Maggie Lee
Select another critic »For 100 reviews, this critic has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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14% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Maggie Lee's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 64 | |
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| Highest review score: | The Great Buddha+ | |
| Lowest review score: | From Vegas to Macau III | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 56 out of 100
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Mixed: 37 out of 100
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Negative: 7 out of 100
100
movie
reviews
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- Maggie Lee
A helming debut for mainland star Deng Chao and theater director Yu Baimei, who have claimed that they’re pushing the envelope of Chinese comedy but have in fact merely pushed the genre to a new low in terms of racist and homophobic humor.- Variety
- Posted Jul 1, 2014
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- Maggie Lee
Plotless, pretentiously literary and lousy at explaining geography, the movie fails to put Yang’s vision into a fictional framework that’s even remotely engaging.- Variety
- Posted Oct 24, 2016
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- Maggie Lee
Like a school pageant with a Broadway-sized budget, this noisy production is a pileup of extravagant dance numbers, candy-colored sets and vintage props that, sans the requisite heart or hip factor, soon overstays its welcome.- Variety
- Posted Jul 25, 2013
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- Maggie Lee
Taking more than a dozen credits, including helmer-scribe, Jackie Chan emerges a Jackie-of-all-trades and master of none.- Variety
- Posted Oct 17, 2013
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- Maggie Lee
A mind-numbing, crash-bang misfire that abandons chic European capitals for the character’s own backyard.- Variety
- Posted Dec 31, 2014
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- Maggie Lee
The film’s vacuous characters and inherent vanity have become awfully grating- Variety
- Posted Jul 21, 2014
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- Maggie Lee
Single-handedly killing a once internationally beloved, one-of-a-kind Hong Kong genre that Wong himself invented, the filmmakers have so mangled their material to suit mainland criteria that they’re left with a string of moronic gags barely held together by cheapskate production values.- Variety
- Posted Mar 2, 2016
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