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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Is Anybody There?
    Requires us to repress any thoughts about stale material and keep Caine's heartfelt performance front and center.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Formosa Betrayed
    This is an unabashedly pro-democracy message movie. Judged strictly as drama, it's pretty routine.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Journey's End
    The film never quite overcomes a slightly stodgy quality.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Flowers of War
    Affecting at times, but finally feels overblown and heavy-handed.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Beauty and the Dogs
    This tale of a young rape victim further brutalized by officialdom never lives up to its potential.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Unconscious
    Oristrell's comedic sense only seems to succeed in spurts, and he often burdens the proceedings with a theatrical and contrived air that undermines the humor.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Deep Impact
    This Paramount-DreamWorks collaboration, with Stephen Spielberg credited as executive producer, is competently made, strongly focused on its characters' relationships and surprisingly light on special effects.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Sicilian Girl
    Amenta was deeply moved by Rita's story, but his prosaic direction can't do it justice.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Dance of Reality
    The Dance of Reality may not succeed, but it may hold some interest to cinephiles as a relic of a kind of extravagant, overheated personal cinema that doesn't exist anymore.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    This Beautiful Fantastic
    Far too precious and eager to please to really deserve its self-description as a fairy tale.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Amateur
    The particulars of the plot don't make a great deal of sense, but Hartley's films have much more to do with style, or rather a philosophical refusal to show emotional involvement.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Endless Poetry
    Mainly for those who already know and like Jodorowsky’s work.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    You're Killing Me Susana
    It’s always fun to watch the charismatic Bernal.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    From Dusk Till Dawn
    Spiritually it's a John Woo-George Romero-Jim Thompson picture, outrageously bloody and weird.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Demolition
    There’s nothing wrong with stretching audience credibility, but, to quote another movie that dabbles in the highly improbable, these things must be done delicately.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Year of the Fish
    Too raw for kids and too simplistic for adults.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Carbon Nation
    Carbon Nation serves us a full portion of scary statistics, but overall tries to accentuate the positive.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    By casting model-turned-actress (and his now-estranged wife) Milla Jovovich as the Maid of Orleans, Besson gives us an over-amped spectacle with an annoying, sometimes ridiculous cipher at its heart.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Generation Wealth
    The film has its flaws, but after watching its catalog of shifty hedge fund types, Kardashians, plastic surgery addicts, bling-laden rappers and children of Hollywood royalty, you can’t help but agree.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Balls of Fury
    The real trouble is that it's supposed to be an outrageous comedy, but in fact it's fairly tame and not all that funny.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Ronin
    Ronin shows the mark of a veteran hand and is entertaining in fits and starts.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Edukators
    It could have been something substantial.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Dudley Do-Right
    The needle on the laugh-o-meter barely budges.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Quake
    Joner is a capable actor, but he’s required here to remain for such a long time in a one-note condition of mental fragility that our sympathy for the character starts to give way to exasperation.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Titanic Town
    Capably made but simplistic story.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Replacement Killers
    A counterfeit of a Woo movie, even though Woo himself co-produced it.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Honeymooners
    The Honeymooners isn't the worst of the endless spate of TV rehashes, but it still feels perfunctory.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Oka!
    The plot is somewhat pedestrian and the dialogue needs more zip. But it's amusing to watch the Bayaka poke good-natured fun at the gangly Larry, who has only their best interests at heart.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Loneliest Planet
    There's no getting around it. Though it's not without virtues, The Loneliest Planet may try the patience of even the most dedicated lovers of art film.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Excess Baggage
    Excess Baggage aims to broaden her appeal beyond her established, youthful audience. It won't, because it's a messy mixture of so-so comedy and unmoving drama; its inconsistent tone suggests a production where no one was fully in charge.
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