Jessica Winter

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Village Voice
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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Bend It Like Beckham
    Only silent Becks himself rises unstained from this reheated ethno-niche stew.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    The Governess
    The Governess is too dirty-minded to fit the Merchant Ivory mold but not salacious enough to qualify as bodice-ripping laff riot. [04 Aug 1998]
    • Village Voice
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Loving Jezebel
    An oafish wish-fulfillment wankfest.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Brooklyn Babylon
    Levin's Brooklyn Babylon, set during a hot summer in Crown Heights, is an ethnic-strife tract as thuddingly didactic as his previous "Whiteboys."
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Bartleby
    The loud, musty production design -- steeped in lime greens and tangerine oranges -- smells of recirculated air and enervated ambition, but unfortunately, so does the movie itself.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Big Momma's House
    Ends up waddling its way toward gentler, mistier climes, stopping just shy of "Doubtfire" country. It doesn't run out of smelly steam so much as downshift and become a different movie.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Just One Time
    An arthritic exercise in self-pleasurement.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Say It Isn't So
    Elicits not the voluptuous discomfort stirred by the boys' (Peter and Bobby Farrelly) best corporeal shenanigans but creeping embarrassment for everyone on screen.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Sex with Strangers
    Choppy, overlong documentary.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Into My Heart
    Anemic.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    On the Run
    A bad one-night stand endured with a jailbroke cad and his put-upon travel-agent pal that hinges somewhat on the characters' impression that Frank Sinatra is still among us.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    The Kid
    The Kid's denouement resembles the nightmare that would have transpired had execs foisted a toupee and a happy ending on "12 Monkeys."
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Tales of Erotica
    Whittled down from a series of 36 short films commissioned by a German television network between 1996 and 2000, Erotic Tales leaves you only to ponder the horror of the 33 that didn't make the cut.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Where the Heart Is
    Indulges something of a number obsession, amounting not exactly to a movie but rather a tallying of atrocities.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Amy
    Plumbs new depths of craven heartstring-yanking.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Showtime
    Should come with a disclaimer.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Love & Sex
    All solipsistic jaded-Cosmo patter.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Very Annie Mary
    Leaks treacle from every pore.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Fleeing by Night
    This dreadfully earnest inversion of the "Concubine" love triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Signs
    Sitting through the last reel is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Lost Souls
    Can be blamed foremost on its fire-and-brimstone screenwriter, Pierce Gardner.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Jessica Winter
    Body Shots
    Vomitous.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 0 Jessica Winter
    Beautiful
    Surpassing Dan Aykroyd's "Nothing but Trouble" as the most astoundingly atrocious walrus-flop of a directorial debut by a languishing actor ever contrived, Sally Field's Beautiful.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 0 Jessica Winter
    Surviving Christmas
    This ghastly comedy emits the subliminal whine of a sucking chest wound.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 0 Jessica Winter
    Hide and Seek
    Hide and Seek follows no semblance of internal logic--the unveiling of Charlie is a ludicrous cheat, the last reel a unique paroxysm of rancid idiocy.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Jessica Winter
    Deuces Wild
    An endless chain reaction of cartilage-crunching, organ-pulping brawls.
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