Kathleen Maher

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Austin Chronicle
For 30 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kathleen Maher's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 89 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Lowest review score: 0 Tomboy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 30
  3. Negative: 6 out of 30
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 78 Kathleen Maher
    The Wages of Fear (1953)
    This film, the inspiration for the less successful Sorcerer, is a textbook case of how to handle suspense. It has also been called the cruelest movie ever made and it certainly earns that title by the film's end.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 89 Kathleen Maher
    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
    Hearts of Darkness gives a privileged glimpse of the artist's hell, but it also says something about grace.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 78 Kathleen Maher
    Sneakers
    At a time when conspiracy theories, in their relentlessness, their humorlessness and in their assumption of the monolithic, seem almost to protect the conspiracists by promulgating a sense of hopelessness, Sneakers's sense of fun, by contrast, seems empowering and almost subversive.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Kathleen Maher
    Defending Your Life
    The movie's light, easily forgotten and very good for a few laughs. I sure hope that eating thing comes true.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 78 Kathleen Maher
    The Commitments
    The movie isn't about the band, really; it's about having a chance when the cards are stacked against it. It's about climbing out. When they sing those great soul songs, it feels like a better world for everyone and that's how Parker manages to get us into his box with him.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Kathleen Maher
    Doc Hollywood
    Predictable as sunburn on the 4th of July, it is a film as ingratiating as its star. Visiting the town of Grady is a fairly pleasant pastime, but there's no excuse for a film this light to last over two hours as this one does.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 67 Kathleen Maher
    Oscar
    Stallone makes good-hearted fun of his street-wise Italian-American persona and also of himself as big shot. I'm not used to having much good to say about the guy, but Stallone has evidenced a nascient sense of humor before, and here he allows it to blossom.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 78 Kathleen Maher
    Jungle Fever
    There are two powerful movies here, unfortunately, they don't coexist easily. Lee has to fight his way out and he opts for narrative stopping violence when perhaps he should have continued the dialogue. He's a man on a tightrope and it's hard not to watch him without worrying about him.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 89 Kathleen Maher
    1900
    1900 is a marvelous movie, Bertolucci is one of the best directors who has ever lived.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Kathleen Maher
    Unlawful Entry
    Oddly enough, Unlawful Entry can keep you from sleeping but when you wake up the next moring, it's hard to remember much about the movie.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 89 Kathleen Maher
    Mississippi Masala
    It takes love to bring all these elements together into harmony, and Nair makes it look easy even when it's most difficult for her characters.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 89 Kathleen Maher
    Rush
    It rings true. Living in the twilight, between right, wrong, legal, illegal, good, bad, is dangerous but it's sheer hypocrisy to deny its attraction.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 78 Kathleen Maher
    Homicide
    Homicide may not be Mamet's most accessible film, but it combines those elements of the playwright/director's work -- theatricality, stylization, rough poeticism -- that might be most off-putting to the typical movie audience with enough tension and mystery to keep them in their seats.

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