Christopher Brandon

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For 44 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Christopher Brandon's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Toy Story 2
Lowest review score: 0 Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 44
  3. Negative: 9 out of 44
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    Being John Malkovich
    Unfortunately, no awards committee is hip enough to praise this strange masterpiece.
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Christopher Brandon
    Toy Story 2
    One of those rare sequels that's even better than the original.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 65 Christopher Brandon
    Boys Don't Cry
    It's essentially a play-by-play of events that's so cheaply made it reeks of made-for-TV status.
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    The Matrix
    The Wachowski Brothers have created some of the most unrivaled and imaginative sci-fi in years.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Christopher Brandon
    American Beauty
    A dark comical masterpiece that single-handedly announces the collapse of the American family infrastructure as it exists on the brink of Y2K.
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 40 Christopher Brandon
    Election
    Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    Three Kings
    It's full of energy and drops an emotional bomb with its unexpected tale of reluctant heroes.
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    The Blair Witch Project
    The what-you-don't-see element makes this an excellent film for people with overactive imaginations, and if that's you, it will scare the living crap out of you.
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Christopher Brandon
    Princess Mononoke
    Like a lot of anime, it's overlong and gets way too metaphysical at the end, but ultimately, this is a Princess worth worshipping.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    The talented Mr. Minghella is aping Alfred Hitchcock as effectively as Tom Ripley is doing Dickie Greenleaf.
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Brandon
    The Cider House Rules
    This is a warm, accessible story with delightful characters and a nice metaphor about following your own rules.
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    Go
    Manages to present rave youth's on-the-go attitude as well as "Swingers" exposed its hipster culture.
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    It's super!
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Christopher Brandon
    The Limey
    Soderbergh, like Tarantino, has a knack for making every shady character onscreen fascinating.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Christopher Brandon
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Fans of the greatest working film director will be pleased.
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 30 Christopher Brandon
    Galaxy Quest
    It seems as if it was made by people who have never actually watched an episode of Star Trek. So all the old poke-fun-at-Trekkies cliches are here.
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Christopher Brandon
    Eyes Wide Shut
    It's a mind-blowing game, and all that nonsense about this being an erotic thriller was merely part of Kubrick's game.
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Brandon
    Stir of Echoes
    All that suspense falls dead at its climax, which proves to be a bore. The absence of a surprise ending and the lackluster spooks make this one worth skipping. I'm going back to see "The Sixth Sense."
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Brandon
    The End of the Affair
    Moore and Fiennes both give impassioned, sexy performances.
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Christopher Brandon
    Sleepy Hollow
    In between all this head-scratching nonsense, Sleepy Hollow can be fun, usually whenever the Headless Horseman shows up for swordplay that's better than anything in "The Phantom Menace."
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    Boiler Room
    The definitive representation of young American men at the start of the 21st century.
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Christopher Brandon
    Dogma
    Frequently hilarious, often profound, and occasionally stupid.
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    American History X
    What makes this film so powerful is that its unanswered questions force the audience to examine hate and its consequences making American History X one lesson you can't miss.
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    • 95 Christopher Brandon
    Snow Falling on Cedars
    Scott Hicks adapts David Guterson's best-selling novel as if it was poetry.
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Christopher Brandon
    The Green Mile
    So moving, so memorable, so magically produced, it's going to delight millions of movie fans and sweep the Oscars.
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    Fantasia 2000
    Walt would be proud.
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 85 Christopher Brandon
    Anywhere But Here
    Sarandon and Portman have sizzling electricity that makes every funny, touching or sad moment between them seem even more fascinating than the last.
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 90 Christopher Brandon
    Life Is Beautiful
    Its unique message about laughing in the face of evil clearly reveals that life is beautiful.
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 45 Christopher Brandon
    The World Is Not Enough
    James Bond hasn't been this boring since Timothy Dalton carried the license to kill.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Christopher Brandon
    Scream 3
    First rule of a film trilogy: Part 3 sucks. See "The Godfather 3,"" Alien 3,"" Jaws 3." Even "Return of the Jedi" was just a rehash of "Star Wars" with muppets. Add Scream 3 to that trend.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 10 Christopher Brandon
    The Minus Man
    Really a big fat zero. Hampton Fancher has done the unthinkable -- he's made a boring serial killer movie.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 85 Christopher Brandon
    Angela's Ashes
    I didn't want it to end. I could have easily sat there for another two-and-a-half hours to find out what happens next.
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Christopher Brandon
    The Big Tease
    (Ferguson is) so cheeky and effeminate, he becomes more of a caricature than an actual person.
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Christopher Brandon
    The Mummy
    It's not nearly as much fun as the action-packed trailer makes it seem.
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 0 Christopher Brandon
    Romance
    The film so strongly fixates on strange, explicit sexual acts that it forgoes any emotional (i.e. romantic) aspects of sex.
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Christopher Brandon
    Dog Park
    A mangy dog of a movie that should have been re-scripted by a better writer and directed by a better filmmaker.
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 45 Christopher Brandon
    The Beach
    The titular beach really is stunning. But the second hour is an incomprehensible mess that's too dark for Leo's Teen People fanbase and too convenient for the arthouse crowd.
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Christopher Brandon
    Drive Me Crazy
    A poor excuse to put out a soundtrack of teen pop songs.
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Christopher Brandon
    The 13th Warrior
    My biggest complaint: Following two nasty bloodbaths and an invasion of the creatures' lair, the final showdown seems anti-climactic.
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Christopher Brandon
    Random Hearts
    It risks the believability factor for anyone who's ever been cheated on or lost a loved one.
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 0 Christopher Brandon
    Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    One of the worst movies released this year.
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 75 Christopher Brandon
    End of Days
    A devilishly fun blow-em-up that pits The Terminator vs. The Fallen One.
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Christopher Brandon
    Diamonds
    A dud.
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 35 Christopher Brandon
    Bats
    Everything in it is old bat.
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