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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Chris Kaltenbach
    The Tic Code
    Laura's histrionics sometimes seem forced, and Hines has to struggle to be the heel the screenplay sometimes asks him to be.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Still, it's hard not to long for the Pooh stories of old, those endearingly anarchic little tales that captured the wonder of a child's world without ever once condescending to it.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    One Hour Photo
    Romanek does such a nice job of calibrating his film's squirm factor, it's possible to overlook some flaws that would sink a lesser film.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Paper Clips
    The best moments in Paper Clips - and there are plenty - come when it doesn't resort to mundane cliches or calculated emotions to make its point.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Eight Below
    The determinedly cynical needn't bother, but just about everyone else should love Eight Below.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Avenue Montaigne
    Director Daniele Thompson gets the point across so airily and pleasantly, in a film cast to perfection, that it's no problem accepting the message with a shrug, while profoundly enjoying the messenger.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Mondays in the Sun
    There's a dignity to Mondays in the Sun that manages to keep the film buoyant, helping to keep all the despair at bay.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 58 Chris Kaltenbach
    Code Name: The Cleaner
    The movie finally comes to life when Liu turns up.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    American Psycho
    A withering condemnation of a culture where greed is a virtue, a culture that you don't have to feel guilty for laughing at.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Identity
    The film mixes the psychological with the supernatural, the profane with the ridiculous, the self-indulgent with the understated, and dares you to assume anything. It's all great fun.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Kaltenbach
    Team America: World Police
    Proves that marionettes can be as foul-mouthed and profane as their cartoon counterparts, but not nearly as clever.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Chris Kaltenbach
    Cloverfield
    Long on style and technique, short on substance and plot.
    • 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
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Inside Deep Throat
    When Inside Deep Throat is over, it's tough to say which tragic moment lingers longer.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Chris Kaltenbach
    Chocolat
    Has an unerring capacity for going soft whenever a hard edge is called for.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Chris Kaltenbach
    Blades of Glory
    This is Ferrell's movie, and one's tolerance for it will most likely be in direct proportion to one's tolerance for its star's vanity-free fearlessness.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Chris Kaltenbach
    State of Play
    Nothing is as it seems in State of Play, a crackerjack political thriller in which no individual, profession or institution gets away clean.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Kaltenbach
    Dragonfly
    Painstakingly painful.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Chris Kaltenbach
    Bright Young Things
    It fails to dig beneath that surface picture and offer up anything in the way of explanation or motivation.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Something New
    It does offer that most pleasant and valuable of viewing experiences: A message movie in which story and character come first.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Replete with so many wisecracks, puns, double entendres and visual jokes that you almost need a flow chart to keep up with them all. But try; the effort is definitely worthwhile, and the results are hilarious.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Shortbus
    Shortbus is nothing if not over-the-top, replete with consummated sex acts, both gay and straight.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    Fast Food Nation
    Fast Food Nation offers no easy answers, but plenty of food for thought.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Dancer in the Dark
    A film of so much daring, a film that takes so many chances, it's impossible not to be impressed.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Chris Kaltenbach
    16 Blocks
    As good as Willis is, he's no match for Mos Def.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Kaltenbach
    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    A remarkable film about a remarkable man who's lived the kind of life usually reserved for adventure novels and pulp fiction.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Sarah Silverman says things you wouldn't expect a nice, attractive Jewish girl to say. But that's only half her appeal.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Chris Kaltenbach
    Dear Frankie
    For anyone who has ever had to balance what the heart yearns for against what the head insists must be, this film should hit home.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Chris Kaltenbach
    How She Move
    There's tremendous energy in How She Move, so much that the audience can't help but be swept up.
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