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
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Jessica Winter
    Margarita Happy Hour
    Chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident -- she catches subtler interior strains, too.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Trembling Before G-d
    Though angry and sorrowful, Trembling Before G-d, beginning with the title, is above all a work of reverence.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    The poised Vega and pleasingly phlegmatic Sabara are resolutely uncute performers, and the reach-out-and-touch-it gadgetry carries a homey scent of proactive nostalgia. Spy Kids 2 is an island of lost Circuit Cities.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Jessica Winter
    He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Baggy and overbroad, He Loves Me is notable only as a corrective to cinema's promiscuity with fabulous destinies.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Oliver Twist
    Accomplished if lacking in urgency, this Oliver Twist (scripted by Ronald Harwood, who also wrote "The Pianist") showcases Polanski's proven gift for Dickensian caricature.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    About Adam
    Hudson is ebullient, never cutesy, and her accent stays in tune.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    From the Other Side
    Akerman's characteristically patient, pensive approach elegantly accommodates her reportorial responsibilities.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    One Swallow Brought Spring
    The script offers neither a sustained narrative arc nor strong characterizations.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Or
    The scoreless Or (My Treasure) consists solely of stationary shots that, while sometimes awkwardly composed, build in organic momentum and bracing detail.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Unfaithful
    Casual familiarity with Lyne's oeuvre is all you need to predict the major plot contortion.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Jessica Winter
    Butterfly
    He (Wolens) captures Crayola-vivid images of both the unspoiled forest canopy and denuded expanses of slash-and-burned landscape -- a bleak summation, perhaps, of the area's past and future.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Wolves of Kromer
    Largely inept and weirdly endearing.
    • 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.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Studiously harmless, Disney's long-in-development film rendition pasteurizes the book's renegade verve with typical means.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Jessica Winter
    Dear Frankie
    Somehow the U.K. film industry can always scrounge enough loose change from the cushions to foot the bill for a pre-chewed lump of sickly saltwater taffy like the mawkish Scottish-seaside postcard Dear Frankie.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Thomas in Love
    It's squeamish about sex but not, unfortunately, sentiment.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    I Capture the Castle
    Sweet and sleepy, I Capture the Castle might feel most comfortable in a Sunday-afternoon slot on the BBC.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    The Upside of Anger
    The film has exhausted itself with fits of glib hysteria long before its truly stupefying final twist, a stunning betrayal of audience trust.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Petits frères
    Doillon's ease with young performers is again seamlessly evident.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Shopgirl
    Unfolds as a series of slightly disjointed vignettes, padded with redundant voiceover and an oppressively histrionic score.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Twilight: Los Angeles
    Smith's work is a means of cauterizing wounds that have not even begun to heal...certainly not across a continent in Giuliani's New York.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Justifiable Homicide
    Meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concealment.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    Leitman's interviews are lax and inconclusive.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    The early scenes whir and buzz along to create quite a pleasing clamor.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    The week's guilty pleasure is The Count of Monte Cristo, a gorgeously photographed, sumptuously designed adaptation of the Dumas swashbuckler boasting the most ludicrous dialogue since director Kevin Reynolds's "Waterworld."
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Jabberwocky (re-release)
    The film itself is thinly conceived, except in the area of bodily misfunction. It plays like the murky B side to the immortal Gilliam-Jones epic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Morlang
    Penning's film applies too much force behind its hairpin turns, but broad scripting and acting are counterbalanced by crisp photography, shivery sound design, and well-chosen debts.
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