Lisa Alspector

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Chicago Reader
For 550 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 13.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lisa Alspector's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 52
Highest review score: 100 Tarzan
Lowest review score: 0 Bless the Child
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 178 out of 550
  2. Mixed: 239 out of 550
  3. Negative: 133 out of 550
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 37 Lisa Alspector
    Leave It to Beaver
    Dead-on imitations of some of the characters from the television series created by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly will seem pointlessly stylized to viewers unfamiliar with the old sitcom.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Loser
    Intriguing but poorly executed ideas are the basis of this not entirely unappealing romantic comedy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Osmosis Jones
    Cathartically disgusting adventure movie.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Behind Enemy Lines
    The end justifies the means as long as everything turns out OK for the not-too-obedient American soldier and everyone else who enjoys Coca-Cola.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Bride of the Wind
    Director Bruce Beresford -- not intending to be funny but succeeding wildly.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    All the Rage
    Two generic ideas amount to nothing in this theatrical dark comedy about violence and information overload.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    The Suburbans
    The movie's repeated attempts to combine seriousness and humor as in a blender give it a dysfunctionally earnest tone.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    This kind of wheel spinning comes from having the desire to speak but nothing much to say, and Smith, who's made a slight movie about his being a slight filmmaker, seems to know this.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Superstar
    Contrasting the erotic with the disgusting is usually provocative and can be funny, but not in this underdog comedy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Boiler Room
    Fast-paced editing doesn't compensate for unconvincing dialogue.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Dudley Do-Right
    This terrible live-action comedy based on Jay Ward cartoons has its moments and its near misses.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Double Jeopardy
    In this inept thriller...the script is a coloring book, and the director's careful to stay within the lines.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Backstage
    People frequently cover the camera lens with their hands or refer to the "documentary" being filmed, as if to assure us that what we're seeing is real.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Dr. Dolittle 2
    Too much plot and too much faith in special effects and adolescent humor doom this "Babe" wannabe.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    The Invisible Circus
    In nearly every scene of her dangerously underwritten role, Diaz has a mouthful of cliches.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Writer Kevin Williamson, who's also responsible for the overrated "Scream," sets cleverness above emotional impact in a poorly conceived 1997 thriller with plenty of empty references.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Dinosaur
    This movie's story must have been computer generated along with its animation.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Head Over Heels
    More of the abundant sight gags and slips of the tongue originate in bathrooms and bedrooms than are actually set there.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Michael Jordan to the Max
    Unlike Michael Jordan, this 45-minute large-format movie demonstrates mostly unrealized potential.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    The Skulls
    Initially tolerable but increasingly stupid thriller.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Gossip
    The message must have got lost somewhere in the plot twists of this would-be topical thriller about the power of hearsay on a college campus.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    The Fifth Element
    Even the revelation of what the fifth element is at the end is disingenuous--in fact, the archness of this whole project is repellent.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Bubble Boy
    This Farrelly brothers "hommage" replicates the mechanics of their work without echoing its spirit or complex tone, and many of the deliberate offenses fail to transcend mere exploitation.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Anastasia
    A story that holds little suspense; we know exactly how happily this animated musical will end--and the wait isn't very diverting.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Get Carter
    It's almost always night and almost always raining.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Any Given Sunday
    By the time the manic camera slows down to reveal the back stories of the characters, everyone's motives are either moot or redundant.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Very Bad Things
    As the characters behave with symbolic excess in situations designed to provoke their bigotry and self-interest, superficial black comedy periodically gives way to painful drama.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Dirty Work
    The pranks are as bland as Macdonald’s demeanor, which is supposed to subvert expectations about the role of the straight man in a comedy duo; the subjects of running gags range from anal rape to anal rape.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Sugar & Spice
    This ambiguously pitched comedy--its idea of sexy humor is a cheerleader farting--shoots for camp without bothering with satire.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Angela's Ashes
    If misery were inherently interesting, this adaptation starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle as a couple plagued by alcoholism and child mortality might be too.
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