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For 84 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Staff [Not Credited]'s Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Boogie Nights
Lowest review score: 0 Idle Hands
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 84
  3. Negative: 21 out of 84
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    Selma
    A deeply moving film, it's a powerful reminder of a time not so long ago when, for a large group of Americans, attempting to register to vote could result in a serious threat to their lives.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Predestination
    This intriguing and well-acted gender-bending story occasionally feels like "The Crying Game" meets "Looper."
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Staff [Not Credited]
    New Year's Eve
    Sitting through New Year's Eve is like attending a crowded party filled with pretty people who have nothing to say.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Happy Feet Two
    For a computer-animated movie about dancing penguins, it's surprisingly leaden. Not even the impressive voice talent can rev up this clumsy spectacle.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Real Steel
    It's an odd blend - a sentimental story in a futuristic world of brutal machine-maneuvered fights. There are some ringside thrills, but it's not a seamless mesh.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    Human Traffic
    Someone has seen "Trainspotting" too many times, and it's writer/director Justin Kerrigan.
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    East Is East
    A robust family comedy that saves its wildest moments for a climactic "get-together."
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Snow Falling on Cedars
    Compelling almost in spite of itself, thanks to the impressionistic imagery of cinematographer Robert Richardson.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    House on Haunted Hill
    Fun for less than 30 of the 80-minute running time.
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    The movie is still too solemn.
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Barbarian Invasions
    Despite a slight tendency to be overly pleased with itself, this is a smart piece of work that got Arcand's screenplay an award at Cannes.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    Though the film is not terribly original (and features a jarringly miscast Alicia Silverstone as Alex's nanny), the action scenes are diverting, the veteran cast is amusing and the engaging Pettyfer makes a solid debut.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Saving Grace
    Though not quite up to "The Full Monty" or "Waking Ned Devine," there's just enough left in that overseas whimsy stockpile to generate good buzz (the word-of-mouth moviegoer kind).
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Big Momma's House 2
    This could be the start of an awful new genre: Nannies Gone Wild.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    Bride of the Wind
    Stuffing painters, writers and, naturally, Gustav Mahler (Jonathan Pryce) into about 90 minutes, the film comes off as little more than a handsomely mounted scorecard of sexual escapades.
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Grandfather
    The material has enough meat to enable charitable viewers to drift in and out, but the result is too arch to conjure up much affection.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Anniversary Party
    If one of its points is to show that underused thirtyish actresses still are attractive, it succeeds with Leigh and Cates -- and Jennifer Beals, who also provides a flashback feeling playing Cummings' ex-squeeze.
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    Starter for 10
    Despite its awkward title, Starter for 10 is a winning coming-of-age tale told with grace and charm.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    You Can Count on Me
    The best drama you've seen about Anytown, USA, since "American Beauty."
    • USA Today
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Staff [Not Credited]
    Waking the Dead
    Spanning the counterculture '70s to the more career-oriented '80s and doing justice to neither decade, this event-heavy adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel may give viewers whiplash.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Staff [Not Credited]
    Apollo 13
    "The Right Stuff" will endure as the more ambitious movie, but this book-faithful, 2-hour team effort shrewdly keeps its eye on the ball.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Staff [Not Credited]
    Dude, Where's My Car?
    Any civilization that can produce a movie this stupid probably deserves to be hit by famine and pestilence.
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Little Vampire
    A dreary poke-along adaptation of the Angela Sommer-Bodenburg children's stories.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Staff [Not Credited]
    Screwed
    Clumsy on every level.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Staff [Not Credited]
    One Day in September
    Comprehensive and blisteringly paced.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Pink Panther 2
    Perhaps Martin should go back to taking chances and writing original work.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Guru
    Agreeable and slipshod in equal fashion, The Guru illustrates the subtle distinction between stupidity and goofiness.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Perfect Man
    So imperfect that it may qualify as one of the summer's worst movies.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Aquamarine
    Despite corny one-liners and plot developments that don't always hold water, Aquamarine rises above the flotsam filling theaters this time of year with a likable tale of friendship and charming performances.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Everyone's Hero
    A sweet, inspirational movie that doesn't offer any surprises, but entertains youthful audiences in a gentle, almost old-fashioned way.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    A quagmire that reportedly has undergone multiple edits to reach its current incomprehensible state.
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Get Shorty
    Though it sounds like a blueprint for either disaster or dynamite, the movie is a bit too controlled to be either.
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Wonder Boys
    Droll mild amusement.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    From Hell
    With almost as many subplots as corpses, the movie maintains its mild watchability only because the Ripper saga still engrosses.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    Bats
    Really just an update of the kind of hapless grade-Z effort that once played the bottom half of a drive-in double bill.
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Claim
    The actors seem as frozen as the landscape in this unsuccessful attempt at a grand and profound Western about the California Gold Rush.
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Medallion
    Longer on action than comedy. But with Chan's affable charm and stunning leaps, kicks and jumps, it's a good-natured and amusing spectacle.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    What's Cooking?
    More interesting as a sociological study than successful as a movie, What's Cooking? gets more involving as it strolls along.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Shine
    Shine has a story to reckon with and powerhouse male performances.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Light It Up
    A tough little hostage thriller with crackling dialogue, surprising intelligence and an emotional wallop.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Play It to the Bone
    Another invigorating, extremely raunchy sports movie from Ron Shelton .
