Janet Maslin

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The New York Times
For 1,350 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Janet Maslin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Blue Velvet
Lowest review score: 0 Eye for an Eye
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 684 out of 1350
  2. Mixed: 556 out of 1350
  3. Negative: 110 out of 1350
1350 movie reviews
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    • 12 Metascore
    • 10 Janet Maslin
    The Avengers
    It's a film to gall fans of the old television series and perplex anyone else.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Janet Maslin
    Hudson Hawk
    A colossally sour and ill-conceived misfire.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 10 Janet Maslin
    Shanghai Surprise
    One of the few things this listless bore of a film makes clear is that Mr. Penn, ever since his hilarious performance as a stoned surfer in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, has been greatly overrated.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 10 Janet Maslin
    Mixed Nuts
    Staged as pure fluff without an ounce of ballast, Mixed Nuts succeeds only in getting its cast into Halloween-caliber crazy costumes by the time it's over.
    • 10 Metascore
    • 10 Janet Maslin
    Transylvania 6-5000
    THE actors in Transylvania 6-5000 seem to have the impression that they are doing something funny, though where they got that idea is anybody's guess. It cannot have come from the screenplay, which was written by Rudy DeLuca, who also directed the film, as a series of utterly listless comic setups. It's not that Mr. DeLuca has done anything wrong, exactly; it's simply that he never does anything right. There's no reason for this material to be funny, so, not surprisingly, it never is.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Janet Maslin
    Fever Pitch
    YOU could live a long time and never see anything as awful as Fever Pitch, Richard Brooks's shrill, hysterical peek at the world of compulsive gambling.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 0 Janet Maslin
    Two of a Kind
    The results are so disastrous that absolutely no one is shown off to good advantage, with the possible exception of the hairdressers involved.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 0 Janet Maslin
    Gummo
    October is early, but not too early to acknowledge Harmony Korine's Gummo as the worst film of the year. No conceivable competition will match the sourness, cynicism and pretension of Mr. Korine's debut feature.
    • 1 Metascore
    • 0 Janet Maslin
    Hardbodies
    This isn't the kind of sexy California beach film that lulls you into a pleasant stupor. It's the kind that makes you wish for a biblical plague.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 0 Janet Maslin
    Baby Geniuses
    One way to get through Baby Geniuses is to think about whether it really is the worst movie you've ever seen. Probably not, but pretty darn close.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Janet Maslin
    Showgirls
    The film makers had declared they were bravely exploring new levels of licentiousness, but the biggest risk they've taken here is making a nearly $40 million movie without anyone who can act. The absence of both drama and eroticism turns Showgirls into a bare-butted bore.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Janet Maslin
    Eye for an Eye
    This rabidly bad revenge movie is directed by John Schlesinger, who made "Midnight Cowboy," "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" and "Billy Liar" -- and unfortunately more to the point here, "Honky Tonk Freeway" and "Pacific Heights." Never in his varied career has Mr. Schlesinger made a film as mean-spirited and empty as this. The sole purpose of "Eye for an Eye" is to excite blood lust from the audience after the killer, played by Kiefer Sutherland as a walking smirk, slips through the hands of justice because of the improper handling of a sperm sample. Mr. Schlesinger shamelessly underscores this outrage by including a glimpse of the O. J. Simpson trial.
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