Richard Roeper

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Chicago Sun-Times, RogerEbert.com
For 2,095 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Richard Roeper's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 I'm Still Here
Lowest review score: 0 The Happytime Murders
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,530 out of 2095
  2. Mixed: 367 out of 2095
  3. Negative: 198 out of 2095
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Incoming
    I’m all for pushing the limits of taste in the name of edgy laughs and portrayals of teen life that don’t sugarcoat the realities of teen life, but while Incoming easily earns its R rating, it has a bit of foul odor about it and features far too many cheap gross-out gags and the inclusion of some genuinely creepy characters whose actions range from the morally questionable to flat-out criminal.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    The Hangover Part III
    Director Todd Phillips has delivered a film so different from the first two, one could even ask if this is even supposed to be a comedy. I'm not saying it's an unfunny comedy wannabe; I'm saying it plays more like a straightforward, real-world thriller with a few laughs than a hard-R slapstick farce.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Afternoon Delight
    Things play out in predictable fashion, and we’re more than ready to bid farewell to these people and feel grateful they don’t live on our block.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Reach Me
    This whole movie is crazy, with all sorts of well-known folks stumbling and bumbling about in search of a character. At times Reach Me is undeniably intriguing, mostly because it’s just so weird and disconnected. Eventually, though, it just becomes tiresome.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    The Strangers: Prey at Night
    Director Johannes Roberts is clearly a fan of films such as “Christine” and “Halloween.” The production elements are first-rate, including the expansive setting that includes multiple cabins, a playground and a swimming pool.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Wasp Network
    Deadly serious people are involved in deadly serious business in “Wasp Network,” and there’s an air of importance and urgency to their every move, and we should be utterly immersed in this story — but we’re not. Not even close.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    The BFG
    Technically impressive but listless and tedious.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Snatched
    The tantalizing enticement of Goldie Hawn pairing with Amy Schumer for a mother-daughter, road-trip buddy comedy has some moments, but never fulfills its promise. As their onscreen adventures and antics grow zanier and broader, the laughs actually grow softer and more sporadic.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Homefront
    This is a well-made thriller traveling over awfully familiar turf.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Reagan
    This is a competently made film with decent cinematography and production design, and the casting is never less than ... interesting, but it favors a simplistic approach and a narrative that verges on adoration.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
    A depressingly uninspired superhero adventure sequel that leans heavily on plot points and battle sequences we’ve seen in at least a dozen other films in the genre — and almost always done better.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Nerve
    Emma Roberts and Dave Franco are just fine, but there’s no huge onscreen spark between them. Most of the supporting roles are thinly drawn and forgettable.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Bad Boys: Ride or Die
    Arriving in theaters nearly three decades after Will Smith and Martin Lawrence proved to be a hilariously likable duo in the original “Bad Boys” and four years after the entertaining, midlife-crisis threequel, the bombastic and cartoonishly over-the-top “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” is one loud misfire.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Spinning Gold
    It’s like a strange and misguided takeoff on “All That Jazz” as funneled through “Rock of Ages,” and while there’s no denying the heart and effort behind the presentation, that finale is representative of the movie itself in that it has an uncanny way of hitting the wrong notes.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    7500
    Unfortunately, not even Gordon-Levitt’s stellar work can sustain a well-made but ultimately underwhelming docudrama from first-time German writer-director Patrick Vollrath.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Get Hard
    From its juvenile double entendre title to its fascination with prison rape and homophobic humor, “Get Hard” practically announces itself as an offensive, tired and unimaginative comedy in nearly every scene. And yet I didn’t hate it because Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart had such terrific comedic chemistry.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    The Shack
    The Shack is a well-acted and sometimes moving but far too often slow-paced and unconvincing spiritual journey.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    It’s essentially a stand-alone film, though it doesn’t really stand so much as it wobbles and careens all over the place before exploding in an overwrought orgy of grotesque images, religious psychobabble and second-rate CGI nonsense.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Run
    Run is stopped dead in its tracks by a howler of a screenplay that regularly calls for various characters to behave as stupidly as the dumbest victim in a splatter movie.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    Nymphomaniac Part 1 grows flat and monotonous, and comes across as just what it is: half a film.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    She's Funny That Way
    Strives hard to replicate the screwball comedy but ends up being a lot more screwball than comedy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    August: Osage County
    A sometimes wickedly funny but ultimately sour, loud, draining tale of one of the most dysfunctional families in modern American drama. And that’s saying a lot.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    The Tomorrow War
    The Tomorrow War is an earnest effort to bring something new to the time-travel action genre, but this movie is a 2021 vehicle made of parts from the 2010s and the 1990s and 1980s.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Peppermint
    In the stylishly directed but gratuitously nasty and cliché-riddled Peppermint, Garner plays essentially two characters cut from the same person.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    She Came to Me
    This is dicey material for a screwball comedy, even one with dark undertones, and despite the best efforts of the ensemble, She Came to Me drifts further and further away from anything approaching reality or relatability. Nearly every major character in this film is exhausting to be around and/or thinly drawn.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Spiral: From the Book of Saw
    It spirals downward into a ludicrous, dumbed-down horror story more concerned with grossing out the audience than in providing any compelling reason for this long-running franchise to keep chugging along, leaving a trail of blood in its wake.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Day Shift
    Unremarkable and disposable.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    The Benefactor
    More times than not, The Benefactor takes the less interesting fork in the road.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Lila & Eve
    Davis (who was an executive producer on the film) gives a strong performance, as if she were acting in one of those many prestige projects lighting up her resume. It’s a noble try, but this dreck is beyond saving.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Roeper
    Bloodshot
    Frantically overcooked, bursting with headache-inducing, rapid-cut action sequences and only half as clever as it fancies itself, Bloodshot is an ambitious and intermittently entertaining minor-league superhero film.
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