Michael Atkinson

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Mr. Showbiz, Time Out, Village Voice
For 888 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 30% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 67% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Michael Atkinson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score: 100 Under the Sand
Lowest review score: 0 Crush
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 328 out of 888
  2. Mixed: 354 out of 888
  3. Negative: 206 out of 888
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Michael Atkinson
    Dinner Rush
    The cast never skips a beat, particularly Mark Margolis as the most obnoxious dinner customer in cinema history and Summer Phoenix as his unfazed waitress.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 23 Michael Atkinson
    Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    An aimless, pointless dawdle.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Michael Atkinson
    Planet of the Apes
    It's a campy, juiced-up ker-splat, busy with clumsy pyrotechnics and never nearing the vicinity of satire.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 62 Michael Atkinson
    Vénus beauté (institut)
    Mature and adroitly performed but ultimately underachieving.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 80 Michael Atkinson
    La Dolce Vita
    In one movie, at least, the ethical baseline (heisted, you could argue, from "Sweet Smell of Success") gave Fellini's roaming, cluttered mise-en-scène a chilling gravity he could never genuinely locate again.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Michael Atkinson
    Æon Flux
    Gone are Chung's willfully irrational non sequitur surrealisms, vertiginous designs, dry humor, and physiological weirdness; now we have Charlize Theron trying to look icy, leaping about in resistance to a future dystopia that looks a lot like an overlandscaped European Union industrial park.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Michael Atkinson
    The Blue Angel
    Dietrich is the movie's primary cannon: Her amused eyes, open face, and relaxed sensuality monopolize our sympathies.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Atkinson
    Duck Season
    Shot in silvery black-and-white, Duck Season is not charmless, just insubstantial.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Michael Atkinson
    Wildflowers
    Wildflowers is the only brand of requiem the '60s get anymore -- worshipful and ass-backward.
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