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
550 movie reviews
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Alspector
    Seven Years in Tibet
    This moving story is full of breathtaking compositions, gorgeous spectacle, and inspiring philosophies articulated by sympathetic figures.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Lisa Alspector
    Last Resort
    A hopeless romantic meets a hapless realist in this gritty, elegant drama brimming with spontaneous-seeming close-ups.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Lisa Alspector
    Music of the Heart
    Self-congratulatory feature, which artificially exalts the character--a classic saint with clay feet--by casting a grande dame and by reducing her motives to facile psychodrama
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Lisa Alspector
    Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
    The gangster-movie plot, themes, and allusions aren't nearly as intriguing as the earnestly kitschy black-and-white wide-screen images or the mesmerizing, minimalist sound effects.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Lisa Alspector
    Bring It On
    Has an adolescent energy and a tempered sexuality.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Lisa Alspector
    The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Elmo's obsessive reaction is never examined, compromising the ability of this rambling minor spectacle to put across its obvious lesson about sharing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Lisa Alspector
    A Knight's Tale
    Would be sweeter if the fair maiden weren't such a pill and more exciting if the villain weren't quite so nasty.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 90 Lisa Alspector
    Rat Race
    Inspired, elaborately plotted, and unusually satisfying variable-speed chase comedy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 30 Lisa Alspector
    Training Day
    A blandly twisting plot with no meaningful revelations or substantial themes.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Lisa Alspector
    Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    Images about imagery can be diverting, even insightful, but this painterly 1999 feature piles up studies in elaborately choreographed motion that are their own reason for being.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Lisa Alspector
    Bangkok Dangerous
    Better than slick, though it feels pointless -- another homage to a kind of filmmaking that's had more than its share.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Lisa Alspector
    Made
    Favreau, who also plays the long-suffering Bobby, mixes elements of drama into this appropriately annoying comedy.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Lisa Alspector
    Hard Ball
    The filmmakers realize that playing baseball isn't nearly enough to fix what's wrong in these kids' lives, which might have made a more provocative ending than what follows.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Lisa Alspector
    Tea with Mussolini
    Cher generates much of the movie's limited interest with her powerful screen presence, and Maggie Smith's skill as a diplomat's widow who believes she has a special relationship with Mussolini is undeniable. Yet the story, structured by the fragmented perspectives of too many characters, is more often lightweight than funny.
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