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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Noyce's movie is a testament to endurance -- the camera caresses the landscape -- instilling us with a respect and reverence for it, its harsh ways and the attachment to it that Australia's indigenous people hold.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    The Duchess
    Provided you don't take it seriously, it makes for an addictively entertaining diversion that's as hard to stop watching as the books are to stop reading.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Wonder Boys
    A terrific movie about middle-age malaise and a comedy of unusual wit and drollness.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    The Iron Giant
    More intelligent and thought-provoking than the usual dumb and dull-witted fare for children.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    All About My Mother
    As dark as a Greek tragedy yet it has a vibrance and joie de vivre that can't be contained by grief.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Crazy in Alabama
    Funny, eccentric and touchingly just, combining a unique interpretation of the time with an offbeat sense of humor.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    The Claim
    Beautifully acted and conceived -- even if the final vision is not always totally satisfying.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Songcatcher
    The music is truly the thing in Songcatcher and it's awesome, haunting stuff.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 16 Paula Nechak
    Drive Me Crazy
    So badly plotted and written that it rarely makes much sense, even with the elementary story line.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Three Kings
    As entertaining as it is a viable, political message destined to make viewers rethink their stance on war.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Little Miss Sunshine
    In remarkably compact and quietly concise vignettes, we're introduced to each member, and immediately understand what they're all about.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Millions
    The film is thriller, comedy and rite-of-passage story, but Boyle never loses sight of what's at its core.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Plunkett & Macleane
    There's not an original idea rattling around in the empty-headed but gorgeous-to-behold period film.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    The Whole Nine Yards
    A pedestrian movie with a predictable romance at its heart.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    The Tigger Movie
    Both sophisticated and elemental enough for all ages to grasp the message.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    3-Iron
    Original, imaginative and stylish.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Holy Smoke
    It's a funny, insightful film whose feminist undertones don't overwhelm the story and characters.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Out of Time
    Although budding star Mendes and Washington sparked in "Training Day," there's less chemistry between them this time as she glowers and frets in her role as a big-city cop.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Me Without You
    Love. Lust. Recrimination. Jealousy. Resolution. This British female friendship melodrama has them all.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Tumbleweeds
    An indie film that was lavishly praised and won the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, rolls along in the well-rutted, dusty tire tracks of other mother-and-daughter road trip
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Transamerica
    It may not exactly be a traditional love letter to his wife but actor-turned-executive producer William H. Macy has given her a plum part as Bree in screenwriter-director Duncan Tucker's offbeat road movie.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Osama
    There are too few surprises and even less subtlety in the telling. We can only sit and wait for the next bomb to drop on this poor exploited girl.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Swimming Pool
    Occasionally falters in its symbolism and storytelling, but still unnerves because we're never quite sure of our bearings, or whose "reality" we're watching.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Volver
    Cruz is tough and sexy as the no-nonsense Raimunda and she's being deservedly talked up for an Oscar nomination in a tight best actress year.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    There's such a good-natured heart beating beneath the cliches that it's easy to appreciate the film's willingness to poke gentle fun without a whiff of nastiness or judgment.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Sweet Sixteen
    A hard film to shake and makes us think and think again.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Paula Nechak
    Summer Catch
    Tries mightily to have the charm of "Bull Durham," but instead fields raunchy sex jokes, predictable story line, dumb dialogue and a lackluster love affair.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    The Walker
    A mystery that isn't mysterious, a thriller that's barely thrilling.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Kissing Jessica Stein
    Something doesn't quite gel in the end.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Paula Nechak
    Sex and Death 101
    It has absolutely nothing to say -- no redeeming commentary about nihilistic, narcissistic society and its appetite for instant gratification -- which would have made it sociologically interesting, or at least sort of Faustian in theme. Instead Sex and Death 101 is as empty-headed as its protagonist.
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