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
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Teo Bugbee
    Sweet Girl
    For this action film, the director Brian Andrew Mendoza favors a utilitarian style. His color palette leans toward grays, blues and browns. His fight scenes are not flashy, or even particularly memorable, but they are clear, effectively conveying the necessary information about whose fist has connected with whose face.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Teo Bugbee
    Bulletproof
    What this admirably hands-off film shows is how the feelings of anxiety that have surrounded school shootings have been monetized and translated into demand for consumer products. It is a nightmarish vision — the military industrial complex deployed in the halls where children ought to roam.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Teo Bugbee
    Wonder Park
    Although its protagonist is blessed with a gift for engineering the impossible, Wonder Park is a film where faulty execution betrays a healthy imagination.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    No Light and No Land Anywhere
    In the scenes that break with banality, there is a zing not only of originality, but of daring.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    Persuasion
    The story’s heroine, its dialogue and even its themes of regret and loneliness seem to be swallowed up by the need to maintain an appearance of contemporary cheek.
    • 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Teo Bugbee
    The Female Brain
    With tender performances and dubious conclusions, this story is best appreciated as an explanation for why people seek out the false comfort of gendered pseudoscience. But by fitting characters into formulas, The Female Brain fails to observe the flexibility of human experience.
    • 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.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Teo Bugbee
    An Acceptable Loss
    For a political thriller to come up with a scheme that feels genuinely rousing, An Acceptable Loss would need the two qualities it most severely lacks: style and substance.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Bliss
    Bliss fails to engage the senses, resulting in cinematic disappointment.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Teo Bugbee
    Pitch Perfect 3
    With a plot as unfocused as its freshly graduated characters, the shaggy Pitch Perfect 3 gets by on karaoke logic: What makes for a good time isn’t the song you sing, but the company you keep.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 60 Teo Bugbee
    The Estate
    This is a comedy that takes a vicious, over-the-top look at family greed, and fortunately, the cast members are game to play their characters’ attempts at flattery in the most unflattering manner possible.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Teo Bugbee
    The Possession of Hannah Grace
    Van Rooijen’s overreliance on herky-jerky jump scares is a pity, because the movie that exists in the silence is surprisingly satisfying.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Teo Bugbee
    Show Dogs
    If Show Dogs sometimes betrays its shaggy charms, there is comfort in remembering that many movies are much dumber than this one, and so few of them have either the good taste or the good manners to compensate with puppies.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Teo Bugbee
    Blue Iguana
    In absence of either good humor or good set pieces, Blue Iguana is a heist gone bust.
    • 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.
    • 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.
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