Walter Goodman

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The New York Times
For 36 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 27% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 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
Highest review score: 90 Fat City
Lowest review score: 10 Brain Damage
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 36
  3. Negative: 8 out of 36
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Walter Goodman
    Tokyo Pop
    You don't have to be a fan of rock music to get a kick out of Tokyo Pop, a wedding of American and Japanese youth cultures as seen through a fun-house mirror.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Walter Goodman
    The Sacrifice
    It may not be your glass of tea; it's a tall glass, through which events are seen murkily. Those who stay with it, however, may find rewards in burst after burst of beauty and even a glimmer of meaning.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Walter Goodman
    RoboCop
    Paul Verhoeven, a Dutch director ("Soldier of Orange"), doesn't let the furiously futuristic plot get in the way of the flaming explosions, shattering glass and hurtling bodies.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Walter Goodman
    Fat City
    A knockout scene by that grand old battler, John Huston.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Walter Goodman
    La Ronde
    The performers are as seductive as the script. It's quite an affaire.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Walter Goodman
    Tough Guys
    The director, Jeff Kanew, does not have as steady a hand as the old-timers. What he does have is sense enough to let our memories of all those Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas movies work on us.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Walter Goodman
    Wise Guys
    From its cartoony credits to its knish-and-cannoli close, Wise Guys is one funny movie.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Walter Goodman
    Through a Glass Darkly
    The acting is finely modulated; Miss Andersson's flirtation with insanity is a ballet. And the austere beauty of Sven Nykvist's photography has an eloquence all its own.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Walter Goodman
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    Lewis Milestone's unsparing direction of the senseless slaughter more than makes up for the soft spots and does justice to Erich Maria Remarque's novel of a generation destroyed by war.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Walter Goodman
    The Bishop's Wife
    If you can resist seeing Cary Grant playing an angel, David Niven playing a bishop and Loretta Young playing Loretta Young, you're too tough a critic for The Bishop's Wife.

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