Gene Siskel

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Chicago Tribune
For 511 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Gene Siskel's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 A Clockwork Orange
Lowest review score: 0 UHF
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 339 out of 511
  2. Mixed: 68 out of 511
  3. Negative: 104 out of 511
511 movie reviews
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Gene Siskel
    Sixteen Candles
    The best teenage comedy since last year's "Risky Business."
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Gene Siskel
    Mo' Better Blues
    A messy but nonetheless compelling movie.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Gene Siskel
    From Beyond
    We could do without the film's leather sex scenes, but otherwise From Beyond is a decent enough low- budget horror film that delivers what audiences have every reason to expect--a funny, horrific grossout. [24 Oct 1986, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Gene Siskel
    Jagged Edge
    Fans of true-life crime stories should gain special pleasure from Jagged Edge, because the film does succeed in making its ending unpredictable--even though an unresolved ending would have been better.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    Cool Runnings
    A lame comedy about the quirky true story of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the Calgary Winter Olympics...The intelligence level of the comedy insults preteens. [1 Oct 1993, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    Day of the Dead
    It's bankrupt in terms of imagination. All he (Romero) does is place his zombies in the basement of a missile silo and have a few crazed military types scream at the zombies and at each other. End of movie. [03 Sept 1985, p.5C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Gene Siskel
    To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
    OK, it's a formula picture, but the ingredients are lively and combined with style by director Beeban Kidron.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Gene Siskel
    Days of Thunder
    Days of Thunder, the latest Tom Cruise movie, which is a flimsy but nonetheless compelling story of a hot-shot amateur race car driver who wants to make it in the big-time world of championship stock car racing. Good writing by Robert Towne and a host of strong supporting performances complement the on-the-track visuals of director Tony Scott in giving us a sense of the leap of faith that is required by drivers at this level. [29 Jun 1990, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 60 Metascore
    • 100 Gene Siskel
    The Blues Brothers
    An exceptional comedy...Car wrecks and blues-related music galore in the best movie ever made in Chicago. [11 July 1980, p.3-8]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    The Money Pit
    The Money Pit, a miserable ripoff of the old Cary Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, has nothing to do with such nuances of the human experience. Instead, it is an action comedy that regularly throws its actors around and through pieces of plywood, into and out of windows.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Gene Siskel
    True Romance
    A stupid, stylized road picture. [10 Sept 1993]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 59 Metascore
    • 88 Gene Siskel
    Untamed Heart
    Tony Bill directs a fresh and only occasionally too purple script by Tom Sierchio. [12 Feb 1993, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Gene Siskel
    Army of Darkness
    But here's the problem: Bruce Campbell's character is a complete stiff, and so is everyone else he meets who isn't a special effect. The result is that we couldn't care less who wins any battle in the movie no matter how inventively photographed. What about a love interest? Embeth Davidtz, as the lady who's waiting, doesn't have a sexy scene in the movie. [19 Feb 1993, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Gene Siskel
    Cry Freedom
    The stirring, somewhat too earnest story of a white newspaper editor in racist South Africa who rallied to defend black activist Steve Biko, who was beaten to death in jail in 1977. The film is weighted to the story of the editor (Kevin Kline)-his education about Biko, his subsequent determination to spread the word of the widespread bigotry in South Africa and his adventure story of his family fleeing their native land before they were all jailed for treason. Directed by Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) in the same noble, yet effective manner. [06 Nov 1987, p.41]
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