Connie Ogle

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Miami Herald
For 706 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Connie Ogle's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The King's Speech
Lowest review score: 0 Rollerball
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 395 out of 706
  2. Mixed: 191 out of 706
  3. Negative: 120 out of 706
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Sex and the City
    Turns out to be a more disappointment than joyful reunion, a tedious and desperately drawn-out affair that tests your patience even as it brazenly courts (and often earns) your contempt.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Keeping Mum
    In Keeping Mum, the writers poke gentle, broad fun at the absurdities of English country life and manners while creating a cozy malevolence that's all the more engaging because it lies so far from reality. We know we mustn't murder our loathsome neighbors. But how much fun it is to imagine that we might.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Lost and Delirious
    Lost and Delirious doesn't need metaphors for the power of strength and healing. All the passion and pain it needs glows ferociously in the eyes of its young women.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Vanity Fair
    With more time and a dash more cynicism, the film just might have achieved the thrilling allure of Becky Sharp's perfectly icy heart.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    De-Lovely
    There are not enough thrilling musical interludes, and few come close to capturing the sly joy in Porter's music.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Palindromes
    Solondz's determinedly removed eye for the graphic and shocking is by now practically a cliche. If Solondz really wants to outrage anyone, he'll have to make a sweet and heartfelt drama.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    We Are Marshall
    Equally thrilling and wrenching, the film is an absolute must for anyone who loves sports and an eloquent explanation for those who don't understand what the fuss is about.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Only two characters are worth much notice; neither is a prince, and one is a really big mouse, which tells you something sad about Narnia's royal family.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Focus
    This film and Miller's vision remind us of the danger of giving in to fear.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Mr. Popper's Penguins
    Penguins are intrinsically amusing. In general, Jim Carrey is amusing, too, provided you can overlook that whole "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" debacle. In Mr. Popper's Penguins, he and they add up to surprisingly fun family entertainment.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    A Good Woman
    A witty and engaging bit of fluff about sex, scandal, idleness, gossip, blackmail, guilty secrets and, most surprisingly, redemption.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Bachelorette
    The film is also less bloated than "Bridesmaids" - a comedy is always more nimble at 90 minutes than two hours - and it's less maudlin, too. It's the aberrant, foul-mouthed child of "Superbad" and "Young Adult."
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Connie Ogle
    Wanderlust
    There's no real reason to see this movie. It's exhausting and pointless and not amusing enough to make up for its failings. You can do better. The filmmakers could have done better. Honestly, you're better off staying home and making hummus.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Brooklyn Rules
    It's not quite layered or weighty enough to fill the aching hole left in our psyches by the end of "The Sopranos," and most of the developments are as obvious as sauce on spaghetti. Still, Brooklyn Rules is a decent, if derivative, movie.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Beauty Shop
    Has nothing new to say, but it has a lot of fun covering the same old territory.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Connie Ogle
    Eight Legged Freaks
    Limps along, spinning not a silken web but an extremely derivative, tattered one not likely to snare anybody's interest.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Marley & Me
    Marley & Me gets so many of the details right, particularly in its final act, when it turns into a five-hanky weeper.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    White House Down
    This is getting old.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Connie Ogle
    The Nativity Story
    A star rises in the east. A savior is born. Two thousand years later, a surprisingly dull film is made.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Anger Management
    What we're left with is an unfocused, rambling concept that lumbers off the ground but never really soars to the level of lunacy it could, especially at the afterthought of an ending, which is nonsensical at best.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Connie Ogle
    Down with Love
    Explicitly invites us to mock its artificiality and giggly cluelessness, but beyond its attractive shell the film rings hollow. These days, even a comedy has got to have a heart.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    The Holiday
    This melding of comedic minds is one of the better holiday gifts we've received, cinematically speaking.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Black Snake Moan
    It's easy to work up a good head of feminist steam over the misogyny and downright idiocy of a story that suggests that the tyranny of a righteous man can prevent an abused girl from making poor and whorish fashion choices. But it's hard to dismiss completely this atmospheric and persistently intriguing film.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    The Mothman Prophecies
    Better than its trailers indicate. Forget the seemingly silly Chapstick moment: Any film that sends a cold shock to your system is doing something right.
