Kevin Maynard

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Mr. Showbiz
For 312 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kevin Maynard's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Lowest review score: 5 Knockout
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 154 out of 312
  2. Mixed: 110 out of 312
  3. Negative: 48 out of 312
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    Lumumba
    There's nothing more incendiary than the reopening of a forgotten chapter of history --nothing more incendiary than telling the truth.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Kevin Maynard
    State and Main
    For all its wit and sharp casting, State and Main is way too pleased with itself to be funny or endearing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Kevin Maynard
    Magnolia
    An exhilarating and at times operatic film.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 62 Kevin Maynard
    Mansfield Park
    "Run mad whenever you choose, but do not faint," Austen wrote in her early journals. Despite its brazen politics, Mansfield Park never goes giddily amok as promised.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Maynard
    Fat Girl
    It's all well-acted and eerily compelling, but the shocker ending is patently implausible.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Maynard
    Legally Blonde
    That's just not enough to recommend it, though it does have one moment of real justice: The person sentenced to jail has truly bad hair.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 60 Metascore
    • 48 Kevin Maynard
    The Visit
    Sentenced its audience to a maudlin death.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 76 Kevin Maynard
    B. Monkey
    An entertaining but insubstantial romantic thriller loaded with Euro-chic trappings and no small amount of sex appeal.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Kevin Maynard
    Stuart Little
    A bright, lively picture.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    The Road Home
    The flutes soar a little too often, but Yimou's film is genuinely moving.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Maynard
    The Five Senses
    Beautifully performed and filmed, but tiresomely schematic episodes like this one cause us to experience major sensory deprivation.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 47 Metascore
    • 68 Kevin Maynard
    Simon Magus
    An elegant, haunting folktale.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 35 Kevin Maynard
    Outside Providence
    Plays like mediocre outtakes from better bell-bottomed fare (Richard Linklater's authentic, seriocomic "Dazed and Confused"; Fox's "That '70s Show") without making any kind of impression of its own.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Maynard
    Miss Congeniality
    A barrage of dangling plot strands, inconsistent characterizations, and suspense-free shootouts.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin Maynard
    Next Friday
    A chronic snore. My advice: Roll a fatty and re-rent the first one.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    The Deep End
    Goran Visnjic is such a sensitive, non-menacing gentleman that any woman would want him as her own personal blackmailer.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Maynard
    As Good as It Gets
    Billed cleverly as a comedy from the heart that goes for the throat. If only Brooks had had the guts to avoid the schmaltz.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 41 Metascore
    • 65 Kevin Maynard
    R2PC: Road to Park City
    This is slight stuff, but the legions of budding Scorseses and Kevin Smiths might actually learn a little something, and they will certainly enjoy a chortle or two -- even if it is at their own expense.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 52 Kevin Maynard
    Sunshine
    Eventually succumbs to fatal overlength.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Maynard
    Kill Me Later
    About Lustig's direction. Badly employing all kinds of tricks like alternating film speed, jump cuts, and various color tints, she ultimately overpowers her actors and does in her own film.
    • Mr. Showbiz
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