Dan Kois

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Washington Post
For 13 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Dan Kois' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Summer Hours
Lowest review score: 25 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
13 movie reviews
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Dan Kois
    Faster
    In Faster, it's a car, not actors, that drives movie.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Dan Kois
    Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    And the action? It's especially hard to determine who's fighting whom in "Legends," because, well, because they are a bunch of owls.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Dan Kois
    The Crazies
    What's disappointing about The Crazies, though, is the lack of care that Eisner and screenwriters Scott Kosar and Ray Wright put into their film's atmosphere. There's little in the way of Romero-esque dread; Eisner substitutes a grim lack of humor and frequent splashes of gore.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Dan Kois
    Jackass 3-D
    Jackass is also a touching ode to male friendship at its most primal.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Kois
    Summer Hours
    Assayas's actors are so fascinating that I wished at times he had given the house less screen time and let his performers explore their characters more freely.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Kois
    Orlando
    It's not just Swinton's performances—first as a nobleman, then as a woman, then as a lover, then as a mother—that drive the film. Orlando is a movie deeply fascinated by performance, and so over and over again, we see characters putting on shows.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Dan Kois
    Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    Igor may be the most important composer of the 20th century, but he is a mere human. Coco, in this beautiful but indulgent French film, is a work of art.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Dan Kois
    Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Is it mindless fun for the kids in an air-conditioned environment? I guess, sure, but it's maddening how many details in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore are swiped wholesale from other stories.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Dan Kois
    Stonewall Uprising
    For a movie about a groundbreaking gay rebellion, Stonewall Uprising plays it much too straight.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Kois
    The Black Cauldron
    But there's still a great deal to love in The Black Cauldron. The untested animators Don Bluth left behind created some amazing sequences, including a dramatic scene of Taran's oracular pig, Hen Wen, being captured by pterodactyl-like gwythaints...For all its flaws, The Black Cauldron was a movie ahead of its time.
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