Miriam Bale

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The New York Times
For 50 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Miriam Bale's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Caucus
Lowest review score: 10 Walter: Lessons from the World's Oldest People
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 50
  3. Negative: 10 out of 50
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    • 60 Miriam Bale
    Jews of Egypt
    Mr. Ramses’s admirable eagerness to tell a good tale seems to have favored excitement over facts.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Miriam Bale
    HairBrained
    Unfortunately, the movie lacks strong enough players to fill in subtext to Mr. Kent’s formulaic setups, and the story flounders once Ms. Posey is out of the picture.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Miriam Bale
    Pompeii
    Mr. Anderson displays his mastery as a director in the sword-fighting scenes... But the glares and eye rolls that bookend these scenes are what make this film both GIF-ready and campy fun.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Miriam Bale
    Love Is in the Air
    The two leads have enough genuine sex appeal to make the film endurable.
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    • 50 Miriam Bale
    Life is Strange
    [A] useful, if slightly redundant, oral history.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Miriam Bale
    Towheads
    The movie is a watchable collection of images that never quite come together.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Miriam Bale
    Life of a King
    Mr. Gooding’s performance and his complex charisma are fascinating to watch throughout.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Miriam Bale
    The Nut Job
    The Nut Job features muddy-colored and often ugly animation, a plot that feels too stretched out and loaded with details to hold the attention of most children, and more flatulence jokes than anyone deserves.
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    • 50 Miriam Bale
    Friend 2: The Legacy
    In addition to the copious flashbacks, there is an overly generous heaping of styles on display.
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    • 50 Miriam Bale
    Implanted
    Mr. Verrette shows talent in conveying complex emotions, yet he’s handicapped by his grand ambition and an inability to do simple scenes well.
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    • 60 Miriam Bale
    Gori Tere Pyaar Mein
    Instead of one satisfyingly complex film, it’s two or three films in one, a turducken of comedies.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Miriam Bale
    Home
    A jarring realism comes both from Mr. Oliver’s script and the performances by an ensemble of brilliant character actors.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Miriam Bale
    Billy & Buddy
    Very young children fluent in French may enjoy the film for its jokes, but anyone old enough to read the subtitles is likely to be unamused.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Miriam Bale
    Go Grandriders
    It’s like a cheap, dry cake covered with a thick layer of frosting. But even bad cake can be enjoyable, especially if celebrating something as worthwhile as these elders, their long lives and their continued gutsiness so late in the game.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Miriam Bale
    Cassadaga
    This eager film piles on common fears: evil puppetry, haunted homes and overly generous hosts. So despite a sloppy and humorless execution, it is scary by association.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Miriam Bale
    Men at Lunch
    The film feels meandering. Not only does it offer a jumble of ideas that aren’t followed through, but it’s also structured oddly.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Miriam Bale
    Herb & Dorothy 50X50
    It’s difficult to dislike a documentary with such noble, generous subjects, but the film is unfocused and repetitious, not sure whether it is a road trip, a story of a couple or an exploration of small art institutions.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Miriam Bale
    Mademoiselle C
    The filmmaking has some of the wit and irreverence of its subject, but goes on meandering tangents rather than having a cohesive vision or tone.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Miriam Bale
    One Direction: This Is Us
    With a group so evidently versed in the visuals of rock history, it’s a shame that a filmmaker wasn’t hired who would pay homage to classic pop films instead of offering a satisfactory paid promotional.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Miriam Bale
    The United States of Football
    The film is a thorough piece of reporting on the issues, characters and deeper cultural ramifications. But rather than present this impressive investigation as an objective reporter, Mr. Pamphilon makes the film, perhaps unnecessarily, a personal story.

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