Robert Koehler

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For 516 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 13.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Robert Koehler's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 52
Highest review score: 100 Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 163 out of 516
  2. Mixed: 240 out of 516
  3. Negative: 113 out of 516
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    The Cave
    Refreshing strokes of science-fact in the early sections give way to action strictly from the Ridley Scott-James Cameron playbook, but without a powerful helmer behind the camera or a memorable cast in front.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Badland
    A strenuously solemn film that wants to create some kind of American pastoral tragedy out of the nation's current angst with the war.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Gods and Generals
    Gods and Generals is American history transformed into a museum movie, consistently making the flawed human characters at the heart of the Civil War into flawless figures Olympian in their statuesque remoteness.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Blackwoods
    Tries to salvage its dopey premise with frantic final-reel plot contortions.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    A sign that the Sandler comedy empire is expanding and reaching new depths of pure gross-out stupidity.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Daltry Calhoun
    A string of scenes in search of a movie.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    The Tuxedo
    This bad idea is then underlined by pallid direction from tyro helmer and TV ad vet Kevin Donovan, a virtually incomprehensible plot line and a less-than-satisfying co-starring turn from Jennifer Love Hewitt.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Crossover
    Overshadowed by vastly superior sports movies like Invincible and hardly disguising its low-budget sources, pic isn't in any kind of shape for the theatrical leagues.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    The Amati Girls
    Most discomforting of all is the sight of world-class actors stuck in such threadbare material.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Timeline
    Lacks the consistent tone, pace and point of view for either a science fiction thriller or medieval war adventure.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Undiscovered
    As a cautionary drama on the price of fame, Undiscovered could not tread on more exhaustively discovered territory, and the result is a reel-by-reel trail of cliches.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Ethan Mao
    Messy admixtures of drama and mockery crucially undermine pic's serious message.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Boys and Girls
    As generic as its title.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Scary Movie 2
    Technically and comedically strained by the demands of its special effects-filled haunted house setting. Worse, the need to top the first pic's outlandish stunts is ghoulishly unfulfilled and terribly ironic.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    The King and I
    Broadway musical purists will shudder in horror, but parents will be whistling a happy tune that there's at least one acceptable pic out there for their kids.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Pulse
    A dumbed-down remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's disturbingly abstract Japanese horror film.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Robert Koehler
    I Am Sam
    An especially insipid example of the Hollywood message movie.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Ghost Ship
    Launched with a few surprising touches and a disturbingly bloody prelude, horror pic collapses under the weight of its own dull conception and weak direction, dialogue and character portraits.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Just Married
    The filmmakers themselves betray a lack of knowledge about the Old World, while unfailingly repeating physical hijinks one time too many.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    A much more intense action vehicle for hero Ash Ketchum and his band of pocket monster trainers than its leaden, sometimes claustrophobic predecessor.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Pokémon Heroes
    Demonstrates no improvement or enhancement. But the action this time is even less inspired than past battles
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Coyote Ugly
    The latest and most calculated re-do on the formulaic fantasy of an innocent conquering Gotham.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Taxi
    Commits any number of comedic violations during an aimless pursuit of laughs.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Norbit
    Murphy's story lacks even the basic form that held most of "The Nutty Professor" together.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    View from the Top
    Flubs nearly every opportunity to be the comedy it wanted to be.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Angels with Angles
    Shrouded by memories of better times and better movies, Frank Gorshin and Rodney Dangerfield's final screen appearances are unfortunately in the thoroughly hapless and embarrassing comedy, Angels With Angles.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    I Melt with You
    A weekend romp for four middle-aged buddies devolves into a drug-fueled, suicidal hell in Mark Pellington's ill-conceived and executed I Melt With You, a work of extreme self-indulgence.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    Pavilion of Women
    Fails to stir the emotions despite its heavily melodramatic drive.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    Here on Earth
    Young teen girls will flock to pic in droves, dragging their boyfriends or other girlfriends.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Robert Koehler
    The One
    The combo of cheesy effects and martial arts choreographer Cory Yuen's unimaginative staging results in something that's martial artless.
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