Joe Leydon

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Variety
For 872 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joe Leydon's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 No Greater Love
Lowest review score: 0 Movie 43
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 363 out of 872
  2. Mixed: 380 out of 872
  3. Negative: 129 out of 872
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Leydon
    The Perfect Game
    It's an unabashedly corny but occasionally stirring dramedy based on the true-life story of scrappy young baseball players from Mexico who, in 1957, scored an improbable string of successes while playing their way from a Monterrey sandlot to the Little League World Series.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    A lavishly mounted and appealingly old-fashioned swashbuckler with nary a trace of wink-wink irony or revisionist embellishment.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Joe Leydon
    AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
    Provides enough cheap thrills and modest suspense to shake a few shekels from genre fans before really blasting off as homevid product.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Joe Leydon
    The Honeymooners
    Just funny enough to mollify purists and amuse the uninitiated.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Joe Leydon
    Herbie Fully Loaded
    A pleasingly retro recycling of "The Love Bug."
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Joe Leydon
    The Blind Side
    Uplifting and entertaining feel-good, fact-based sports drama.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Leydon
    The Bread, My Sweet
    Lightweight but likable.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Saving Grace
    Harvests a bumper crop of laughs.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Leydon
    Skinwalkers
    Plays more like '70s drive-in fare than a monster mash of recent vintage.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Joe Leydon
    Stuck
    Ingeniously nasty and often shockingly funny as it incrementally worsens a very bad situation, then provides a potent payoff with the forced feeding of just desserts.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Leydon
    Dude, Where's My Car?
    Aimed squarely at adolescents who might find "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" too intellectually taxing.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Leydon
    Raising Helen
    An undemanding dramedy.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Dr. Dolittle 2
    Even more family-friendly than its immensely popular predecessor.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Leydon
    Disaster Movie
    Seldom has a pic been more appropriately titled than Disaster Movie, yet another frantically unfunny free-form farce.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Leydon
    Torque
    A spectacularly trashy and aggressively flashy motorcycle melodrama in which computer-enhanced action scenes, unbound by gravity or logic, are choreographed, photographed and edited to resemble video-game stratagems.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Joe Leydon
    The Haunting in Connecticut
    Long on atmosphere yet short on dramatic tension.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Leydon
    Thr3e
    Indeed, you could argue that weighty questions about the nature of evil and the allure of sin figured more prominently in the similarly titled "Se7en," one of several other, better suspensers dimly echoed here.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Joe Leydon
    Surviving Crooked Lake
    Sometimes shaky, sometimes smooth handheld DV lensing (by Drews and Krybus) gives the pic an immediacy that greatly enhances its dramatic and emotional impact.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Joe Leydon
    Management
    Picture benefits greatly from appealing performances by Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn, who deftly apply darker emotional shadings to their characters when necessary, and equally fine work from a small ensemble of solid supporting players.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Joe Leydon
    Weather Girl
    Engaging lead performances and snatches of witty repartee help lubricate the creaky plot mechanics in Weather Girl, a lightly amusing but thoroughly predictable dramedy.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Joe Leydon
    3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
    There’s barely enough plot for a half-hour episode of a weekly TV series spinoff. And there’s even less here in terms of acting, writing and filmmaking polish to appeal to anyone over the age of 10.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Leydon
    The Watcher
    Emerges as a formulaic thriller that plays more like direct-to-video fare than a megaplex-worthy feature.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Joe Leydon
    The Comedians of Comedy
    Amiably slapdash docu about The Comedians of Comedy tour mixes on-stage performances, backstage bull sessions and downtime tomfoolery to generally satisfying and frequently hilarious effect.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Leydon
    The Cookout
    Loosely plotted and wildly uneven farce.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Leydon
    Furry Vengeance
    This undistinguished picture qualifies as an endangered species. As a digital babysitter, however, it may prove sufficiently efficient to generate fair-to-middling homevid sales.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Leydon
    The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
    Lofty ambitions and unaffected sincerity are not quite enough to sustain The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam, a reverentially pokey drama that plays less like a conventional movie than a lengthy series of hagiographic historical tableaux.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Bossa Nova
    Imagine a '30s screwball comedy played to a sensuous Brazilian beat and you're ready for Bossa Nova, a delightfully amusing romantic roundelay.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Joe Leydon
    A Walk to Remember
    A glossy teen-weepie romance that often plays like an inspirational indie skewed toward Christian niche market.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Leydon
    The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
    The fragrant aroma of magnolias is undercut by the distinct smell of mothballs throughoutThe Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, an admirably earnest but curiously flat attempt to film a long-unproduced scenario by Tennessee Williams.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Joe Leydon
    Saint Ralph
    Even though it sprints along a well-trod path through familiar territory, Saint Ralph remains surprisingly compelling.
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