    • Miami Herald
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Connie Ogle
    The Independent
    Excruciatingly unamusing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Gridiron Gang
    Gridiron Gang is not imaginative, but neither is it painful to watch.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Connie Ogle
    The Lake House
    The Lake House overflows with heart-stopping thrills, if by ''thrills'' you mean ''watching attractive people wait around for letters to be delivered by mystical forces.'' Which, come to think of it, makes this romantic melodrama sound a lot more interesting than it is.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Possession
    It is entertaining enough to send intelligent viewers (but only the intelligent ones) in search of the book.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Serendipity
    Serendipity's finale is a perfect crowd-pleaser, sweet and unlikely and over the top.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Gracie
    Guggenheim managed to turn a Power Point presentation into a crowd-pleasing Academy Award winner, but he can't do much to free Gracie from its constraints and clichés.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Dark Water
    Unlike "The Ring," Dark Water -- which features one of the mad, whispery ghost children who populate such films -- is never actually frightening.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Running with Scissors
    While the attentive art direction of Running With Scissors pays scrupulous and imaginative attention to period detail, the film overlooks its greatest asset: Burroughs.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Last Holiday
    Predictable but enjoyable comedy, which succeeds largely on the charm of its star.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Insidious
    By the time it's over, Insidious is less scary than a mortgage payment.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    The Iron Lady
    The Iron Lady never delves deeply enough into the politics or the people, preferring instead to make us feel bad about the unfortunate way in which old age levels us all.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Water for Elephants
    "Twilight's" Robert Pattinson gets a chance to shed his sparkly vampire persona and play a romantic lead with a pulse. The change suits him.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Half-hearted satire of Hollywood and small-town life, and Bosworth is not particularly memorable in it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Labor Day
    If you can get past the ludicrous fantasy — well, wait, that’s the problem. You can’t get past the ludicrous fantasy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Beautiful Creatures
    There’s potential here, a decent story and a cast well-stocked with grownup cinematic luminaries. But this supernatural Gothic romance is a prisoner of its own demons, which include sketchy Southern accents, tacky and tired stereotypes and faux homespun dialogue in the wrong mouths.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    The Age of Adaline
    The Age of Adaline is a modern romantic fairy tale set in San Francisco, marred by bad narration and an unnecessary desire to overexplain random magic.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    A Walk in the Woods
    Too much of the breezy humor that made the book a delight is stripped away, replaced with predictable jokes and broad slapstick, sitcom-quality encounters with women and bears and a pushy, grating sentimentality.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Cesar Chavez
    That rare biopic that’s shorter and swifter than it should be. This turns out to be both a blessing and a curse.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    You can’t shake the feeling the script is trying too hard to please, upping the drama despite the fact that what made the first film so enjoyable was its relative simplicity.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Feast of Love
    Mostly due to luminous writing, Baxter's novel evoked a sense of magic, but this Feast, though never completely uninteresting, leaves you hungry for enchantment.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Jack the Giant Slayer
    A competent but utterly unnecessary retelling of the story.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Asylum
    The film, with its uniformly terrific cast, stern Gothic overtones and steady but measured pacing, is a crisp, old-fashioned delight, eschewing cheap tricks for repeated tiny pricks of unease that work up to a continuous gnawing dread.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Birthday Girl
    Won't make you forget Kidman's better work, but it's not a film you long to excise from your memory.
