Scott Foundas

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L.A. Weekly, Variety, Village Voice
For 852 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Scott Foundas' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Inside Llewyn Davis
Lowest review score: 0 Grind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 447 out of 852
  2. Mixed: 278 out of 852
  3. Negative: 127 out of 852
852 movie reviews
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Jackass Number Two
    As merry pranksters they have no match, and as they age (Knoxville is 35 now), they only grow in appeal. As they proudly hurl their tattooed (by ink and battle scars) bodies into harm's way, a devilish glint in their eyes, it's as if they've discovered the fountain of youth, and its name is Jackass.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Bubba Ho-tep
    Campbell is flat-out great, muting his beloved Sam Raimi shtick in favor of a genuine character turn, an act of transformation that makes you wonder why he's never been called on to interpret Elvis before.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Osama
    At the center...lies the stunning Golbahari, a nonprofessional who recalls some of Bresson's most haunting model-actors in her intense, anguished grace.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Mountains May Depart
    If “Mountains” feels a touch schematic at times, and awkward in its third-act English-language scenes, the cumulative impact is still enormously touching, highlighted by Jia’s rapturous image-making and a luminous central performance by the director’s regular muse (and wife), Zhao Tao.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Elysium
    Even working within a more conventional framework, Blomkamp again proves to be a superb storyteller. He has a master’s sense of pacing, slowly immersing us into his future world rather than assailing us with nonstop action, and envisioning that world with an architect’s eye for the smallest details.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Irrational Man
    Allen’s visual direction and editing rhythms are particularly sharp and precise this time around, as is his work with the actors.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    The Magdalene Sisters
    Grim, grueling and triumphantly powerful.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    An Education
    Something of a deceptively packaged Oscar-season bonbon--a seemingly benign, classily directed year-I-became-a-woman nostalgia trip that conceals a surprisingly tart, morally ambiguous center.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
    "Whitey” emerges as yet another of Berlinger’s gripping, irony-laced snapshots of the American criminal justice system, in which his eponymous subject comes across as an incontestable monster who may, nevertheless, also be an unwitting patsy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Faster
    An often thrilling, always compelling intro to the sport.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Proteus
    A stimulating scientific inquiry that may cause audiences to look at (and think about) the world around them in dramatically different terms.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Mule Skinner Blues
    Above all a rousing entertainment.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Noah
    It is never less than fascinating — and sometimes dazzling — in its ambitions.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Notre musique
    Strikes me as one of Godard's most accessible works - one in which the graying, stubbly maestro, who turns 74 today, presents himself and his ideas to the audience in a less combative way than he sometimes has in the past.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    The Rover
    Michod’s sophomore feature isn’t exactly something we’ve never seen before, but it has a desolate beauty all its own, and a career-redefining performance by Robert Pattinson that reveals untold depths of sensitivity and feeling in the erstwhile “Twilight” star.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Tusk
    An utterly bizarre, weirdly compelling story of manimal love that stakes out its own brazen path somewhere between “The Fly” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John
    It aims simply to relate a great and enveloping story -- one that may lead us to ponder the things that unite (rather than distance) peoples of differing belief systems, and may compel us to marvel at the many wonderful and horrible endeavors undertaken in the name of religion.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Heights
    The acting is uniformly superb.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    The Imitation Game
    So innately compelling is Turing’s story — to say nothing of Benedict Cumberbatch’s masterful performance — it’s hard not to get caught up in this well-told tale and its skillful manipulations.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Factotum
    This is also an acidly funny work, even if the humor is that of a man who drinks to stave off the pain and madness of sobriety. In his finest performance since "Drugstore Cowboy," Dillon plays Chinanski with funereal grandiosity.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    Crammed into a lively 85-minute package delivered with loads of dark humor and cinematic flair, this is a worthy winner of Sundance's Grand Jury prize for documentary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    ABC Africa
    Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a "poetic cinema" indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Clean
    The emotional truthfulness of Clean enters into our bloodstreams with its muted vigor, and we find ourselves getting hooked by this tale of getting unhooked.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Transsiberian
    Anderson and his very fine cast keep things chugging along at a breathless pace, complete with a midfilm reversal of fortune nearly as unexpected as "Psycho's" shower scene. All aboard!
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Results
    Once he’s worked through the basic set-up, Bujalski puts the plot on the back burner and lets his characters collide and ricochet off one another with a laconic comic grace.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Nine Lives
    Though the episodic structure results in a whole not quite equal to some of its parts, pic is an unusually tender, perceptive character study buoyed by stellar performances from a who's who of talented (and many underused) actresses.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Beyond the Sea
    Put simply, the film is a dazzling and fearless piece of showmanship.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Shortbus
    The boldest provocation of Mitchell’s sweet, tender and gently funny film may be its exuberant celebration of community and togetherness at a cultural moment rife with fatalism and disconnect.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Batman Begins
    Of course, a Batman movie is nothing without a Bruce Wayne, and, by a mile, Bale is the best of a lot that has ranged from the square-jawed slapstick of Adam West to the more dedbonair stylings of Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    After Innocence
    A powerfully affecting documentary.
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