Mark Chalon Smith
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63% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 14.4 points higher than other critics.
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Mark Chalon Smith's Scores
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- TV
| Average review score: | 80 | |
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| Highest review score: | King Kong | |
| Lowest review score: | Roller Boogie | |
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- Mark Chalon Smith
It's the story of a rich girl (Linda Blair) who runs away to enter a disco roller-skating contest with a poor boy (Jim Bray). Along the way, they hook up with other skaters to keep the mob from taking over their favorite roller rink. It's as dumb as it sounds. [09 Dec 1993, p.F2]- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
Despite the compelling plot, the narrative glides along a muted path, not unlike a good jazz number that takes delicately unexpected turns.- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
More than 45 years after it was released, the movie made of Oscar Wilde's tale of the price of eternal youth is still well worth seeing. [05 Sep 1991, p.11]- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
Like “Stray Dog” and “Drunken Angel,” it illuminates a reeling society while telling a story of deep human emotion.- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
The story, like "Frankenstein" and "Dracula," has taken on the significance of a modern folk tale, layered with obvious moralizing and as familiar as personal history.- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
Polanski over-thinks much of this film -- in the same ways that many of us may over-think the details at these moments. He reaches for a psychological instead of an active tone. But the movie still has a taut and creepy impact, like a bug crawling up your arm. [25 Oct 1991, p.F29]- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
It’s a pretty arduous journey, complete with personal revelations, melodramatic suspense, a grand finale and all the Hollywood hokum MGM could get away with.- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
On the surface, a lace of flirtations, insinuations and rejections compose the basic plotting. But Renoir uses flashes of accelerating drama to amplify his bigger points.- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
While there is barely a story to tie it all together, The Mirror finds connections in the longings of Alexei. He longs to understand his past, his land, his family, his inspirations and fears, and that’s what the movie is able to convey in its abstract but persuasive way.- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
We know who's going to triumph by the hokey, tearful conclusion, but that doesn't blunt the satisfaction. [28 Jul 1994, p.16]- Los Angeles Times
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- Mark Chalon Smith
Scarface is one of best of the early gangster movies; its wit and building velocity speeds it past Little Caesar and keeps pace with Public Enemy.- Los Angeles Times
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