Austin Chronicle's Scores
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For 8,783 reviews, this publication has graded:
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41% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
| Highest review score: | The Searchers | |
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| Lowest review score: | Gummo |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4,778 out of 8783
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Mixed: 2,558 out of 8783
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Negative: 1,447 out of 8783
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Marjorie Baumgarten
A gimmick in search of a movie: how to get Carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible, plot mechanics be damned.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
This is strictly dull chuckles from dull wits, and while there are a few genuine laughs to be found amidst the dross, they’re as rare as Francophiles in Crawford, Texas.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Anderson has neutered the original film's outrageously transgressive macadam mayhem and completely stripped the story of its pointedly political social satire, making this Death Race one of the most boring drags of all time.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Unlike former porn auteur Gregory Dark's semenal 1985 cumshot opus "New Wave Hookers", this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium holds zero surprises and is about as arousing as Tracy Lords' singing career.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
By eliminating the winking, broad strokes of the filmmakers' more successful spoofs, they've made a film that is not only dumb, but dull. It's like watching a snuff film, only it's the audience who's dying inside.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jan 16, 2013
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Marc Savlov
Where the hell are those Hollywood Ninja Assassins when you really need 'em?- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
Astonishingly dull. The leads have zero chemistry, the supporting actors are even worse, and the script is a lifeless, draggy thing.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
This crude live-action takeoff on the Cabbage Patch phenomenon ought to have had star Anthony Newley humming "Stop the Movie, I Want to Get Off."- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Audiences may find this pap brimming with heart and sympathy for the little guy, but as prescriptions go, Patch Adams is pure placebo.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Stone still dazzles the eye, but this wholly unwarranted sequel is so outrageously preposterous (and so very chockablock with quotable examples of the fine art of bad dialogue) that the end result achieves a basement grandeur of near-epic proportions.- Austin Chronicle
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It's even worse than you thought it might be.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
What can you say about a movie that includes its outtake bloopers reel before the closing credits?- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
The real crime here is that Let's Go to Prison made a daring escape from direct-to-video stir into the relative freedom of your neighborhood multiplex. Consider this one disarmed and extremely pointless.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Even Amtrak hasn't seen a derailment this godawful in some time.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Unfunny and worse, unpleasant, Jingle All the Way is holiday cheer from the warped psyche of a Scrooge. Even the Grinch wouldn't like this one.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The loosely scripted story is further burdened with clunky dialogue and performances, shoddy continuity.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Most indicative of The Tuxedo's mediocrity, however, is the absence of the always entertaining action outtakes that traditionally roll under the end credits of Chan films; here it's all dialogue flubs barely fit for Dick Clark.- Austin Chronicle
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Kathleen Maher
The film's ostensible support for a woman's right to self-expression is undercut by the notion that it doesn't matter what a woman does, anyway, so long as she has a nice ass. Still, there doesn't seem to be much point in getting hot and bothered about a movie that's so poorly-crafted it's going to have a hard time garnering any kind of audience.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
I’ve seen sick kids exploited for all sorts of reasons – usually as easy ploys to manipulate emotions but sometimes to sell things or encourage philanthropic outpourings – but Letters to God takes the cake (make that the holy wafer).- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
You want vampiric satire with actual laughs? Try Mel Brooks' "Dracula: Dead and Loving It," "Love at First Bite," or even Roman Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers." Anything is better than Friedberg and Seltzer's endless, bargain-basement, sub-Cracked magazine un-comedy.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
This is either one of the best “head” films of all time or one of the worst examples of Disneyfied opportunism to come down the pike in years. I'd like to think it was the former, really I would, but somehow I suspect otherwise.- Austin Chronicle
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A movie full of weak moments, contrived to the point of painful.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
A Sound of Thunder is positively awash in bad hairpieces, leading one to believe that global warming is going to be the least of our problems.- Austin Chronicle
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There's no nice way to say this, so I'll just say it: Writer/directors Friedberg and Seltzer are a scourge.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Green, who looks like a chinless, hollow-eyed pederast at the best of times, is simply out of his league here, and the fact that the film drags interminably when it's actually a very average 90 minutes long betrays its essential emptiness.- Austin Chronicle
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Painfully lame and hamstrung by a viciously unfunny sense of humor.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
The set-up, and indeed the entire film, reeks of yawn-inducing boilerplate plotting.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jun 6, 2012
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