Elizabeth Kerr

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The Hollywood Reporter
For 41 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 29% higher than the average critic
  • 29% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Elizabeth Kerr's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 80 Twilight's Kiss
Lowest review score: 20 Ajin: Demi-Human
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 41
  3. Negative: 3 out of 41
41 movie reviews
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Elizabeth Kerr
    Shin Godzilla (Godzilla Resurgence)
    The mother of all allegorical monsters takes on new meaning in a talky, vaguely nationalistic reboot that slips on like a comfortable sweater, even if it’s a sweater with some holes in it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Elizabeth Kerr
    Sunrise
    Challenging and richly realized, the drama about a cop wrestling with guilt over his young daughter’s disappearance effortlessly and effectively weaves together fantasy and reality, melding the tension of cop thrillers with the introspection of a psychological drama.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Elizabeth Kerr
    Kill Zone 2
    Far from being the convoluted mess it could have been, incoming director Cheang Pou-soi (Yip serves as a producer) crafts a tight, swiftly paced action yarn that ensures viewers won’t be pining for the presence of the first film’s stars, Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Elizabeth Kerr
    Chongqing Hot Pot
    The trouble with Chongqing Hot Pot is that despite its brief running time, it takes too long to bring its various threads together.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Elizabeth Kerr
    Rise of the Legend
    While Chow and Taiwanese star Eddie Peng aren’t going to make anyone forget Tsui Hark and Jet Li’s defining Once Upon a Time in China, or for that matter Jackie Chan’s earlier spin on Wong in Drunken Master, they do a frequently thrilling job with a familiar story.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Elizabeth Kerr
    The Monkey King 2
    The Monkey King 2 is served well by Cheang’s willingness to keep the story straightforward and linear, weaving the various threads together seamlessly and complementing it with its outré action and stunts rather than smothering it with them.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Elizabeth Kerr
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
    The emotional connective tissue that made Lee’s film so poetic, romantic, tragic and thrilling is missing here, reducing Sword of Destiny to a series of loosely related fight sequences and gauzy, overwrought flashbacks.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Elizabeth Kerr
    The Mermaid
    With no time for allegory or parable, the fantastical Mermaid delivers its message without a shred of subtlety (and is unapologetic about it) but with considerable charm, wit and darkness to make up for it.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Elizabeth Kerr
    Point Break
    Ericson Core’s Point Break strips the silly fun and relatively straight-ahead narrative from the original for a humorless, if photogenic spin on extreme crime.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Elizabeth Kerr
    Ajin: Demi-Human
    Hackneyed and familiar — entirely unnecessary seems obvious — Motohiro again takes a property that’s been overworked (he helmed an endless series of Bayside Shakedown movies spun off from television) for a pedestrian sci-fi jaunt that brings nothing new to the table.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Elizabeth Kerr
    The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful
    As deliciously evil and manipulative as Wai is as Madame Tang, The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful is also egregiously complicated, with so many rival families, ministers and ambitious industrialists crowding the story (often for a single scene) they start to blur into one forgettable lump; there’s a fine line between enigmatic and obfuscating.
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