Lisa Schwarzbaum

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Entertainment Weekly
For 1,979 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 28% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lisa Schwarzbaum's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Big Night
Lowest review score: 0 Valentine's Day
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,280 out of 1979
  2. Mixed: 520 out of 1979
  3. Negative: 179 out of 1979
1979 movie reviews
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Zombieland
    At the bone, Zombieland is a polished, very funny road picture shaped by wisenheimer cable-TV sensibilities and starring four likable actors, each with an influential following.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    The Forgiveness of Blood
    This gripping if tamped-down drama is steeped in ancient Albanian culture, where the real, tragic consequences of blood feuds can keep families trapped in their homes for generations.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Declaration of War
    An adventurous song selection and stylish narrative techniques put a strangely romantic face on a harrowing story that's a parental nightmare.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Beyond the Mat
    Often has the rambling feeling of a home movie Blaustein made for his buddies.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    The Corporation
    The Corporation has better manners and a longer fuse than ''Fahrenheit 9/11.'' But the acerbic, sardonically illuminating Canadian documentary shares with its American cousin a certain bleak leftist glee in pursuit of its cause.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Space Cowboys
    Poorly engineered: lurchingly paced, the dramatic conflicts duct taped together.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Gran Torino
    A movie at once understated and radical, deceptively unremarkable in presentation and ballsy in its earnestness. Don't let the star's overly familiar squint fool you: This is subtle, perceptive stuff.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Happy Endings
    There are pleasing outcomes for almost everyone in Happy Endings, and that's not good news.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Cars
    A work of American art as classic as it is modern. Note to tourists: Leave before the very end of the credits and you'll miss some of the best and funniest roadside sights.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Red Satin
    Undoubtedly downplays the seamier, less attractive experiences of Arab women and men in Tunisian cabaret culture, and plays up the fairy-tale charm of the universal ''Flashdance'' formula in an unusual setting.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Alias Betty
    A nifty, entwined, ultimately gripping adaptation of British crime writer Ruth Rendell's novel ''The Tree of Hands'' by French director Claude Miller.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Antz
    Sophisticated, funny, and joyously subversive animated bug epic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    The Girl Cut in Two
    Sagnier is yummy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    The subtle selectivity of Leconte's eye, how he moves with great control from gesture to gesture, is matched by the disciplined intensity of the performances.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Twin Falls Idaho
    A quietly dazzling microcosm that's always just this side of eerie, just that side of tragic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Love & Basketball
    Lathan, charismatic and beautifully strong, holds the screen in every scene.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    Nothing is new, which is a problem. Nothing is particularly funny or endearing, which is a worse problem.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    The deliriously enjoyable noir comedy-thriller Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang does nothing by halves and everything by doubles.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    The New World
    Many have tried, but none can match Malick's touch for shuffling a deck of elegiac images (water/sky/clouds/rain) and fanning out the hand to express what speech cannot; he's a master, too, of incorporating sound that is often wordless but never empty.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Lisa Schwarzbaum
    A Royal Affair
    The storytelling in A Royal Affair is traditional bordering on square. But the historical drama itself - about how an idealistic German doctor influenced a silly king, romanced a queen, and brought the Age of Enlightenment to 18th-century Denmark - is kind of amazing.
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