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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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Inspector Gadget
    It lacks, despite the remarkable techno effects by wizard Stan Winston, originality and charisma.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    The Sweetest Thing
    You walk away wishing they had more than this scant and often shoddy material with which to enjoy their rollicking and racy good time.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Goya's Ghosts
    The biggest tragedy about Milos Forman's foray into the life and times of Spanish artist Francisco De Goya is the waste of so much great raw material.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    We Don't Live Here Anymore
    What it lacks is the wit or even the cynicism to lighten the emotional load.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Cats & Dogs
    "Shrek" had some refreshing, genre-twisting innovation but Cats & Dogs plays it safe and nice instead and, by not taking risks, doesn't quite make it out of the doghouse.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    The Producers
    Can't find its rhythm and stride. It plays it far too safe and slick.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    Bring It On
    Predictable and surprisingly confusing in its ultimate message.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    The Big Tease
    An innocuous, hit-and-miss affair.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    The Story of Us
    I scratched my head in wonder as to why this pair of one-dimensional characters couldn't find happiness in such a shallow story.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Paula Nechak
    The Singing Detective
    Despite his harrowing real-life experiences, Downey, good as he is, is simply too young for the part. This callow telling begs for a more mature approach.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Rugrats Go Wild
    This collision of popular Emmy-winning TV shows is strangely uninspired and, well, a bit dull.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Racing Stripes
    Racing Stripes is oddly torn in tone: is it an old-fashioned family drama, a coming-of-age story or a crass comedy? Live action or animation? Unlike "Babe," it fails to integrate its conflicting personalities.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    A Good Woman
    Hunt and Johansson, two usually good actresses, are vapidly awful, teetering out of their elements in this shakily drawn period piece.
    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Lost and Delirious
    It has a frenetic, unsettled edginess that chafes against its serene, woodsy, upscale private school setting.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Big Daddy
    Though the cast is talented, the script is a mess. It's essentially a collision of missed opportunities.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    The Walker
    A mystery that isn't mysterious, a thriller that's barely thrilling.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    The Jungle Book 2
    Unremarkable sequel to the 1967 hit.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Festival in Cannes
    Tainted by cliches, painful improbability and murky points.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Bad News Bears
    This is simply another in a long line of utterly unnecessary remakes that, having nothing new to say, clutch at crassness and dumbness.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Random Hearts
    A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop.
    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Apres Vous (After You)
    The jokes run dry, the situation is redundant, the cast becomes tiresome and the running time is interminable.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Lakeview Terrace
    When a film has to blare its racially and incendiary stance as obviously as Lakeview Terrace, you know it's trying too hard.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 42 Paula Nechak
    Simpatico
    As has been the case with most of Shepard's plays, transfer to the movies spells doom.
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