Chris Kaltenbach

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Baltimore Sun
For 710 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Chris Kaltenbach's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 The Motorcycle Diaries
Lowest review score: 0 Crossroads
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 419 out of 710
  2. Mixed: 183 out of 710
  3. Negative: 108 out of 710
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Next
    Next may be the silliest movie of 2007.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Joe Somebody
    This is harmless fun for the holiday season, but Tim Allen doesn't give movie the punch it needs.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Chris Kaltenbach
    Music of the Heart
    Tear-inducing feel-gooder that only a curmudgeon could find fault with.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Fountain
    Darren Aronofsky labors awfully hard to get across a pretty simple message in The Fountain. But his efforts are so ethereal and extreme, it's almost impossible to turn away.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Solas
    Unsparing and uplifting - a wickedly difficult combination to pull off, but one that gives the film an emotional weight that's impossible to dismiss.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Chris Kaltenbach
    Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    While the film is obviously meant as a call to arms, the very single-mindedness of the approach could work against it.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Kaltenbach
    Rugrats Go Wild
    Its pleasures are slight and fleeting, and so many movies have done what it does, and done it much better, that there's nothing to get even remotely excited about - much less to draw audiences into theaters.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Dust to Glory
    Everything about this film is drenched in adrenaline.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 67 Chris Kaltenbach
    Saw II
    There's an honesty to the film that elevates it a cut above standard slasher fare.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Joy Ride
    The potential for action never lets up; you never know what's coming around the next corner.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Flying Scotsman
    Graeme Obree was a champion bicycler who, by all accounts, rarely took the easy way out. Too bad this movie version of his life doesn't follow suit.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 33 Chris Kaltenbach
    September Dawn
    A ham-fisted cautionary tale of religious fanaticism that would have been hooted out of even 19th-century theaters as melodrama of the most lurid kind.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Shopgirl
    Martin's script offers plenty of opportunities, but Martin the actor never takes advantage of them.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Bread and Tulips
    Soldini's consistently understated touch, and a poignant turn by Licia Maglietta as the confused and bemused main character, turns Bread and Tulips into a character study worth studying.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Chris Kaltenbach
    Don't Come Knocking
    It rarely strikes the right tone and ultimately falls short of what one would expect from a collaboration between director Wim Wenders and writer Sam Shepard.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Chris Kaltenbach
    2046
    The film is the work of a visual genius who may have overextended his storytelling ability, but with fascinating results.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Glory Road
    The end result is more a lecture than a film; audiences may come away understanding what went on, but for most, the emotional connection will be lacking.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Shadow of the Vampire
    Paints a vivid and darkly humorous picture of a world where directors are all-powerful and vampires are real; whether you want to buy into either fantasy is up to you. I did, and had a grand old time.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Kaltenbach
    Johnson Family Vacation
    Lame.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Chris Kaltenbach
    My First Mister
    It's a real shame the film gets mushy at the end. The result is an all too conventional ending on a film that should have been much better.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Real Cancun
    The only question is how many levels of meaning can be plumbed from the phrase "Let's party!"
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Chris Kaltenbach
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Rarely has combat been portrayed as beautifully as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Taiwanese director Ang Lee's thoughtful meditation on menace, mortality and the martial arts.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Road Home
    It's the rare film that trusts both its audience's intelligence and its emotions.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Away from Her
    A quiet, heartfelt story of love and loss.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Chris Kaltenbach
    Time and Tide
    If only it had a plot mere humans could follow.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Against the Ropes
    There's not a moment in Against the Ropes where you forget this is perky Meg Ryan up onscreen, talking trashy and acting tough.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Kaltenbach
    Stuart Little 2
    Manages to pretty much ignore all the strengths of the earlier film while exacerbating all its faults.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Quinceañera
    Quinceanera may be the year's most nonjudgmental film, and therein lies both its greatest strength and most naggingly troublesome weakness.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Last Mimzy
    The Last Mimzy displays a gentle touch and the best of intentions. But the film's message never quite becomes clear; what, exactly, are young minds supposed to take away from this film?
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Requiem for a Dream
    An unrelentingly dark vision that's as hard to watch as it is impossible to walk away from.
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