Ken Fox

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For 1,722 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ken Fox's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Berlin
Lowest review score: 0 Strange Wilderness
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 991 out of 1722
  2. Mixed: 646 out of 1722
  3. Negative: 85 out of 1722
1722 movie reviews
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Lost in Translation
    It can be funny, but the humor is too often based in stereotypical perceptions of Asians (they're short, they're laughably polite, they eat weird food), and Coppola shamelessly invites us to laugh along with Murray's character, who, believe it or not, thinks it's hilarious when his hosts get their "r"s and "l"s switched.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Lost Embrace
    If you have the stomach - or the Dramamine - it's a touching, humorous take on Jewish life in contemporary Argentina.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Waking the Dead
    A tale of conscience lost and found becomes little more than a smart but tepid ghost story for idealists and '60s survivors, and not a terribly spooky one at that.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    To Be and to Have
    Simple but deeply touching documentary.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    They're answers that will either earn your respect, or further damn him as the architect of an American nightmare.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Tarnation
    A bold, painful memoir that finds an innovative middle-ground between conventional documentary and a homemade, home-movie collage.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    The Wind Will Carry Us
    On the surface, nothing really happens, but to call it a nonevent would be to miss the point entirely.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Baby Boy
    Superbly acted by everyone involved (Rhames does his best work since "Pulp Fiction"), the film is really more about character than plot, though frankly, at more than two hours, it could have used a bit more of the latter.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Rock Star
    Herek does capture the rush and crush of a stadium concert, and the music (more Leppard than Priest) isn't half bad -- in a disposable, arena-rock sort of way.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Sex and the City
    It's a mainstreamed, big-screen version of the bowdlerized, endlessly syndicated version of the show, not the raunchy original.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Battle for Haditha
    Broomfield's film is didactic, awkwardly acted by the cast of former Marines who are meant to lend the film credibility, and clumsily inflammatory.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    About Schmidt
    The writing is sharp and often blithely cynical, although not above using a shooting star to put a lump in the throat. The tone, however, is at times dangerously uncertain.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Goya in Bordeaux
    This film's splendid visuals suit the subject, Spain's greatest painter, but its stilted dramatics are wholly at odds with Francisco de Goya's tumultuous life and times.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Amen.
    About as subtle as a hammer blow to the skull and marred by a heedless mixture of fact and fiction.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Amores Perros
    Often thrilling, if overwhelmingly brutal, trio of interconnected short stories.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    The film is ridiculously overplotted, and very little of the plot serves any purpose other than to motivate what you can pretty well guess is going to happen from the outset.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Girls Can't Swim
    Sensitive, extraordinarily well-acted drama.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Still passable popcorn fare, even if you'll barely taste it before swallowing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    George Washington
    Stylized to the point of poetry.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Sade
    Interestingly, the real horror lies in the film's depiction of the era: The sight of guillotined bodies -- naked, headless and dumped under the shady trees of Picpus -- is truly shocking. Rarely has the horror of the Terror been so graphically and effectively evoked.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Untraceable
    Even worse than its hypocrisy, gratuitous homophobia and cheap proselytizing, the movie is dull.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Home of the Brave
    Starts with a bang and ends in a long, protracted whimper.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
    Beauchamp reconstructs the actual crime with disturbing immediacy, and his treatment of how Till's death galvanized a country makes this short film a good way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a crime that still has the power to outrage.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Savage Grace
    Has everything one could ask of a true-crime expose.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    Tarzan
    The result is a confused mess of mixed signals that substitutes a brutal climax for any kind of satisfactory resolution. Parents should be warned about the frequent gunfire and a grisly death by hanging.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Spring Forward
    Tom Gilroy's debut feature is a little obvious, but it's an excellent showcase for the criminally underused Ned Beatty.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Madadayo
    Kurosawa's farewell film is full of sentiment, tears, toasts and songs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Ken Fox
    The Winslow Boy
    Handsomely appointed and faultlessly acted, but no more alive than a well-dressed corpse.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    After the Life
    Belvaux is no Douglas Sirk, but the film is an admirable, if uneven, conclusion to an audacious project.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Ken Fox
    Trolösa
    Brilliantly acted and lugubriously paced, Liv Ullmann's fourth feature as director — the second written by her mentor, Ingmar Bergman — will no doubt be manna to those who miss the brilliant acting and lugubrious pace that characterized Bergman's late-period films.
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