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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Signs & Wonders
    Though Signs & Wonders loses its bubbles and runs flat in its anticlimactic final moments, it's far more inventive and demanding than any movie of recent memory.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    8 Women
    A frothy and deliriously enjoyable souffle.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    The Prince and Me
    Director Martha Coolidge attempts to keep the film grounded in reality, but the movie flutters away from her control.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    The Powerpuff Girls
    Don't give the kids any sugar before this one -- it's so hyperactive it'll send them into overdrive without it.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Isn't She Great
    Though it does present the facts of Susann's life, it skims them so quickly and with such glorious glee that we never get a sense of who this woman really was.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Lantana
    It's LaPaglia's finest, deepest role and he's matched by Armstrong, who makes Sonja's undaunting optimism palpable within a trying marriage that's gulping for breath.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Lucie Aubrac
    Gorgeous re-creation of another time.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Guinevere
    An enigmatic but gorgeous film.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Paula Nechak
    Riding in Cars with Boys
    What emerges is a funny and sometimes aching movie that treads familiar dysfunctional family turf but still manages to eke out an emotionally toned balance.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Three to Tango
    The vapid plot line follows the same narrative arc as "Tootsie" but hasn't the heart or purpose of that film.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Paula Nechak
    Boys Don't Cry
    A radically disturbing and memorable movie whose images don't easily fade or diminish in power.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Family Fundamentals
    Compassionate, potent documentary.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Paula Nechak
    Burnt Money
    Director Marcelo Pineyro imbues the film with mood and style and yet the violent climax holds little thrall as a lack of character development makes it had to care about the robbers' fate.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    It demands people pay attention and look inward to find the private compass that will navigate us through murky sensibilities that are as capable of seducing us as they are Tom Ripley.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Whale Rider
    The real find in this lovely family film is Castle-Hughes, who makes Pai's confusion, emotional fragility and devotion palpable.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Orfeu
    While the film is technically polished and visually breathtaking, it lacks depth and becomes little more than a lawless fairy tale packed with pretty people.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Rosetta
    This devastating film is buoyed by Dequenne's bravura willingness to go all out; she's a baby-faced kid when the camera focuses full on and an exceptionally beautiful young woman in profile.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    Outside Providence
    Outside of a smart performance by Shawn Hatosy as Tim Dunphy, there just isn't much that's enlightening or new in this intimate recollection.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Simpatico
    As has been the case with most of Shepard's plays, transfer to the movies spells doom.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Next Friday
    After its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Inspector Gadget
    It lacks, despite the remarkable techno effects by wizard Stan Winston, originality and charisma.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Paula Nechak
    Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    The actors navigate tough characters through emotional mayhem with such intense determination it's a shame they're undercut by the intrusive voice-over.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Paula Nechak
    Tell No One
    It's a solid study in paranoia and gamesmanship.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 91 Paula Nechak
    Fight Club
    It assaults us with violence, brutality, sexual confusion and anarchy and has enough bruising, punishing humor to keep us laughing with relief.
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