John Anderson

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Los Angeles Times, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
For 564 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

John Anderson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Museo
Lowest review score: 0 Nothing Like the Holidays
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 326 out of 564
  2. Mixed: 198 out of 564
  3. Negative: 40 out of 564
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 John Anderson
    If Lucy Fell
    Take a ridiculous premise, marry it to a situation that is bound to resolve itself in the most obvious way, and keep the whole thing rolling with juvenile gags. What do you have? Television. Or “If Lucy Fell,” whose writer-director, Eric Schaeffer, certainly knows television. Or knew it.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 40 John Anderson
    BloodRayne
    The only thing left unsliced is the ham in BloodRayne, yet another video game adaptation by German genre specialist Uwe Boll and a movie with more fading - or faded - talent than an Italian basketball team.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 John Anderson
    Eye for an Eye
    What makes this film more than mere visual vigilantism is John Schlesinger, of whom it can be safely asked, what happened? He shows flashes of the old brilliance here -- the talent that made "Midnight Cowboy" so moving and "Marathon Man" such a nail-biter -- in telling this modern horror tale of the court system gone awry. It's unfortunate that after the messy construction of his last film, "The Innocent," he hasn't directed his gifted self toward something with a bit more intelligence. [12 Jan 1996, p.F6]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 John Anderson
    Winnebago Man
    People might have laughed at the old Jack Rebney, but they were laughing at themselves as well. And counting their blessings. Everyone has a cranky side. Unlike Mr. Rebney's, it isn't usually gawked at by 20 million people.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 John Anderson
    The Closet
    Veber, also responsible for "The Dinner Game," apparently has a finger on the pulse of French audiences and Gallic-minded Americans, but there's just not a lot of freshness in this Closet.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 John Anderson
    Supercross
    Ultimately, Supercross is an example of how too much of anything will get annoying -- including VVRRRROOOOOOOMMM and flying bikes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 John Anderson
    Red Doors
    Following Woody Allen, Ang Lee and any number of sitcoms, Georgia Lee constructs her well-shot, well-written film around three daughters.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 John Anderson
    The Daytrippers
    Smartly nuanced and darkly comedic. [21 Mar 1997, p.F2]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 John Anderson
    Gandhi, My Father
    Exposes director Khan's stage roots -- he has no feel for the close-up, although his use of the frame itself, and negative space, is occasionally thrilling.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 John Anderson
    Year of the Horse
    By getting out of the way as much as he does, Jarmusch makes Year of the Horse as much a statement about creative freedom as it is about music itself. [17 Oct 1997, p.F20]
    • Los Angeles Times
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