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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    • 42 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    Superstar
    Strikes a universal chord, no matter what rung of the popularity ladder we were on in high school.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    This bloodless, nuanced little thriller carries small weight save for Huppert's enigmatic, thrifty performance.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    Piglet's Big Movie
    Certainly kept the toddlers (including mine) at an advance screening engrossed, but for parents and reviewers, it was more of a struggle.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    The Price of Milk
    This journey is clunkily rendered, clouded by an avalanche of murky symbolism.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    The Prestige
    If you can forgive some woeful casting and a plot that is as creakingly thin as an old staircase, you can enjoy director Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.
    • 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.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    The Women
    Feels the scratches of too much time and tinkling and is as disjointed as a dislocated shoulder.
    • 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.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    Lawrence uses the stand-up forum less as a weapon to blast us with his incisive, razor sharp insights into life, sex and ethnicity than as a pulpit or confessional to chronicle his rehabilitation and reformation.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Bounce
    Flies coach instead of first class, despite a charismatic cast.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Return to Never Land
    Not only did it not engage the adults, its lackluster story line didn't spread much illusion or magic over the kids in the audience either.
    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Tape
    Unfortunately can't transcend its theatrical roots and the actors, good as they are, seem like they're grandstanding.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    A Time for Drunken Horses
    In its austere visual understatement rests a ton of emotional power.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Beautiful People
    Dizdar humorously compares and contrasts extremes in economics and lifestyles and looks at the west through the eyes of an outsider.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 0 Paula Nechak
    Held Up
    A real dud, with few laughs, no characterization, little story, a cluster of stereotypes and clichés and just plain nothing for Foxx to do.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Paula Nechak
    Dudley Do-Right
    A big dud.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Chaos
    The film is many things: dark fable, gritty thriller, satirical social commentary, horror film and a love story that's blessed with a marvelous, near slapstick physicality.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    All the Real Girls
    Lurches toward an offbeat honesty but it also very nearly crashes in its quirkiness.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Drowning Mona
    Scores high on nastiness, but it has as many surprisingly funny moments as offensive ones.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Maria Full of Grace
    The film's only misstep is its again-used theme (especially when it comes to a woman's rite of passage) of exacting some punishing loss when our heroine pushes to transcend her limitations by seeking a better life.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Shrek
    While Shrek may trek into that dark territory and has some questionable values simmering beneath the surface, its characters are delightful enough and the film is just sweet-natured and visually sophiscated enough to avoid sinking into the swamp.
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