Jean Oppenheimer

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Dallas Observer, New Times (L.A.)
For 144 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jean Oppenheimer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Donnie Darko
Lowest review score: 0 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 144
  2. Mixed: 49 out of 144
  3. Negative: 14 out of 144
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Jean Oppenheimer
    Greenfingers
    Proves a lovely, sweet alternative for audiences fed up with the latest hell-on-wheels action thriller or the newest horror film comedy spoof.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Evergreen
    The actors are capable, but the direction feels stilted, the pacing sluggish, and the story obvious. The film plays like an ABC after-school special.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Valiant
    The voice acting is adequate, but it fails to convey the diversity or personality of "Chicken Run" or "Shrek."
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Racing Stripes
    The digital computer work is smooth and convincing; the animals look as if they are talking. But their voices are either devoid of personality or grating and annoying.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Anything Else
    Disappointingly mediocre.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Wonderland
    As good as all the actors are, the scuzzy characters are so one-dimensional that the film falls flat.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Jean Oppenheimer
    Meet Joe Black
    Meet Joe Black takes an interesting idea--Death assumes human form and comes to earth to learn about human existence--and reduces it to a flat, uninspired, interminably slow movie.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Jean Oppenheimer
    Two Weeks Notice
    Viewers looking for extremely light, romantic entertainment with a guaranteed happy ending could do worse.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Simpatico
    Proves only intermittently engaging as its twisted plot loses energy and becomes confusing in the latter half.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Jean Oppenheimer
    House of Wax
    Manages to be gruesome and grisly, but not particularly creepy or frightening.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Jean Oppenheimer
    Jakob the Liar
    The supposedly funny quips and shrugs that fill Jakob the Liar are tepid at best and embarrassingly shticky at worst. Some are simply in bad taste.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Jean Oppenheimer
    Amy's Orgasm
    There is something distinctly self-satisfied about Amy's Orgasm that rubs the viewer the wrong way. The film should come with a warning label: Vanity project ahead!
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Jean Oppenheimer
    Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    Everything that happens proves just as predictable as before.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Raise Your Voice
    Fame this film ain't.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Jean Oppenheimer
    Hanging Up
    Doesn't work as comedy or drama or anything in between.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Jean Oppenheimer
    I Dreamed of Africa
    A wobbly Basinger and a feeble screenplay doom I Dreamed of Africa.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Jean Oppenheimer
    Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    Given the great premise and characters inherited from the first film, it's surprising that this sequel fails to match its predecessor's appeal. The humor is silly, broad, and surprisingly generic.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    A Day Without a Mexican
    Using humor to make a serious point, Arau suggests that without the millions of Hispanics...life in the Golden State would screech to a halt.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Gods and Generals
    Filled with so much religious righteousness--endless Bible-readings...that the film feels more like a recruitment tool for Soldiers for Christ than a look at the bloody four-year conflict that tore this nation apart.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Jean Oppenheimer
    Heartbreak Hospital
    Nominal comedy has a few bright spots but never seems to find its rhythm.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Jean Oppenheimer
    The Whole Ten Yards
    Peet is still adorable, and a couple of twists enliven the plot, but the jokes are lame, the timing is off, the physical pratfalls are too broad, and there's still no chemistry between Perry and Henstridge.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Jean Oppenheimer
    Running Free
    Awful narration almost ruins the ghostly, gorgeous Running Free.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 10 Jean Oppenheimer
    Serving Sara
    Numbingly feeble -- The dialogue is witless, the situations are lame, the humor juvenile and the chemistry between the stars nonexistent.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 9 Metascore
    • 0 Jean Oppenheimer
    Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    The first Baby Geniuses, released in 1999, was one of the most inane, humorless, ill-conceived, poorly acted comedies of the year. As difficult as it is to imagine, the sequel is even worse, earning an F.
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