Robert Horton

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For 189 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Robert Horton's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 53
Highest review score: 100 Being John Malkovich
Lowest review score: 0 Tomcats
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 189
  2. Mixed: 87 out of 189
  3. Negative: 39 out of 189
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    The End of the Affair
    It's swell when a film really does capture a book in some exactitude.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    An Ideal Husband
    The film version of this civilized beauty, captures the amusing gloss of the story but not the sense that something grave is going on beneath it all.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    Traffic
    Movie excitement from beginning to end.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Gladiator
    The heroism and the tigers and the epic grandeur all leave behind the flavor of cynicism.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    Leaving Las Vegas
    Furiously uncompromising, and therefore absolutely alive.
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Finding Forrester
    One of those hybrid projects: a major studio film, big star, homely storyline, but tempered by an indie director working in his own idiosyncratic style.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    Pola X
    I'm not sure how elaborately I could defend Pola X, but I loved watching it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    Jerry Maguire
    Once again writer-director Cameron Crowe has gotten all the little details just right.
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    Ratcatcher
    The bleakness of the material ought to make Ratcatcher a depressing experience, yet Ramsay's power as an image-crafter transforms this grim universe.
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Shower
    There's something thin about the picture-both in its ideas and its visual texture.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    Pollock
    Like other aspects of this film, the image may be a little too perfect, a little too careful.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    Toy Story 2
    Doesn't have the purity, the sense of discovery, of the first Toy Story, but it's still an utter delight. Its images and gags keep replaying themselves in the mind well after the film is over.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Swingers
    For the most part, a delight.
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Never Been Kissed
    Barrymore's sunny energy pushes the movie along, but halfway through you realize there just isn't that much to push.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    Billy Elliot
    Director Stephen Daldry gets it right.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    Sleepy Hollow
    It is thrilling to look at, and that's more than one can say for the majority of pictures out there.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Holy Smoke
    I'm not even sure the movie makes sense at times, yet Campion's offbeat rhythms and eye for startling images always made me happy to be looking at the screen.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    Saving Private Ryan
    A magnificent piece of movie-making.
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Titanic
    Like it or hate it, Titanic lives and breathes as a piece of pure cinema.
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    Wonder Boys
    Well-crafted scenes that carry a bracingly grown-up tang: unhurried, played in a low key, with plenty of time to savor the details of character and place.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    The Thomas Crown Affair
    Strangely enough, this movie provides a lot of the James Bond veneer that has been missing from recent James Bond movies.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    The Insider
    It's great that this movie exists.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    Three Kings
    It's like a madly inventive hybrid of "Dr. Strangelove" and "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    American Beauty
    If it is never really as profound as it seems to think it is, American Beauty is consistently entertaining, and it earns points simply for acknowledging that all may not be perfect in the current boom years.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    The English Patient
    It's got both the sweeping spectacle and the keen, tactile sense of human intimacy.
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    The Truman Show
    A smart, engaging movie.
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Stir of Echoes
    The picture has an appropriately grungy sense of place.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Up at the Villa
    Scott Thomas and Penn finally develop a bit of unlikely chemistry, aided by the Hitchcockian atmosphere. I found myself rooting for these foolish, pampered, naïve people, and rooting for the movie as well.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Cecil B. DeMented
    A small, scruffy, but agreeably energized comedy.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    U-571
    Highly enjoyable.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Robert Horton
    The People vs. Larry Flynt
    Forman imbues the material with exactly the right dry, satirical flavor, yet this story is still a Frank Capra little-guy-against-the-system picture.
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    The Tao of Steve
    A crowd pleaser, but there's something a bit prim and pre-determined about its conclusions.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Center Stage
    There isn't a sensible reason to recommend this movie, except that its melange of clichés and conventions is embarrassingly enjoyable.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    Wonderland
    This is a beautiful, surprisingly uplifting movie, made by someone who actually understands people.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    Joe Gould's Secret
    A fitting tribute to an era, a writer, and an unapologetic eccentric.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    In the Company of Men
    One of the best films of the year, a polished, contained piece of provocation.
    • Film.com
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    The kind of college movie people will be quoting for years.
    • Film.com
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Shadow Magic
    Has a real sense of the wonder of the early years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    The Cider House Rules
    Part of the appeal of John Irving's writing is its sense of bounty, the way the world is offered up as a horn of plenty. The Cider House Rules movie, by contrast, feels narrowed down to small slices of experience.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    X-Men
    Nearly the perfect balance between straight-faced pulp action and amused wonder at the outlandish world of comic books.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Mifune's Last Song
    An acerbically comic fable.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Beyond the Mat
    Takes an easy target and turns it into something naggingly weird.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Notting Hill
    A piece of fluff that can be enjoyed without guilt.
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    The Taste of Others
    The Taste of Others takes regular (but not ordinary) people and knocks them out of their usual zones of activity. The resulting collisions leave behind a very pleasing flavor.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Meet the Parents
    While this movie is no great advance in cinema comedy, it is rewardingly silly.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Charlie's Angels
    Something rare: a mess of a movie that is somehow infectious, and infectious not despite the mess, but because of it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Primary Colors
    Primary Colors is by turns hugely entertaining and resoundingly square, beginning as a raucous black comedy about political mechanics and ending as a sober-sided morality tale.
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Pleasantville
    Terrific idea, brilliantly worked out on a technical level.
    • Film.com
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    Fight Club
    Never less than dazzling to look at, and the scorching humor keeps it alive from scene to scene.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    The Pledge
    Sometimes feels like an acting class gone berserk, with Penn indulging his high-powered cast
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Hannibal
    More complicated, more outrageous, less controlled in every way. But its owes its power to that earlier, greater film.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Carrey is an actor possessed. He's brilliant.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    May be Hitchcock on holiday, but that's a perfectly enjoyable vacation.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Small Time Crooks
    Feels like a first draft, in need of toning, pruning, and a little old-fashioned discipline. As an outline, the picture is full of possibilities.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    About Adam
    Kate Hudson's accent is spot-on, and she brings her megawattage to good use on the Gershwin standard, "The Man I Love."
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Horton
    O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    All I can say is this particular excursion into screwball madness is often heavenly, and frankly leaves critical explication somewhat unnecessary. Go see it and laugh.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Robert Horton
    Almost Famous
    You'll treasure this movie.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    A Simple Plan
    An unleashed Raimi may be a more exciting moviemaker, but there's something to be said for the virtues of a good story well told, which describes A Simple Plan down to its last shivery snowflake.
    • Film.com
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Robert Horton
    A Hard Day's Night
    Conveys not just a joy in music and The Beatles, but a joy in cinema.
    • Film.com
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Horton
    Eyes Wide Shut
    It's Kubrick, for sure, and in often mesmerizing form.
    • Film.com
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Robert Horton
    Being John Malkovich
    Absolutely, see the movie.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Best in Show
    Tight and quick-moving, the film scores its points and gets on with it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Horton
    Mansfield Park
    Quick and funny, and a refreshing break from period-film stuffiness.

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