Kevin Crust

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Los Angeles Times
For 364 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kevin Crust's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Genesis
Lowest review score: 0 Chaos
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 181 out of 364
  2. Mixed: 154 out of 364
  3. Negative: 29 out of 364
364 movie reviews
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Crust
    Nelly
    Arcan wrote prolifically about beauty and female identity in essays and articles, as well as her books, and Émond uses those words extensively in the film. But what may have been profound and poetic on the page feels redundant and banal on screen. It’s a sad tale that never manifests much more than that singular emotion.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Crust
    7500
    The cast, especially Gordon-Levitt and Memar as Vedat, the youngest of the hijackers, excel at combining drama and physicality. Rather than the over-choreographed fight scenes of most Hollywood movies, the violence here is clumsy, painful and visceral.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Crust
    Renaissance
    A visually wondrous experience in high-contrast black and white, bogged down by a slow, underwrought story and uninvolving characters. It would be easy to dismiss it as another great-looking film with little else to offer, but that wouldn't be entirely true.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Crust
    Chemical Hearts
    Tanne, who tackled the relationship of a young Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama in “Southside With You,” also hits the physiological explanation of the pain of heartbreak (from which the book and movie draw their titles) pretty hard.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Crust
    Everything's Gone Green
    The film's tone is on the sitcom side, but its likable cast and zany subplots make it palatable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Crust
    Antibodies
    Although Alvart lays on the biblical allegory too heavily at times, the film's pace is brisk enough to maintain our full attention. Antibodies is not so much an art house movie as a well-made, commercial thriller that happens to be in German.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Crust
    little man
    Above all, it's a testament to the will to live and how that spirit can be found in even the smallest of packages.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Crust
    The 24th
    Wilmott’s affecting historical drama “The 24th,” inspired by the Houston riot of 1917, bears both the weight of that history and the filmmaker’s passion for the subject matter.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Crust
    It's All Gone Pete Tong
    Grounded by a gutsy, over-the-edge-and-back performance by Paul Kaye as Frankie, It's All Gone Pete Tong takes the long way around before finally redeeming itself.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Crust
    Wolf Creek
    An initially promising horror film that turns exploitive, Wolf Creek fails to deliver the requisite payoff considering its leisurely pace.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Crust
    Tommy's Honour
    It’s surprisingly affecting, but there’s a tendency to telegraph these pivotal emotional moments that in a way lessens their effect. It’s a tribute to the film’s overall craft, and especially its cast, that it’s as much a winner as it is.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Crust
    Mr. Bean's Vacation
    There is a guilty-pleasure quality to watching Atkinson at work even when Mr. Bean has overstayed his welcome. The film's lightness makes you wish you were the one headed to the beach.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Crust
    And We Go Green
    The film frequently feels like a branding exercise but manages to remain entertaining and informative.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Crust
    Resurrecting the Champ
    Delivers a heckuva story marred by some credibility problems but lands the majority of its punches via subtly powerful performances and a moving undercard of paternal connection.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Crust
    Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    If the film offers any lesson, it is that nirvana is not easily attainable, so there really are no shortcuts.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Crust
    The Greatest Game Ever Played
    Paxton and Frost lay the schmaltz on thickly, but the deal-breaker is the overuse of special effects, which make the game in question look more like pinball than golf.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Crust
    Don't Come Knocking
    Despite a fine cast, the film feels as lost as Howard, unsure of its direction or tone.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Crust
    Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
    Not only screams out to be a midnight movie, but one in need of, shall we say, an herbal supplement, and we aren't talking ginkgo biloba.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Crust
    Military Wives
    No surprises await, but the performances by Scott Thomas, Horgan and company and some pleasant harmonizing make Military Wives palatable Memorial Day weekend viewing.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Crust
    MirrorMask
    The teenager's journey through a nightmarish reverie presents hallucinogenic imagery that simultaneously dulls the senses and hot-wires the imagination, but it never fully engages emotionally.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Crust
    The Astronaut Farmer
    Much of the credit for the movie succeeding goes to Thornton. In his able hands, Farmer is not so much someone who simply has faith in what he is doing but a man who believes with incontrovertible knowledge of what can be accomplished.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Crust
    The New Romantic
    The New Romantic follows a very familiar arc, but the path is certainly a pleasant one, thanks to Barden’s naturally ebullient performance. Her enthusiasm in the fun parts is infectious, and she holds the camera during the moments of melancholy.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Crust
    Cashback
    Writer-director Sean Ellis more-or-less successfully expands his Academy Award-nominated 18-minute short to full length, showcasing his talented young cast to good effect.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Crust
    Puccini for Beginners
    Bisexuality certainly increases the geometric possibilities of the romantic comedy, completing its triangles and allowing for quadrangles and other, more amorphous layers of amorous involvement.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Crust
    Bobby
    It's an ambitious film drenched in sincerity and oozing with nostalgia that, despite the energy provided by its title icon via archival footage, falls flat dramatically in nearly every other way.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Crust
    The Exterminating Angels
    The film -- buoyed by its cast of excellent actors -- loses its momentum in the final half-hour when it starts to take itself too seriously.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Crust
    Boogeyman
    Has little to offer in the way of entertainment or originality.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Crust
    Because of Winn-Dixie
    Never quite works as a film. The failure to create appropriate cinematic metaphors reduces it to "happiness is a warm puppy" superficiality.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Crust
    Music Within
    The result is that they never truly find the innate drama in Pimentel's story, instead simply recounting four or five decades' worth of events that shaped the man.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Crust
    Alpha Dog
    In a film with several over-the-top characters bordering on camp, Timberlake's Frankie is the only one who approaches three dimensions, adept at convincingly dishing out some of the movie's disturbing violence as well as registering subtle shifts in Frankie's allegiance.
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