Juan Carlos Coto
Select another critic »For 38 reviews, this critic has graded:
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47% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 21.3 points lower than other critics.
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Juan Carlos Coto's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 44 | |
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| Highest review score: | How to Get Ahead in Advertising | |
| Lowest review score: | Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 38
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Mixed: 10 out of 38
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Negative: 15 out of 38
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- Juan Carlos Coto
With it's buxom, raven-haired star, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark skips a chance to spoof B-movies and instead shatters the all-time record for breast jokes in one movie. There's at least one every three minutes, and a tassel- twirling ending that stretches the limits of this PG-13 picture. But the real immorality here is that a quirky character -- yes, Elvira has her moments -- is played like an unfunny bimbo with one-liners that die quick deaths. [04 Oct 1988, p.C4]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Director Albert Pyun also knows his B-movie tricks -- catchy camera work, slow motion, minimal dialogue and even some dime-store Christ imagery. It's a shame he didn't have a better script. [07 Apr 1989, p.5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Return to the Blue Lagoon? Why, exactly, would anyone want to? [05 Aug 1991, p.C3]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Despite some forced lines and an overlong competition sequence, Holland holds The Wizard together well, supplementing the obvious stand-up-and-cheer climax with a moving conclusion. [15 Dec 1989, p.12]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
In the end, Wendy and Hiro lose their identities in each other's cultures -- an interesting premise for a movie. However, this potentially dramatic point suffers from a badly paced script, and acting that leaves you wondering where the characters are. [15 Apr 1988, p.C12]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
It's supposed to be funny, and first-time writer-director Tom Ropelewski wastes no time in making this known, by banging the audience over the head with gags that range from brainless to crude. [16 Feb 1990, p.G5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
The movie definitely belongs to the hyper-kinetic Hunter, who originated the role of Carnelle on stage. Still, no matter how many cartwheels or rifle twirls she gives us, Miss Firecracker never becomes more than a pleasant flash. [12 May 1989, p.5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
B-movie king Charles Bronson, whose long association with Cannon Films has set all-time lows in the idiotic, hits rock bottom in Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects. [03 Feb 1989, p.C5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Not Without My Daughter ultimately does what it's supposed to do. It makes us care, it keeps us interested (mostly), but it rarely delivers more -- despite what the producers might think. [11 Jan 1991, p.G13]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Skin Deep works best when the director delivers his stock in trade -- slapstick and sight gags. [3 March 1989, p.6]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Has he forgotten how to act? He can't deliver lines, he has no comic timing, he moves like a crippled buffalo -- Eastwood is so awful in this unfunny action comedy that those obnoxious movies with Clyde the orangutan now seem like Shakespeare. [29 May 1989, p.C1]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Be warned: King of New York is trash, but it's trash with an attitude. [25 Oct 1990, p.11]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
The People Under the Stairs is about nooks, crannies and crevices, and there's allegory everywhere: comments on the horror of our cities, the Ron and Nancy-esque landlords. [07 Nov 1991, p.F7]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
The movie continually threatens to become shlock, but the story and serviceable performances hold it together. Still, the three big-name actors don't realize Millennium is a cut above the usual sci-fi flick, and never surprise us with their performances. [29 Aug 1989, p.C5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Memories of Me is not great cinema, but like the best Hollywood schmaltz, it's delightful. [07 Oct 1988, p.E6]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Estevez is a self-important performer and his cockiness mutes most of the movie's laughs. If not for Sheen, a much more appealing comic actor than his brother, Men at Work would hardly be palatable. [29 Aug 1990, p.D5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Director Deran Sarafian and cinematographer Russell Carpenter give Death Warrant a great gloomy feel and know how how to use extreme close-ups as effective eye candy. But candy is about all we get. [18 Sep 1990, p.C3]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is lightweight, small-screen stuff. It has some genuinely funny moments, especially in the comic repartee between Johnson and Rourke. These guys have a likable chemistry, and they might be worth teaming up again. Next time, let's hope they have a script. [26 Aug 1991, p.C3]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
For all its pretension, Powaqqatsi is a confused work -- both a compeling analysis of underdeveloped nations and a self-indulgent exercise in cinematic drudgery. [24 Jun 1988, p.C5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Mr. Destiny wouldn't be all bad if it made some variation on the recipe, but it's too generic and predictable -- and too blandly acted -- to be engaging. The magic's gone. It's like sucking on a Tootsie Pop for two hours and never tasting the fudgy center. [12 Oct 1990, p.G5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
As expected, Kevin Costner is witty and personable in Revenge. The movie isn't nearly as charming. It overstays its welcome with a story that's not gripping enough to fill half its two-hour running time. [21 Feb 1990, p.D4]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
The director spends nearly two hours groping for a message, but never finds it, mostly because his conflicts rise and fall in 30-minute segments -- like a Family Ties episode. [27 Oct 1989, p.G5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
McCarthy wanders around this movie like he's lost. You'll suffer the same fate in Kansas. [23 Sep 1988, p.E5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Benjamin's creative visual style isn't enough to lift a weak story. [18 Mar 1988, p.D7]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Being allowed to film in Russia was a blessing and a curse -- Schepisi weighs down the film with endless pans and traveling shots of neoclassical and Russian baroque architecture. All those buildings, monuments and squares. [21 Dec 1990, p.G5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
The devices in the script are more obvious than the special effects. [27 Apr 1990, p.G5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
18 Again is one for the VCR. On the big screen, there's not enough Burns for your money. [08 Apr 1988, p.C1]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
It still stinks...It's just a miss. [21 Dec 1990, p.13]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Though the fight sequences deliver the necessary kicks, Double Impact's script is a study in missed opportunities. [09 Aug 1991, p.G5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Necessary Roughness, a football comedy of unnecessary blandness, has the same problem as the Miami Dolphins: It dies in the second half. [3 Oct 1991, p.F4]- Miami Herald
