Walter Addiego

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San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner
For 620 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Walter Addiego's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 The Tarnished Angels
Lowest review score: 0 Deck the Halls
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 354 out of 620
  2. Mixed: 210 out of 620
  3. Negative: 56 out of 620
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Trudell
    It's an intriguing portrait, but it makes no pretense at objectivity, erring on the side of hero worship.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Vajra Sky Over Tibet
    There's an Impressionistic feeling to all this, and sometimes it plays like a travelogue -- Bush is trying to do an awful lot at once. But the material is so compelling that we keep watching.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    MirrorMask
    Richly inventive.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Echo In the Canyon
    If you don’t expect it to be something it isn’t, it’s hard to see how partisans of pop music could fail to enjoy Echo in the Canyon. For rock ’n’ rollers of all ages, it’s mandatory viewing.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Pawn Sacrifice
    A gripping study of Bobby Fischer, perhaps the greatest chess player ever.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    King Corn
    Neatly, and often humorously, summarizes a very unhealthy situation.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
    This was probably Warren Oates' finest hour, and certainly one of director Sam Peckinpah's greatest achievements. [06 Mar 2005]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Unmistaken Child
    A compelling documentary.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Europa Report
    Director Cordero manages the not-bad trick of generating suspense while keeping the overall tone cool and collected.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Transit
    Transit has a hint of science fiction, and more than a hint of Kafka. And despite the story’s link to World War II, it’s clear that Petzold wants it to resonate with today’s immigration problems.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Great Buster: A Celebration
    A new documentary, The Great Buster: A Celebration, shows us why he inspires rhapsodies from critics and film historians, and would be a fine introduction for those who don’t know his work.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Loveless
    This is a film that’s likely to stick with you because of its exceptional intensity. You may find yourself wondering, long after the credits roll, what on Earth is in store for Boris’ unborn child?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Crude
    No film could convey all the complexities of the case - what Crude does is air the plaintiffs' claims and show the lawyers at work.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Man Who Knew Infinity
    Math buffs will appreciate the inclusion of a brief and witty anecdote they may already know involving Ramanujan and the number 1,729. Well done.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Free Fire
    Quibbling aside, Free Fire mainly works, as an indulgence in cinematic overkill for moviegoers who realize that sometimes too much is just enough.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Nil by Mouth
    Nil by Mouth is slow to get going, and meanders before its impact scenes in the second half. Still, its final intensity can leave you exhausted. If you stay with the picture, it's a powerful experience you're unlikely to forget.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Look of Silence
    It’s a testimony to how much this is a live issue in Indonesia that some of the credits are listed simply as “anonymous.”
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Rider
    The movie is a rendering of the internal landscape of a contemporary cowboy, with the complexities and ambiguities left intact. It’s a kind of parable, delivered in a manner that has nothing to do with preaching.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Carancho
    There are odd comic moments, but this is a bleak, nighttime, nightmare world, where the couple seem to have about the same chance at a happy outcome as the accident victims.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Career Girls
    Less ambitious than the highly successful "Secrets & Lies," Career Girls has its own modest merits - a real sense of wit, much of it expressed in Hannah's sharp verbal sallies, and a melancholy truth that both women realize.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    He Named Me Malala
    He Named Me Malala gets good marks as a laudatory piece about a genuinely valiant young woman, but it could use a modest dose of objectivity.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Workingman's Death
    This documentary about men and women performing brutal work tasks for next to no money is full of arresting and eloquent images. It has little dialogue, and little is needed.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    About Elly (2009)
    Both as writer and director, Farhadi is skilled at depicting the spiraling growth of social malignancies, as duplicity and uncertainties beget confusion, fear and anger. It’s an incisive portrait of a particular society, but it should resonate everywhere.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Visual Acoustics
    Something of an elegy to modernism.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Skin
    Director Anthony Fabian lets the story sell itself, and it does so partly on the strength of the lead performance by Sophie Okonedo.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Beautiful Country
    Quiet, moving and beautifully shot.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Neruda
    It’s a fantasia on a short period in the life of the esteemed Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda — while based on fact, it’s made with a sense of freedom suggestive of poetry.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Waste Land
    Waste Land is a film about recycling, but it's far more intriguing than the average eco-documentary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Lemon Tree
    The story, based on a real incident, may be simplistic, but that's the nature of fables.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Police, Adjective
    Director Corneliu Porumboiu ("12:08 East to Bucharest"), with his deadpan style and probing intelligence, is someone to keep an eye on. Using a minimalist style, and possessing the courage to risk alienating his viewers, he has created a movie full of resonance.
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