M. E. Russell

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Portland Oregonian
For 417 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

M. E. Russell's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Toy Story 3
Lowest review score: 0 Underclassman
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 222 out of 417
  2. Mixed: 159 out of 417
  3. Negative: 36 out of 417
417 movie reviews
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Toy Story 3
    In the year's least surprising news, Toy Story 3 continues Pixar's near-perfect streak.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Fountain
    It's an ambitious, passionate, grief-stricken work of film art.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Innocence revisits imagery from the first film. But this time computer animation pumps everything up to epic proportions. The results are overwhelming.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Upside of Anger
    In "Upside" Allen's marble face acts as the pressure-cooker lid on a hilarious hissy fit.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Boys of Baraka
    The Boys of Baraka leaves you outraged in the way only the best documentaries can.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    Unpretentiously fantastic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Lookout
    If you enjoyed any of Frank's previous work, or thought "Brick" was the bomb, you'll love this.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Hustle & Flow
    The writing, acting and filmmaking make Hustle & Flow nothing short of amazing.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Host
    The Host isn't just a terrific monster movie. This South Korean box-office smash is also a laugh-out-loud comedy and a surprisingly angry political satire.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    This is one of Downey's most enjoyable performances, and one of Kilmer's funniest. It's a relationship comedy wrapped in sharp talk and gunplay, a triumphant comeback for Black, and one of the year's best movies.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    It's the best kind of complaint. You can see why the $50 million man refers to something he gave away as "the best single day of my career."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Shakespeare Behind Bars
    By presenting murderers as actors and then filming those actors discussing their sins, the line between performance and soul-searching blurs in unnerving ways.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    The teachers have moxie. The students have courage. Mermin's warm, funny, beautiful and deeply humane documentary certainly honors the latter.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Deliver Us from Evil
    As a study of a predator, "Evil" is fascinating and enraging.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Namesake
    Nair takes mostly low-key material about a traditional Indian family raising kids in America and turns it into something sensual, funny and quietly devastating.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Oldboy
    Startling and amazing -- a cinematic hammer to the skull.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Howl's Moving Castle
    It's one of the best and strangest films of Miyazaki's career.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    The Heart of the Game
    Intimate, funny, moving and incredibly rousing -- even if you're allergic to sports movies.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 100 M. E. Russell
    Black Snake Moan
    A gorgeous, life-affirming movie. On paper, it sounds lurid bordering on ridiculous.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    5x2
    A sort of anti-date movie, a smart but deeply cynical study in failure, with our sense of loss growing in direct proportion to the characters' romantic hopes.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    Monster House
    Monster House makes its intentions clear: It wants to wrap you in a thick, warm blanket of 1980s nostalgia.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    Russian Dolls
    A bright, sexy, globe-trotting and very French romantic comedy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    Control
    This meandering tale of a pack of ticket inspectors working the Hungarian subway system delights in misleading viewers.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    Iraq in Fragments
    Nominated for an Oscar for best documentary feature, it's deeply humane and even more deeply unsettling, in a way that most documentaries about Iraq, which tend toward the polemic, never manage.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    Exiled
    Funny and weird and surprising and action-packed and genuinely beautiful.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    By an order of magnitude --- the strongest (or at least the most mature, subtle and emotional) entry in the series thus far.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    The Squid and the Whale
    Isn't easy to watch, but it's beautifully written and acted, with a sharp eye for the small embarrassments of divorce.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    Ginger & Rosa
    It's quietly brutal stuff, beautifully acted by Fanning, Englert, Christina Hendricks and a word-twisting Alessandro Nivola.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    The Bourne Ultimatum
    It's a relentless finale to the "Bourne" movie trilogy that raises the stakes, pumps up the action and develops old characters while introducing new villains
    • 65 Metascore
    • 91 M. E. Russell
    The TV Set
    Weaver is hilarious and horrifying.
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