Harper Barnes
Select another critic »For 94 reviews, this critic has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Harper Barnes' Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 66 | |
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| Highest review score: | The Age of Innocence | |
| Lowest review score: | Color of Night | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 63 out of 94
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Mixed: 17 out of 94
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Negative: 14 out of 94
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- Harper Barnes
The Secret of Roan Inish glows with a misty, lyrical beauty, helped no little by the cinematography of Haskell Wexler. Once again, writer-director Sayles ("Passion Fish") succeeds in creating a mature, complex film that touches the heart without using any Hollywood tricks. [14 Apr 1995, p.3E]- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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- Harper Barnes
The central question of Trees Lounge is whether Tommy will ever get wise to himself. The movie does not exactly provide an answer to the question, but Buscemi poses it in an entertaining, insightful and humane way. [24 Oct 1996, p.4G]- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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- Harper Barnes
FOR about an hour, this movie is like a smooth ride with a good cabbie through the winding streets of deepest lower Manhattan. It's a fascinating, disturbing, at times exhilarating look at the way politics work in a big city, and you better pay attention or you'll miss something...Then, something happens, and it's like being lost on some triple-decker expressway interchange with no idea of how to get home. I think the problem is that there were too many writers with too many different ideas of what they wanted to tell, and the result is it eventually takes a wrong turn into an emotional and intellectual muddle...That first hour is so terrific, with minor exceptions, and the cast is so good, that "City Hall" is still well worth seeing, but ultimately it may leave you with the empty feeling of lost opportunities. [16 Feb 1996, p.3E]- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
