Teo Bugbee

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The New York Times
For 242 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Teo Bugbee's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Milla
Lowest review score: 10 Broken Diamonds
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 112 out of 242
  2. Mixed: 108 out of 242
  3. Negative: 22 out of 242
242 movie reviews
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    The Tiger Rising
    The metaphors are so obvious that the film becomes trapped in its own cage of archetypes and clichés, and unlike the tiger, there is no champion to open the gates to a more original cinematic world.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Papi Chulo
    Papi Chulo tries to subvert the conceit that casts brown people as uncomplicated support systems for conflicted white people, but lacks the vision to transform these familiar stereotypes.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Nowhere
    It’s hard to care about Mía’s efforts to survive when coincidence drives the plot, and the production looks and feels cheap.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Honest Thief
    It’s an inoffensive movie, full of such familiar tropes, it hardly matters if you can keep your eyes open to the end.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    The Great Alaskan Race
    In addition to his acting duties, Presley also wrote and directed the film. But while he provides beard and brawn as the heroic musher, he struggles with the technical challenges of editing and staging the run.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Aniara
    Kagerman and Lilja thoughtfully constructed their film, yet they leave nothing for the mind to do besides consume unrelenting tragedy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Team Marco
    Marco’s sourness curdles the confection and his undercooked complaints clack against the movie’s warm tone, sending its simple pleasures into a scatter.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Mayday
    For a film about misandrist revolutionaries, Mayday lacks the courage of its convictions — it sets up boogeymen as targets only to shoot them point blank, in broad daylight.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    The Outside Story
    The film, which was written and directed by Casimir Nozkowski, sets an easy pace to match Charles’s mild ennui. The only problem is that the movie doesn’t supplement its lack of stakes with style or substance.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Firebird
    Each line and image feels predetermined, as if Rebane and his characters had already decided this love story was a losing battle. There is loss, but little sense of risk.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Love & Gelato
    It’s the kind of film that is more interested in the appeal of a good Italian accent than it is in finding novel, or even particularly beautiful, ways to shoot and see Rome. The conscious callowness is agreeable, but it lacks freshness, like a midnight pasta reheated in the microwave.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    All I Wish
    Both sartorially and cinematically, the seasoned star at the heart of All I Wish deserves a movie with more to offer than knockoff style.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    So B. It
    So B. It aims for an inclusive message. But Mama’s artificiality makes it hard to buy the movie’s themes of acceptance.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Tragedy Girls
    Tragedy Girls might add group texts to its instruments of death alongside marauding table saws and falling barbells, but the movie’s gender stereotypes keep it chained to the past.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Framing Agnes
    The documentary reminds its audience that it’s impossible to truly know people based on their responses to medical interviews. But this approach unfortunately prevents the film from achieving either catharsis or understanding.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Tove
    The soft-focus cinematography is beautiful but drippy, and this general tendency toward mushy melodramatics presents an unflattering contrast to the sharp-lined vivacity that Jansson brought to the page.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Playing with Fire
    It’s an unchallenging movie, but as far as unchallenging kids movies go, the actors ensure this one doesn’t fall into soullessness.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Krystal
    At 93 minutes Krystal feels chaotic and thin, like a pilot that was also forced to be a series finale.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    My Policeman
    These are characters who are frustrated in love, prevented by law and by their own emotional repression from asking for what they want in their relationships. The stately treatment of their plight leads to a film that buckles under the weight of purgatorial disappointment.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    True to the Game
    The direction, by Preston A. Whitmore II, seems hampered by either a lack of resources or a lack of interest.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    A Regular Woman
    A film that feels exploitative, not enlightened.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    On a Wing and a Prayer
    The images portray a weightless crisis, and the film’s emotional narrative feels similarly insincere, with the balance of fate seeming to sway on the placement of a well-timed prayer.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Body Parts
    Ironically, the film mirrors the callow cinematic dynamics it critiques: It titillates, even as it scolds.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Being Frank
    It’s a period movie with little style and a family flick wholly lacking in charm or warmth.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Summer '03
    Vacant in emotion and in cinematic perspective, the movie looks back 15 years but struggles to make an impression longer than 15 minutes.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Midnight Sun
    Under the limp direction of Scott Speer, Midnight Sun suffocates its sentimental script, portraying passion without wonder, sacrifice without ecstasy.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Bliss
    Bliss fails to engage the senses, resulting in cinematic disappointment.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    The Art of Racing in the Rain
    Enzo is a bad dog, and his antics play worse for the film’s lack of discipline.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    If Not Now, When?
    It doesn’t take long to notice that these are earnest, even humorless, women. They are too busy contemplating their daily turmoil to play or crack a joke. As a result, their chemistry never coheres, and the movie flounders under the weight of lifeless sincerity.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Villains
    Despite some committed performances, particularly from a refreshingly natural Maika Monroe, Villains is a hackneyed farce rich in gimmicks and poor in substance.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Kate
    The movie presents an eye-catching fantasy of a candy-colored Japanese underworld. But the exoticism feels as cheap as a whiff of a green tea and musk cologne called Tokyo wafting over a department store counter. Even Winstead, stoic in her fashionably boyish haircut, looks bored.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Me Time
    There is a flatness that feels apparent in every shot — and not just because the movie is filmed in bright, low contrast lighting. The film’s experienced cast punches their lines in search of jokes that never materialize, leaving the comedy to nosedive.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Almost Love
    The aimless characters in Almost Love like to talk through their feelings, their aspirations, their disappointments, but there is little substance in their epiphanies, and the comedy is too low key to make up for its absence.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Blue Iguana
    In absence of either good humor or good set pieces, Blue Iguana is a heist gone bust.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Like Me
    With little more than the superficial psychology of shallow characters to guide the movie’s squeamish images, Like Me irritates, but it proves unable to provoke more than mild gut reactions.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules
    The original “American Pie” was tasteless; this version is flavorless.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Suzanna Andler
    It’s a test of patience to watch these glass figurines discuss their romantic entanglements, the doll house on the Riviera that they will maybe rent, the bourgeois marriages they will maybe leave. Even the camera seems bored, as if it might wander off.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Teo Bugbee
    Music
    This is a bizarre movie, one that parades confused ideas about care, fantasy and disability with a pride that reads as vanity. It is audacious, in the sense that making it certainly took some audacity.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Teo Bugbee
    Bloody Hell
    It’s a buffet of only sour dishes, a rank fete of foulness.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 10 Teo Bugbee
    Broken Diamonds
    The movie treats illness as a series of contrivances, an engine that keeps the plot pistoning forward, and the result of this approach is a film that feels lifeless, or worse, reductive.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 10 Teo Bugbee
    Supercon
    Supercon offers lip service to fan culture, yet it is difficult to imagine who would enjoy watching this ill-conceived satire. Directed by Zak Knutson, who also contributed to the screenplay, the movie is careless with its setting, callous toward its characters and crass about its audience.
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