Keith Staskiewicz

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Entertainment Weekly
For 31 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 9% same as the average critic
  • 17% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Keith Staskiewicz's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Mr. Turner
Lowest review score: 16 The Apparition
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 31
  3. Negative: 3 out of 31
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    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Keith Staskiewicz
    Mr. Turner
    J.M.W. Turner was a master of light and image, but what stands out most about him in Mike Leigh's captivating biographical film is a sound. Playing the renowned Victorian-era English painter, Timothy Spall grunts and expectorates his way through his scenes, chugging along with the phlegmy belch of an old jalopy or, as the film suggests more than once, a snuffling pig.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Keith Staskiewicz
    Enter the Dragon
    A sequestered island, a slinky score, a villain with a secret scheme and a deadly prosthesis — it’d be good, cheesy fun even without the centerpiece fight sequences.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Keith Staskiewicz
    The Wind Rises
    As gorgeously animated as any of his previous movies, Wind has Miyazaki trading in his more fantastical impulses for contemplative, old-fashioned drama and period detail.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Keith Staskiewicz
    Repo Man
    Unlike Cox’s sneering Sid and Nancy, it’s defined more by a tone of affectionate disaffection than antipathy, celebrating a friendlier species of anarchy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Keith Staskiewicz
    Blue Ruin
    With the same brand of realist irony the Coens used to cool down "Blood Simple," writer-director Jeremy Saulnier slows the genre’s heartbeat to gripping effect.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Keith Staskiewicz
    Wreck-It Ralph
    There are more videogame cameos and winks than you can shake a Wiimote at - even the Konami Code, the gamer's paternoster, makes an appearance - but the real success of the film is its emotional core and the relationship between the two misfits.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Keith Staskiewicz
    Arthur Christmas
    The resulting adventure, like most of Aardman's work (Chicken Run, Flushed Away), is more clever than outright funny, but it's also genuinely sweet, and the complicated relations among Santa's clan are surprisingly believable.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Keith Staskiewicz
    The Guest
    The coat of irony helps when the film takes a major pivot in tone, and Stevens is unnervingly placid as the corn-fed terminator.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 83 Keith Staskiewicz
    La Cage aux Folles
    Like many of the best farces, from The Importance of Being Earnest to Cactus Flower, it draws its humor from characters pretending to be something they’re not.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Keith Staskiewicz
    The Meaning of Life
    It’s tough to find the meaning in much of the craziness on display here, let alone the meaning of all human existence as the title promises, but you will find a whole lot of exquisite nonsense.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Keith Staskiewicz
    The Verdict
    If you were presenting a case for Newman’s legacy of acting brilliance, this film would be exhibit A.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Keith Staskiewicz
    Big Hero 6
    At times, Big Hero 6 gets a little too noisy for its own good, but that never manages to drown out its many quieter charms.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Staskiewicz
    Happy Christmas
    That doesn’t stop the movie as a whole from feeling a little slight, though, like a Christmas tree that isn’t entirely filled out.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Staskiewicz
    Beneath the Harvest Sky
    The film’s first half feels almost as directionless as its characters, but the detailed specificity of the milieu and story proves engrossing.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Staskiewicz
    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    Charming enough on its own not to feel like just reheated leftovers.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Staskiewicz
    Stage Fright
    It’s half "Friday the 13th," half "Phantom of the Paradise," and just cheesy enough to work.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Keith Staskiewicz
    Begin Again
    "Once" was a small and well-loved heirloom, its imperfections part of the charm. But Begin Again has been burnished to a shiny dullness.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Keith Staskiewicz
    Maleficent
    The characters are boiled down to their essentials, the humor is timelessly broad, and Jolie's at her best when she's curling her claws and elongating her vowels like a black-sabbath Tallulah Bankhead.

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