Mark Caro
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52% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5 points lower than other critics.
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Mark Caro's Scores
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| Average review score: | 61 | |
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| Highest review score: | City of God | |
| Lowest review score: | The Real Cancun | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 154 out of 284
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Mixed: 78 out of 284
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Negative: 52 out of 284
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- Mark Caro
Put together enough pointless, random details, and you get Gigli, a movie that's less incompetent than bewildering.- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
Its humor stems precisely from our enjoying its lead character's rotten behavior.- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
Such a low-class, low-laughs rip-off that it makes "There's Something About Mary" resemble a Noel Coward comedy of manners. [23 April 1999, Friday, p.A]- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
Baldwin's Kudrow is a one-dimensional, humorless variation on his corporate tyrant in "Glengarry Glen Ross." When the writers attempt to add color -- like with a female office worker who blathers about caffeine and Bart Simpson -- the results induce cringing. [3 Apr 1998, p.A]- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
When the film at last reaches its supposedly shocking conclusion, it resembles an overinflated balloon that has finally burst. It is a film that demands that you pay close attention, then rewards none of your diligence. [12 Apr 1991, p.4]- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
You watch the movie in a dumbfounded stupor. Why on earth was it made? [26 March 1999, Friday, p.A]- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
The theory seems to be that if you indiscriminately toss in enough familiar ingredients, you get soup. But Graveyard Shift is more like lumpy water. [29 Oct 1990, p.5C]- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
What is it about vampires that brings out the worst in filmmakers these days? [16 Aug 1996, p.2]- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
Aside from providing a lesson about movies with titles that provide their own bad review, Say It Isn't So gives low humor a bad name.- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
Kalifornia is that deadliest of combinations: a pretentious B movie. It repeatedly smacks the viewer in the face and then pretends that it has some intellectual reason for doing so. [03 Sep 1993]- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
Its jokes aren't funny. Its sloppy direction comes courtesy of Jordan Brady, who made "The Third Wheel," another reportedly failed comedy gathering cobwebs at Miramax.- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
But in the end everything comes down to Lawrence, who has yet to develop a truly distinct comedic sensibility.- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
A rock 'n' roll film should be funny-crazy -- not just a big, dumb promo for some over-the-hill dudes in makeup who are trying to sell today's kids on yesterday's glory by championing deliquency.- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
So excruciatingly awful, the word "dumb" could sue for slander.- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
This movie thrusts you so close to these intoxicated idiots that you practically have to wipe off secondhand tequila, sweat and spit stains afterward.- Chicago Tribune
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- Mark Caro
The point of all this nihilism and grotesqueness? You got me. Perhaps Korine thinks he's getting at some harsh truth in showing troubled youngsters running amok without positive adult role models, but that's malarkey. There's a difference between unblinkingly observing reality and wallowing in degeneracy. [6 March 1998]- Chicago Tribune
