Dennis Lim

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For 287 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 29% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 69% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 16.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Dennis Lim's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 49
Highest review score: 100 The Intruder
Lowest review score: 0 Boat Trip
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 84 out of 287
  2. Mixed: 110 out of 287
  3. Negative: 93 out of 287
287 movie reviews
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Dennis Lim
    That's My Face
    The movie might test your tolerance for the mystical, but its whispery vagueness is of a piece with the luxuriantly grainy atmospherics.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Dennis Lim
    The Minus Man
    Less interesting for what it has to say about evil -- namely, that it's banal/unknowable/random/everywhere -- than for the microsurgical procedures it performs on genre conventions and expectations.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Dennis Lim
    Trapped
    Luis Mandoki's brisk hack job pushes no more buttons than Connie Chung Tonight -- though, for better or worse, it's perverse enough to stage the traumatic event as a spouse swap.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Dennis Lim
    A Chronicle of Corpses
    McElhinney may have made the ultimate anti-calling card, a movie bold and deranged enough to tip its hat to Edgar Ulmer and Barry Lyndon.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Dennis Lim
    The Virgin Suicides
    Coppola looks beyond the seductive metaphysical puzzle and locates the core of Eugenides's allegory in an obsessive, almost forensic act of remembering, both futile and inexplicably essential.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Dennis Lim
    Cinemania
    Built on a foundation of cinephilia, Cinemania is a valentine of sorts to this movie mecca (you have to love a city, and a film culture, that can sustain such bottomless appetites).
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Dennis Lim
    The Intruder
    The Intruder, is a decisive breakthrough--her (Claire Denis) most poetic and primal film to date, as thrilling as it is initially baffling.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Dennis Lim
    Gasoline
    Devoid of originality, Gasoline is at least a model of modesty -- a road movie that goes nowhere slowly, and ends up where it began.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Dennis Lim
    5x2
    Deceptively placid and subtly unpredictable drama.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Dennis Lim
    View from the Top
    The film, meanwhile, goes for that choppy, air-pocket sensation, veteran helmer Bruno Barreto directing like he's never made a movie before, and never wants to again.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Dennis Lim
    Ocean's Twelve
    Funnier and sprightlier than Eleven, which exhibited a genial self-consciousness but never thought to challenge the genre textbook, Twelve is committed to not taking itself seriously.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Dennis Lim
    Meet the Fockers
    For a Ben Stiller rom-com, there's remarkably little pain and humiliation. Which, for the most part, is not a good thing.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Dennis Lim
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    A tongue-in-cheek allegory on the hazards of harboring secrets in a relationship, Mr. & Mrs. Smith is most entertaining when the Smiths are hell-bent on mutual annihilation.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Dennis Lim
    CQ
    Endearing but pointless, at once cluttered and tinny, this film-dork fantasia suggests a shopping spree at a high-end vintage emporium underwritten by Daddy's blank check.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Dennis Lim
    Afraid of Everything
    A stifling chamber piece laced with Repulsion-style foreboding and an undercurrent of kink.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Dennis Lim
    Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    Lee's trickery is dazzling in flashes but also monotonously strenuous -- the derangement factor is high but there's little evidence of authentic lunacy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Dennis Lim
    Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
    At heart, a work of infectious, unironic affection.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Dennis Lim
    Snow Falling on Cedars
    Trying to act in this movie is like trying to stand upright in a blizzard.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Dennis Lim
    Beyond Vanilla
    The cheerful how-to aspect ("cut and file your nails!") adds to the sense that the whole thing seems to have drifted in from some late-night infomercial netherland.
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