    • Miami Herald
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Le divorce
    This is an insignificant film with a passably entertaining premise that goes wildly to hell the instant it strays from its comic ideals with brief, unsatisfying detours into the realms of art and high-end lingerie.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Think Like a Man
    It's all about making everybody happy. If that's not grounds for a good relationship, then I don't know what is.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Connie Ogle
    My Date with Drew
    But if My Date With Drew is what passes for filmmaking these days, the movie industry is in more trouble than we thought.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    The Face of Love
    Thoughtfully directed and co-written by Arie Posin, the film is not a ghost story, nor is it played for campy laughs, but its melodramatic subject matter flirts with Douglas Sirk territory — and sometimes just dives right into it.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Saint Ralph
    The sins of the inspirational Saint Ralph are venial, but they undeniably prevent the small Canadian film from stretching beyond the boundaries of an After School Special.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    This engaging documentary is briskly funny.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Johnny English
    Despite its contemporary-sounding anti-French cracks, could easily have been made 20 years ago.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Me Before You
    Me Before You is a sugar-coated romantic bauble, not a gritty documentary. Giving into its pleasures is not for everyone, but its message — live boldly, as the movie’s hashtag encourages — is an admonition that’s awfully hard to argue.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Predators
    Little happens that you don't see coming, down to which cast members will get picked off and in what order. It's a dumb action movie in a summer full of dumb movies, and yet it's always entertaining. And you won't really miss Arnold at all.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Hotel for Dogs
    A lively, funny, imaginative film that should appeal to kids and their pet-loving parents.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Just Wright
    If you can overlook that last little bit of sports fantasy, you just might like Just Wright.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Assassination Tango
    Assassination Tango offers little heat. In dancing with death, Duvall stumbles a few too many times.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    My Mother Likes Women
    Wins you over with this bright sense of humor and its gentle, welcome message of tolerance and acceptance.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Lucía, Lucía
    The charms of Lucía, Lucía rely heavily on the charismatic Roth, who is funny and warm and a lot of fun to watch as she embraces her new life.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 0 Connie Ogle
    The Brown Bunny
    There are not enough synonyms for ''bad'' to describe the pretension and utter banality of the masturbatory The Brown Bunny, a film so exhaustively awful even its creator Vincent Gallo once disavowed it.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    John Carter
    John Carter manages to be a ridiculous amount of fun, even if you are immune to the charms of Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights) running around in what amounts to a stylish loincloth.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    My Sister's Keeper
    You might call My Sister's Keeper manipulative, and you would not be inaccurate.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Anonymous
    The cast is impressive, and the story even soapier than "The Tudors," if you like that sort of thing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Roger Dodger
    In the end, Roger Dodger doesn't really add up to much. Guys can be jerks when they're lonely, or even when they're not. It's not news. But Kidd's version of this truth shows he's a writer worth watching.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Closed Circuit
    It’s filmed with a sharp eye and filled with good performances.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Eat Pray Love
    The film is far from perfect, but it's likely to inspire more than few quests for balance -- or at least a fabulous bowl of linguine.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    No Reservations
    Fails to offer a single moment you don't see coming but its cast is appealing, and it provides a welcome respite from young wizards, talking robots that turn into trucks and other staples of this long, hot, boy-focused summer.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    A Family Affair
    It's a pleasure to see acceptance portrayed so matter-of-factly. May never happen in our lifetimes, but Lesnick's vision of tolerance is a soothing thought, anyway.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    It's a lot more entertaining than box office success "Scooby-Doo" and more honest, too. When Irwin plays out a scene with a reptilian, you can be sure the croc is not computer-generated.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    The Guilt Trip
    The humor is mostly gentle in nature; The Guilt Trip is clearly targeted at older audiences less than receptive to the crude jokes that made Rogen famous in movies like "Knocked Up" and "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Management
    It's pretty much a waste of everyone's time, especially yours.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    The Campaign
