David Chute

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L.A. Weekly, Variety
For 72 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 18% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David Chute's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Incredibles
Lowest review score: 20 Jai Ho
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 72
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 72
  3. Negative: 9 out of 72
72 movie reviews
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Typhoon
    The movie is executed by director Kwak Kyung-Taek with flair, technical polish and tumescent firepower that the shriveled cinemas of Hong Kong and Japan can no longer match. But every gesture feels synthetic, from the back story about North-South separation to massage the emotions of the home audience, to the 24-style globe-hopping nuclear-terrorism premise.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Skip the movie, stay home, read the book and say three Hail Marys.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Curse of the Golden Flower
    In the end, Curse also looks alarmingly like a dry run for the opening and closing ceremonies Zhang has been hired to direct for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Vodka Lemon
    Exceedingly dry and precise and slow-paced comedy.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    This sophomoric stuff is pure self-indulgence, a drone to accompany the admittedly eye-popping sound-and-light show. Oshii looks like yet another director who has gone off the deep end, believing too absolutely his own good reviews.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    The buildup is so compelling in this "Chinese Western" by He Ping (Swordsman in Double Flag Town) that its thunderous anticlimax of an ending can almost be forgiven. Almost.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Sakura Wars
    As a story it’s nothing much, but as eye candy it is world-class.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Fifty-Fifty
    Schizo is an earnest also-ran, sadly muffled by the opaque performance of non-actor Oldzhas Nusupbayev.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    This often gripping but also unremittingly grim and drab account of these events is a "Taxi Driver" without the cathartic finale.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Dhoom 3
    At their best, the lush yet punchy musical numbers that Acharya stages for Dhoom: 3 reach giddy heights of pop romanticism.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Gozu
    The various disruptions Miike visits upon his stories, and upon his audience, serve mainly to focus attention on the manipulating intelligence behind the scenes. They're a fancy way of yelling, "Look at me!"
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    The Ring
    In the final reel, the tension dissipates with a flabby hiss, as the film devolves into a banal, conventional ghost story.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Gandhi, My Father
    Gandhi, My Father radiates sincerity. It’s a beautifully shot and staged period reconstruction, and is at times impressively acted, at least in the secondary roles. What it lacks is fresh insight.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    The cast of the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire romped strenuously through a plot that would be old hat as a two-parter on a sitcom.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Where's the Party Yaar?
    Mathews has obvious storytelling chops, and a sharp eye for absurdity. But there are sacred cows in hip, progressive America, too, and the truly fearless satirist has to be a carnivore.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    2 Fast 2 Furious
    This shaggy-dog sequel is ultimately satisfying for the most low-tech of reasons: The competitive bond between the two central characters.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Ta Ra Rum Pum
    The film is so single-mindedly determined to be light and comfortable, to not raise a sweat, that it forgoes even the mildest surprises. The only things that get heavy here are the viewer's eyelids.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Like Mike
    A solidly crafted family comedy.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
    As a narrative, “Evangelion 3.0″ may make you feel your brain is turning into goat cheese. As a showcase for pure visual ingenuity and splendor, though, it rocks.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Meet the Fockers
    Feels like a big-budget "Dharma & Greg" episode with toilet jokes.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Heartthrob
    Apart from an extended scene-setting flashback that takes the form of a lavish Farah Khan song-and-dance montage, most of the running time is devoted to wearying flop-sweat farce.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Appleseed
    The film's snazzy new automated animation style falls short: The supposedly human face of our metal-plated robocop's partner -- the inevitable curvy female in a leather jump suit -- is an inexpressive, glossy doll mask, untouched by human hands.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    After the Sunset
    Instantly forgettable caper comedy.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Bollywood/Hollywood
    Perhaps it is simply impossible, even with affection in your heart, to craft an evocative homage to the expansive musical melodramas of Bollywood on a small-scale indie budget.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The only thing remotely resembling a character arc is handed to Regina King, the ferocious Margie Hendricks in "Ray."
    • 31 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Don't Tempt Me
    Perhaps only a filmmaker from a country steeped in Catholicism could turn out a consistently sharp and profane "divine comedy" (the title means "blessed hell") that is also, for the most part, theologically correct.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Chander Pahar (Mountains Of The Moon)
    It’s a tale that was once thrilling, but the thrills seem to have evaporated.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Pokémon Heroes
    Surprisingly, not bad.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Half Past Dead
    The most exhilarating fight by far is an acrobatic wall climber between Ja Rule and Nia Peeples, choreographed by Hong Kong's Xin Xin Xong (The Musketeer) who, in terms of thrills per minute, is the movie's real star.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Charly
    It simply takes faith for granted as a motivating factor, and thus pulls off the neat trick of never making us feel we’re being preached at -- Yet, as directed by first-timer Adam Anderegg, from Jack Weyland's 1980 novel, the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications.
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