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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    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    Freshman Orientation
    With intermittently amusing glee, writer-director Ryan Shiraki's tyro film, Freshman Orientation, frolics through the political minefields of a typical college campus.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    Flight of the Phoenix
    Shows both how far Hollywood's tech departments have advanced in 40 years and how shallow the pool of solid action thesps has become.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    Sunset Strip
    Interesting structure provides pic with plenty of opportunities for social satire, human comedy and chance encounters, but few setups are ever dramatically fulfilled.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Koehler
    Why We Fight
    Picture sets the gold standard for political documentaries.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    Deep Blue Sea
    Powered by exceptional displays of physical filmmaking, Deep Blue Sea is pulled back to shore by the usual suspects -- weak plotting and weaker dialogue.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    Life as a House
    A family melodrama that becomes less authentic as it progressively takes itself more seriously.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    Cellular
    Because plot is the sum total here, the alarming holes, inconsistencies and impossibilities in Chris Morgan's script corrode this drama of distress.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    One Last Ride
    Though it lacks the sheer, depraved intensity of similarly themed pics like "The Gambler," Ride shares much of the sunlit sadness of "Save the Tiger," also populated by desperate, middle-aged men plying their trade in Los Angeles' garment district.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    Idiocracy
    A satire for its time. What Judge is less sure of here than in his previous, perfectly pitched live-action comedy "Office Space," is how to build a complete movie around his key ideas.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Radio
    "Inspired by a true story" it may be, but inspired it's not.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Koehler
    Bustin' Down the Door
    With verve, style and a fine sense of the human side of surf culture, Jeremy Gosch makes a terrific splash with his debut doc, Bustin' Down the Door.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Koehler
    Rize
    Eye-popping lensing and an appreciation of social complexities combine for an entirely satisfying experience.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 0 Robert Koehler
    Wash Dry and Spin Out
    A pathetically conceived drama that wastes the serious theme of how emotionally and sexually inadequate men abuse others.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    American Dreamz
    Combining a gallery of targets including President Bush, "American Idol," the Iraq War and the overarching theme of a nation of citizens held in the thrall of phony dreams, pic and its ambitions are undermined by insistent cartoonishness and comic ineptitude.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Voices in Wartime
    A history of verse is laid alongside that of warfare, and the ways in which they are braided together proves fascinating.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    My Best Friend
    Well-turned adult comedy.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    The Man
    Functional if thoroughly uninspired movie. Because it clings to the comedy-action template of "48 Hrs.," pic feels like it could have been made 15 years ago.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Rock Star
    Feels particularly like old news after the risks of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle were laid out for the previously uninformed in last year's "Almost Famous."
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    First Descent
    Pic displays filmmakers Kevin Harrison's and Kemp Curley's love of snowboarding, but suffers from an unjustifiably long running time, considerable repetition and a generally awkward structure.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    Though it never disguises its sympathies for Kasparov and contempt for a powerful corporation's machinations, documentary is finally a speculation on the limits of the human mind and how truth can never be fully known.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 30 Robert Koehler
    South of Heaven, West of Hell
    A quasi-metaphysical revenge Western that remains as elusive as a distant mirage on a long, dusty trail.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Fixing Frank
    Full of bold dramatic strokes and complex character shadings.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    Game 6
    Game 6, the first screenplay by one of America's great living novelists, Don DeLillo, is poorly served by Michael Hoffman's flat, soporific direction.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    Shock to the System
    Enough action, a tiny pinch of sex and some campy moments from Morgan Fairchild.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Koehler
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
    Unlikely to draw new fans but destined to please followers who couldn't catch the live act.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Koehler
    By Hook or by Crook
    No movie like this about friendship between two young lesbians and their various adventures, punctuated with laissez-faire jump-cutting, should be this boring.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    Moonlight Mile
    A movie at war with itself -- tuned into its characters' vicissitudes one moment, stumbling with awkward stabs at goofiness the next.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Koehler
    I Spy
    It's precisely the lineup of familiar past work that makes I Spy pretty dull goods, invigorated mainly by the sharp interplay between Murphy and Wilson, both of whom shine best when they have a sidekick to work with.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Koehler
    In Bruges
    Closer to pics like “The Hit” and “Miller’s Crossing” than to McDonagh’s bristling, funny plays, this half-comic, half-serious account of two Irish hitmen who are sent to the titular Belgian burg to cool their heels after a job is moderately fair as a nutty character study, but overly far-fetched once the action kicks in.
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