Ella Taylor

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L.A. Weekly, NPR, Variety, Village Voice
For 948 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ella Taylor's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 I'm Going Home
Lowest review score: 0 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 573 out of 948
  2. Mixed: 310 out of 948
  3. Negative: 65 out of 948
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Isn't She Great
    Lame comic-strip excuse for a biopic.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 0 Ella Taylor
    Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    A schizoid monster slapped together by uneasy bedfellows.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Ella Taylor
    The Butterfly Effect
    An undercooked allusion to chaos theory -- gives every appearance of having been conceived, planned and executed out of a high school locker room.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Brothers
    Bier's portrayal of the brothers' interplay holds few surprises, and the exploitation of the war between East and West is vulgar, contrived and borderline racist.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Loser
    Squeak(s) by to make Loser justify the price of admission.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Ella Taylor
    Lake Placid
    By the end of this mercifully short excuse for a horror movie, you'll be wishing the beast had chowed down on the entire ensemble.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Ella Taylor
    Passion of Mind
    It's hard to imagine a movie at once more pandering and insulting to adult women
    • 72 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    The Woodsman
    Overblown melodrama, as muddle-headed as it is palpably sincere.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    The Road Home
    By all current standards it's a startlingly ingenuous film.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Black Book
    A viscerally effective thriller ends up a repugnant exercise in moral relativism, delivered with the grandstanding swagger of the self-styled provocateur.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Ella Taylor
    An Ideal Husband
    Parker has boiled An Ideal Husband into a thuddingly unimaginative costume drama laden with frocks, riding crops, servile butlers and very good actors desperately treading water.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Ella Taylor
    It's All About Love
    Vinterberg's execution is overstuffed, unoriginal and often downright incomprehensible. And what's Sean Penn doing dangling off airplanes -- pontificating, as usual, from a great height?
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Or
    Doggedly refusing artifice as if cinematic beauty were a filthy capitalist plot, Yedaya drowns her characters in realist grit, a colorless screenplay and no score to speak of, rendering this open book of a movie alienating in all the wrong ways.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Night Falls on Manhattan
    Without serious political and ethical stakes, the story limps to a halt, shrouded in platitude and faux drama.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    The Governess
    As dull to listen to as it is gorgeous to look at.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Music and Lyrics
    Among its other sins, the disposable romantic comedy Music and Lyrics fluffs a golden opportunity to make hay with Grant's dark side.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Life Is Beautiful
    The director gives us not just a pop Holocaust but a prettified, palatable Holocaust.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Ella Taylor
    A Knight's Tale
    The skits are dreadful, the jokes suck.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Don't Come Knocking
    So radiantly awful that, given the egghead credentials of the director and his screenwriter and star Sam Shepard, I initially took the charitable route and assumed I was in the presence of parody.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Ella Taylor
    Portraits chinois
    The predicaments of this whiny, unprepossessing crew inspire about as much sympathy as a celebrity divorce.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 10 Ella Taylor
    Metroland
    Replete with false dilemmas, assisted by a dreadfully stagy screenplay and directed with all the animation of a tableau vivant, Metroland is such a draggy bore.
    • L.A. Weekly
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Apt Pupil
    Heartless piece of ill will.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Dead Man's Shoes
    Like so many movies of its kind, Dead Man's Shoes gets hopelessly lost in vicious process, and so loses all sight of anything you might optimistically call insight.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    A Family Affair
    Barely competent. The pacing never accelerates beyond sluggish, and Lesnick's script is an awkward pile of gag lines.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Ella Taylor
    Letters to Juliet
    A witless ninny of a movie about Italy, romantic disillusion, Shakespeare, history, more Italy and getting to "yes" in love and intimacy.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Dreamcatcher
    Both character and metaphor have gone to the dogs, leaving a slew of fart and burp jokes and laying bare Dreamcatcher's driving purpose, which is to make multiplexes full of little boys yuk it up, then gross them out, creep them out.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Nicotina
    Self-satisfied, incoherently busy farce.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    Brother Bear
    Today's street-smart moviegoing kids don't need to be so shamelessly pandered to.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Ella Taylor
    In the Cut
    As a movie, it must stand or fall by intense chemistry between the lead characters. Sadly, as co-written by Campion and Moore, In the Cut suffers from a fatal emotional and erotic imbalance.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 10 Ella Taylor
    The Wild
    The animation is cheesy; the banter isn't funny; the score is noisy and grating; and the critters look like stuffed animals. The best that can be said for The Wild is that it's a most insincere form of flattery. The worst is that it's a sincere form of theft.
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