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
1030 movie reviews
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    • 40 Mike Scott
    Death of a Superhero
    Still, as Death of a Superhero plays out, it's hard not to shake the feeling that this is ground we've trodden before.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    The Human Factor
    From the blow-by-blow ticktock of the efforts of Secretary of State James Baker during Bush the elder’s administration to Bill Clinton’s failed Camp David summit, they push The Human Factor into surprisingly suspenseful territory, even if we all know how it ends.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    1917
    It’s an impressive cinematic accomplishment and a dandy bit of storytelling to boot.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Mike Scott
    Waste Land
    The only waste would be if people didn't go see it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    Mr. Holmes
    A satisfyingly fresh take on a character we all only thought we knew well.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Scott
    Afghan Star
    The movie documents much more than a talent competition -- it documents a political movement.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    Logan Lucky
    It works well as a just-for-fun exercise that benefits from a nice sense of rhythm, a great cast and an overall sense of light-heartedness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Mike Scott
    The Town
    An exceedingly well-assembled genre picture, a spell-binding, edge-of-your-seat thriller.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    Mississippi Grind
    Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn, and their casting in the lead roles pays off in spades. In fact, they're the primary reasons Mississippi Grind works as well as it does.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Scott
    Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
    Tempting though it might be, it’s not fair to say Ritchie’s film gets lost in translation. But by the same token, when it’s all over, it doesn’t quite feel as if it has entirely lived up to its covenant with audiences.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    The Aftermath
    But even if moviegoers' eyes will roll from time to time, Aftermath is so nicely acted, and so handsomely shot, that those eyes won't likely look away.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    The Jungle Book
    Favreau's family-friendly fable, a blend of old-school storytelling charm and new-school animation techniques.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    While We're Young
    Baumbach, however -- while not entirely past that particular cocktail of curmudgeonly emotions -- demonstrates an ability to laugh at his own apparent age hang-ups.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    Dallas Buyers Club
    McConaughey and Leto's performances are also the saviors of Vallee's film, which has a way of belaboring certain points and, in the process, robbing his film of no small amount of momentum.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    The Imposter
    There's a good reason why the true-crime film The Imposter is a documentary: If someone tried to pass off this bizarre Texas tale as fiction, nobody would believe it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Mike Scott
    A Single Man
    A singularly enjoyable and moving film.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Mike Scott
    The Messenger
    It's a tremendously moving drama, filled with heartbreak, humor and, more importantly, humanity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    Grandma
    What we end up with is a sweet, feminist character study that shows off Weitz's deft hand as a writer while doubling as a perfect showcase for Tomlin.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    I, Tonya
    Perhaps most interestingly, Gillespie's film is also in its own way, about all of us and our fascination with the Harding saga to begin with, boldly holding up a mirror for us to gaze into. What we see isn't exactly comforting. It might not even be correct. But it is certainly something to ponder.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    Calvary
    Calvary is most assuredly not a comedy. It is a weighty, powerful drama -- albeit one with comic moments -- that dabbles in weighty, powerful themes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Mike Scott
    The House I Live In
    The House I Live In is not a comfortable film to consider in any respect, but without discomfort it's hard to feel anger - and without anger, it's hard to imagine that anything will ever be done about it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    The Hunt
    Imbued as it is with a sense of discomforting truth, it is a worthwhile examination of human nature -- and one with a message well worth heeding.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    The Beguiled
    Certainly one of the more engaging and alluring films released so far in 2017.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Mike Scott
    Presenting Princess Shaw
    A winner, through and through.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Mike Scott
    Memory
    As his character’s cognitive abilities decline, Neeson’s repeated on-a-dime transition from killing machine to stuttering, doddering pawpaw — and then back again — feels eye-rollingly, almost offensively contrived.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Mike Scott
    Empire of Light
    It’s beautiful, but it begins to fade, and fast — until there’s little, if anything worth remembering.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Mike Scott
    Get Low
    A movie with a message, but the subtle kind; it's whispered wisdom, wrapped up in a story of mystery, of love, of regret, of repentance and redemption.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Scott
    Logan
    It's R-rated because it has grown-up things to say -- things about mortality, aging, guilt, regret, and about what happens when superheroes, tired of being superheroes, start thinking very dark, very human thoughts.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Mike Scott
    Pain & Gain
    This is a tragedy, not a comedy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Scott
    The Disaster Artist
    Not only does Franco entertainingly capture all the attendant insanity -- as written about by "The Room" co-star Greg Sestero in the 2013 book on which The Disaster Artist is based -- but he has fun with it. He also, however, takes the opportunity to dig a little deeper and find the humanity at the root of it all.
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