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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    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Walter Addiego
    Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
    Two points save "Lousy 2" from the absolute abyss. One is a couple of imaginative touches in the art design: Cori drives an old Citroen, and a couple of Vespa-like motor scooters are briefly glanced. The other is the performance of Frewer, who played the lead in TV's "Max Headroom." He endows the character with more sardonic humor than we have a right to expect from the junky script by TV-oriented director Farhad Mann.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Bedazzled
    The ending is a disappointment, a perfunctory upbeat gesture.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Inland Empire
    The film is dazzling and bewildering in equal measure.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Way of the Gun
    A misfire.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
    Brower's legacy, however, is beyond question. Historian Starr calls him "an American hero," and though Brower was a prickly sort and a zealot, that judgment sounds right.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Breaking Upwards
    Breaking Upwards has its amusing and touching moments, but we're left wondering just what we're supposed to make of it all. In the end, the relationship at the film's core is less absorbing than the filmmakers imagine.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The 6th Day
    Modestly better than last year's awful "End of Days," though it falls well short of Arnold's "Terminator" peak period.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Mars Attacks!
    Nicholson squeezes every wretched drop of buffoonery from this character, and it's distressing to watch him play an easy role for easy laughs.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    What's the Matter with Kansas?
    Much of what we see is revealing, but I was unable to quell an occasional sense that the dice were being loaded, that the subjects were being given just enough rope to hang themselves.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
    A giddy French comedy.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Inventing the Abbotts
    The veteran Baker anchors the proceedings, and you would like to see more of her character.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Sword in the Stone
    Maybe the film works best as nostalgia for Baby Boomers who recall the picture from their childhood.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Time to Leave
    Not up to Ozon's standards.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    The Other Sister
    Marshall has an astounding instinct for popular entertainment. He's done it again with The Other Sister.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Depending on your tolerance for talking Chihuahuas, this could make for a fun family night out.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Dedication
    In the end, all the bitterness seems like window-dressing to disguise a trite story.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Defamation
    Defamation tries to give all sides a full airing, but it's not hard to guess the director's own feeling. At the end, he says, "Putting too much emphasis on the past, as horrific as it has been, is holding us back."
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Dinosaur
    Parents should note the PG rating. There's little bloodshed, but several fight scenes, lots of loud roaring and some overwhelming special effects sequences could vex younger viewers.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Walter Addiego
    Anastasia
    Lacks the spark of the best recent Disney spectaculars, like "Beauty and the Beast."
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Girlfight
    There's a sense of genuineness throughout Girlfight.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Art & Copy
    There so much entertaining information in Art & Copy, a documentary about modern advertising, that it takes a while to realize we are being sold something
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Winter Passing
    This flawed drama about a self-destructive young actress and her reclusive novelist father has its rewards, mainly in some good performances.
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
    Living in Emergency is sobering, in part because it powerfully conveys that, despite the group's heroic efforts, its impact is "a drop in a sea of oceans." There's never enough time, supplies or volunteers, but, as one of the doctors notes, "the demand is pretty much infinite."
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    El Cid
    You can take it straight as an example of a bygone day of outsize filmmaking or enjoy it as kitsch, but it's exhilarating either way.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Walter Addiego
    Chelsea on the Rocks
    It's a celebration of a shady landmark, but also a lament.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Walter Addiego
    Bats
    A dimwitted, fill-in-the-blanks horror opus that slanders a fine and useful mammal.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    November
    Lacks the finesse of other puzzle films.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    Jack
    Francis Ford Coppola's Jack has its affecting moments, but in the end illustrates the pitfalls of the "concept" movie, the kind you can boil down to a one-line hook.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Walter Addiego
    The Pillow Book
    At 126 minutes the movie is excruciatingly long, but it is still too short to pack in all the subtle changes in character he means but fails miserably to convey.
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