Tom Russo

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Boston Globe
For 366 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tom Russo's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Richard III
Lowest review score: 25 The Food of the Gods
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 200 out of 366
  2. Mixed: 113 out of 366
  3. Negative: 53 out of 366
366 movie reviews
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    • 27 Metascore
    • 63 Tom Russo
    The Happytime Murders
    Some of this smutty irreverence is undeniably hilarious, goosed along by Melissa McCarthy’s game presence as Phil’s estranged LAPD partner and human foil. (In other felt-free casting, Maya Rudolph is equally entertaining as Phil’s trusty secretary, even if Elizabeth Banks and Joel McHale go to waste.)
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    Fantastic Four
    Ultimately, what Fantastic Four delivers is change for change’s sake, rather than change for the better.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Tom Russo
    War Room
    It’s only in the late going that the marital drama turns somewhat more authentic, helping to restore a bit of the audience’s, well, faith.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 50 Tom Russo
    The Choice
    In the end, though, the film disappointingly, even lazily, shies away from being anything more than you’d expect.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    Innocence
    It’s an idea that could make for decent genre viewing, if only its cast had some range, and its indie reach didn’t exceed its mainstream-polished grasp.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    This is mythology that’s famously transportive in every sense, but the animators struggle to take us anywhere truly captivating, or even clearly defined.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Tom Russo
    R.I.P.D.
    There is less eye candy than you would expect, and it’s underwhelming.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    The Loft
    There’s no redeeming this softcore nonsense, which plays like a script that “Storage Wars” stumbled across in Joe Eszterhas’s old locker.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 50 Tom Russo
    Collateral Beauty
    Too well-meaning and too infused with genuine poignancy from Smith and Harris for the film to be dismissed as just a trigger for our snark reflex. But it’s a shame that the tears Smith sheds aren’t serving a better conceived story.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 63 Tom Russo
    Jack and Jill
    What's more genuinely wacky is what a kick the movie can sometimes be, completely in spite of its big, flat stunt.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 75 Tom Russo
    Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    Wirkola tears through Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters with such giddy abandon, it ends up being splattery fanboy fun. Preposterous, clearly, but fun.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    Fresh or not, creatively merited or not, here it comes: the third installment of Martin Lawrence's big, dopey franchise.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    Getaway
    In the end, it’s hard to remember another action entry that expends so much energy on frenetic blacktop choreography and attention-deficit editing with so little to show for it.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    By the time the giant, snarling spider shows up - the most boggling of the movie's various "holy schnitzel" touches - parents of the littlest "Hoodwinked" fans may be feeling hoodwinked themselves.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    The Food of the Gods
    H.G. Wells's tale of nature's little critters turned steroidal gets cheesy screen treatment from director Bert I. Gordon, a veteran of the ginormous creature genre of the '50s. [09 Sep 2007, p.N32]
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    • 11 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    Scary Movie 5
    Not that there’s all manner of comedy craftsmanship demanding study here, but the movie does seem to be a funny jumble of contradictory impulses.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 25 Tom Russo
    Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    Never thought we'd say this about a movie, but Bucky Larson probably doesn't wring as much out of recurring bodily-fluid gags as it could.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Tom Russo
    They Came Back
    There's no gore in Campillo's tale, just a group of emotionally remote but otherwise seemingly healthy undead who inexplicably wander back into the world a world unsure how to reassimilate them, be it in the workplace or more intimate fronts. The complications he imagines are achingly smart; witness the grieving parents feeling even further despair at the realization that their returned little boy isn't truly all there. The film does, ultimately, lack closure, but maybe that's part of the point. [26 June 2005]
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