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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    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Maynard
    Blow Dry
    Shows its roots early on: Mixing the high camp of "Strictly Ballroom" with Monty's gritty milieu, the film comes off as little more than a contrived composite, despite the best efforts of pros Rickman, Richardson, and Griffiths.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 61 Metascore
    • 65 Kevin Maynard
    The Green Mile
    This jailhouse jam is quite a haul.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Maynard
    On the Line
    The only reason to sit through On the Line is for some entertaining, if fleeting, musical moments.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Kevin Maynard
    Malèna
    Giuseppe Tornatore has long been a master of cheap sentiment ("Cinema Paradiso," " The Legend of 1900"), but his latest film is his most shallow, reprehensible exercise in nostalgia to date.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Maynard
    The Weekend
    It's a coffee-table movie, but what saves it are a couple of performances.Rowlands puts a spin on every line reading, Harris quietly mines regret, and Shields, assured and sexy, has never been this good.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Kevin Maynard
    The Man Who Cried
    The film's a vacuous bore.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    Before Night Falls
    It's such a sensory experience; in its best moments, the film washes over you like a fever dream.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 48 Metascore
    • 68 Kevin Maynard
    Scary Movie
    A raunchy, scattershot, but often hilarious spoof.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    Memento
    Nolan's engrossing, backwards-ticking noir will run you so thoroughly in circles that you'll need to see it at least twice for maximum enjoyment.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Kevin Maynard
    Chuck & Buck
    Despite Arteta's best efforts, I eventually stopped caring about their bond because Chuck's character is conceived as such a two-dimensional yuppie.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 45 Metascore
    • 74 Kevin Maynard
    Crazy in Alabama
    Banderas may have been crazy to make such a heady directorial debut, but it's hard not to be charmed by his ambitions.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 21 Metascore
    • 20 Kevin Maynard
    The Body
    This talky, self-important flick is a bore of biblical proportions.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Maynard
    Time and Tide
    Makes for compulsive viewing even though its noirish plot doesn't make a lick of sense.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Kevin Maynard
    Me & Isaac Newton
    The man (Apted) behind the excellent "7 Up" series has put a human face to science, making the seemingly abstruse both accessible and easily relatable.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 33 Metascore
    • 35 Kevin Maynard
    The Wedding Planner
    The film's greatest flaw is its miscast leads, who conjure up zero dewy-eyed, wish-fulfillment magic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Maynard
    One
    Too much of a study in formalism to register deeply on an emotional level.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin Maynard
    Here on Earth
    Offers little in the way of splendor in the grass.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    Go Tigers!
    The politicizing is intense, but the actual game footage is even more engrossing; Carlson uses both digital video and 16mm film to put us squarely in the midst of the gridiron brouhaha.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 37 Metascore
    • 34 Kevin Maynard
    The Story of Us
    This is a second-rate Woody Allen midlife crisis comedy without the laughs.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 89 Kevin Maynard
    Cradle Will Rock
    Even if the great debate that pits artistic integrity against corporate compromise doesn't thrill you, see Cradle Will Rock anyway. It's marvelous, provocative entertainment; art for art's sake.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    Reykjavík
    In spirit, 101 Reykjavík is so Almodóvar that it could melt the polar icecap.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin Maynard
    Someone Like You...
    Starts as light, fluffy fun but becomes so blithely preposterous that it ceases to exist.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    The Adventures of Felix
    Optimistically explores how vastly different people can come together, and how any journey is more about what happens along the way than simply getting from one place to another.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Kevin Maynard
    Spring Forward
    It's a pleasure to watch these unhurried, character-driven vignettes when such great actors are anchoring them.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Maynard
    Jackpot
    The more we realize that we're stuck in the company of a totally relentless loser, the drearier the entire experience becomes.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Kevin Maynard
    The Princess Diaries
    Families already know exactly what they're in for, and they're likely to leave the multiplex high on the hum of a charming cast, sunny San Francisco locations, and a suitably happy ending.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 55 Metascore
    • 77 Kevin Maynard
    Tigerland
    The entire ensemble is first-rate.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 62 Kevin Maynard
    Loser
    Along the way, we end up losing patience with our couple-to-be because they seem too smart to endure the indignities ceaselessly heaped on them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 77 Kevin Maynard
    Trolösa
    Faithless, filmed mostly during Sweden's endless winter, will chill you to the bone.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Kevin Maynard
    Bully
    Oddly, Bully's only moments of power come at the film's end, after the crime takes place.
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