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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    • 35 Metascore
    • 80 Paul Malcolm
    Ghosts of Mars
    It's cheap thrills all the way, served up with the kind of situational purity that only Carpenter seems to care for these days. It's that simple and that much fun.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Paul Malcolm
    In Search of Peace
    The film at times feels less than objective, in part due to Douglas' often breathless narration.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Paul Malcolm
    Black Cat, White Cat
    Kusturica's always masterful orchestration of chaos, coincidence and caricature really pays off as a sweet, soulful celebration of old friends, new loves and the mad scramble of life at the fringe.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Paul Malcolm
    Scream
    A meta-horror film that hilariously parodies the genre's clichés with smarts to spare. It's also the scariest fucking movie Craven has made since the first "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Paul Malcolm
    The Adventures of Felix
    It would all be too obviously feel-good if Ducastel and Martineau weren't also tuned in to the liberating drift of the open highway and a sharp native humor that adds needed flesh and blood to their walking metaphors.
    • 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Paul Malcolm
    The Next Big Thing
    Spins a warm and fuzzy tale about love and happiness in the cutthroat art business.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Paul Malcolm
    Swiri
    Though the two-hour film can go slack with excess explication, Shiri compensates with an overheated drive that forces the myopia of current events toward a broader field of vision.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Paul Malcolm
    Simon Magus
    Unfortunately, it's our knowledge of what's actually to come that puts much of the chill and complexity in Hopkins' rather formulaic script.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Simply Irresistible
    A betrayal of all things Buffy, not to mention a complete waste of Gellar’s strengths as a young actress. Even the most hardcore of her fans would do well to give it a miss.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Paul Malcolm
    Promises
    Proves too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Paul Malcolm
    Goyangileul butaghae
    Captivating coming-of-age story.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Paul Malcolm
    A Rumor of Angels
    A Rumor of Angels beats its wings furiously, only to sink back into spiritualist goo.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    The Learning Curve
    Opens the floodgates of cartoonish villainy and pitiful sentiment.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Paul Malcolm
    Iron Monkey
    A pure font of high-flying kung fu artistry, the likes of which has since transformed the way Hollywood's good guys and bad kick the crap out of one another.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Paul Malcolm
    Jeepers Creepers
    Salva falls back on dull, jumbled action and an awkward subplot as he lurches toward a sequel.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Paul Malcolm
    Sorority Boys
    If only they had the courage of their crassness.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Paul Malcolm
    Amy's Orgasm
    It's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Paul Malcolm
    Sex and Lucia
    Climaxes in a flood of revelations that, like so much of the film, take us where we least expect to go.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 90 Paul Malcolm
    X
    It's all such a spectacular show.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 10 Paul Malcolm
    Driven
    Racing flick results in a wreck as horrifying as the film itself.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    Stigmata
    A better title for this flick might have been Astigmatism: Nothing ever comes into focus long enough ... to deliver even the faintest sense of fright.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Paul Malcolm
    Shrek
    Shrek's first 20 minutes are so devilishly funny that letting go of pure belief doesn't seem like such a bad thing.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Paul Malcolm
    Selena
    For all its simplicity, however, the film is entertaining, even uplifting, with Lopez giving a stellar, confectionary performance.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Paul Malcolm
    Tell Me Something
    Director Chang builds some chilling suspense into the cop's grim investigative routine -- as well as generous helpings of blood: It runs, splashes and sprays as the amputations continue.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Paul Malcolm
    What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Comes off as a desperate attempt to breathe life into dull proceedings.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Paul Malcolm
    Quality of Life
    It's Garrison and Burnam who hold the film's center, however, with a natural magnetism. Newcomers both, they take the same clean approach to their roles that their characters bring to their tags.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Paul Malcolm
    Pavilion of Women
    So many romantic cliches it's laughable.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Paul Malcolm
    Focus
    A hyperreal, visually layered period style that finds film noir shadows creeping in at the edges of a blue-sky, get-along-to-go-along America.
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