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 2.7 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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    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Red Turtle
    One of the charms of The Red Turtle is a chance to savor the joys of clean and simple animation suggestive of the old hand-drawn school, which is part of what makes the film, a quiet, humanistic fable, one of the best of its kind in memory.
    • 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?
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Barbara
    The movie examines the possibility of maintaining one's humanity in a truly oppressive society.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Walter Addiego
    The Great Beauty
    If you know Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," you'll be unable to watch The Great Beauty without thinking about it. This gorgeous Italian movie, like its predecessor, balances pungent satire and a more melancholy mood in portraying the dissolute world of the upper crust in contemporary Rome.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Interrupters
    An intense and chilling documentary.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    There’s lots of eye candy, and the pace is fast, but somehow the movie falls short. You’re forgiven if you get the idea that “Scorch Trials” suffers from “middle movie” fatigue.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Walter Addiego
    Tea with the Dames
    All the women are good company, but in some ways Dench is the star of the show. She laughs often as she kibitzes with the others and seems not at all in awe of herself.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Walter Addiego
    Amy
    The short, sad life of Amy Winehouse is compellingly told in a new documentary that sidesteps sensationalism and dime-store psychologizing and lets archival footage do much of the work.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Walter Addiego
    Gimme Shelter
    Timeless, and as fine a depiction of human folly as you're likely to see at the movies.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Lebanon
    As good as the film is in conveying the feeling of the walls closing in, it has to be said that the script won't win any prizes for subtlety - the director seems to relish ham-fisted ironies.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Ash Is Purest White
    An exceptionally fine movie that plays out on a large and leisurely scale.
    • 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 63 Walter Addiego
    Sling Blade
    I can't help thinking, though, that maybe Thornton was too ambitious in trying to wear three hats.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    My Life as a Zucchini
    It’s moving but not maudlin, and there’s humor in addition to compassion.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    O'Horten
    The strangeness, humor and melancholy of aging are deftly explored in this film.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Walter Addiego
    Alexandra
    In the hands of visionary filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, this simple material makes for a haunting drama about war, generational relationships and the human condition.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Walter Addiego
    Won't You Be My Neighbor?
    As an antidote to the frenetic nature of a lot of children’s TV of the day, Rogers preferred a measured pace on his show, and even made judicious use of silence. These are just two of the numerous gifts given by this extraordinary man to the children lucky enough to have watched “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Handmaiden
    It’s an intricate thriller about a con game, but so loaded with wicked humor and sensual appeal — ravishing cinematography, high-temperature eroticism — that for long stretches viewers might forget there’s any plot at all.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Wise Blood
    Overall it's a remarkably eccentric work coming from a cagey old Hollywood hand who directed Bogart and Hepburn in their primes. [28 Jun 2009, p.Q30]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    It is stark, realistic and resolutely downbeat. Yates' work is lean, and he has a nice way with action sequences. [17 May 2009, p.R28]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Kubo and the Two Strings
    What Laika achieves is an effective mixture of hyper-real and hyper-stylized, a combination that keeps “Kubo” appealing to the eye for audiences of all ages. If the film’s plotting and dialogue had measured up, “Kubo” might have been a masterpiece.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Other Side of Hope
    What sticks with us in the end is something beyond the black humor and even Khaled’s sorrows — it’s the touching relationship between the two principals, and the Finnish man’s quiet commitment to doing what’s right.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Momma's Man
    Really doesn't pay off much.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Ballast
    Truly a winter's tale.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    De Palma
    It’s a master class with a director who profoundly loves the movies, and, in his best work, has shown dazzling skill at making them.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Replacement Killers
    A counterfeit of a Woo movie, even though Woo himself co-produced it.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Cutie and the Boxer
    This elegant movie never reduces or diminishes its subjects, and leaves us to ponder a remarkable truth - that Ushio and Noriko have an abiding love that four decades of frustration, resentment and rivalry have battered but not extinguished.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Babe
    A film that can be enjoyed by all ages and that insults no one's intelligence.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Walter Addiego
    The Phantom
    The Phantom is a spiritless affair likely to vanish quickly from first-run screens.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Sweet Dreams
    The veteran filmmakers, siblings Lisa and Rob Fruchtman, accentuate the positive, while acknowledging the obstacles. They also realize Rwanda's trauma can't be denied - a handful of women recount harrowing stories of their experiences during the genocide and its aftermath. Some have parents or husbands still in prison for war crimes.
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