Desson Thomson

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Washington Post
For 1,968 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Desson Thomson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Vertigo
Lowest review score: 0 The Devil's Own
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 984 out of 1968
  2. Mixed: 544 out of 1968
  3. Negative: 440 out of 1968
1968 movie reviews
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    DragonHeart
    Another product from Industrial Light & Magic, this fire-breathing, soaring creature is a technical wonder to behold. But they've skimped on everything else. The script douses the movie's fiery potential and director Rob Cohen soaks all remaining embers with his cheap, made-for-TV direction.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    King Lear
    William Shakespeare would need a sense of humor to view Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear" without getting steamed up in his bodkins.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    RoboCop 3
    The movie, which is deadly slow and full of Japanese-bashing, is also an undisguised merchandising promo.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    3 Men and a Baby
    Director Leonard Nimoy does not use his ears for comedy -- nor his eyes, even. His three leads recite their lines as though they wanted to take their jumbo-sized salaries and run -- which, given this movie, maybe isn't such a dumb idea.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
    Slickers II is grounds for a stampede -- away from the theater.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    The Last Boy Scout
    It's a kill movie, the filmic equivalent of a hate crime.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    Amos & Andrew
    One thing's for sure about Amos & Andrew: It ain't no "Thelma & Louise."
    • 49 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    Casper
    There are a few sight gags that might amuse the kids, but for the most part, the computer-generated effects are highly disappointing.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    Mr. Destiny
    There isn't anything here you haven't seen already in It's a Wonderful Life and a thousand other wish-list movies. Writer/director James Orr doesn't even do you the favor of speeding through the unoriginality.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    Big Top Pee-wee
    In Big Adventure, Pee-wee's gadgety bike was stolen, and the dramatic interest rode on finding it. Big Top contains three rings' worth of people and livestock, but the interest is no-show. You'd be better off going to the circus. Or the zoo.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    Flipper
    An unimaginative boy-and-his-mammal saga with only tenuous connection to the old television series of the same name.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    Total Eclipse
    Presumably, there's a poignant story to be told about the love between 19th-century poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. But Agnieszka Holland's Total Eclipse, a pretentious, flat affair, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Rimbaud and David Thewlis as Verlaine, is not the film to pull it off.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 37 Desson Thomson
    Toys
    Unfortunately, it has no story. Toys is deader than a doornail.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Loser
    A second-rate romantic comedy.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    9 Songs
    Never did sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll seem more shopworn and routine.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    September Dawn
    It's a soap opera posing as moral outrage.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Sylvia
    Seems to avoid any kind of edgy, precedent-making attitude, some point of view that feels charged, divisive and consequently alive.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    The Pacifier
    With no real comedy to enjoy, it's torture to watch Diesel undergo a predictable change from emotionless soldier to loving family man. Makes you want to spit out your pacifier in disgust.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Bewitched
    It sinks so deep and fast, you don't even see bubbles on the surface.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Bicentennial Man
    A cold, protracted and unemotional affair.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Chaos Theory
    In Chaos Theory, Reynolds's performance is taut, crabby and tense. And his beard and glasses, which intensify those already narrow eyes, suggest a mad bomb-builder rather than a hapless soul with whom we can identify.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Rugrats Go Wild
    The exuberance of the Rugrats seems nullified by the effete quirkiness of the Thornberrys.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Jersey Girl
    The film oozes sentimentality, soap-opera bathos and clumsy cribbings from the Frank Capra book of small-town values. Those are its good points.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    It just doesn't work...This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Shark Tale
    This movie just doesn't match its predecessors.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Anything Else
    The movie doesn't have the energy to be truly horrible. It's too muted and enervated. But it's a somewhat tedious thing to sit through.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Alex & Emma
    The inside story is weak, dull and head-poundingly boring, and the outside story is only slightly better, thanks to the lukewarm likability of its two stars.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    House of Wax
    You'll be rooting for these people to get slaughtered out of sheer boredom.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    My First Mister
    Although the movie has its moments, it's a tearjerker that jerks too hard.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Desson Thomson
    Hollywood Homicide
    Hollywood Homicide is about murder, all right: the wholesale slaughter of anything funny, original or even vaguely logical.
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