Lawrence Toppman

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Charlotte Observer
For 1,622 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lawrence Toppman's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Down in the Delta
Lowest review score: 0 Left Behind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,064 out of 1622
  2. Mixed: 275 out of 1622
  3. Negative: 283 out of 1622
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Hustle & Flow
    It's a satisfying experience, whatever kind of picture you label it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    Though this film doesn't have the novelty value of the first or the complex plotting of the second, it boasts the most spectacular single sequence.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Die Another Day
    The picture should satisfy both diehard fans, who liked the plotting and interaction of early Bond films, and "Die Hard" fans, who prefer Bond shaken and stirred by massive explosions, vehicular crashes and gunplay befitting a Central American revolution.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Pixels
    The script by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling gets relaxed, throwaway laughs, even if it doesn’t always hold together.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    The Duchess
    If you're fond of wigs, you may be in heaven. If you're more interested in Whigs, you may wish the movie had dug deeper under the lovely powdered surface of Lady Georgiana Spencer.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Employee of the Month
    It's hard to fault a script that keeps finding new dilemmas for characters and rewards attentive viewers with in-jokes.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Gosford Park
    Qualifies as a solid double, maybe a triple.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    45 Years
    Rampling carries the film, appearing in virtually every scene.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Tuck Everlasting
    It's handsomely shot, acted with fervor and reasonably subtle in delivering its message:
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Baby Mama
    It's the chemistry between the stars that makes the film stand out in a drab spring.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    The Wedding Ringer
    If we can’t believe these characters could really be friends, we can live for 101 minutes in a world where they do.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Ice Age: The Meltdown
    The mediocre original, hampered by a saccharine plot and unconvincing reversals of character, earned lots of money but few plaudits. Now comes Ice Age: The Meltdown, a sequel with more humor, topicality, intelligence and appeal.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Vitus
    When the movie becomes pure fantasy, it's impossible to swallow. (No landlord rents an apartment to a 12-year-old with no adult in sight.)
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    The Hurricane
    The rest of this well-intentioned picture never reaches (Washington's) level of subtlety and intensity.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    The Filth and the Fury
    A documentary that's as chaotic, rude and funny as the band could be.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Brideshead Revisited
    Often powerful, though presented throughout with British understatement.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Water
    In an elemental way, though, the film always works. The acting can be basic, a cross between Bollywood directness and Western nuance, but it has weight.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Vertical Limit
    Vertical Limit is like riding a roller coaster for two hours. First it's frighteningly exciting. Then it's mind-numbing
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    The Quiet American
    Greene's words haunt us like a prophecy from half a century and half a world away.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Nights in Rodanthe
    This is one of the increasingly rare Hollywood films that treat people in middle age as though their feelings were just as intense and their needs just as valid as those of people half their age.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Seven Pounds
    Gripping but gap-filled Seven Pounds will have half your brain asking "How could this be?" and the other half saying, "Shut up and go along for the ride!" Listen to the latter voice.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    From Hell
    Depp gives yet another introspective, slightly mopey performance -- Graham never begins to act (and never has begun, as far as I know). But they're surrounded by an authentic, first-rate English cast.
    • Charlotte Observer
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    The Ring
    If your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests, if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror, this is your ticket.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    The Matrix Reloaded
    One dazzling (if overlong) bridge: technologically advanced, brilliantly designed, spectacularly executed, solid as steel in its unspectacular elements. But unlike its 1999 predecessor, this is a movie that nobody but avid video gamers and motorcyclists needs to see more than once.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Get Low
    Its main pleasure lies in watching Bush thaw under gentle emotional heat applied by the few people who haven't given up on him.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Wonder Boys
    Except for moments of labored symbolism and a too cozy ending, the movie stays sharply focused on its well-chosen targets.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Tupac: Resurrection
    If you've never heard his voice, this is your chance, and you should take it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Zathura: A Space Adventure
    The result is an odd mix of honesty and hokum that pilots a course toward greatness before settling into a somewhat lower orbit.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Lawrence Toppman
    Swimming Pool
    The film takes place half in English, half in French. The chilly, responsibility-laden world of British society contrasts with the sunny, relaxed quality of life in fare-thee-well France. If these seem like cliches, Ozon and Bernheim exploit them so adroitly that they never become stale.
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