Paula Nechak

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
For 295 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Paula Nechak's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Endurance
Lowest review score: 0 Held Up
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 189 out of 295
  2. Mixed: 87 out of 295
  3. Negative: 19 out of 295
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Garden State
    While most movies would sink under the weight of such eccentricity, pretentiousness and earnestness, Garden State is so full of wit and the genuine heart of characters that you can't help but care about what happens to them.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Innocence
    Sometimes so intimate it's embarrassing, and the messiness at falling in love at any age is disquieting.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    It's an unashamedly old-fashioned and richly visualized evocation of a time when values were key, trust in your neighbor complete, and a way of life that should be simple is made unfathomably complex because of economic hardship.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Bride & Prejudice
    Here's yet another take on "Pride and Prejudice,"...but all spiced up as colorfully as a dish of curry.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Better Living Through Circuitry
    While there is a faithful following of kids, it just never seems as exciting or sad or emotional -- or as ablaze with personalities -- as what has gone before.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Big Eden
    Writer and first-time director Thomas Bezucha certainly knows how to create warmth, ambience and situation.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Paula Nechak
    Mansfield Park
    Daring, gorgeous.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Girls Rock!
    The film is a hopeful, rollicking, rocking, humorous, heartbreaking journey.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Detroit Rock City
    Truly raunchy but it's more sweetly stupid and silly than anything.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    The Last Mimzy
    Call it "E.T." for a new generation.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Sylvia
    What Jeffs -- and Paltrow -- do capture is the shroud of tragedy that hovered over Plath.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Robots
    There are a lot of terrific creative energies at play in Robots and they overcome an overreliance on amusement park sensibilities in the animated adventure.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Pola X
    It's compelling, poetic, rebellious, funny and one of the few movies that feels like it's been culled from another time and place yet broodingly bends modern societal taboos.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Shrek 2
    The real humor comes, once again from Murphy, whose Donkey is so genuinely funny and clever that he very nearly steals the film. Except that it's stolen by Banderas as a rogue Puss In Boots.
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 51 Metascore
    • 91 Paula Nechak
    Asylum
    A film that takes you by surprise, refusing to relinquish its grim, fascinating hold. Better yet, it has crept up on us without much advance promotional fanfare. The less known about its twists, the better.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    La Ciudad (The City)
    Breathtaking visual accomplishment.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Ratcatcher
    The film manages to make the ordinary extraordinary. It takes visual risks, tells its story subjectively through images and moves confidently to a stunning, imaginative climax.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    The Third Miracle
    A foreign film feel despite its strong American cast.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    The Notorious Bettie Page
    Who was Bettie Page? You won't find out in Mary Harron's chirpily cheery chronicle.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    On a Clear Day
    Mullan is a great choice as Frank, playing the silent guy with all kinds of baggage perfectly.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Brokedown Palace
    Brokedown Palace does have some plot implausibilities but Kaplan, manages to turn some hashed story lines into something substantial and emotionally affecting.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    On the Ropes
    Isn't so emotionally powerful as the Oscar-winning "When We Were Kings" but which -- in its more intimate way -- still packs a punch.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    [Jarmusch] seems...to introduce gratuitous bloodshed that is out of sync with the engaging, offbeat tempo and dark, comedic moral fable that has come before.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    The Barbarian Invasions
    Like a family visit during the holidays. Tensions run high, not everyone is likable but being there's an uneasy comfort because everything is so familiar.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    The Wood
    A comic, loving, affectionate glimpse of the '80s, its music and fashions, and most of all at that hard-to-find thing called true friendship.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Lilo & Stitch
    Although the start of the movie is a little fragmented, and the last quarter turns predictably rote, the middle is heartfelt, wonderfully diverse and empowering.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Japanese Story
    Brooks has made a movie that is about separation from convenience and having to deal one-on-one with a stranger in a strange land. The result is a profound and moving movie.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    L.I.E.
    An original, well-crafted plea that uses restraint instead of titillation to make a cautionary tale that aches with pathos and power.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Bridge to Terabithia
    The two young actors -- Hutcherson and Robb -- are terrific and unpretentious.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Starter for 10
    The joy is in watching a talented cast make something crisp and fresh out of material that -- though perfectly adequate and enjoyable -- trespasses little into territory that's new or out of the traditionally plotted points of the genre.
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