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Gridiron Gang
    The best thing about Gridiron Gang is the performance of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He is engaging, affable and wholly believable as a former football star turned officer in a juvenile detention center.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Nights in Rodanthe
    It's tough to make it through Nights in Rodanthe without wincing at its sticky-sweet sentimentality.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    The House of Mirth
    Terence Davies' deliberately paced, earnest adaptation of Edith Wharton's breakthrough novel quietly captures the grim complexities of New York's social world nearly a century ago.
    • USA Today
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Sugar & Spice
    Ragged but with an appealing comic edge, the movie is certainly funnier than most of the other comedies that studios have tried to keep from critics until opening day.
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    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Dragonfly
    When Kevin Costner goes into sensitive-guy mode, beware.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 0 Staff [Not Credited]
    Idle Hands
    It's an unholy mess.
    • USA Today
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Agnes Browne
    Great slabs of blarney are washed down with tears and Guinness in this yarn about a struggling Irish clan, and the resulting sentiment is blatant enough to wake Ned Devine.
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    Diamonds
    This road-trip piffle is basically a male version of a chick-bonding flick.
    • USA Today
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Tao of Steve
    This quirky, winning sleeper from first-time director Jenniphr Goodman has its pokey moments, but it's no insult to say that it is as pleasantly easygoing as its slacker hero.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    Valentine
    A nose-bleeding mass murderer wears a mask that suggests Roger Ebert is knocking off a group of lifelong female friends.
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    A model of what a largely talking-heads documentary should be, with on-camera testimonials and lots of film clips that offer layers of context.
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Titus
    There's a lot to talk about but so much outrageousness that the end effect is wearying and not a little absurd.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Staff [Not Credited]
    Supernova
    Good actors seem plastic and plastic actors seem worse in a knockoff of every rocket-ship movie you've ever seen.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    Erin Brockovich
    A first-rate office comedy of prickly exchanges.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    That's the Way I Like It
    A further dose of "been there/done that."
    • 52 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    Cotton Mary
    Increasingly piquant tale of culture clash in 1954 post-independence India.
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    Vaughn could have used an editor, but Wild West still is a romp with a likable bunch.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Brother Bear
    A sweet celebration of brotherhood in its many forms. It gently encourages human communion with animals, nature and our fellow man.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Closer You Get
    It is tough to fight off the ennui created by this comedy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Beyond the Mat
    The match winners and losers may be preordained, but these modern-day gladiators bleed plenty of real blood.
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    • 14 Metascore
    • 25 Staff [Not Credited]
    Dungeons & Dragons
    Worst of all, Marlon Wayans' performance as a cowardly thief would have seemed in bad taste a half-century ago.
    • USA Today
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Galaxy Quest
    Skirts dangerously close to being the thing it parodies: a second-rate space opera.
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    Trolösa
    The sometimes fatiguing slow flow in hour one is worth the labor because the power in this 2-hour triumph reveals itself gradually.
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    Love Stinks
    Love Stinks is what bad network TV comedy would be like if there were no censorship and less talent.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    An Everlasting Piece
    This wee trinket of a comedy, one of the more offbeat stabs at capturing the absurdity of the religious and political strife in Ireland, is for those who like their Guinness with a shot of wry.
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Mallrats
    The slapstick would put Curly and Moe to shame. The raunch is crude as often as it is clever.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    Body Shots
    Audiences everywhere will tune out long before the projector does.
    • USA Today
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Color of Paradise
    Seductively pastoral but also a bit slight, the movie saves its best scene for the very end.
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Il Postino: The Postman
    The Postman (Il Postino) is slight, but it's tough to imagine anyone not liking it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Simpatico
    It's an awkward jumble whose only value is as a forum for movie junkies to track the progress of half-a-dozen screen careers at once.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Staff [Not Credited]
    Boogie Nights
    With its ceaseless music, large canvas, shrewd casting and flawless ensemble acting and the dexterity of its whiplashing mood switches, the movie recalls Robert Altman's "Nashville" more than any subsequent movie has.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    3 Strikes
    Interspersed between the misogyny and flatulence jokes apparently left over from Pooh's co-written script for "Friday," there's a story about an ex-con.
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Caveman's Valentine
    Calling a cave of rocks home while spouting invective worthy of the Juilliard attendee he once was, homeless-by-choice Samuel L. Jackson worms his way into one of the least compelling mysteries in years.
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Great movies are sometimes described as filet mignon or champagne, but this one is more like a pacifier.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Art of War
    Director Christian Duguay's gimmicky "thriller" demonstrates that he has not begun to master the art of suspense.
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Staff [Not Credited]
    Miss Julie
    August Strindberg's psychological drama of erotic class conflict gets a bracing, claustrophobic workout from director Mike Figgis.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    Though entertaining, Spurlock's lighthearted approach doesn't work as well here.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    Race to Witch Mountain
    Mediocre family fare that's simply not that much fun.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Where the Money Is
    Easygoing and easy to take, the movie isn't much.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Staff [Not Credited]
    Something's Gotta Give
    But let's not mislead about acting gold: Without Nicholson and Keaton, the movie would be fair. With them, it's one of the few good romantic comedies this year. What we gotta give is thanks.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Last Samurai
    Never recovers from its failure to grip or engage in the early going.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    The script's clichés have nowhere to hide.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Staff [Not Credited]
    The Big Tease
    Pleasing piffle.
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