Mike Clark

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For 1,327 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mike Clark's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Vertigo
Lowest review score: 12 Jawbreaker
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 843 out of 1327
  2. Mixed: 296 out of 1327
  3. Negative: 188 out of 1327
1327 movie reviews
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Clark
    The Joy Luck Club
    Mostly engrossing and always worthy of respect, it still hasn't quite the big-movie sweep to make it a tell-the-world experience. [8 Sept 1993, p.1D]
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Clark
    Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    When have we seen the same performer playing both parts in a sexual situation? It happens here, not once but twice.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Clark
    Malèna
    There's definitely some paradiso in watching Malena walking, but not enough to sustain almost two hours of cinema.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Clark
    Willard
    The movie isn't without style, but the material can't remotely sustain 100 minutes.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Clark
    High Heels
    It's easier to take Hi-Heel Sneakers by Tommy Tucker- more seriously. [20 Dec 1991]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Mike Clark
    Trainspotting
    A movie that rudely flings feces at the breakfast table isn't for everyone.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Mike Clark
    Rush Hour
    There's a familiar feeling to the movie even beyond its twinkle-eyed martial arts melees.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Clark
    El Cid
    The three-hour dramatics are occasionally stilted, but here's the real non-CGI deal. [01 Feb 2008, p.6D]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Mike Clark
    Walk the Line
    A Johnny Cash biopic equally packed with music and frustrated love, Walk the Line goes from compelling to enthralling.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Mike Clark
    Yours, Mine and Ours
    As an artsy but minimally bohemian type, Russo maintains her dignity, an extraordinary accomplishment.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Clark
    Plunkett & Macleane
    The plunk-ing of a rap/disco soundtrack onto a movie about debtors' prisons and 18th century British highwaymen?
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Mike Clark
    Nixon
    Oliver Stone's Nixon humanizes a reviled but respected subject for over three hours - dynamically at times, but finally so solemnly that it becomes a grind-you-down dirge. The maker of Natural Born Killers actually concludes with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing Shenandoah - without irony. [20 Dec 1995, p.1D]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Clark
    The Governess
    Though not exactly dynamic, the movie offers insights into a specific culture. Ashley Rowe's photography is exquisite, and Driver has never been better. [14 Aug 1998]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Clark
    Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Tim Robbins plays the working dad, and the movie misses him once he bails out early.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Mike Clark
    Emma
    Emma is the peak of the recent Austen pack and a star-maker, too -- an antidote to a summer in which even good movies have subordinated writing and characters to special effects. [02 Aug 1996, Pg.01.D]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Mike Clark
    True Crime
    Thankfully, this time Eastwood flirts (and ogles) but stops just short of going completely over the top. [19 March 1999, Life, p.13E]
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Clark
    Freddy vs. Jason
    Truth be told, the movie isn't among the worst sequels of this summer.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Clark
    U-571
    One would be hard-pressed to name another submarine movie that lingers so little in the memory two days after seeing it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Clark
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    The result is far from perfect, but to its many merits, add timing. You never get a movie with this kind of story in mid-August.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Mike Clark
    Blackboard Jungle
    Consistently fun, and even sporadically powerful. [08 Dec 1989, p.3D]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Clark
    Citizen Ruth
    An equitably rude comedy about abortion, brazen by definition but also fairly droll. It's probably too schematic to reward more than a single viewing, but as a provocative one-time surprise it may become a specialized sleeper. [13 December 1996, p.4D]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Mike Clark
    The Getaway
    The first moral of the faithfully amoral remake of Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway is that Steve McQueen is irreplaceable. Second: Slavish faithfulness can be risky if the original is only middling Peckinpah to start. Third: Married co-stars sometimes reserve their sexual heat for off-camera Malibu mattresses. [11 Feb 1994, p.4D]
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