Walter Goodman
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27% higher than the average critic
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8% same as the average critic
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65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 16.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Walter Goodman's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 49 | |
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| Highest review score: | Fat City | |
| Lowest review score: | Brain Damage | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 36
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Mixed: 18 out of 36
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Negative: 8 out of 36
36
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reviews
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- Walter Goodman
The bicycle acrobatics behind the credits at the opening of Rad are so spectacular that you wonder what the movie can do to improve on them. The short answer is, nothing. It's a.ll uphill once the tale gets under way- The New York Times
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- Walter Goodman
Written and directed by Frank Henenlotter, this oozer specializes in unspecial effects and unspeakable acting. Strictly for the brain damaged.- The New York Times
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- Walter Goodman
This is one incoherent movie; I have a hunch that the writers could not figure it out, either.- The New York Times
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- Walter Goodman
Pirates is a Roman Polanski grossout. There's a rat in the soup and urine in the bath water and corpses all over the place. There's slipping and sliding and colliding, stabbings, bludgeonings and tumbles from the mast. Nothing is left underdone except the hilarity, the one good excuse for such low-jinks on the high seas.- The New York Times
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- Walter Goodman
Mr. Edwards, who on happier occasions gave us the Pink Panther movies, piles on the pileups until you may suspect that he is trying to distract the audience from the absence of a diverting story or dialogue.- The New York Times
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- Walter Goodman
And that's the problem. Despite strenuous efforts by Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies as a pair of comical villains who can't decide whether they are supposed to be funny or menacing, the story is lost in the effects. As Mr. Chamberlain remarks at one threatening moment, ''Boy, looks like they've thought of everything.''- The New York Times
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- Walter Goodman
If the Food and Drug Administration labeled movies, the warning on ''Hamburger'' might be that it is likely to cause heartburn...The result is plenty of irreverence but not much fun. Somebody must have told the waitress to hold the laughs.- The New York Times
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