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
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Even though its story is nothing new, Vice Versa works. [11 Mar 1988, p.C5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Mac and his gangly parents are crude special-effects jobs, with dorky ears and dippy walks. But the kids love them anyway, thanks to director Stewart Raffill (The Philadelphia Experiment), who knows how to get young moviegoers cheering. His pace is quick, and the numerous chase scenes make for good fun. For sheer thrills, Mac beats Pippi and Pee-wee, claws down. [12 Aug 1988, p.C8]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
After he reveals what is ultimately a paper-thin murder scheme, LaLoggia develops suspense, but like the rest of the thrills in Lady in White, it is fleeting. [27 Jun 1988, p.D6]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
White Palace is formula stuff, but it succeeds on the strength of performances, a clever script and thoughtful direction by Luis Mandoki. [19 Oct 1990, p.G11]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
Jordan's jokes are sometimes stereotypical barbs tossed at Americans, but the Irish director definitely can inject hackneyed Hollywood devices with high-spirited fun. Be warned, though, you'll have to stomach some dismal scenes between Hannah and Guttenberg -- the biggest stiffs in this movie. [18 Nov 1988, p.D8]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
This British-made story of an advertising executive and the boil on his neck begins as a marketable concept comedy and turns into a combination psychological horror flick and thought- provoking parable. [10 Jul 1989, p.C5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
We're subjected to 80 minutes of butt- kicking -- most of it contrived and flatly staged -- in Speakman's embarrassing debut, The Perfect Weapon. [19 Mar 1991, p.C5]- Miami Herald
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- Juan Carlos Coto
She's Out of Control is too insipid to take. [15 Apr 1989, p.E5]- Miami Herald
