Kim Morgan

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L.A. Weekly, Portland Oregonian
For 283 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kim Morgan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Apocalypse Now Redux
Lowest review score: 0 Eban and Charley
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 125 out of 283
  2. Mixed: 123 out of 283
  3. Negative: 35 out of 283
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Kim Morgan
    Demonlover
    Manages to feel both obvious and oblique: You feel the need to watch it twice but wonder if you would actually be up for it. It moves like a breezy techno-thriller but tangles itself with duplicities and metaphors. You get it, and then you don't get it, and then you wonder if you even care.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 33 Kim Morgan
    Stealing Harvard
    Working with a weak script and too lightweight for its freakier moments with Green, the picture never gels. Green's the star, but he really should be in a movie much weirder than this one, a film that can accommodate his humor.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Kim Morgan
    Aimee & Jaguar
    It's a first love story that goes beyond many simplistic notions as to why people fall for one another. If it weren't true, no one would believe it.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Kim Morgan
    Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    It's a remarkable, thoughtful achievement that will make you want to watch it twice. You should.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 42 Kim Morgan
    I Spy
    We're talking mediocre-to-bad. Still, the film has at least two bits that are funnier than anything in many better films and a fair amount of mild amusement in between.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Kim Morgan
    I Capture the Castle
    There's something refreshingly and truly girlish about the picture's musings and epiphanies that makes its R rating baffling.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Kim Morgan
    Set Me Free
    A coming-of-age movie that stands apart from the rest.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Kim Morgan
    The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    It's a shame director Care didn't take more time with his characters, even making the film a bit longer to deepen the connections between them. Still, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is a keen slice of teen angst and peril.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Kim Morgan
    Lakeboat
    It works for the most part, though some scenes come off contrived or directed without flavor. But thanks to the likable, rough-hewn crew and Forster, the film flows along gruffly and with eloquence.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Kim Morgan
    Shanghai Noon
    The film is still a wonderful lark filled with an ingredient most summer blockbusters lack -- likability.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Kim Morgan
    Owning Mahowny
    Owning Mahowny may at times feel futile in its colorless, disheartening subject matter, but that's the point -- to see how barren Mahowny's life becomes. Hoffman gives the film relevance.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Kim Morgan
    May
    On paper, it sounds like the start of a good film. Too bad McKee made such a lackluster thing of it. Though the horror comes from an interesting place, it's frequently forced, negating much of the humor and pathos the film attempts to instill.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Kim Morgan
    Son of the Bride
    A movie that will wear you out and make you misty even when you don't want to be. It's a gushy, sometimes-maudlin, often-charming movie that highlights the importance of little things.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Kim Morgan
    The Dish
    Appropriate music, lovely cinematography and stellar performances by both a subtly moving Neill and a likable, barrel-chested super-American Warburton.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 44 Metascore
    • 42 Kim Morgan
    Love & Sex
    There's nothing worse than a sub-par Woody Allen knockoff.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Kim Morgan
    Just Looking
    It's merely a by-the-numbers coming-of-age film
    • 71 Metascore
    • 42 Kim Morgan
    Real Women Have Curves
    A little movie, fine, but a little movie with little in the way of character composition, cinematic panache or intelligent writing.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Kim Morgan
    Talk to Her
    Almodovar loves the human flesh -- indeed, one of his films is titled "Live Flesh" -- and with the quietly subversive Talk to Her, he utilizes it not just as mere decoration but weaves with it textured themes of powerlessness, love and obsession.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Kim Morgan
    Pumpkin
    Jas some nice moments, a great soundtrack and some wonderful works by the dark-even-while-light Ricci.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Kim Morgan
    Big Trouble
    It's something we might mildly enjoy on an airplane (well, not anymore) or on a lazy Sunday TV day when nothing else is on, but in theaters, it's a clunker.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Kim Morgan
    Raising Victor Vargas
    One of the purest instances of indie cinema this year. "Pure" meaning that in every aspect of filmmaking and intent this picture is peerless, so truly real, funny, poignant and sexy that it almost feels like a watershed cinematic moment.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Kim Morgan
    Scary Movie 3
    One of the funniest things in Scary Movie 3 is Pamela Anderson. She makes us laugh. And not just at her (though she's game to poke fun at her image) but with her.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 100 Kim Morgan
    Shallow Hal
    Unafraid of walking the fine line between the repellent and the human, Shallow Hal is wickedly funny but heartfelt.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Kim Morgan
    Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    You may strain to recall just what happened an hour after you see it, but there are so many worse things to have to remember in life. It's a relief to focus on something so attractively amusing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Kim Morgan
    Anger Management
    Needing the gristle of its title, the film should have been angrier.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Kim Morgan
    Downtown 81
    Although amateurish, often poorly acted and containing dialogue and narration that comes off as pretentious and embarrassing, it's worth watching for the environment it envelops you in.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Kim Morgan
    Panic
    Panic never lets you forget that Donald Sutherland can be one of America's greatest actors.
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Kim Morgan
    The Rundown
    It's fun, albeit a little messy, under the frequently punchy direction of Peter Berg.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Kim Morgan
    Till Human Voices Wake Us
    The film strives to be poetic, but it exposes nothing especially moving or relevant. Rather, the engaging leads wander around like actors lost in an ill-fated exercise in subtext.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 33 Kim Morgan
    Slackers
    A disappointing venture. If only it had been more clever, perhaps darker.
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