Jeff Shannon

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The Seattle Times
For 99 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jeff Shannon's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Dave
Lowest review score: 25 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 99
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 99
  3. Negative: 14 out of 99
99 movie reviews
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Jeff Shannon
    Sugar Hill
    Just as there can be fresh angles on the old story, there is a growing number of urban-survival cliches that lose their dramatic impact as they grow tiresomely familiar. Sugar Hill is a virtual catalog of these cliches - a serious, well-meaning film that offers no new insight into the crises it professes to understand. [25 Feb 1994, p.D21]
    • The Seattle Times
    • 10 Metascore
    • 25 Jeff Shannon
    Car 54, Where Are You?
    Car 54, Where are You? is an insult to the popular late-1950's TV show that inspired it.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Jeff Shannon
    Leprechaun
    At the risk of confessing a breech of duties, I "watched" much of the film with my eyes closed, isolating the soundtrack only because I could always accurately guess what was happening on the screen . . . which wasn't much, believe me. [20 Mar 1993, p.C6]
    • The Seattle Times
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Jeff Shannon
    Chasers
    Earning instant shame as the worst film of the year so far, "Chasers" offers all the proof anyone will ever need that a theatrically released feature film can be just as bad - and far worse - than the most inanely boring garbage that passes for television these days. [23 Apr 1994]
    • The Seattle Times
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Jeff Shannon
    Ghost in the Machine
    The real criminals here are writers William Davies and William Osborne (obviously pseudonyms for Beavis and Butt-head), who have concocted a derivative, imbecilic anything-goes premise serving only to provide random opportunities for the CGI wizards to strut their stuff. [31 Dec 1993, p.C14]
    • The Seattle Times
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Jeff Shannon
    Mr. Nanny
    Mr. Nanny is certainly harmless, even though Hogan acts as if he's stumbled onto the set of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. But only the most gullible 4-year-old will get a rise from the lifeless direction of co-writer Michael Gottlieb, whose earlier Mannequin provided a similar dose of moviegoing torture. [09 Oct 1993, p.C3]
    • The Seattle Times
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Jeff Shannon
    Blank Check
    Blank Check will get a few big laughs from kids, but that doesn't stop this vapid, morally bankrupt and wretchedly written Disney comedy from being genuinely disgusting. [11 Feb 1994, p.D28]
    • The Seattle Times
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Jeff Shannon
    Posse
    Despite claims to the contrary, Van Peebles has no apparent desire to accurately reflect history. Instead, he caters, with an ugly lack of integrity, to a twisted perception of "popular taste," spinning an ego-trip that steals a numbing variety of Western cliches while betraying them with contemporary flavoring. [14 May 1993, p.20]
    • The Seattle Times
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Jeff Shannon
    Dr. Giggles
    The only thing original in Dr. Giggles - about a psychotic doctor (Larry Drake) who escapes a mental institution to resume his belovedly departed father's explicitly unhealthy rampage of serial killings - is the freakish instruments that the pun-filled physician totes around in his bag of dirty tricks.
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