Dallas Observer's Scores
- Movies
For 1,518 reviews, this publication has graded:
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48% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
| Highest review score: | Final Destination 3 | |
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| Lowest review score: | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 678 out of 1518
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Mixed: 604 out of 1518
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Negative: 236 out of 1518
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Melissa Levine
Highly commercialized teenybopper fluff, likely to please the tweenie girls but sorely lacking in anything original or even interesting.- Dallas Observer
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Gregory Weinkauf
Exactly as you may expect, this thing is good for a few cheap little laughs and no more.- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
Part female revenge flick, part Saturday Night Live skit, part courtroom drama, and part religious tent revival, this movie never congeals into anything worth watching.- Dallas Observer
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Andy Klein
Slips by quickly enough, but it never engages our interest more than passingly.- Dallas Observer
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Jean Oppenheimer
The Dying Gaul becomes so overwrought in the last act that it ends up as pure histrionics.- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
What keeps Love in the Time of Money from being truly awful is the fact that the actors give it their all -- they may be in contrived situations, but by golly they'll make the best of them.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
Its execution is stultifying, laughable and ultimately a little offensive.- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
Lackadaisical feel of the film; Freundlich is unable to generate much suspense.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
Nothing happens. At all. Ever. Remember when Steve Martin was funny? Apparently, neither does he.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
It's easily the ugliest film Gilliam's ever made, a movie shot with a lens someone forgot to wipe. It's also his loudest: Every scene is amped up to 11, and every line of dialogue is delivered as though it's a cry for help from the bottom of the well.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
The movie, which feels as amateurish as a student film made for cable access, doesn't deliver the goods; the gotcha moment never comes.- Dallas Observer
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If any further indication were needed of the fact that gay has gone mainstream, this flaccid farce provides definitive proof, for it's as forced and unfunny as subpar Sandra Dee.- Dallas Observer
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Gregory Weinkauf
Lured to the project with John Cusack as her original co-star (cruelly replaced by Matthew Broderick), Nicole Kidman phones it in.- Dallas Observer
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Gregory Weinkauf
There's way too much schmaltz in the mix. Even the musical score bombs: Throbbing, eerie techno simply does not suit a character trapped in the 1940s.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
Succeeds in scaring you and boring you at the same time; unlike Moore's movie, it's agitprop bereft of artistry, porn for Republicans.- Dallas Observer
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Bill Gallo
Billed as a comedy, this low-wattage sitcom is both ill-tempered and mean-spirited.- Dallas Observer
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Bill Gallo
Too much attention to art-deco detail, a meandering story that hesitates whenever it wants to touch an emotional chord, then squanders the opportunity with an eccentric line-reading or an extravagant camera angle.- Dallas Observer
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Predictable and conventional and unadventurous. It can't really be defended, except that it's comfortably enjoyable.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
Andrew Litvack, whose inability to direct is outweighed only by his inability to write anything remotely witty, enlightening, or engaging. Calling this a farce would be, well, a farce.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
Singleton's version is cynical and silly--one long set-up to a closing scene that promises, or threatens, a sequel.- Dallas Observer
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Gregory Weinkauf
Less a spiritual quest than a very self-indulgent gimmick movie that could use a strong shot of inspiration.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
When the movie's not playing stupid, it's aiming for sickly sweet sincerity. It's such a jarring and inevitably juvenile juxtaposition it comes off like a Hallmark card parody written by the staffers at "Cracked."- Dallas Observer
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Andy Klein
This really should have gone straight to video--or, better yet, to the nearest landfill.- Dallas Observer
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Jean Oppenheimer
It's like an amateur theater production. Reiner rushes through the setup in such a mad dash that it feels like a cartoon.- Dallas Observer
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Gregory Weinkauf
Moments of strained mirth indicate how false and fabricated the whole enterprise really is--just a couple of well-to-do superstars doing their darnedest to prove to us that they're regular folk. And failing.- Dallas Observer
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