Jessica Winter

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For 266 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 25% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 75% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 17.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jessica Winter's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 49
Highest review score: 90 Sweet Sixteen
Lowest review score: 0 Hide and Seek
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 266
  2. Mixed: 129 out of 266
  3. Negative: 72 out of 266
266 movie reviews
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Behind Enemy Lines
    Though Wilson gives a customarily sympathetic, engaged, and unpredictable performance, his work is drowned out by pyrotechnics and orchestral paroxysms of patriotism.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Wolves of Kromer
    Largely inept and weirdly endearing.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Bangkok Dangerous
    The movie is a technical marvel from its lysergic cinematography (by Decha Srimantra) to its pulsing-vessel sound design, but it has no identity apart from its influences, however dazzlingly they're deployed.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    This Is Spinal Tap
    Begs the question: Did the lads from Squatney trail the zeitgeist at every turn, or were cobandleaders David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel simply in touch with their past and ahead of their time?
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Last Life in the Universe
    Cheeky and elusive, Last Life in the Universe inhabits a high-lonesome world unto itself, a bright daydream that dissipates in the aching gap of a missed connection.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Asylum
    Mackenzie and Marber opt for an anonymous viewpoint of clinical detachment, which generates about the same psychodramatic tension as reading the "DSM-IV."
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    A Good Woman
    Pleasant and undemanding, all the more so whenever Tom Wilkinson's on-screen as a possible Erlynne suitor, the movie miscasts Hunt as the pragmatic seductress.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Legally Blonde
    A junk-food movie striving to be nutritious -- it's one of your racier Be Yourself after-school specials crossed with 'Who Moved My Cheese?" for Cosmo girls.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Made
    Handheld sprinting and swish-pans try to enliven the duo's shenanigans: undermotivated fisticuffs, fun with the nutty controls on their limousine (the roof slides open!), Vaughn's endless yapping.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    The Road Home
    The Road Home is foremost enthralled, however, with its lead actress -- wide-eyed and pigtailed, revered in close-up after stunned close-up.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Intermission
    Like a loud and intermittently charismatic drunk at a dreary dive bar, Intermission grabs your attention, but in no time you're looking for the nearest exit.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Iron Ladies
    We get a bunch of straight actors focusing on the "gayness" of their characters, mincing and lisping and melodramatically breaking nails, all in the besmirched name of tolerance.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    A Love Divided
    Brady and Cunningham share a volatile, symbiotic chemistry, sketching in elegant shorthand the rhythms of a lusty, combative marriage.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Novocaine
    Martin seems uncomfortable and oddly waxen (the orange Al Gore makeup doesn't help), injecting Frank with neither restless anger nor wry humor.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Auggie Rose
    Amid the awkward pacing and gaping plot holes, the film's chief point of interest is Goldblum's morbidly fascinating performance: equal parts Walter Neff and Captain Kirk.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Edukators
    The Edukators smiles indulgently as the kids rage belatedly against the dying of the SDS light.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Deterrence
    Begins and ends with footage of FDR intoning "I hate war," something the film takes two interminable hours to say.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Return to Me
    First-time director Bonnie Hunt pays slavish adherence to the Nora Ephron rules of assembly for the prefab rom-com.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Finding Neverland
    Depp and Highmore's final scene together strikes a muted blow of desolation -- bottomless but just bearable -- that Forster rather bravely lets stand as the last word on all the fanciful solace that Barrieland had to offer.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Lawless Heart
    Like grieving itself, the film is awkward, messily honest, and sometimes darkly funny.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Stage Beauty
    Most frustrating, Stage Beauty fumbles XX/XY politics at every turn.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Merchant of Venice
    Pacino simply wipes the cobblestones with the rest of the cast: His beautifully calibrated performance is lucid, commanding, and genuinely tragic.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Soft Fruit
    Bursting with grotesque burlesques of household relations.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Bread and Tulips
    A happy ending is never at issue here -- it's clear where she's going, but there's little clue where she's been.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    North Country
    Having established Josey as the focus of the entire iron range's enmity, the filmmakers panic, and North Country spectacularly self-destructs in a climactic courtroom free-for-all.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Harrison's Flowers
    A discombobulating mix of blood-and-grit docu-realism and moony multiplex contrivance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    The Legend of Drunken Master
    The uncertain plot somehow concerns ginseng and stolen objets d'art; the main thrust is acrobatic slapstick with a decided antipatriarchal twist.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Raising Helen
    John Corbett shuffles in for yet another tour of duty as the bland requisite love interest.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Golden Bowl
    Though it often wallows in louche baroque textures, The Golden Bowl is perhaps the most visually accomplished of the Ivory soaps.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    Having already looted the Peckinpah and spaghetti-western archives, the director now quotes his own quotations, in service of not a sequel but a vociferous reiteration.
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