Kevin Thomas

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Los Angeles Times
For 1,782 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 75% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kevin Thomas' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Grand Hotel
Lowest review score: 0 The Tiger and the Snow
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,177 out of 1782
  2. Mixed: 442 out of 1782
  3. Negative: 163 out of 1782
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    The Killer
    Sentimentality and violence have gone hand-in-hand from the beginning of the movies, but seldom have they been carried to such extremes and played against each other with such effectiveness as in writer-director John Woo’s The Killer (Nuart), an example of the highly addictive, supercharged, go-for-broke Hong Kong cinema at its most deliberately outrageous.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Outside Providence
    Corrente's gift for evoking the lives of blue-collar men that made his debut film, "Federal Hill," so appealing blends perfectly with the antic sensibility of the Farrellys.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Santitos
    Has the same kind of humor, charm and sensuality that made "Like Water for Chocolate" the most popular foreign-language film until "Life Is Beautiful" came along.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    The Flower of My Secret
    Beautifully wrought and wonderfully acted, The Flower of My Secret is in fact the kind of film that George Cukor often made - and he surely would have been delighted at Almodovar's deft blend of humor, tenderness and wisdom. [13 Mar 1996]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Down to the Bone
    Down to the Bone emerges with an aura of authenticity so strong as to be mesmerizing, thanks to a superior script brought to life with infallibly natural performances.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    The Monkey's Mask
    In directing The Monkey's Mask from Annie Kennedy's adaptation of Dorothy Porter's novel-in-poetry, Samantha Lang displays considerable style and assurance, with Porter and McGillis giving beautifully nuanced portrayals.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    A Map of the World
    An accomplished film that continually takes us beyond our first impressions of people and situations.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Down by Love
    Never does Down by Love, handsome and fully crafted, have the feel of being a filmed play. It emerges as a fresh, challenging and unpredictable experience with a stunning finish.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Our Lady of the Assassins
    As the film, with its haunting score and inspired use of popular music, builds flawlessly to its resounding conclusion, it is accompanied by a pitch-dark humor that grows out of the sheer absurdity of the city's daily body count.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Tokyo Twilight
    Ozu cherishes tradition but accepts the inevitability of loss and change, and is as all-embracing as Jean Renoir. His people may judge and not forgive, often understandably, but as one of the greatest filmmakers he does not do so. [04 Oct 2007, p.E13]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    The Strange Case of Angelica
    This fresh, highly original film, inspired by Oliveira's substantially different, never-filmed 1952 script, has been made with the greatest of ease and simplicity and with drollery and wit, yet its underlying impact is profoundly spiritual.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Notorious C.H.O.
    Cho's weapons are a wildly imaginative sense of humor and the courage to be absolutely uninhibited.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    The Devil's Backbone
    With the ambitious and ominous The Devil's Backbone, Del Toro rises to a new level of accomplishment, adding history and politics to his distinctive blend.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Sansho the Bailiff
    A harrowing yet sublime work that has to do with the exceptionally cruel fate of an 11th-Century noblewoman, played by the incomparable Kinuyo Tanaka. [12 Aug 1985, p.2]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Office Space
    Bristling with shrewd observation, inspired humor and all-around smarts, Office Space is a winner about a guy who's beginning to feel like a loser.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Cet amour-là
    A crisp, elegantly resonant film.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Happy, Texas
    A hoot, a hilarious comedy that's smart and caring, yet sexy and ingenious enough that it just might stir up some of that elusive "Full Monty"-style box-office appeal.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Beautiful Boxer
    This altogether remarkable film is as much of a paradox as Nong Toom: at once poetic and sensitive yet as gritty and hard-hitting as any boxing movie.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Place Vendôme
    This complex, sophisticated and increasingly suspenseful tale of love and betrayal, intrigue and redemption, is as elegant as its star and its settings.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Ça commence aujourd'hui
    Although there is real pain and suffering in It All Starts Today, it is too impassioned, too brisk and too embracing of life and human foibles to be depressing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Jude
    Michael Winterbottom's handsome, uncompromising film. Jude glows with Eccleston's and Winslet's performances and with those in supporting roles.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
    With its inspired sight gags and comic mishaps, the deceptively artless-seeming "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" is as blissful as a sunny day at the beach. [02 Feb 1995, p.F4]
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Summer School
    It's no thigh-slapper like the Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School," but it's exceptionally good-natured and perceptive, and Harmon, in his first starring screen role, is a real charmer. [22 July 1987]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    The Great Escape
    One of the most entertaining escape movies ever made, a rousing 1963 big-scale production directed by John Sturges and written by James Clavell. [12 May 1991, p.4]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Pi
    It is a brilliant intellectual adventure that fans of bold independent filmmaking will want to experience, even though the ending is something of a letdown.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    The Tunnel
    It is the kind of superbly crafted, intelligent entertainment — a classic suspense thriller — that nowadays is as welcome as it is rare.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Cherry Blossoms
    A stunning reminder of the omnipresence of mortality.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Phantom
    As audacious as it is compelling and as dark as it is erotic. Its sexuality is explicit, alternately teasing and brutal, and one that is ultimately a cautionary tale.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Strayed
    What makes this film special, as in his other films, is the getting there. Téchiné is the master of subtle shifts in mood, an acute delineator of psychological interplay, and therefore demands the utmost of his actors.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Kevin Thomas
    Oscar and Lucinda
    Flawless contributions by Armstrong's crew make Oscar and Lucinda a vibrant period piece, buoyant yet incisive, and easily sustaining interest, if not generating deep involvement, throughout a just-under two-hour running time. [31Dec1997 Pg.8]
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