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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    The result is a highly critical and impossible-to-dismiss examination of the administration's rush to war that is sure to move both sides of the political spectrum to apoplexy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    What Women Want
    A frequently hilarious exercise in one sex desperately trying to figure out the other.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Zoolander
    Well-paced, scathingly funny satire of the fashion industry and its eminently lampoonable pomposity.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Hannibal
    Hannibal isn't art. But for filmgoers with a taste for the absurd and a tolerance for the blackest of black humor, it's one heck of a thrill ride.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    It's a documentary about acknowledging genius, about just desserts, about artistic muses that refuse to give up. It's about great camaraderie and great music.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    This is Mitchell's show, and his performance lives up to his triple billing as writer, director and star.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Saving Face
    An insightful, clear-headed look at relations within a Chinese-American family.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Swordfish
    A souped-up roadster of a film, a relentless action flick that looks great and moves with more grace and speed than seems possible.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Traffic
    It's every bit as thrilling and engrossing as the best spy thriller or cop flick.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Saddest Music in the World
    The Saddest Music In the World may not be for all tastes, but maybe it should be.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Mansfield Park
    A thoughtful, engaging film.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Away from Her
    A quiet, heartfelt story of love and loss.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Catch a Fire
    Both a condemnation of torture as a political tool and a tribute to the bravery that exists within everyone.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    16 Blocks
    As good as Willis is, he's no match for Mos Def.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Ushpizin
    Jew or Gentile, a good story well told is a thing to be cherished.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Fast Food Nation
    Fast Food Nation offers no easy answers, but plenty of food for thought.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Inside Man
    It twists in on itself mercilessly, rarely pausing to let the viewers catch up, but that's OK. A movie like this depends on staying at least a step ahead of its audience, and this one surely does.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Proposition
    By turns grisly and hallucinatory, The Proposition is one of those grand, mythic Westerns, full of wide-open spaces and dank little hellholes, detestable bad guys and virginal women, laconic lawmen and wary natives.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Inland Empire
    Only David Lynch could make the incomprehensible so compelling.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Greatest Game Ever Played
    In a society where athletic competitions are too often likened to war, the recognition that everyone's equal once they're off the playing field is a welcome reminder of that little thing called perspective, not to mention sportsmanship.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Cool!
    • 53 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Guardian
    The Guardian is that rarest of cinematic commodities: an action movie displaying brains and heart and the opportunity for its stars to do something more than keep the narrative flowing between explosions.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    3:10 to Yuma
    Largely devoid of the usual Western histrionics, this 1957 film, thanks to the steady hand of veteran director Delmer Daves, represents one of the more sober depictions of the clash between chaos and order that has always been at the center of the movie Western. [26 Aug 2007, p.3E]
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Last Kiss
    The film marks Braff as a talent to watch, blessed with the sort of natural, everyman appeal that audiences eat up.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Shortbus
    Shortbus is nothing if not over-the-top, replete with consummated sex acts, both gay and straight.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    In Bruges
    Tightly scripted and intricately plotted, the buddy film manages the neat two-step of being simultaneously profane and engaging.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Surf's Up
    Best of all is Jeff Bridges as the voice of Geek, a laid-back philosopher-penguin who becomes Cody's low-key guru, mentoring him in the ways of the wave.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Blood Diamond
    There are times when his message threatens to overwhelm his story line, and the last 15 minutes or so of Blood Diamond demonstrate what happens when sentimentality wins out over style and grit.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Stop-Loss
    There's little time for nuance in Stop-Loss, and it doesn't deny any of the film's power to wish Peirce would occasionally slow things down enough to let her audience ponder what they're seeing.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Akeelah and the Bee
    A movie like this could easy slide into Shirley Temple territory, showcasing a child actor so full of sweetness and light and good, old-fashioned spunk that audiences wince. But Palmer, whose enthusiasm and energy never seem forced, avoids all those traps; her Akeelah is never less than believable.
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