V.A. Musetto

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New York Post
For 1,284 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

V.A. Musetto's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Lorna's Silence
Lowest review score: 0 Controlled Chaos
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 834 out of 1284
  2. Mixed: 254 out of 1284
  3. Negative: 196 out of 1284
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Missing Victor Pellerin
    We also begin to suspect that Deraspe is putting us on - that this is a mockumentary, not a documentary. About the time that a bunch of grown men and women - stoned and drunk - start playing spin the bottle (spin the bottle!), we're certain that she's tricking us. Or is she? It's anybody's guess.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Pulse
    Pleasantly free of blood and guts, with Kurosawa using instead the mighty power of suggestion to give Pulse an invigorating aura of menace.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Come Undone
    Soldini is able to take the shopworn theme and keep it interesting and fresh despite its lack of new ideas. He's assisted by strong performances by his two leading actors.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    El bonaerense
    Unfolds leisurely, in anecdotal style, with deadpan humor and a sense of the absurd.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 V.A. Musetto
    Bon voyage
    Things move so swiftly and confusingly that there's little time to explore any of the people in depth. Less style and more substance is definitely called for.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 V.A. Musetto
    To Die Like a Man
    The praise for this static, overlong, stagebound work is a mystery to me.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 V.A. Musetto
    Shanghai Ghetto
    The documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads, etc. -- to do the subject matter justice.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 V.A. Musetto
    Tales from the Golden Age
    The collection is a mixed bag, although there are no clunkers.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 V.A. Musetto
    Won't Anybody Listen
    Kelemer doesn't offer anything that hasn't been done before in documentaries of this type. Still, Won't Anybody Listen makes for interesting viewing as a study of true-life underdogs.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 V.A. Musetto
    Son of the Bride
    Has some truly touching and funny moments. But it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Timecrimes
    According to rumors swirling on the Internet, an English-language remake is already in the works, possibly directed by David Cronenberg.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Mad Detective
    Doesn't always make sense, and you cannot always tell what is real and what is imaginary, but viewers will be having too much zonked-out fun to care.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Big River Man
    Strel's 2007 adventures on and in the Amazon are detailed in John Maringouin's fun documentary Big River Man.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Kisses
    In an effective touch, Kisses opens in black and white, changes into color for its Dublin scenes, then returns to monochrome.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 V.A. Musetto
    The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    Debbie, for better or for worse, is the high point of the entertaining but lightweight film, which is better suited to public TV than the big screen. Oh, yes. If anybody should decide to open another beauty school in Kabul, be sure to leave Debbie in Indiana.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    I Remember Me
    Judging by this passionate film, the medical community -- has no clue about what causes this awful malady and, worse, doesn't seem to care.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Memories of Tomorrow
    As the wife, pixie-ish Kanako Higuchi provides the perfect accompaniment to Watanabe.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 V.A. Musetto
    Purple Butterfly
    Director Lou Ye, who gave us the lilting "Suzhou River," doesn't care much for dialogue. He lets Wang Yu's pulsating camerawork do the talking.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 V.A. Musetto
    Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    Falters when it gets involved with supernatural gobbledygook.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 V.A. Musetto
    Animals and More Animals
    Mildly diverting, but lacks humor and pathos.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 V.A. Musetto
    Departures
    Takita could easily trim 30 minutes of flab and oceans of tears from Departures. It still wouldn't merit an Oscar, but it would be a lot more watchable.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 V.A. Musetto
    El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    There's not enough good material to fill the film's overlong 105 minutes. Is there an editor in the house?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 V.A. Musetto
    The Inheritance
    The Inheritance has a promising start but soon becomes preachy and melodramatic.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 V.A. Musetto
    Protagonist
    Unfortunately, it doesn't work. None of the talking heads is as interesting as Yu thinks they are; and it's difficult to build sympathy for any of them.
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