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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Onegin
    (Fiennes's) Onegin is clueless to anything other than the sensual world, and is finally more repellent than sympathetic.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    The Safety of Objects
    Outside of its star power, it reeks of indie film and doesn't hold much mainstream steam.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Police Beat
    Pape Sidy Niang is terrific as the cop, Z, who is viewing America through a new immigrant's eyes.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    First Snow
    It's the script -- by director Mark Fergus (who also wrote the adapted script for "Children of Men") and Hawk Ostby -- that lets everyone down.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Everything Is Illuminated
    Though Wood is the star, it's Hutz who is the indelible presence.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    My Wife Is an Actress
    While Gainsbourg and Stamp are charming, Attal's husband is difficult to like, to say the least. Must a woman as gracious and intelligent as Charlotte really settle for domesticity with such a near-abusive boor?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Holy Smoke
    It's a funny, insightful film whose feminist undertones don't overwhelm the story and characters.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Mifune's Last Song
    An edgy comedy with heart.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 91 Paula Nechak
    Titus
    Gorgeous in its gore and, for all its destruction, despair and death, concludes on an optimistic and vibrantly alive note.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Code 46
    This sci-fi film noir craves a passionate center, an intoxicating core or some pulse that makes us want to keep taking that first step into dark waters, but it leaves us drowning in its quiet tedium instead.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Buffalo Soldiers
    In some ways it suffers from the same unredemptive afflictions as Elwood and his gang: It's a bit flaccid and flabby and lumbers gracelessly along without self awareness or humanity.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    The Five Senses
    If you can forgive some plot artifice and gloss, there's a seductively intuitive and resonant theme resting at the core of Jeremy Podeswa's haunting new film.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Sylvia
    What Jeffs -- and Paltrow -- do capture is the shroud of tragedy that hovered over Plath.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    The Minus Man
    The film ultimately has no contrast and we can't figure out whom to like or dislike.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Then She Found Me
    While Hunt's directing debut is promising, if understated, it's her performance as schoolteacher April Epner that impresses the audience.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    The Third Miracle
    A foreign film feel despite its strong American cast.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Camp
    Starts slowly, takes a turn for the better for a couple of reels and then, not having much to say or anywhere to go, flatlines into something akin to "American Idol."
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    P.S.
    Wanders off on story tangents that can't be called anything other than bizarre, but nevertheless oddly engages.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    The Acid House
    It's not the direction that feels flaccid in this film. Surprisingly, it's the stories themselves, which provide a bit of a giggle but little else.
    • 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.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    MirrorMask
    What remains is a sumptuous-looking film that sniffs at but ignores deeper Freudian implications.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 91 Paula Nechak
    Facing Windows
    Istanbul-born director Ferzan Ozpetek has outdone himself with this wise and ruminative mystery about memory, unfulfillment and yearning.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    The Bank
    The film is not without its flaws, but it sports a terrific production design that integrates magically into the story -- as well as another top-notch performance by Anthony LaPaglia.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Melinda and Melinda
    tTere are two things going for Melinda and Melinda: Woody's not in it and Radha Mitchell is.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    Julien Donkey-Boy
    Often unsettlingly funny, though it ultimately recedes into a dark womb of despair.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    Because of Winn-Dixie
    It's a methodical, friendly fairy tale in which everyone is good and the outcome is a given.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Jet Lag
    It's light and airy and, unlike the land-locked planes, runs the risk of nearly floating away into innocuous obscurity.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    The Tale of Despereaux
    Unfortunately, the life has been sucked out of DiCamillo's story about a brave, unusual little mouse.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Chop Suey
    We leave hungry for more of the film's substantial, if less physically perfect, subjects.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Nancy Drew
    The teen parties and sidekick silliness are time filler, and not very good filler either -- why even Bruce Willis shows up in a scene that has nothing to do with the story.
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