Tim Merrill
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60% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Tim Merrill's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 73 | |
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| Highest review score: | Sex and Lucia | |
| Lowest review score: | Hollywood Ending | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 40
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Mixed: 12 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
40
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- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
It may appear clichéd in the telling, but Chick has no use for the glib irony and rampant pop-culture sampling which has already dated "Reality Bites" and its ilk.- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
Any romantic comedy that lacks Meg Ryan can’t be faulted too hard.- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
Tom McCarthy’s film is never more than small, and that’s how it should be. It is about treasuring life -– sometimes even cheating death -– and it manages to warm hearts in its own uncompromising way, rarely cheating and never belittling.- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
Devilishly clever and boasting a killer finale, Intacto is this year's "Memento" -- only Spanish.- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
Maybe How to Draw a Bunny itself is really Ray Johnson's final testament, created with a mischievous wink from beyond the grave. After watching this extraordinary documentary, one has no doubt that such an act is well within Johnson's creative powers.- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
In 30 years’ time it might seem as incisive a document of its time as, say, “Don’t Look Back” or “Gimme Shelter.” As a study of how the current corporate idiocy impacts one man’s art, it’s priceless.- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
Aided enormously by Jeremy Renner, his astonishing lead actor, Jacobson has created something we haven’t seen since “The Silence of the Lambs”: a sensitive, non-exploitative serial killer movie.- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
When Braff keeps the tears and the kookiness in check, he takes us into some unusual, interesting areas of the human psyche. And makes us laugh a good deal while he's at it.- Film Threat
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- Tim Merrill
In the end, the greatest achievement of Control Room may be to simply remind us, as Americans, that in this age of mega-corporate U.S. news media there are other perspectives on world events besides those of Fox, CNN, MSNBC-ABCBS and whoever else feeds us our information.- Film Threat
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