Mike Scott

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New Orleans Times-Picayune
For 1,030 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mike Scott's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Manchester by the Sea
Lowest review score: 20 That's My Boy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 464 out of 1030
  2. Mixed: 503 out of 1030
  3. Negative: 63 out of 1030
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    It Might Get Loud
    Brilliant in its simplicity, as he turns the floor over to the three masters with this simple instruction: The guitar. Discuss.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Mike Scott
    Cedar Rapids
    It's a decent comedy, mind you, one with its fair share of chuckles. But it's really more amusing than it is fall-out-of-your-seat funny.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Never Let Me Go
    Never Let Me Go isn't the kind of movie you talk about on the drive home -- it's even better. It's the kind that makes you sit quietly and think, rolling it around in your head and considering the angles.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    The result is a deliriously watchable and darkly comic portrait of a high-velocity death spiral.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    Brave
    The magic is back at Pixar.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Carnage
    Among them, Polanski's four-person cast boasts four Oscars and eight more nominations, so these are big-league actors who are capable of carrying a film such as this through its occasional miscalculations.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    Green Book
    Ali and Mortensen are both fantastic in their respective roles. Every bit as important is the surprisingly charming script, which uses humor to soften its touchy subject matter.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    Boy Erased
    Lucas Hedges is terrific in the lead role of a sneaky movie that, rather than preaching and shouting, becomes something uplifting, something hopeful, something moving and something important.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    The Avengers
    They're fascinating characters, to be sure, with back stories ripe for development. But Whedon doesn't commit here, and the results are shrug-worthy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Arthur Christmas
    This is a world where training wheels are called "stabilizers" and where children leave something called "mince pies" for Santa. (Um. Ew?) As a result, the occasional line will fly over your little ones' heads. But you can also expect for them to be charmed by it all.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Mike Scott
    Into the Woods
    As strong as that cast and those visuals are, however, they don't quite add up enough to guarantee a happily-ever-after for moviegoers looking for a memorable in-theater experience.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
    Oddly, though, Everyday Sunshine ends up being a mostly optimistic tale. That's because, despite it all, Fishbone is still gigging.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 20 Mike Scott
    Climax
    It's not that Climax is a poorly made movie. It's that it's an abjectly mean movie. Some would try to excuse it as arthouse cinema. In reality, it's frighthouse cinema. And that's not meant as a compliment. The ultimate message, at least in this case: Just say no -- to Noé.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation is ultimately involving as a cinematic history lesson. It is its flashes of modern relevance, however, in which it scores most effectively.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    Trumbo
    Trumbo isn't monotonous, but it falls short of genius.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Mike Scott
    Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Don't get me wrong: Gyllenhaal is a great actor, one who exhibits a rare blend of strength and pathos. But not even he can elevate that kind of lazy writing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    The Elephant in the Living Room
    There are moments when the freak-show elements of the film threaten to overpower its message, but that message is such a fascinating one -- and the debate an important one as well -- that The Elephant in the Living Room manages to overcome them.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    Inside Llewyn Davis isn't as goofy as 2008's "Burn After Reading," nor as solemn as 2009's "A Serious Man," but it's an embraceable film just the same.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Mike Scott
    Ginger & Rosa
    There's not much meat to the story. So while the picture on the menu suggests filet mignon, we really get mostly fish-and-chips stuff.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    Patriots Day
    Formally, Berg's film is at its root a police procedural, albeit an exceptionally well-executed one.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Mike Scott
    Welcome to Me
    It all adds up to a film that is at times interesting, and at times funny in spite of itself. But more than all that, it exudes a sense of heart-rending, chest-penetrating sadness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    21 Jump Street
    Without a doubt, stupid, but it's willfully stupid, built in the comic style of "The Hangover" and "Due Date." Better yet, it also is genuinely funny, which is the point.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Fair Game
    The result is a movie that is about as riveting as -- well, as your average Robert Novak column.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    The Drop
    Without Hardy, The Drop would be in danger of becoming just another crime drama. With him, though, it's something else entirely -- something alive, tightly wound and irresistible.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    A refreshingly original take on the comic book adaptation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    Bullhead
    Unlike most enforcers in the movies, Jacky isn't just a brainless slab of meat.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    The Hunger Games
    Katniss is gritty, she's flinty, she's intimidating -- and she doesn't have to compromise one iota of her femininity for it. And Ross' movie tells her story wonderfully.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Bhutto
    Boasting a rock-solid academic architecture, Bhutto is a film bursting at the seams with gravitas.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Crazy, Stupid, Love
    The engine that really makes Crazy Stupid Love go is the same one that has made Ficarra and Requa's films to this point so appealing: While they thrust their characters into outrageous situations, they always keep things grounded in real, relatable emotion.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    Deepwater Horizon
    With Deepwater Horizon, Berg strikes an unlikely but impressively delicate balance. On one hand, his film honors the men and women killed and injured in the explosion off Louisiana's coast. At the same time, it works just as well as a fast-moving and absorbing disaster drama.
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