Richard Schickel
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55% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.9 points higher than other critics.
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Richard Schickel's Scores
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| Average review score: | 67 | |
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| Highest review score: | Yojimbo | |
| Lowest review score: | Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 351 out of 569
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Mixed: 153 out of 569
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Negative: 65 out of 569
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- Richard Schickel
There is an inherent problem about any sequel that too slavishly duplicates the style and substance of its predecessor; it cannot deliver the delight of discovery that the original provided. Axel made a swell first impression, but he is still living on it, perhaps not yet a bore, but not quite as fascinating as he once promised to be.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Audiences whose expectations do not exceed their grasp will find it a much more comfortable vehicle for escape than any that McQueen & Co. discover on location.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
It appears to be a true reflection of her (Shelly) spirit -- eccentric, good-naturedly feminist, kind of funny and kind of sentimental. Despite its realistic setting in a small Southern town, it is much more a fable than it is a slice of authentic life.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Not so good is the absence of hip cross-references to the classic horror tropes.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Reynolds can't help looking rather shifty as he relates his story and Breslin, who was so wonderful in Little Miss Sunshine, is obliged to play a standard-issue wise child.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications. [10 Nov 1997, p.102]- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Cutting through the epic gesturings of Andy Tennant's direction, he (Yun-Fat Chow) provides reason enough to return one last time to this otherwise weary romance- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
The result is half Python, half Ivanhoe--and not as much fun as either.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Your affection for Serendipity may depend on how fascinated you are by a movie that is apparently going after the all-time record for delayed consummation.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
One of this movie's implications--and it's a common enough one these days--is that sensitivity is a quality impossible to find in straight guys. [20 April 1998]- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Yes, Burt Reynolds has some dirty, lively moments as a crooked, sex-starved Congressman. But the crazy, nothing-to-lose anarchy of people living below the margin and beyond the fringe is not within Bergman's fastidious reach.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
What saves this movie from hopeless sentimentality is Meryl Streep's subtle performance.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
What Willis proves in Die Hard is that it is not one you can ease through, especially if your preparation runs more to body building than to character building. [July 25, 1988]- Time
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- Richard Schickel
A movie that may be just a bit too pleased with its own artful bleakness.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily employing the realist manner of his early films, is goodwill hunting in all the wrong places.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
It's because of AnnaSophia Robb's performance...I don't think you'll see a more fascinating and nuanced performance at the movies this year.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Mostly, the new film reminds us that swell production design is no substitute for a fresh, simple and startling idea.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Pakula seems overawed by the book's critical and popular success. Whatever its other virtues, Presumed Innocent was basically a page turner; the movie is a slow burner.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
It's all so predictable. And you begin to wonder, as you so often do at the movies these days, why did they bother? And more to the point, why should we bother? [15 June 1998, p.72]- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Aiming, perhaps, for a neat double helix of black humor and prankishness, they've ended up with a pretty ugly granny knot.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Julie Taymor's inventiveness has diminished to a kind of strained cuteness. Everything that makes an artist an artist -- the obsessions, the egotism -- is ignored in favor of upbeat movie conventions.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
A fine--but not entirely uninteresting—mess. [2 Jun 1997, p. 74]- Time
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- Richard Schickel
Starsky & Hutch has moments of hilarity a little greater than you might expect of a movie that is just out for a lazy good time.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
You don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
It renders passion dispassionate and turns murder into a kind of fashion statement, something we observe without really caring about.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
A pretty but utterly misleading picture in which cheap sentiment is used to supply easy, false resolutions to agonizing issues.- Time
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- Richard Schickel
There is more to the intertwined stories of Murrow and McCarthy than this simpleminded, rhetorically driven movie begins to encompass.- Time
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