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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    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Walter Addiego
    Daylight
    Speaking of bangs, the special effects include one of the better mega-blasts in recent memory: vast fireballs tear through the busy tunnel at dizzying speed and with devastating results. This is the money shot, what the Stallone audience is paying for. It remains to be seen if they'll buy a Stallone who's been downsized and reformulated - about a teaspoon's worth of added complexity.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Spring Fever
    Its examination of identity and loneliness begins to feel like a soap opera season boiled down into one very long episode with too much happening.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Psycho
    William H. Macy is fine as the detective Arbogast, wearing a hat he could have borrowed from Martin Balsam in the original role.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    November
    Lacks the finesse of other puzzle films.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    44 Inch Chest
    It's an interesting spectacle, but not enough to carry a movie.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Dr. Dolittle
    The talented Murphy is appealing here, performing with sincerity and restraint - a wise choice, since his co-stars are a menagerie of wisecracking animals.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    Payback
    So it's hard to know who gets the blame for Payback. I say we cut Mel some slack and put the hex on Helgeland.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Flowers of War
    Affecting at times, but finally feels overblown and heavy-handed.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    The Sorcerer's Apprentice boils down to "The Karate Kid" meets "Harry Potter," with maybe a dash of "Ghostbusters" to keep it interesting.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Walter Addiego
    Tommy Boy
    His good-natured slob routine compensates for a lot of the film's dead spots, and the picture winds up a modest cut above the usual vehicle tailored for a would-be film star.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    She's Out of My League
    About as close to pure mall fodder as you'll see.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 12 Walter Addiego
    Grumpier Old Men
    Grumpier Old Men certainly isn't relying on its mawkish and hokey story to put warm bodies in the seats. There's no reason to see the picture - a sequel to their 1993 hit, “Grumpy Old Men" - other than to relish the talents of these two veterans, plus Sophia Loren, a newcomer to the series.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    If I Stay
    Moretz is an appealing young woman whose star is rising. She'll probably have an exceptional career, but If I Stay won't be a highlight.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    The effort is undermined with crass humor, mugging and slapstick.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    Spaceballs
    Somehow, the funny stuff gets sucked into a kind of black hole in the center of the satire, along with all the comic debris. What should have been a surreal flight to the planet Lucas crumbles into a harmless collection of cosmic dustballs. [24 Jun 1987, p.52]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Heartbreak Kid
    It's funny in spots if you can tune out the Farrellys' ultra-crass jokes - along with any memory of the first movie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    White on Rice
    Will wring some laughs out of anyone but the most humor-impaired.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    Hoodwinked!
    Hoodwinked is a computer-animated, "Shrek"-style satire of "Little Red Riding Hood" that offers a few laughs but overall is pretty tired.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Finding Joe
    Campbell's admirers will probably enjoy the documentary, but I don't think it will do much for anyone else.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Sydney White
    A mediocre college comedy that blends bits of "Revenge of the Nerds," "Mean Girls" and "Legally Blonde" and doesn't have much to show for it.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Hottest State
    Hawke has created a standard-issue, Sundance-friendly indie film that's full of the predictable angst suffered by Manhattan artistic types, but unfortunately the lead characters are both so callow that you finally don't care much about them.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Uncertainty
    The sum here is less than the parts, which have problems of their own.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Walter Addiego
    Legends of the Fall
    Legends of the Fall never makes you think too hard; its woes-of-a-proud-family formula takes a back seat to a self-conscious visual style that strains toward the level of myth.
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