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 2.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Chris Kaltenbach's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 The Incredibles
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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    • 33 Metascore
    • 58 Chris Kaltenbach
    Code Name: The Cleaner
    The movie finally comes to life when Liu turns up.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Chris Kaltenbach
    Friends with Money
    There's a self-loathing at the center of Friends with Money that makes it a tad unpalatable, as well as a sameness, a dependence on cliche, that makes it seem trite.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Rocker
    Too bad it shortchanges the music and fails to provide much evidence for Wilson's appeal.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Scary Movie
    It's easy to be offensive in a movie; it's much harder to be funny. Which is why Scary Movie emerges as such a waste; when you're so good at the latter, why keep falling back on the former?
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Happy Feet
    Let's just say this is a perfect film for penguin lovers who also are devoted members of the Green party - and leave it at that.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Brothers Grimm
    Neither Grimm comes across as especially interesting to watch, and neither does anything in the movie offer much to get excited about.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Hoot
    As it is, Hoot doesn't accomplish anything a picture book of the Everglades and a few well-chosen Jimmy Buffett tunes wouldn't do better.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Romeo Must Die
    Just don't think about what's going on, and you should be OK.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Annapolis
    It wasn't shot in Annapolis and doesn't have an original thought in its head. Other than that, Annapolis is a fine film.
    • 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
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Dust to Glory
    Everything about this film is drenched in adrenaline.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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?
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Mission to Mars
    Plot-wise, this is strictly paint-by-numbers stuff.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Titan A.E.
    Like watching a 90-minute game of the video game Asteroids - all bang and no buck.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Thr3e
    Most of the fun to be had with Thr3e is to spot the movies from which it cribs. Beyond that, what one has is a conventional psychological thriller that cheats too often and depends on actors determined to play only one note.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Rocky Balboa
    The original Rocky would have found a way to ground that encounter in reality, to engender honest emotion and give audiences an Everyman hero both noble and believable. This film is too busy worshiping its hero to bother.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Quills
    One gets the feeling Kaufman was so intent on putting fury and fanaticism on-screen, he forgot about having it serve any greater purpose. Which makes Quills the film equivalent of one of de Sade's novels: artifice, without art.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    xXx: State of the Union
    This is a movie about guns blazing, men punching, speedometers straining and explosions exploding. On all those levels, it succeeds just fine - which makes for a great amusement-park ride, but perhaps not much of a movie.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Godsend
    Godsend is two-thirds of a good movie, with a final third that's just downright awful. So much wasted potential only makes the whole thing that much more painful.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Brotherhood of the Wolf
    It's mindless, which is rarely true of French cinema, dull, which is rarely true of Hong Kong films, and portentous, which shouldn't be true of any film about a man-eating dog.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Chorus
    Unabashedly sentimental and just as unabashedly cliched.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Rebound
    Rebound is determinedly lightweight fare that shamelessly resorts to every crowd-pleasing cliche it can think of to wring sympathy and laughs from its audience. To say it succeeds is not meant as a compliment.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Possession
    It's unfortunate that none of the principal actors is able to convey the passion the characters are supposed to have for each other.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Accepted
    While I have no problem with slackers making me laugh, when they start preaching, that's when my ears close and my eyes roll.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Reindeer Games
    The out-of-control plot doesn't unfold gracefully or organically; it simply speeds along with no regard for anything other then getting to the next plot twist.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    The bad guys just seem like a bunch of X-Games rejects, and Blart's ingenuity proves way more effective than it has any right to be.
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