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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    After Everything
    White and Monroe demonstrate natural chemistry, and they discretely suggest the private experiences of their characters, the youthful doubts that can’t be extinguished by passion. In unpretentious fashion, After Everything portrays the bittersweetness of a first love that blooms in crisis.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Bad Hair
    Despite the potentially heavy (or heavy-handed) material, Bad Hair is self-consciously and pleasingly campy, and it delivers a new cinematic monster: the sew-in weave.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    LFG
    Both films are conventional in cinematic style, and they constitute the kind of feel-good entertainment that is easy to recommend. But what is timely and interesting — even thorny — about these films is their focus on the economic opportunities generated by athletic achievement
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Please Baby Please
    The film’s ironic tone largely defangs the transgressive films it parodies, but Kramer does broaden the scope of the queer leather canon.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Sisters on Track
    Both films are conventional in cinematic style, and they constitute the kind of feel-good entertainment that is easy to recommend. But what is timely and interesting — even thorny — about these films is their focus on the economic opportunities generated by athletic achievement
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    No Ordinary Man
    This is a respectful tribute that is a shade too morally and cinematically safe in its execution.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    The Fabulous Filipino Brothers
    Every frame is flush with warm, saturated color, and the vibrant quality of the images conveys joyous generosity. The most poignant appeal of this movie is the feeling it creates of being welcomed into a family that radiates all things bright and good.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Giant Little Ones
    Where many coming-of-age films build their stories around the discovery of a fixed selfhood, “Giant Little Ones” succeeds when it chooses to treat youthful identity as open to shift with accumulated experience.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl
    It is endearing in its frankness: a profile of a star after her return from the firmament.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Every Body
    The film benefits from its choice of subjects, as Wall, Gallo and Weigel are all endearing and deeply informed.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Not Going Quietly
    It is a warm and generous portrait, but the film lacks its central organizer’s propulsive shrewdness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Song Without a Name
    The narrative drifts, but the alienation communicated by the movie’s images feels purposeful and striking.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Down a Dark Hall
    With each new element, Down a Dark Hall reveals itself, with improbable delight, to be genuinely strange — a movie in which viewers can pick their own pleasure, no two spectators having exactly the same experience.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    The Infiltrators
    Jumping between wildly dissimilar styles makes for an occasionally jarring film. Yet despite this awkwardness, the movie works.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    The Book of Delights
    If this erotic drama doesn’t break new cinematic ground, it also doesn’t cede its conviction in portraying relationships as a matter of serious consideration.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Homeroom
    Like a diploma, it’s easy to imagine how the rewards of this carefully observed documentary could accrue with a little time.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!
    The young cast proves deft with the film’s clever script, by Alison Peck (based on the 2005 novel by Fiona Rosenbloom), and the director Sammi Cohen indulges the virgin-mojito passions of preteens while avoiding nostalgia, thankfully.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Fanny: The Right to Rock
    What the movie showcases best from its subjects, then, is the humor and ease of women who have survived a lifetime of setbacks and strife. Fanny has already proven itself — what’s left is for us to enjoy its growing catalog.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Invisible Beauty
    At times, the film is hampered by the sheer amount of information there is to condense from across a 50-year career, but Hardison is never less than a fascinating subject — an artist whose medium is industrial disruption.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Plan B
    The movie doesn’t make a joke of Sunny and Lupe’s concerns about pregnancy, dating and parental expectations, and in turn, it’s a delight to laugh through their goofier exploits.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    The Rose Maker
    It’s a relaxed film, one that allows the audience to sit back and, if not smell the roses, then at least appreciate them.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    El Chicano
    The director Ben Hernandez Bray began his career in Hollywood as a stuntman, and though too many bones are crunched to describe this film as elegant, Bray directs action with merciless kinetic logic.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    Swimming with Men
    Although the film has no grand cinematic ambitions, its unsensationalized focus on these aging bodies invites welcome kindness.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    The Villainess
    It’s hard to enjoy the action when you witness its emotional cost, but once Sook-hee starts slashing goons from atop motorcycles, it’s equally impossible to root for the violence to stop.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    Paper Spiders
    In absence of a bold visual style, the performers are tasked with providing the movie with its energy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    Cavale
    As a trio, Viance, Zaghouani and Pellizari are bright and full of energy, and Gourmel allows their scenes together to play with improvisational looseness. Their vivacity lends purpose to the entire film.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    The Year of Spectacular Men
    It is the movie’s saving grace that its family acting troupe faces the gobbledygook with openhearted silliness and sincerity.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    Luck
    Luck offers fresh ideas; its only misfortune is to present its gifts in recycled wrapping.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    Moss
    With its gently twanging score, Moss is a film made in a minor key and its pleasures are minor, too. It passes like a lazy afternoon spent gently high. There’s not much this movie wants to accomplish, but it maintains a mood that sets the mind at ease.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    Space Dogs
    Space Dogs commits to its art-house pretensions. The result isn’t pleasant, but it does effectively provoke.
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