Jack Mathews

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Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News
For 1,391 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jack Mathews' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lowest review score: 0 Perception
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 810 out of 1391
  2. Mixed: 296 out of 1391
  3. Negative: 285 out of 1391
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Jack Mathews
    Love Jones
    There are some effective group scenes with Darius and Nina and their friends, but Witcher's dialogue and direction more often show the craft than the naturalism he's after. [14 Mar 1997, p.F1]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jack Mathews
    A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Most of its features work fine, and it will dazzle you with its tricks and illusions. But it is not what it claims to be on the package.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Jack Mathews
    A Tale of Two Sisters
    the director works way too hard to cover his tracks, and the resolution is a disappointment - if you get it at all.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jack Mathews
    Amazing Grace
    Compelling and highly informative.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Jack Mathews
    A Room for Romeo Brass
    Meadows is very good with the boys' relationship, and achieves his and Fraser's central goal of showing how childhood bonds can be simultaneously fragile and strong.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jack Mathews
    Last Night
    Though the film is dark and the ideas run deep, it's perversely fun to think about.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jack Mathews
    The Matador
    It is no small compliment to Pierce Brosnan to say that his performance in writer-director Richard Shephard's goofy black comedy The Matador could only be rivaled by Christopher Walken.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Jack Mathews
    Dick
    Dunst and Williams...turn ditsiness into a frenetic comic duet.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Jack Mathews
    Pola X
    Frenzied, gothic nonsense.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jack Mathews
    Timecode
    Is the story being told worth a movie on its own merits? No way. Time Code exists as an esthetic event -- either a trick or a treat, depending on your expectations.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jack Mathews
    Through the Fire
    Superb, ultimately exhilarating account of Coney Island basketball phenom Sebastian Telfair's senior year at Lincoln High.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Jack Mathews
    Ali
    It was against all odds that Michael Mann ("The Insider") would make a boring movie focusing on the most eventful decade in the life of the most dynamic athlete in history. But that's what he has achieved with Ali.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Jack Mathews
    Twelve and Holding
    A movie with better parts than a whole. But where it's right, it's really right.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Jack Mathews
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    Despite a relatively paltry $40 million budget, Stormbreaker has the sheen and special effects of a Bond movie, and the ambition as well.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Jack Mathews
    The Sixth Sense
    A metaphysical shaggy-dog story, whose unpredictable punchline is its only redeeming feature.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Jack Mathews
    It's All About Love
    Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Jack Mathews
    Clerks II
    Some of the banter is fun, like Randal's debate with Elias over the relative merits of "Star Wars" vs. "The Lord of the Rings." But most is just trash-talk as shoptalk.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Jack Mathews
    Find Me Guilty
    It's no wonder Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty had trouble finding a distributor. Its target audience is behind bars.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Jack Mathews
    Sleepy Hollow
    A feast of imagery.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Jack Mathews
    Down in the Valley
    The movie turns into something strange and annoying, an attempted blend of a suburban thriller with an Old West shoot-'em-up.
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