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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    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Horton
    The Beach
    The opening reels here promise something big, but the movie settles for a sour, predetermined funk -- "Lord of the Flies" as imagined by a Nintendo junkie.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Horton
    The Perfect Storm
    The storm is the reason to see the movie.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Horton
    The Caveman's Valentine
    It may have a good liberal conscience, and genuine sympathy for the rare perspective of a homeless person, but this movie is a fundamentally sentimental exercise.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Horton
    Love's Labour's Lost
    These are good people, yet the director has them carrying on like community theater actors playing to the balcony. It isn't fair to them, and it isn't fitting for Shakespeare.
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Horton
    An Everlasting Piece
    This mild but amusing comedy wasn't written by Levinson, and the accents may be different, but the feel is similar.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Horton
    Where the Money Is
    There's very little here that rises above the level of a competent straight-to-video picture, except that whenever Paul Newman and Linda Fiorentino are onscreen together they create something special.
    • 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.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Horton
    Body Shots
    I haven't got the slightest idea whether these characters are meant as satirical targets or as a reasonably fair cross-section of Today's Youth.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Horton
    Miss Congeniality
    It all coalesces in a TV-level pleasantness, which isn't quite enough to fill a big screen.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Horton
    Sweet November
    Charlize Theron has charm and skill, but no actress could survive this role, which has the gravity and verisimilitude of a sketch from a late-sixties Nancy Sinatra TV special.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Horton
    Santitos
    A Mexican film that reaches for a very weird and risky tone, and, I think, fails.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Horton
    Trixie
    For me, Trixie finds its own peculiar groove, and-buoyed by a compulsively watchable actress-folds neatly into the off-center work of a distinctive American director.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Horton
    Joe Dirt
    It's only when you see the movie that you discover how completely the film misses opportunities to develop these ideas into anything like movie comedy.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 0 Robert Horton
    Tomcats
    Re-adjust the levels of cinematic hell, because "Porky's" just got bumped up a notch.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Horton
    The Five Senses
    It's like one of the baker's cakes, handsomely rendered on the outside but lacking flavor.
    • 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.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Horton
    Hollow Man
    One wonders if the only original directors left are the obsessives and the freaks. This guy qualifies on both counts.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Horton
    Me, Myself & Irene
    These film-making provocateurs are divided between sweet and sour, between the romance of classic screwball comedy and Mad magazine on acid.
    • 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
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Horton
    Jakob the Liar
    Even on its own terms, it stays sluggish.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Horton
    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    This movie is a business decision, and about as diverting to watch as someone reading the Universal fiscal report.
    • 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
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Horton
    The Story of Us
    A skim-milk version of a yuppie romance.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Robert Horton
    Being John Malkovich
    Absolutely, see the movie.
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