Robert Koehler

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Variety
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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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Way Off Broadway
    Both extremely familiar and, despite frequent references to Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles, cinematically and dramatically dull.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    The Last Mogul
    A refreshingly honest film about the life and times of Hollywood uber-power player Lew Wasserman.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    King of the Jungle
    Story's spurts of violence are designed to tear Seymour's world apart , but Rosenfeld's scripting and directing choices tend to lessen impact of a potentially gut-wrenching urban tale.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    The effects prove extremely uneven, with sub-par touches alongside astonishing and truly unforgettable shots.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Luther
    Proceeds like a stultifying history pageant rather than a movie with a pulse of its own.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Stealth
    Aiming to join the Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay school of American movie war games, Stealth is just too dumb to make the grade.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Rennie's Landing
    The more Marc Fusco and co-writer Michael Garrity's script aims for cleverness, the more it unravels.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Cheaper by the Dozen
    Unfortunately knows no tone between schmaltzy/gooey and slapstick/gross-out. Pic is as far from the original pic and its autobiographical memoir source as it can be while retaining the same title.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Blue Streak
    A dull afterthought and a sorry vehicle for the comic expression of Martin Lawrence.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    Will greatly peeve many hardcore fans.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    Strippers
    Amateurish, undramatic and bereft of any sense of pacing.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    The Brothers Grimm
    The tilt here toward a hyperactive, buddy-movie action-adventure with loud comic archetypes is a poor fit for a film that relies on fairy tale icons and themes.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Pokémon 4: The Movie
    Supposedly, Pokemon can't be killed, but Pokemon 4Ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    Rat Race
    A lineup of comic actors running on empty long before the dust settles.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    The Sweetest Thing
    A comedy that starts the date in a frisky mood but sours before it's time to kiss goodnight.
    • 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.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    The proper mix is never found. Ill-conceived and expensive project that winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Dreaming Lhasa
    A sensitive if literal-minded tale that demonstrates how Tibet's national identity is of a piece with its spiritual heart.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    Duane Hopwood
    Writer-director Matt Mulhern confidently anchors his drama-comedy about an alcoholic Atlantic City pit boss with good writing and sharp dialogue. Script never treats characters as less than human.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Bottle Shock
    Wine lovers won't just sip but guzzle a lot of this down, and the same effect that sun-dappled days and sex in California had on "Sideways" operates here.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    The Salton Sea
    This extremely plot-thickened tale finally offers little more than the usual genre elements pushed to the kind of extremes that recall the acrid "The Way of the Gun."
    • Variety
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    View from the Top
    Flubs nearly every opportunity to be the comedy it wanted to be.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Steal This Movie
    A valiant but seriously flawed attempt to belie the notion that if you remember what you did in the '60s, you weren't there.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Even Money
    Standard-issue directorial approach is perfectly in keeping with a script whose natural berth is on the tube.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    White Oleander
    Never rising above routine episodic storytelling, White Oleander nonetheless retains something of its source novel's ravaged emotional surface and cool, observant manner.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Koehler
    House of Sand
    Magnificently renders a fresh view of life on planet Earth.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 10 Robert Koehler
    Glitter
    Glitter deserves yet another title: "A Star Is Dull." As phony a vehicle as one could possibly concoct for a wannabe movie star, pic carries Mariah Carey into a swamp of gloppy melodrama.
    • 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.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Camera Obscura
    Unable to blend artfilm with psychological thriller, writer-director Hamlet Sarkissian makes something opaque indeed out of Camera Obscura.
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