Charlotte Observer's Scores
- Movies
For 1,652 reviews, this publication has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
| Highest review score: | Frost/Nixon | |
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| Lowest review score: | Waist Deep |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,085 out of 1652
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Mixed: 279 out of 1652
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Negative: 288 out of 1652
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Lawrence Toppman
Maybe this is a case of too many cooks spoiling a simple broth: The movie had four producers, five executive producers, three writers (credited ones, anyhow) and three editors.- Charlotte Observer
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Picks up steam from the ominous opening scene and ends as a quietly suspenseful thriller.- Charlotte Observer
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A documentary that's as chaotic, rude and funny as the band could be.- Charlotte Observer
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If you get past the preposterous hypothesis at the start of Return to Me, you'll find a passably pleasant, utterly bland romantic comedy without a surprise to its 110 minutes.- Charlotte Observer
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Heavy on cheap, dirty humor (Gordie and Sean clean septic tanks for a living, a fact that is milked frequently for laughs), but it's never substantial enough to truly offend or delight.- Charlotte Observer
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A loosely woven crazy quilt of other, better movies.- Charlotte Observer
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Aspires to rise above the conventional drugs-and-action genre and succeeds about half the time.- Charlotte Observer
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Trying to make sense of this shaggy dog story is like climbing a mountain with glass-smooth sides and quarter-inch toeholds.- Charlotte Observer
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A taut, consistently surprising political thriller with a sting in its tail.- Charlotte Observer
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[Jarmusch's] most accessible film after "Night on Earth," yet it's still elliptical and enigmatic.- Charlotte Observer
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Characters behave arbitrarily and incredibly, and a clumsy resolution brings the film to a thudding halt.- Charlotte Observer
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Except for moments of labored symbolism and a too cozy ending, the movie stays sharply focused on its well-chosen targets.- Charlotte Observer
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Affleck simply wasn't meant to play action heroes or tough guys. He's about as tough as tapioca pudding.- Charlotte Observer
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Hank Greenberg was to Jews what Jackie Robinson was to African Americans: a great athlete, handsome and hard-working, who took the first line of abuse from bigots and proved that his people belonged at the highest level of professional sports.- Charlotte Observer
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Writer-director Ben Younger has sketched the foreground of this picture but never gets around to filling in the details.- Charlotte Observer
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DiCaprio is up to all but the heaviest emotional lifting; when he enters a maniacal phase, you wish for Martin Sheen, who did the "back to the jungle" thing better in "Apocalypse Now."- Charlotte Observer
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It's gently funny, modestly scary in spots, full of valuable but low-key observations about life.- Charlotte Observer
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It took four years to come up with this? Someone needed that long to assemble this patchy, recycled collection of gags about stinky butts, superfreaks, finger-wide blunts and racial cliches?- Charlotte Observer
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The rest of this well-intentioned picture never reaches (Washington's) level of subtlety and intensity.- Charlotte Observer
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A punch-drunk lightweight. Inside the ring, it lands some forceful punches. Outside the ring, it stumbles around, swinging wildly at nothing, until it collapses.- Charlotte Observer
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The good-hearted Galaxy Quest delivers fun and confusion in equal measure, as it gently tweaks the fanaticism of "Star Trek"/"Star Wars" fans while validating it at the same time.- Charlotte Observer
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It's ploddingly directed, indifferently acted and insufficiently frightening.- Charlotte Observer
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