Hal Lipper
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39% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.2 points lower than other critics.
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Hal Lipper's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 56 | |
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| Highest review score: | 'Round Midnight | |
| Lowest review score: | Amos & Andrew | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 68 out of 211
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Mixed: 118 out of 211
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Negative: 25 out of 211
211
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reviews
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- 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
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- Hal Lipper
Aside from a few nifty computer-generated "trip" sequences and a foul-mouthed nun (Amanda Plummer) who advises her torturer to turn the other cheek before flattening him, Freejack has little to recommend it. [18 Jan 1982, p.1D]- Tampa Bay Times
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- 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
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- Hal Lipper
Belushi is the Clydesdale of formulaic comedies. He performs as expected with little artistic invention. He carries Mr. Destiny amiably, although a more resourceful actor might have provided the additional gloss this formulaic comedy so sorely needs. [12 Oct 1990, p.12]- Tampa Bay Times
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- 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
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- Hal Lipper
For all its shortcomings and long speeches, The Presidio is to be credited for trying to reach beyond formula. Hyams and screenwriter Ferguson (Highlander, Beverly Hills Cop II) have aspired to make more than a mismatched buddy movie. But the task has proved too intricate for them to achieve. [10 June 1988, p.6]- Tampa Bay Times
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- Hal Lipper
Fire Birds is Top Gun without wings. Without personality. Without sex appeal. Nicholas Cage is no Tom Cruise. Sean Young is no Kelly McGillis.- Tampa Bay Times
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- Hal Lipper
These are the rules: When watching The Bonfire of the Vanities, you don't think of Tom Wolfe. You think of Dr. Strangelove. Only then will you embrace what little there is to like in this sprawling, seemingly racist, absurdist-revisionist twist on The Bonfire of the Vanities. [21 Dec 1990, p.20]- Tampa Bay Times
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- Hal Lipper
Encino Man is enormously funny, hip and gross without ever being vulgar. [22 May 1992, p.12]- Tampa Bay Times
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- Hal Lipper
Her Alibi isn't a tremendous movie. But it's pleasant and entertaining in a corny, old-fashioned way. [3 Feb 1989, p.10]- Tampa Bay Times
