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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    • 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!"
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 David Chute
    House of Flying Daggers
    The most seamless piece of sensuous expressionism Zhang has created since "Ju Dou" (1990).
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    Fanaa
    The movie’s entire first half turns out to be an elaborate fake-out, a setup for a plot reversal so extreme it could induce whiplash even in seasoned Bollywood hands. As clumsily engineered by writer-director Kunal Kohli (Hum Tum), the sudden changeover from romance to political techno-thriller is likely to be especially startling for non-Indians.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Like Mike
    A solidly crafted family comedy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 David Chute
    My Heart Goes Hadippa
    Ultimately, what’s most noteworthy about this middling effort is how aggressively un-contemporary it is.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 David Chute
    Returner
    Silly, derivative stuff.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Roadside Romeo
    It would be charitable to forgive this first attempt its technical shortcomings; while the virtual set design is first-rate, the character animation is often clunky and inexpressive. What's harder to excuse is the drabness of the storytelling, the repetitive sitcom dilemmas that are closer to "Top Cat" than "Ratatouille."
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 David Chute
    Laaga Chunari Mein Daag: Journey of a Woman
    The movie works so hard to transform its shocking subject into acceptable material for middlebrow melodrama that it never deals with it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 David Chute
    Meet the Fockers
    Feels like a big-budget "Dharma & Greg" episode with toilet jokes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 David Chute
    Ong Bak
    However shrewdly he's been packaged, Tony Jaa is the real thing.
    • 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.
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