Paul Attanasio
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31% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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68% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 15.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Paul Attanasio's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 50 | |
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| Highest review score: | 'Round Midnight | |
| Lowest review score: | Silver Bullet | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 44 out of 189
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Mixed: 95 out of 189
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Negative: 50 out of 189
189
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- Paul Attanasio
The only thing that is sustained in Sid and Nancy is a tone of clinical disinterest that leaves you asking why Cox would want to make a movie about them. By the end, you know more about Sid and Nancy than you care to, and about Alex Cox, quite a bit less than you'd like.- Washington Post
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Here's a science fiction movie where the special effects are in the background. And the effect is, well, rather special.- Washington Post
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- Paul Attanasio
Invasion USA might actually be fun in a campy way if it weren't so dourly exploitative.- Washington Post
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A slickly made, shoot-'em-up sci-fi fantasia, it stands for the proposition that, inside the most staid local theater, there is a drive-in yearning to be free. [29 Oct 1984, p.B4]- Washington Post
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- Paul Attanasio
Buoyed by John ("Halloween") Carpenter's slick writing and Tommy Lee Jones' Texas charm, "Black Moon Rising" is a cut above the usual exploitation fare. This may be like parsing the difference between an exotic dancer and a stripper, but hey, it's a living, okay?- Washington Post
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- Paul Attanasio
Director Jeannot Szwarc could have done more with the action scenes, but he has a snappy sense of pace and comic timing. Blond, blue-eyed Slater brings an engaging sweetness to Supergirl; and she plays Linda with an awkward, gawky girlishness, subtly different from her Supergirl role.- Washington Post
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What's left here is not so much a movie as an assault so unpleasant, it leaves you wondering what you could have done to deserve it. [27 May 1986, p.B3]- Washington Post
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- Paul Attanasio
Rydell shoots the movie as if it had been commissioned by the Department of Agriculture. His scenes have such brute intentionality, they never come to life -- they're instant, airless cliche's. And who can believe that Mel Gibson is a down-and-out farmer? [11 Jan 1985, p.B1]- Washington Post
