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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
    Stylish and substantial enough to prompt even a couch potato to action, Kelly Duane's Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America delivers a stirring and visually dense account of the life and times of Brower.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    One Last Thing...
    Plays closer to an after-school special (with HBO-standard dialogue) than a satisfying feature film.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    A/k/a Tommy Chong
    While the picture's reporting on government repression of alternative cultural ideas and lifestyles is noteworthy more than anything, it's a blatant promo for Chong's career.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Employee of the Month
    Falling short of being truly memorable but sharper than the general slagheap of comedies.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Trade
    Little more than a slipshod, trashy, sometimes exploitative thriller.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    The Thing About My Folks
    Good-natured but only memorable as a platform for the amusingly feisty Peter Falk, The Thing About My Folks plies a light approach to the problems grown children face when their parents appear on the verge of divorce.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    Play It to the Bone
    A woefully under-realized story of small-time boxers enjoying perhaps their last moment in the spotlight.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    Sahara
    Saddled with more industry/celebrity baggage than a high-class safari voyage, Sahara is a rousing and only occasionally ridiculous adventure yarn.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 10 Robert Koehler
    Turn It Up
    Patently absurd in both the details and larger aspects, the ultraserious pic is undermined by poor casting.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    Saving Silverman
    Misbegotten, unimaginative buddy pic.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Light It Up
    Never quite catches fire in its too-deliberate attempt to appeal to all ages and all tastes.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    Caffeine
    Nonsense, hysterics and many cuppas spill in Caffeine, an ensembler that serves up a menu's worth of forced and trite situations.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Koehler
    'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
    De Felitta seems a born documaker. He brilliantly constructs a tale born of a genuine love of jazz and a need to understand how Paris went from sensation to footnote in a generation.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Man of the Year
    Ensemble proves improvisationally capable, but film overall is rather conventional, a Hollywood idea of an experimental film presented with a heavy serving of showbiz-type cynicism.
    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Two Weeks
    Picture veers unsteadily between melodrama and light comedy, with no confidence in either.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    She's the Man
    As insistent as its heroine to get its point across, She's the Man gathers up enough energy and likeable goodwill that it almost skirts past some extremely strained passages in which Bynes plays out being a boy.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    April's Shower
    The joys of farce are fumbled in April's Shower, star-director-writer Trish Doolan's arch and undernourished comedy about a bridal shower turned on its head by the bride's lesbian past.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    American Outlaws
    Sadly symbolizes the decline of the Western. The 36th bigscreen version of the exploits of the James-Younger Gang is one of the least convincing.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Bánk bán
    While it creaks along at times, director Csaba Kael's new film version of a Hungarian opera masterpiece, Ferenc Erkel's Bank Ban, is ultimately an invaluable entry in the opera-on-film library.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Bulletproof Monk
    Not surprisingly based on a comic book series by Brett Lewis and R.A. Jones (whom pic fails to credit), pic hurtles along at a pace designed by vet music vid and ad helmer Paul Hunter to engage short attention spans.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Robert Koehler
    MVP: Most Valuable Primate
    A lark gone utterly awry.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Koehler
    Tuck Everlasting
    Disney's tradition of intelligent, live-action family period cinema is magnificently revived in Tuck Everlasting.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Sir! No Sir!
    Because it's bolstered by proud memories of Vietnam vets who turned against the war, Sir! No Sir! rings with an exultant, even elated tone.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Wassup Rockers
    A thoroughly winning and unexpectedly observant lark about the antics of seven Latino skateboarding pals in South-Central Los Angeles.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Koehler
    The Emperor's New Groove
    Light, taut and compact, the zippy adventure is sometimes much too hip for the room.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    The Hunting Party
    Alternately glib, superficial and amusing, pic vainly attempts to absorb some degree of Serbian irony into a story that's unavoidably lessened by its privileged American vantage point.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Balances intelligent humor, slapstick, Blighty reserve and Yank spunk along with environmentalism.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    Factory Girl
    The wild, unhinged life of Andy Warhol's favorite "superstar," Edie Sedgwick, is refashioned in Factory Girl as a tame biopic with little feel for the 1960s New York Underground.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    The Great Water
    Extraordinary perfs by a mostly young cast likely will be cancelled out by the grim subject.
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