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 15.9 points lower than other critics.
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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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reviews
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- Paul Attanasio
If this guy tripped over a print of "Citizen Kane," he not only wouldn't know what it was, he'd hit somebody over the head with it. [24 May 1986, p.C1]- Washington Post
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Watching Maximum Overdrive is like sitting alongside a 3-year-old as he skids his Tonka trucks across the living room floor and says "Whee!" except on a somewhat grander scale...It's hard to even imagine a movie so impeccably devoid of everything a movie ought to include. [29 July 1986, p.C2]- Washington Post
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Toward the beginning of Turk 182!, Terry the fireman (Robert Urich) brays, "Gimme annudda beeah, Hoolie." Audiences should understand that this is their cue to leave the theater. In the movie's condescending populism, The People are enshrined, The System is scorned. And The People say: phooey. [16 Feb 1985, p.C6]- Washington Post
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It's the kind of stuff you come up with when you're not trying very hard, and on Spies Like Us, nobody seems to be trying. And that can be very trying indeed. [09 Dec 1985, p.C3]- Washington Post
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Some sort of combination of a teen-age Bewitched and a Police Academy for department stores.- Washington Post
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If it is useful to know that a director knows absolutely nothing about filmmaking, from script to casting to editing to where to put the camera, then there is one useful thing to be had from Blue City. First-time director Michelle Manning has spun a yarn that is grotesquely implausible, less affecting than plausible, and less attractive than affecting -- Blue City seems to have been processed in mud, and even Godard at his most perverse couldn't have violated the rules of camera placement and framing more doggedly. [5 May 1986, p.B4]- Washington Post
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- Paul Attanasio
The movie was written by Rudy DeLuca, who also directs, and a camera in his hands is a dangerous thing. The only method to the framing is an unerring instinct for the inappropriate; "Transylvania 6-5000" appears to have been edited with a putty knife. And the look of the movie, which alternates between a moldy green and gobby white overexposure, leads you to ask not who was the cinematographer, but why. [8 Nov 1985, p.C4]- Washington Post
