Frank Scheck

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The Hollywood Reporter
For 2,258 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 13.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Frank Scheck's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 52
Highest review score: 100 The Humans
Lowest review score: 0 The Haunting of Sharon Tate
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 711 out of 2258
  2. Mixed: 1,112 out of 2258
  3. Negative: 435 out of 2258
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    • 60 Frank Scheck
    3022
    Delivers enough tense atmospherics to make it worth checking out for sci-fi fans.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Frank Scheck
    When Lambs Become Lions
    Gorgeously photographed and edited, the film has the look and pacing of a thriller, albeit one with near-Shakespearean dramatic dimensions.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Frank Scheck
    Line of Duty
    Fortunately, the new actioner directed by the prolific Steven C. Miller (First Kill, Arsenal, Marauders) proves fast-paced enough to overcome its more ludicrous plot elements.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Frank Scheck
    Crown Vic
    For all its familiar elements, Crown Vic is a well-made and strongly acted effort showing real talent on the part of its writer-director.
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    • 40 Frank Scheck
    Acceleration
    Playing Kane, a flamboyant crime boss who lives up to his name by using a walking stick, Flanery chews the scenery with gusto, as if auditioning for the next Quentin Tarantino movie. He's the most enjoyable element in what otherwise proves a flimsy vehicle for its producer/star Natalie Burn.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Frank Scheck
    Good Girls Get High
    Good Girls Get High is sweetly amusing throughout, knowing enough not to wear out its welcome thanks to its fast-paced 77-minute running time. It also benefits enormously from the highly appealing performances of its two leads who don't seem to be faking their enjoyment during the energetic dance interlude performed during the end credits.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Frank Scheck
    Playing with Fire
    Playing With Fire strikes strictly predictably beats. Key and Leguizamo, comic talents who are wildly overqualified for this sort of thing, work hard, very hard, to infuse the tired material with laughs. But they're mostly hamstrung by their one-note characters
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Frank Scheck
    Cold Brook
    It would have been nice if Cold Brook had added up to something more substantial, but at least it's a film about grown-ups who generally try to behave that way, and these days that feels like a rare thing.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Frank Scheck
    Arctic Dogs
    The computer animation proves competent if uninspired, and somehow manages to make even its presumably fail-safe puffins devoid of cuteness.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Frank Scheck
    The Etruscan Smile
    While Cox's typically sterling performance is not quite enough to rescue The Etruscan Smile from succumbing to bathos, it goes a long way toward making the film palatable.
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    • 70 Frank Scheck
    The Bronx, USA
    The film, directed by Danny Gold, offers an alternately moving and amusing exercise in infectious nostalgia that should prove appealing even to viewers who weren't in the 1949 graduating class of DeWitt Clinton High School.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Frank Scheck
    Portals
    Thanks to the efforts of the talented filmmakers and the committed performances by the all-in cast, there are some undeniably spooky moments. But you have to sit through an awful lot of tedium to get to them.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Frank Scheck
    The Great Alaskan Race
    Although earnest to a fault and certainly fulfilling its goal of being family-friendly entertainment, The Great Alaskan Race ultimately proves less exciting and not nearly as adorable as Balto, the 1995 animated film inspired by the same events.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Frank Scheck
    The Kill Team
    Despite superb performances by Nat Wolff as a conflicted young soldier and particularly Alexander Skarsgard as a sociopathic platoon leader, the picture proves only sporadically compelling.
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    • 60 Frank Scheck
    Miss Virginia
    Modine makes it work anyway thanks to his charm and charisma. His enjoyably playful performance helps prevent Miss Virginia from feeling entirely like an issue-of-the-week television movie.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Frank Scheck
    Trick
    Director Patrick Lussier and co-screenwriter Todd Farmer were previously responsible for such enjoyable guilty pleasures as "My Bloody Valentine" and "Drive Angry." Unfortunately, their latest collaboration, Trick, is definitely no treat.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Frank Scheck
    The Elephant Queen
    Shot over four years in Kenya, the film boasts an undeniable authenticity, thanks to its filmmakers' quarter-century of experience making wildlife films in Africa. And while elephants are naturally camera-friendly subjects, their behavior here is captured with a particularly impressive immediacy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Frank Scheck
    The Dead Center
    What it has going for it in spades is supremely creepy atmosphere. The hospital virtually becomes a major character in the story itself, its washed-out coloring and neon lights making everyone look like they have a sickly pallor.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Frank Scheck
    Mary
    It would, after all, take a sleuth of Hercule Poirot-like talents to discern what attracted these supremely talented (not to mention, in the case of one of them, Oscar-winning) thespians to such lame, cliched material.
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    • 70 Frank Scheck
    Gift
    It can't be denied that Gift occasionally borders on being too New Agey for its own good, and, let's face it, its entire ethos can be boiled down to the simple phrase "Pay it forward." But don't be surprised if you're compelled to perform an unexpected act of generosity soon after seeing it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Frank Scheck
    Fractured
    Unfortunately, it all plays out in completely tedious fashion, having all the urgency of watching someone having an impassioned argument with their medical insurance representative.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Frank Scheck
    Mister America
    Mister America proves a witless, one-note political satire whose deficiencies are even more glaring when such humor feels entirely redundant to our current state of affairs.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Frank Scheck
    Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
    While that personal connection lends an undeniably poignant aspect, the film never quite fully captures the essence of the enigmatic legal and political fixer.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Frank Scheck
    The Parts You Lose
    The Parts You Lose somehow manages to be both unmoving and tension-free, wasting the talents of several notable actors in the process.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Frank Scheck
    Semper Fi
    The two elements never mesh convincingly, proving neither substantial enough to work as compelling drama nor sufficiently suspenseful as action-thriller.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Frank Scheck
    Collisions
    Collisions all but screams "Issue Movie," and is extremely unlikely to reach anyone but the already convinced.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Frank Scheck
    Celebration
    Celebration ultimately resembles more of a snapshot than a fleshed-out portrait, but it's one that's likely to linger in your memory for a long time afterwards.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Frank Scheck
    Low Tide
    This tale of a teenage gang of petty criminals whose alliance becomes fractured by a surprisingly big haul doesn't generate any real suspense and lacks the depth of characterization to make up for it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Frank Scheck
    In the Tall Grass
    In the Tall Grass is at least impressive on a technical level. Cinematographer Craig Wrobelski manages to find every conceivable way to make tall grass visually ominous, with Mark Korven's spooky score and the ambient sound design making valuable atmospheric contributions as well.
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    • 30 Frank Scheck
    Prey
    Blumhouse has certainly proved very successful with its inventive, low-budget approach to horror, but now that the company is spewing out movies like an assembly line, more and more duds are starting to appear. Everything about this effort, including its hackneyed, overfamiliar title, smacks of laziness and a cynical indifference to its lack of originality.
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