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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    The movie looks like it cost a fortune, with Dean Cundey's glistening widescreen compositions and Bill Brzeski's towering, storybook sets providing the backdrop for seamless visual effects. What's more, it's equally rich in ideas.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Riding Giants
    Offers a highly engaging immersion into a culture of larger-than-life characters driven by their thrill-seeking instincts.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Scott Foundas
    Green Street Hooligans
    Playing something of a cipher who reinvents himself as the occasion demands, Wood is unusually well cast, but it's Hunnam, with a psychotic twinkle in his eye, who turns the movie on whenever he's onscreen.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Foundas
    The Lost City
    A handsomely produced, deeply passionate, but seriously flawed historical epic whose reach far exceeds its grasp. Somewhere inside this overlong, sometimes engaging, often tedious affair, there may be a solid, 100-minute movie.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Scott Foundas
    Valentin
    It's not that Noya is bad as kid actors go, but a pair of dewy, crossed eyes and a beyond-his-years melancholy do not an entire movie make.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Scott Foundas
    This Is England
    The result is a film marked by eruptions of brutal violence, but also passages of extraordinary tenderness.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Foundas
    The Human Stain
    As both book and film, The Human Stain comes to vividest life in its extended flashbacks, which offer the most compelling exploration of Roth's perennial themes of self-loathing and reinvention.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Pride and Prejudice
    Scottish director Andrew Black keeps the pace brisk and the images sunny, while screenwriters Anne Black (his wife), Jason Faller and Katherine Swigert afford lively dialogue that, without pressing the issue, hones in on some insightful parallels between the morals of Austen's society and those of contemporary Mormon culture.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Scott Foundas
    The Other Side of the Bed
    The dancing is dazzling in director Emilio Martínez-Lázaro's The Other Side of the Bed, but the movie itself is a dud.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Scott Foundas
    Up
    Up emerges as a gentle hymn to adventure of both the soaring, storybook variety and the smaller, less obvious kind -- the perilous, unpredictable and richly rewarding journey of ordinary, everyday life.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Scott Foundas
    The Hurt Locker
    A full-throttle body shock of a movie. It gets inside you like a virus, puts your nerves in a blender, and twists your guts into a Gordian knot.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Scott Foundas
    Crazy as Hell
    An erratic, psychobabbling jumble of scenes that never builds to any discernible point.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Scott Foundas
    EuroTrip
    Promising young cast flounders amid comic material that's staler than week-old bread.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Scott Foundas
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Came alive only in the presence of a supposed dead man -- specifically, the nefarious Lord Voldemort.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Scott Foundas
    In Between Days
    This superb debut feature by Korean-American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Scott Foundas
    Thumbsucker
    American independent movies about awkward adolescence are never in short supply, but this highly assured first feature by commercials and music video director Mike Mills is the first since "Donnie Darko" to view the latter stages of teenagerdom as fodder for a phantasmagorical odyssey of Lewis Carroll–like distortions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Inside Man
    The heist at the heart of Inside Man is brilliant, and so is the movie.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Scott Foundas
    Stander
    It can be thrilling to watch Stander and his gang of gentlemen bandits rack up the loot without ruffling their (or anyone else's) shirt collars. The movie isn't content to rest there, though; it wants to be a caper with a conscience.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Scott Foundas
    Just Friends
    The infectious high spirits of the performers help to carry the day.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Secret Things
    Though his work has been little seen outside of France, writer-director Jean-Claude Brisseau's reputation as one of the most terribles of his country's filmmaking enfants precedes him. This 2002 film offers ample evidence as to why.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Scott Foundas
    Ballets Russes
    Enormously absorbing.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Scott Foundas
    Hannah Takes the Stairs
    Like most of the men in the film, we would happily follow her anywhere.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Scott Foundas
    Arakimentari
    Offers a fast, efficient and richly satisfying look at an iconoclastic artist and his groundbreaking work.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Scott Foundas
    The Warrior
    Scaled like an epic but possessing the narrative simplicity of a fable, The Warrior unfolds over a brisk 85 minutes of screen time, keeping dialogue to a minimum as it celebrates the power of stories told through handcrafted, CGI-free images.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Scott Foundas
    Piggie
    Pic's quirky-for-quirky's-sake antics are neither particularly coherent nor enjoyably incoherent.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Scott Foundas
    Fast Food Nation
    Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" and Ryan Fleck's "Half Nelson," it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in "Crash," "Babel" and "Little Children").
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Scott Foundas
    Confusion of Genders
    Surprisingly unsexy, uninvolving affair.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Scott Foundas
    New York Minute
    Reverts to a fire-sale slapstick scenario that includes multiple tumbles into toilets/sewers/ dumpsters; a visit to a Harlem beauty shop that's all homily-spouting mammies and swishy, finger-snapping dandies; and the attempted inducement of a constipated dog's bowel movement.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Foundas
    Constellation
    Only Williams makes any real emotional connection: I'm not sure I'd call his performance good, but there's something fascinating about seeing the man once heralded as "the black Clark Gable" three decades removed from heartthrob status, heavy and sullen-looking, weighed down by the burdens of time and age.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Scott Foundas
    Beyond the Gates
    Although in many respects a more stylish, authentic, tougher-minded film than "Hotel Rwanda," director Michael Caton-Jones' respectable and well-intentioned Beyond the Gates (aka Shooting Dogs) still falls into the trap of filtering an inherently African story through the eyes of a noble white protagonist -- in this case, two of them.
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