Paul Malcolm

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L.A. Weekly
For 173 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 17.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Paul Malcolm's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 48
Highest review score: 90 X
Lowest review score: 0 Black Knight
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 173
  2. Mixed: 70 out of 173
  3. Negative: 53 out of 173
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Thirteen Ghosts
    A brutish affair replete with sliced bodies, a diced storyline and enough clanky dialogue to wake the dead.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Tortilla Soup
    It is, however, Tortilla Soup's cultural transposition that feels most phony. Where Lee brings depth and subtle observation to his middle-class ensemble piece, Ripoll has simply added a thin Latino glaze.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Crop Circles: Quest for Truth
    Why Crop Circles now, if not to ride the hype of M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs" to some quick cash? The movie’s rambling, slapdash, repetitious nature suggests as much.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    The Musketeer
    Hyams ("End of Days," "Timecop"), who is his own cinematographer, has no idea how to shoot or compose Xiong's wired choreography.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Inspector Gadget
    Within a few minutes of the film's frenetic opening set piece, however, it's obvious that director David Kellogg and screenwriters Kerry Ehrin and Zak Penn have no idea how to capture the spirit of the source material.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    B. Monkey
    Unfortunately, none of the characters -- despite the film's strong cast -- ever seems worthy of the attention.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Blue Streak
    (Lawrence)'s not just unfunny, he's coarsely anti-funny. The film just lurches from one dull skit to the next without bite or much of a point.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Double Take
    An ostensible action-comedy that can't seem to get either side of its genre equation right.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Blade
    Working from a script by David S. Goyer ("Dark City") that lacks any sense of humor or character, Snipes seems unsure if he should vamp it up or play it straight, while Dorff just plain sucks.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    They
    The film stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Enough
    Mechanical revenge fantasy that skirts every serious issue it raises along a slick, cynical trajectory.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Sorority Girls' Revenge
    It's a nice try, but the film remains a pinhead's idea of softcore fetish material.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Driven
    Racing flick results in a wreck as horrifying as the film itself.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Juwanna Mann
    So what in this high-concept lame-a-thon makes screenwriter Bradley Allenstein think he can diss the Clippers?
    • 18 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Valentine
    Highly reductive and deathly dull slasher flick.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Down to Earth
    The film seems to argue that Rock's real-life manipulation of the race card is little more than exploitation, rather than the essence of his incendiary comic critique.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    State Property
    It almost appears like a little thought went into this otherwise grim exercise in soullessness.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Dungeons & Dragons
    A cheap "Star Wars" rip-off with swords instead of light sabers.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Highlander: Endgame
    While the film is well-paced, visually it is deathly dull.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Universal Soldier: The Return
    A mind-numbing exercise in high body counts and big tits.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Murphy slogs his way through this dismally dull sci-fi comedy.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 0 Paul Malcolm
    Rollerball
    Rollerball pushes the Hollywood action movie to stratospheric new levels of incoherence; pounding at the senses, it's mashed story, character, time and space into a chunky hash.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Paul Malcolm
    Black Knight
    "It's no longer funny, but he refuses to give up the joke." That just about sums it up except for the film's shopworn plot -- and its wretchedly cheap production design.
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