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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Caramel
    Well-made and modestly enjoyable.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Attenberg
    The film is much enhanced by the performance of Labed, whose work capturing Marina's moods and contradictions won the best actress award at the 67th Venice Film Festival.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Stephanie Daley
    This is grim material, but director Hilary Brougher -- working from her own script that won a Sundance award -- examines the lives of these two suffering women without sensationalism or preaching.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Antz
    That's not to say the entertaining Antz" was made by Woody, just that it's full of his personality.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Waiting for 'Superman'
    I could have done without the clips from the old "Superman" TV show - strictly sugar to make the medicine go down, and a sign that the director doesn't fully trust his audience.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Thérèse
    While there's a certain staid feeling to the production, it does deliver a solid working-over to the era's gentry.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Plot for Peace
    The quiet machinations of this Frenchman and commodities trader helped win the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and bring an end to South Africa’s apartheid system.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    It's a handsome and entertaining small-scale picture with nice acting, some crisp (and some crude) dialogue and effective direction.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Just Another Love Story
    You can see this Danish offering as a sardonic update of familiar noir material, or simply as the story of the midlife crisis of a guy who wishes - or dreams, or dreads - that he's living out a grand drama. There are pleasures to be had either way.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Forgiveness of Blood
    The nonprofessional cast is convincing, especially Lacej, whose Rudina registers more strongly than Nik.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Battle of Algiers
    It's back in a handsome new black-and-white print, and it's still powerful stuff -- you can see why Pauline Kael wrote that it was "probably the only film that has ever made middle-class audiences believe in the necessity of bombing innocent people."
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Stars in Shorts
    The best of the longer segments is "Steve," a piece of Pinter light starring Firth as a passive-aggressive neighbor from hell who repeatedly turns up at the door of a bickering couple (Knightley and Tom Mison) to register a series of baseless complaints.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Antarctica: A Year on Ice
    In all, it’s an absorbing, straightforward look at a truly alien environment. The film could be nicely paired with Werner Herzog’s “Encounters at the End of the World” (2007), a much more idiosyncratic view of Antarctic strangeness.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    With his caustic humor, director de la Iglesia is being billed as "the next Almodovar."
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Chico & Rita
    The film boasts an original score by Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdés, who was featured in "Calle 54."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Protagonist
    At first, the technique seems gimmicky, but finally it's as compelling a perspective as any to understand how these men passed through agony to some sort of peace.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
    For a while, you can feel like a part of the golden circle.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    A Woman in Berlin
    A harrowing story about the will to survive amid the most brutal conditions imaginable.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Wadjda
    A simple story told with economy, Wadjda is a notable example of old-school, humanistic filmmaking. It's also genuinely groundbreaking: the first feature shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, and the first film directed by a Saudi woman.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Interrupters
    An intense and chilling documentary.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Pleasantville
    While amusing and sometimes touching, Pleasantville is far from challenging.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Legend of Pale Male
    This is compelling stuff, but Lilien is less successful in trying to link Pale Male's story to his own.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Terri
    If you've sworn off movies about adolescent misfits, I don't blame you, but make an exception for Terri. This modest comedy-drama declines to take the easy way out, unlike many examples of the genre.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Young and Innocent
    Not a great picture but an entirely entertaining one. [02 Nov 2008, p.N34]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    And Everything Is Going Fine
    This was obviously a labor of love for Soderbergh, and a fitting memorial to the artist.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Young@Heart
    A liberating experience.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Ulee's Gold
    Nunez's style is quiet, simple and deliberate, but the film never drags.
    • 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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