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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Gregory Weinkauf
What Lies Beneath is my head on the movie theater floor, snoozing through this film.- Dallas Observer
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Bill Gallo
Runs two hours and 20 minutes and plays like 10 days in the county jail.- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
There might have been a decent comedy here if someone had remembered to insert some actual humor.- Dallas Observer
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Melissa Levine
Every once in a while, a film comes along that so blatantly disregards emotional authenticity that one fears for the sanity of its director. She Hate Me is just such a film, and Spike Lee is its director and co-writer. Artless, sensationalized, didactic and often downright silly.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
A film built upon transitions so weak and obvious it's astonishing the entire thing doesn't collapse on itself.- Dallas Observer
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Andy Klein
While tyro director Simon West fills Con Air with all the slam-bang action and well-honed wisecracks that were the more positive qualities of its predecessors, the film brims even more with all their worst qualities.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
Every movie Dugan releases looks like something made on accident--tosses yet another stink bomb into theaters for audiences to sniff over.- Dallas Observer
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Andy Klein
Hope Floats comes lumbering along, scourging all in its path with saccharine sentimentality and bogus emotions.- Dallas Observer
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Many of the most absurd things on view in this film are absolutely true.- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
A romantic comedy with neither humor nor sparks between the leads, Marci X attempts to lampoon gangsta rap clichés so obvious they feel ten years old -– “Malibu's Most Wanted” brought more to the table.- Dallas Observer
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Gregory Weinkauf
Wrenches paltry giggles and cheap warmth from a screenplay that makes "Son in Law" seem like Sam Shepard. But wretched Affleck is the real liability.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
The film has no form or function; at best, it's a 90-minute infomercial.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
Instead of satire, we're treated to diarrhea jokes, dogs dangled from the windows of speeding SUVs and tasteless sobriquets bestowed upon anyone who looks vaguely ethnic.- Dallas Observer
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Jean Oppenheimer
Meet Joe Black takes an interesting idea--Death assumes human form and comes to earth to learn about human existence--and reduces it to a flat, uninspired, interminably slow movie.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
A movie that leaves you wondering what the fuss was all about when its end credits appear; it's a mish-mash of a dozen other, better films ground up and watered down--Seven, Silence of the Lambs, and Manhunter, to name a few of the usual suspects.- Dallas Observer
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May find it hard to sit without embarrassment through this bizarre mixture of paleontology, preposterous anthropomorphism, and fuzzy-headed New Age myth-making in which the only thing missing is the show tunes. Thank God for small favors.- Dallas Observer
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It poses as an unblinkered look at the hangups and hypocrisies of the bourgeoisie. In reality it's an empty, narcissistic tantrum.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
Proof of Life kidnaps the audience, then tortures it to a slow death- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
Rent a porno instead; it'll be less exploitative. God help us, two more of these things are planned.- Dallas Observer
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Jean Oppenheimer
A wobbly Basinger and a feeble screenplay doom I Dreamed of Africa.- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
May steal from the best, but it does it so badly and obviously that it has to depend upon gratuitous shock-cuts and soundtrack stings to elicit any kind of reflex-action fright from the viewer.- Dallas Observer
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Robert Wilonsky
This ain't no movie. It's a very long, very tedious infomercial for Phantom Menace action figures, on sale now at a Target or Toys "R" Us near you.- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
Think "My Best Friend's Wedding," subtract gay best friend, dorky karaoke scene, charm, and any hint of malice or conflict, and you've got it.- Dallas Observer
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Luke Y. Thompson
If Big Momma's House isn't as bad as you imagined, then you've no imagination at all.- Dallas Observer
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Peter Rainer
The fourth installment in the Batman franchise is one long head-splitting exercise in clueless cacophony that makes you feel as though you're being held hostage in some haywire Planet Hollywood while sonic booms pummel your auditory canal.- Dallas Observer
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