Stephen Hunter

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Baltimore Sun, Washington Post
For 1,039 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Stephen Hunter's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Simpsons Movie
Lowest review score: 0 Simply Irresistible
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 518 out of 1039
  2. Mixed: 275 out of 1039
  3. Negative: 246 out of 1039
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Stephen Hunter
    xXx: State of the Union
    So primitive, it must have been written in lizard blood on animal skin.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Stephen Hunter
    Swiri
    Suffers from all the excesses of the genre: gunfights that go on and on and on, a plot that is almost incomprehensible.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Stephen Hunter
    In America
    It is kept watchable and empathetic by the energy of the superb performances and the sense of complete freshness.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Hunter
    Deep Cover
    Deep Cover is good fun.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Hunter
    The Brown Bunny
    It's not really a movie. I suppose it's what could be called a recorded behavior.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Hunter
    Birthday Girl
    Between bad hair and tonal irregularity, the movie doesn't give you much to like.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Hunter
    That's Entertainment! III
    What's most pleasing about That's Entertainment! III is the numbers themselves. I almost wish they'd done away with the concept of "documentary" and simply offered the snippets as pure cavalcade. [29 Jul 1994]
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Stephen Hunter
    Aberdeen
    It's clean and transparent, with no movie director tricks. The characters, not the montages, speak the loudest.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Hunter
    In the Bedroom
    Short of good, better than awful, it opens brilliantly, then just goes on, toward self-negating absurdity.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Stephen Hunter
    Beautiful
    It manages to find an almost pitch-perfect accumulation of ill-matched tones, sheer grotesquerie, near-heroic absurdity and self-canceling folly.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Stephen Hunter
    Jackie Brown
    The film occasionally drags -- a money transfer scene set in a department store lasts longer than several geologic epochs -- but it's so funny and the plot twists are so sudden and violent it's great fun.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Hunter
    Bulletproof
    The two guys are potentially amusing but the screenplay is so naked in its manipulation of emotion that it feels infantile.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Stephen Hunter
    Kingdom of Heaven
    Full of astonishments, not the least of which are its ideas.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 10 Stephen Hunter
    Freddy Got Fingered
    The movie is simply not professional. It's not, even by the lowest standards of Republic B-westerns in the '30s or bad, cheap horror films in the '50s, releasable.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Stephen Hunter
    Bukowski: Born into This
    About as good a picture of a writer's real life as we are likely to get. It is wide-ranging, it is fair, it is thorough, and although it admires, it is also tough enough to condemn.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Hunter
    The Transporter
    Sadly, the last 40-odd minutes are essentially one fight, pushed to the point of absurdity.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Hunter
    Mr. Woodcock
    Mild pleasures are available in Mr. Woodcock.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Stephen Hunter
    Burn! (re-release)
    I don't think "Queimada" is as great a movie as "Battle of Algiers," but it retains its vitality, its outrage, its savagery and its spirit.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Hunter
    Kiss of Death
    You feel yourself sinking deeper and deeper into a whole universe that's been put together with almost anthropological intricacy and feels convincing to its tiniest detail. [20 Apr 1995]
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Stephen Hunter
    Inside Man
    A deft, tense, pure thriller, the movie has great star turns and is brilliantly directed, but it began as an extremely well-crated screenplay by Russell Gewirtz. It's professionally entertaining.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 100 Stephen Hunter
    Addicted to Love
    Misanthropic, cruel, hostile, corrupt, blasphemous and basically pretty evil. I loved it.
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