Tim Appelo

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For 7 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 85% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 15% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tim Appelo's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 89 Batkid Begins
Lowest review score: 0 United Passions
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
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    • 1 Metascore
    • 0 Tim Appelo
    United Passions
    One of those rare films so unfathomably ghastly you could write a better one while sitting through its interminable 110 minutes. I’d rather re-watch Elton John's "Gnomeo & Juliet" 110 times.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 58 Tim Appelo
    Love the Coopers
    The vignettes sometimes resonate with the viewer but don’t really connect into a plot, there are too many characters with too many stories and pretty good flashbacks, and some of the jokes are impossible to laugh out loud at unless you’re a highly trained and paid actor.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 89 Tim Appelo
    Pawn Sacrifice
    Pawn Sacrifice is intelligent, absorbing, never boring, and skillfully tense when it should be.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Tim Appelo
    Samba
    Most elements of Samba sound mockable, and are. Yet it does have oodles of charm, plus a cast of characters that feels like an impromptu family circle.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Tim Appelo
    Call Me Lucky
    There should be more Crimmins performance footage and fewer interviews that only reiterate points already made several times. Crimmins is preaching to the choir, and the film, while fascinating and inspiring, is at least a half-hour longer than it has story to tell.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 35 Tim Appelo
    The Gallows
    The Gallows is not without thrills. What it lacks is the thrill of the chase.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 89 Tim Appelo
    Batkid Begins
    The editing is ruthlessly efficient, and some of the talking-heads scenes are dramatized via lively comic-book renditions that lend visual panache. All the characters grab you, not just the kid.

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