunday night before it was due.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    Taking Lives
    Jolie is far too good for this tripe but she does give the film its only believable moments, and for the first half, her concentration makes you watch her intently.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    The Siege
    If The Siege frustrates anyone, it should be the moviegoers who turn up expecting the kind of clean resolution that action movies thrive on.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Tomorrow Never Dies
    The movie is efficient but scores zero in suspense, wit or class.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Charles Taylor
    Le bossu
    A delight from top to bottom, packed with romance, adventure, beautifully executed swordplay and a sumptuous period look.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    One Last Kiss
    It's in no way a stupid movie. The trouble is that there's only so much emotional energy you can expend on these assholes before you start wondering why you're paying attention to them at all.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    In Praise of Love
    Gives no indication that Jean-Luc Godard has anything left to say that is worth hearing, no indication that he has any drive or passion to continue making movies. What's on the screen is habit -- accomplished, rote, empty.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Antwone Fisher
    There's nothing in either the conception or execution to lift it above a TV-movie tear-jerker.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Charles Taylor
    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    This has to be one of the most completely realized comedies ever made, and, in its odd way, one of the most civilized.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Taylor
    The Apostle
    This little knockout of a movie, written and directed by Robert Duvall -- who also plays the title character, a roving Texas evangelist -- can strike you in the same way that Bible stories did when you first encountered them as a child.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Blue Crush
    Offers the most intense visual experience I've had at the movies all year.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Charles Taylor
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Yes, there are some "middle-chapter" problems, but Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptation hasn't lost its devastating humanity, its heart-stopping cinematography or its epic sweep.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Taylor
    Serendipity
    Airy and enchanting, this romantic comedy works overtime to sprinkle moonlight and stardust over itself.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    Calle 54
    Calle 54 doesn't have that coherence or vision of the "Buena Vista Social Club."
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Along Came Polly
    For everyone who's been waiting for a love story between an anal retentive and a flake.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    For everything wrong with it, A.I. is not a dismissible film. It's too richly imagined, too accomplished. Even as he botches the emotions and the issues he raises, Spielberg goes headlong into them, wrestles with the picture's conflicting impulses. It's the kind of screw-up you get only from a master filmmaker.
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