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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    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    White on Rice
    Will wring some laughs out of anyone but the most humor-impaired.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Walter Addiego
    Shakespeare in Love
    Its brazen mixture of the comic and dramatic, the high and low and the emotional and intellectual is positively Shakespearean.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Walter Addiego
    One True Thing
    You may find yourself weeping toward the end, and, later, you may also find yourself wondering why. The revelations are staggeringly obvious.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Pool
    Except for Patekar, the main actors are nonprofessionals, which works nicely here.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    That Darn Cat
    The new version has been speeded up and dumbed down, which does not reflect well on the mouse factory's view of its audience these days.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The War Within
    Tries too hard to be even-handed.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Double Jeopardy
    Entertainment made well enough that you can overlook its absurdities.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Iron Island
    A potent social allegory told with humor and mystery.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    A Beautiful Life
    The bad news is that the characters and situations are platitudes and the story is so heavy-handed that the film is hard to sit through.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Walter Addiego
    Last Man Standing
    It has the distinctive look of a Walter Hill picture, but in the end boils down to little more than a Bruce Willis action vehicle.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Fraulein
    Fraulein works by an accumulation of details.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Holy Rollers
    An intriguing portrait of an insular community, but its recounting of the seduction of a bright young man by the surrounding culture is heavy-handed.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Boys of Baraka
    Gripping.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Walter Addiego
    Taste of Cherry
    A simple, serene and occasionally humorous film about a subject that is complex, emotional and usually treated with solemnity.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Grizzly Man
    This is the heart-rending true story of a man with a seemingly benign preoccupation that turned into something close to madness and brought him to a terrible end.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Walter Addiego
    Scream 2
    It's not as good as the original - which was fresher, funnier and scarier - but if it were, then by the criteria of the film's resident movie scholar, it wouldn't be a genuine sequel.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Wheel of Time
    Mesmerizing documentary.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Walter Addiego
    Into Great Silence
    The silence captured in this documentary -- a meditative look at life in the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps -- may be the most eloquent you'll ever hear.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Ushpizin
    You need not be a believer to appreciate its humor and humanity.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    A Touch of Spice
    There's more than a touch of whimsy in A Touch of Spice, a sentimental Greek offering that's been immensely popular in its home country but doesn't translate well.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    End of Days
    The movie equivalent of the fruitcake you get every year from the folks back home. It's brick-heavy and full of nasty bits you don't want to put in your mouth, lovingly wrapped in pink cellophane.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    In general the film is so impressive that we can't leave the theater without wanting more.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    Beguiling.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Real Dirt on Farmer John
    A loose, amiable documentary tracking several decades in the life of this most unusual farmer.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Smile
    Overall, it's pretty elementary stuff, along the lines of a Disney Channel TV movie. It's uplifting, and it's in a good cause.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Selena
    You can't help cheering for Selena, but the good feeling is diminished by the sense that her story's been simplified and sanitized.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    Secuestro express
    Has more in common with a horror movie than with a genuine political work.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    Domino
    Two hours of senselessness and overkill, decked out in lurid, bad-trip colors.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    A Walk on the Moon
    Though short on subtlety, A Walk on the Moon does offer the consolation of some decent performances.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Flyboys
    Besides some fine dogfight sequences, it often feels threadbare, just an exercise in recycling.
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