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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
    Among the film's more intriguing revelations is the key role California's almond crop plays in the nation's bee industry.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Double Hour
    The movie's mixture of romance and noir, its air of menace and a certain occasional playfulness suggest the filmmakers have been thinking about Polanski and Hitchcock.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Incendies
    Skillfully made and offering moments of great power, the French Canadian drama Incendies nevertheless overplays its hand, piling tragedy on tragedy until we feel browbeaten with misery.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    Art history lessons don't get much better: Cave of Forgotten Dreams presents the world's oldest paintings captured by one of film's great visionaries.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    His affable, regular-guy shtick works well here, and he scatters the movie with such gleeful ads for his sponsors' products that, if his documentary work ever dries up, his next career choice is obvious.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Circo
    The most amazing act in the Gran Circo Mexico doesn't take place in the ring - it's the grind between performances.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Bill Cunningham New York
    Cunningham's work is about seeing and teaching us how to see, and that should be plenty for us.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Super
    Wilson is basically playing an even more feckless version of his "Office" character, Dwight, another intense and self-deluded doofus. It's a character that works better in smaller doses.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Human Resources Manager
    It serves up a broad humanistic lesson with absurdism and black comedy more sad than barbed.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Carbon Nation
    Carbon Nation serves us a full portion of scary statistics, but overall tries to accentuate the positive.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    I Am
    For some, this sort of thinking is a much-needed revolution in human consciousness. For others, it's little more than New Age platitudes and questionable science.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    When We Leave
    A doleful melodrama. There are some intense, moving sequences, but too much emotional badgering and a general shortage of finesse.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    How I Ended This Summer
    What stays with the viewer is a sense of a man unraveling from his own mistakes and weaknesses.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Down Terrace
    It's hard to decide what's worse about this feral clan residing in Brighton, England: their unspecified criminal enterprises, their penchant for bloody vengeance or their twisted family dynamic.
    • 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Outside the Law
    Aims to make epic drama of Algeria's battle for independence, but there are moments when you would swear you're watching a "Godfather" knockoff.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Time That Remains
    Some of the movie probably will mystify viewers not steeped in Middle Eastern history and culture, but a good deal of the humor can be appreciated by anybody.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
    Rao avoids high drama, and while there is humor, the film's tone is one of melancholy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Strange Case of Angelica
    A captivating mix of formality, ambiguity and offbeat humor. On the surface a simple fable, it's actually much more.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Casino Jack
    The entertaining work by Spacey and Pepper is a good thing because the film has problems, including an utter lack of subtlety.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
    It's dark fun, in the spirit of "Gremlins."
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
    Overall, this is a nice introduction to an amiably dour tunesmith who once wrote that "all art aspires to the condition of Top 40 bubblegum pop."
    • 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.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Queen of the Lot
    Mocking Tinseltown is a pretty exhausted subject, and even Jaglom, a genuine insider, has a hard time making it fresh.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Marwencol
    If you have even a passing interest in outsider art, you owe it to yourself to see Marwencol.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Gerrymandering
    While the film adopts a sometimes jaunty tone, the fact is that gerrymandering is bad news, assuming you believe that elections should mean something.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Jack Frost
    Director Troy Miller, making his feature debut, does a decent job with schmaltzy material.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Hotel for Dogs
    It's no great shakes as a film, but its combination of mild comedy, slapstick, pathos, many photogenic canines and a positive message will make it irresistible to families.
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