    Still, though it's crude and juvenile in ways that makes you vaguely ashamed at laughing so much, The Campaign is versatile enough to sneak in a good shot or two at the American political system.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Letters to Juliet
    Letters to Juliet will never be mistaken for an epic romance -- too light, too silly, too mistake-prone -- but the ingredients of its tasty chick-flick stew are tried and true.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    Overall, the film's sheer mediocrity prevents Thurman from flying to its rescue.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Welcome to the Rileys
    Sets out to be a study of grief and how to overcome it, but it rings too false to offer much hope - or entertainment.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    The Other Boleyn Girl
    Think "Cruel Intentions" in period costume, or better yet, Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette," which managed to take its subject matter lightly and seriously at the same time.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Connie Ogle
    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    There's plenty of action, but it's all the same.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Lucky You
    If you're not a rabid fan of Texas hold 'em -- the poker phenomenon that swept the country a couple of years ago but is hardly cutting edge now -- you might want to step quickly away from Lucky You.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    The Reckoning
    Far more imaginative and intriguingly moody than other recent thrillers.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Sidewalks of New York
    Romantic comedies don't have to be profound when they are as appealing as this one.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    The Fifth Estate
    Assange is a compelling figure that merited a better effort.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    The Best Offer
    Screenwriter/director Tornatore is best known for his nostalgic "Cinema Paradiso," which won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1990. But The Best Offer is completely different in style and tone; it’s dark instead of light, a psychological thriller of sorts, only with Virgil’s heart and orderly life in peril instead of his life.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Shoot 'Em Up
    Despite all the flying bullets, which are admittedly entertaining at times, Shoot 'Em Up doesn't offer enough bang for your bucks.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Broken City
    If nothing else, Broken City manages to pull off a difficult feat: It's too convoluted to follow and simultaneously too simplistic to be believed.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Hancock
    The real hit of the movie is the hilarious Bateman. His low-key humor makes you wish Hancock could have saved Bateman's short-lived sitcom "Arrested Development." Now that would have been heroic.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Tristan and Isolde
    Deadly serious, straightforward and surprisingly entertaining tragedy.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    I Think I Love My Wife
    It's unimaginative, crude and so derivative it hurts.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    The Monkey's Mask
    McGillis, though, is the film's worst enemy. Her wooden attempts to recreate Kathleen Turner circa 1981 undermine too many scenes.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Imagine Me & You
    A tepid sort of romantic comedy, with lengthy stretches during which nothing much happens punctuated by bouts of paralyzing boredom or, on rare occasions, random but fleeting hilarity.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Lola Versus
    This is a movie that manages to be light and funny and still transcend age, background and culture to treat with compassion our ability to behave in our own worst interests and still nurture hope for the future.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    The Emperor's Club
    More than just another feel-good teacher movie.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    Rosenstrasse
    Shares an important slice of German history that is largely unknown.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Connie Ogle
    Cake
    There are some who may lament Aniston’s choice to step out of her comfortable comedy shoes and little black dresses, but the decision was sound: The best reason to see Cake — the sort of film that makes your life look pretty good in comparison — is to watch her deliver her best dramatic performance to date.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Connie Ogle
    The Banger Sisters
    Likable, cheerfully off-color comedy.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    Something of an overlong, overblown, disorganized mess, despite being slightly better than its predecessor.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    My First Mister
    Sobieski manages to make Jennifer's inevitable transformation more than a little bittersweet. Apparently even clichés click sometimes.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Connie Ogle
    50 First Dates
    You can tell they're desperate when they unashamedly resort to showcasing cutesy sea-creature behavior. Sandler is a funny guy. Let him work for his own laughs. He doesn't need a puking walrus to prop him up.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Connie Ogle
    The Counselor
    What you don’t expect is camp. The Counselor is more "Wild Things" than "No Country for Old Men", with which it shares a border town setting. But at least "Wild Things" knew what it was. The Counselor treats its material seriously and seems to have no idea it’s a joke that can’t even muster up a bit of smarty-pants Tarantino cleverness or energy.
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