Mark Keizer

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Boxoffice Magazine, The A.V. Club, Variety
For 95 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mark Keizer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 91 Decision to Leave
Lowest review score: 20 Burzynski
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 95
  2. Mixed: 60 out of 95
  3. Negative: 8 out of 95
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Zero Bridge
    Having spent multiple summers in Kashmir as a child, he (Tapa) knows what the average Kashmiri wants and the difficulties they encounter trying to get it. It's what makes Zero Bridge a winning example of modesty in front of the camera and intelligence behind it.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    The Other Woman
    It becomes a parade of interpersonal conflict and miserable circumstances that adds up to nothing less than angst-porn.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    The Mechanic
    The new film could have benefited from even a moment of genuine reflection. Being a mechanic seems like a thinking man's occupation. The Mechanic, though, barely has a thought in its head.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    The Dilemma
    The hijinx get deflating, yet the tension and genuine sense of investigation keep you involved.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Plastic Planet
    Boote's strong film will make you look at the floating plastic bag from American Beauty in a new, wholly suspicious way.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Mark Keizer
    The Time That Remains
    Blend of sardonic humor and bitter poetry.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    How Do You Know
    Even Reese Witherspoon, whose adorable scrunch-face projects the romantic travails of lovelorn women everywhere, looks unsure of herself.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Mark Keizer
    Meskada
    Sternfeld's depiction of small town life feels completely inauthentic at almost every level.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    The Next Three Days
    The movie was written and directed by Oscar winner Paul Haggis (Crash) and when stripped to its logline, it's pretty ridiculous.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
    The problem is that once you get past the barriers that Jewish players dramatically overcame between the early 20th century and post World War II, the rest is precipitously less interesting.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Mark Keizer
    Eichmann
    Robert Young's Eichmann feels the burden of history so heavily that it's effectively smothered by it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    After.Life
    Neeson’s austere, meticulous turn is the best reason to see After.Life. He’s cinema’s most soft-spoken, high-toned boogeyman since Anthony Hopkins opened his first can of fava beans.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Cyrus
    Those unfamiliar with the Duplass' previous movies won't realize what's missing; they'll just enjoy the earthy angst, edgy laughs and off-kilter casting of Jonah Hill.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Mark Keizer
    A Film Unfinished
    Just when we thought there were no new twists to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto comes this documentary: focused, sorrowful and revelatory.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    October Country
    With the nation’s unemployment rate hovering around 10% and home foreclosure numbers stubbornly high, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s haunting documentary of multigenerational troubles is either a case of great timing or, possibly, the worst timing ever.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    Hot Tub Time Machine
    One of Hot Tub Time Machine’s only genuinely nifty moves is getting John Cusack, Dobler himself, to topline the film.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Mark Keizer
    The Bounty Hunter
    If "Midnight Run" and "His Girl Friday" had an unwanted, mutant baby, it would be The Bounty Hunter, a romantic comedy where the jokes sputter and die immediately after exiting the character’s mouths.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Mark Keizer
    The Juche Idea
    In his densely constructed and pretty damn brilliant film The Juche Idea, Finn takes aim at North Korean president Kim Jong-il's theories on cinema and how its ultimate purpose is to advance political ideology and party loyalty.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Gerrymandering
    There is so much wrong with the political system at this point that gerrymandering, in which politicians shamelessly redraw electoral boundaries to rig the outcome of elections, seems almost quaint.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    Leap Year
    Nobody here brings their A-game, denying us the pleasure of what Adams and director Anand Tucker could create together.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    The Winning Season
    Sitting through The Winning Season you marvel at how it obsessively duplicates all such films that came before but still consistently thwarts your impulse to dismiss it out of hand.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    RED
    No one is expected to take any of this seriously, so Schwentke keeps things light: light on big laughs, light on unique action set pieces and light on any sense that these game but retired spies are too old for this crap.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Rachel
    It's a well structured, sometimes riveting piece of information gathering that proves once again that Corrie's death was unnecessary and that closure has remained intriguingly, maddeningly, sadly elusive.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Mark Keizer
    Burzynski
    Burzynski may have credibility in the eyes of some, but the movie about him has no credibility, so no one will be receptive to its message.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Mark Keizer
    Jonah Hex
    Conceptualized and re-conceptualized, written and re-written, shot and re-shot, cut and re-cut, the final product is the world's longest short film.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    South of the Border
    Stone embarrasses himself by backing the wrong horse and then making a weak case for him.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Valentine's Day
    A classic case of being too much of a not-very-good thing.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
    Appearances by Toni Collette and Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-Hughes should draw a few curious parents to what is, most of the time, a quirky and quite enjoyable coming of age saga.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    Princess Kaiulani
    So it's apropos that Forby's biggest misstep is his thin and careful script that can't carry us away on the same winds of fate that would put a sovereign republic's future in the hands of such a young woman.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    The Extra Man
    The original Jonathan Ames novel from 1998 is a rich, funny and unusual work. The movie opts for the funny and unusual, leaving us with characters ill-equipped to rise above their shtick or engage our sympathy.
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