For 211 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Hal Lipper's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 'Round Midnight
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 211
  2. Negative: 25 out of 211
211 movie reviews
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Hal Lipper
    Ricochet isn't worthy of Lithgow's or Washington's talents. But having committed to the movie, these actors have gotten what they deserved. [05 Oct 1991, p.3D]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Hal Lipper
    Raising Cain is monumentally bad. It is De Palma's Howard the Duck. [07 Aug 1992, p.10]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Hal Lipper
    It's appropriate that Men at Work's writer, director and co-star, Emilio Estevez, has cast himself as a garbage collector. His new movie is trash. [25 Aug 1990, p.1D]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Hal Lipper
    Revenge, adapted from Harrison's novella, is the sickest of male bonding movies. It is about friendship and betrayal, and how men must uphold their dignity at the expense of all else. Particularly women. [17 Feb 1990, p.1D]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Hal Lipper
    Rarely has a children's picture been so stagnant, so bereft of passion. [18 Dec 1987, p.8]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Hal Lipper
    A disastrous follow-up to Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, one of the seminal movies of a generation. [28 Sep 1990, p.7]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Hal Lipper
    Final Analysis is overwrought, overwritten, overscored pseudo-Hitchcockian drivel. With more twists than Lombard Street has curves, this San Francisco-set psychological thriller is the biggest disappointment of the new year. [8 Feb 1992, p.3D]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Hal Lipper
    It's amazing how much slobber $ 20-million will buy. [28 July 1989, p.6]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Hal Lipper
    There are some laws of nature we might as well accept: Gravity exists, the world is round, and movies with Pia Zadora, Robin Leach, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Annette Funicello are not funny. [24 March 1989, p.7]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Hal Lipper
    In an era when racism appears to be on a violent comeback, Amos & Andrew is worse than offensive. It's a cinematic travesty. [05 Mar 1993, p.8]
    • Tampa Bay Times

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