For 207 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 21% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jamie Graham's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Amour
Lowest review score: 40 The Lords of Salem
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 0 out of 207
207 movie reviews
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Jamie Graham
    Shot on 16mm for less than $50,000, Sam Raimi's visceral debut remains a benchmark of modern horror. Plot and acting are minimal - five stooges inadvertently awaken demonic forces - but then this isn't about intellect or intricacy: it's about intensity and intestines. [1 Oct 2001]
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Jamie Graham
    The Shining buzzes madness and malevolence from every frame.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Jamie Graham
    Isabella Rossellini’s singer Dorothy is a heart-rending open wound, Dennis Hopper’s Frank Booth one of cinema’s great nutjobs, and Lynch’s control a thing of nightmarish beauty.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Jamie Graham
    Most alluring are the crumbling neon cityscapes, real world/cyberspace fusion and the musings on identity.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Jamie Graham
    It explores two of the filmmaker’s pet themes – the impossibility of true communication, the futility of art – and is set against the Vietnam War. Extraordinary.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Jamie Graham
    Watch this 4K restoration of Scorsese’s ’76 masterpiece, its colours a seeping virus, and marvel that he originally planned to shoot on black-and-white video.

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