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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    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Miriam Bale
    Life is Strange
    [A] useful, if slightly redundant, oral history.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Miriam Bale
    Friend 2: The Legacy
    In addition to the copious flashbacks, there is an overly generous heaping of styles on display.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Miriam Bale
    Love Is in the Air
    The two leads have enough genuine sex appeal to make the film endurable.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Miriam Bale
    The Artist and the Model
    It is a film with nothing but delight — no major revelations, no gravity and no meaning. This superficiality is a problem only because of the pretense of being about great art.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Miriam Bale
    The Muslims Are Coming!
    This well-intentioned “docu-comedy” (as the filmmakers label it in publicity notes) is not very funny.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Miriam Bale
    Awful Nice
    In general, the film feels like all setup and no punch line.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Miriam Bale
    I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    This is a message film with the narrative sophistication of a recruiting pamphlet.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Miriam Bale
    Free Birds
    Free Birds is likely to leave audiences fuzzy-headed and vaguely nauseated instead of nourished and satisfied.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Miriam Bale
    Bounty Killer
    Watching this movie feels like viewing a very long, expensive car commercial and waiting for the real film to begin.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Miriam Bale
    The Fall of 1980
    It’s essentially a modern version of “The Big Chill” without the banging oldies soundtrack or competent actors.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Miriam Bale
    Vikingdom
    Poor computer-generated effects give the movie an unsettling, two-layered feel.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 10 Miriam Bale
    Walter: Lessons from the World's Oldest People
    The documentary is not really about these older people but about this couple.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 10 Miriam Bale
    Battle of the Year
    The miracle of the new 3-D dance film Battle of the Year is how it can be so relentlessly boring while there is so much frenetic activity on screen.
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