Scott Brown

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Entertainment Weekly
For 94 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Scott Brown's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 53
Highest review score: 91 So Much So Fast
Lowest review score: 0 The Hottest State
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 94
  2. Mixed: 41 out of 94
  3. Negative: 19 out of 94
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Brown
    Racing Stripes
    So what disturbed me? It was the Shetland pony, which sports both Dustin Hoffman's pipes and his "I Heart Huckabees" toupee, and will haunt my nightmares forever.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 42 Scott Brown
    Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    As an expat redneck, I recognize the deep, dumb need of every group for its own culturally customized minstrel show. Larry, a junker ''star'' vehicle run on arse wind and fan love, fills that niche.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Brown
    Dead Silence
    Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Blood and Chocolate
    Werewolves are tame with overuse, and movies like Blood and Chocolate -- where moments of inspiration vie in vain with Goth cliché -- play like underlit "Charmed" reruns.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 42 Scott Brown
    The Honeymooners
    Epps has a nicely beaten charm to him -- among the leads, he alone looks like he knows what a trip to the moon costs.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Peaceful Warrior
    In the ranks of improbable gymnastics coaches, Nick Nolte falls just below the cartoon version of Mr. T.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Club Dread
    A few gags are brilliantly staged, but most have a smug, collegiate take-it-or-leave-it quality that makes full-on belly laughter feel optional.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Rebound
    The whole thing feels like a half-day of community service, which Lawrence walks through good-naturedly.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    The Brothers Solomon
    The sheer, animal idiocy beaming from their faces in the opening credits of The Brothers Solomon creates the film's only moment of uncalculated comic joy.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Brown
    Constellation
    Deeply odd films are often deeply personal ones, and Constellation, a dazed, inchoate drama about a mixed-race Alabama family, tells a story that's clearly close to the heart of writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie is a harmless little ''ex-po-tition'' (to use a Pooh-ism). Still, making this your kids' first Pooh experience would be like weaning them on New Coke.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Mr 3000
    It's a canned clip reel of Heartwarming Sports Comedy, intermittently redeemed by its easygoing boomer vibe. And at its center is the redoubtable Bernie Mac, nicely aged, as he says, ''like USDA beef.''
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Scott Brown
    The Cave
    Sci-fi horror aficionados, however, might want to look elsewhere for their scares, as they're unlikely to find any here. Fright-wise, The Cave is a dry hole.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Brown
    Valiant
    The CG is on the rubbery side, and the backdrops are jarringly 2-D. But Valiant isn't so hard to look at -- it's hard to listen to.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    The Thing About My Folks
    Thing is Woody Allen on a third-grade reading level. Neurosis abounds, but awareness doesn't, and certain ''jokes'' demand additional therapy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Slow Burn
    A strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of "The Usual Suspects" and the "Tragic Mulatto," Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Hide and Seek
    Hide and Seek, despite early signs of higher goals, is a factory-standard box of shocks.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    The Grudge 2
    Once again, we're treated to loosely aligned scenes of half-formed characters getting a faceful of director Takashi Shimizu's croaking, implacable, and, yes, still scary housewife-geist.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    You Got Served
    The story is so bored with itself, it collapses -- but the diverse troupe of dance talents at least makes it an eclectic slide.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Brown
    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    The film's generic feminism pales beside its bloated sense of privilege, only underlined by a nonstop cabaret of sideshow acts.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Queens
    A threadbare crazy-quilt of Spanish sex comedies, Queens wants desperately to be "Women on the Verge of a Big Gay Wedding."
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Scott Brown
    White Noise
    What might have been a rote horror exercise becomes instead a twitchy, mannered, often amusing rote horror exercise.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 42 Scott Brown
    Soul Plane
    If you're looking for comic insights beyond the well-documented ass differential between whites and blacks, well, golly, you ought to try another carrier.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 42 Scott Brown
    My Baby's Daddy
    A fairly harmless fertility rite with a skewed if not downright ugly view of women.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    While sloppier than the sloppiest of seconds, is laudable in one important regard: Its obsession with the male body.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Brown
    Danny Deckchair
    It's a soothing stoner tableau, a fine dropout fantasy.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Brown
    Cry_Wolf
    Cry_Wolf is underscored with idiot adolescent excitement (and gets extra absurdist points for casting Jon Bon Jovi as an educator).
    • 46 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    Seed of Chucky
    By far, the most shocking carnage is Tilly carving up her persona. What a doll.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Brown
    The Game Plan
    Having tamed one muscled man-child (Vin Diesel in The Pacifier), Disney sets its sights on The Rock. He preens winningly in The Game Plan.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Scott Brown
    The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    Feel-good ethnocomedy.
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