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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Charles Taylor
    The Thomas Crown Affair
    It's a deluxe vacation for adults with all frills included: glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    In the Company of Men
    A singularly unpleasant movie.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Charles Taylor
    Trainspotting
    The most original, daring, thrilling movie to be released this year, Trainspotting is one of those occasional, astonishing triumphs of risk and imagination that gets you excited about what smart people, pushing themselves and the medium, can accomplish in the movies.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Charles Taylor
    Read My Lips
    It's a wholly amoral movie, but it's honestly amoral. And that's a relief for the audience.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Bulletproof Monk
    Lightweight but delightful martial-arts romp.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Heartbreakers
    Mirkin hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Friday Night Lights
    There's some good acting in this mess.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Get Carter
    Stallone returns in a gangster remake that wears itself (and the audience) out trying to be cutting-edge stylish.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Taylor
    Demonlover
    It's a consistently exciting piece of moviemaking, but it's not a pleasant experience; it's one of the few recent movies that have the power to leave you genuinely shaken up.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    From Hell
    A brain-dead version of a dark and complex work.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    When We Were Kings
    When We Were Kings, which was put together by Taylor Hackford and Leon Gast, is a patchy movie that fails to rise to the grace and articulation of its main attraction. But it has Ali, and when he's on-screen, that's enough.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 90 Charles Taylor
    Monkeybone
    A giddy madcap classic, one of the wildest and funniest American comedies in years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    Aimee & Jaguar
    A consistently engrossing piece of work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    The Thin Red Line
    The Thin Red Line, either by incompetence or willful perversity, dispenses with plot, characterization, dramatic structure and emotional payoffs in favor of the sort of painstakingly composed pictorial diddling that invariably gets critics frothing about the director's "indelible" images.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Showtime
    Isn't particularly assaultive, but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase, explosion or gunfight again.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Charles Taylor
    Flawless
    You need a pair of huge, hairy ones to make a picture this bad and call it Flawless.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    Catch Me If You Can
    Well-enough made and highly watchable, but it lacks the one thing that would put some swing in its step and some swagger in its attitude: a sense of jazz.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    Better Luck Tomorrow
    Follows a consistently predictable arc. In some sequences, you can tell not just what's going to happen next, but what shot is coming next. And the movie's weird mixture of moralism and affectlessness cancel each other out.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    I Spy
    The movie is so thoroughly lousy. It's loud, brash and obvious, full of car chases and explosions and gunplay.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Girlfight
    A little more flair and polish could have made Girlfight a terrific movie instead of just the decent one it is.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Charles Taylor
    Twisted
    Totally unwatchable if it weren't for Ashley Judd.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Greenfingers
    Certainly pleasant enough, and if you can put the preachiness out of mind it's entertaining, in its square, conventional way.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Charles Taylor
    Seabiscuit
    It's deluxe and handsome and has no soul.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Charles Taylor
    Intolerable Cruelty
    Has a solid farce structure, a bunch of ripe second bananas, and two sinfully attractive stars ready to raise comic hell. So why is a movie with so many genuine laughs and so many good bits only fitfully amusing? The short answer is that the Coen brothers seem to be incapable of trusting their material.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    Dogville
    Anti-Americanism is a small matter when a movie is anti-human. Dogville is as total a misanthropic vision as anything control freak Stanley Kubrick ever turned out.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Charles Taylor
    Vera Drake
    When one of the young women Vera attends to nearly dies of complications, the police arrest her -- and the movie goes thud, taking Staunton's performance along with it.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    Boat Trip
    It is a testament to our national determination that Nathan is not stymied by his almost complete lack of talent, his slipshod timing or his crude comic sensibility.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Charles Taylor
    Mercury Rising
    Unpleasant would be the word for Mercury Rising if "tired" weren't a more appropriate one.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 80 Charles Taylor
    Lolita
    For all of their vaunted (and, it turns out, false) fidelity to Nabokov, Lyne and Schiff have made a pretty, gauzy Lolita that replaces the book's cruelty and comedy with manufactured lyricism and mopey romanticism.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Charles Taylor
    Some Like It Hot
    If Some Like It Hot isn’t the funniest movie ever made, you can’t blame it for not trying. The first time you see Billy Wilder’s 1959 farce, you might not believe that anything can make you laugh so hard for so long. Where most comedies wear out their audience after an hour and a half, “Some Like It Hot” goes on for 122 minutes and leaves you ebullient.
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