Mr. Showbiz's Scores

  • Movies
For 720 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Brigham City
Lowest review score: 0 Dude, Where's My Car?
Score distribution:
720 movie reviews
  1. Good old-fashioned romantic entertainment, just restrained enough to skirt schmaltz.
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  2. Should be shot at sunrise. Or strung up by the neck from a tall tree. Or at least run out of town by a big posse.
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  3. An outrageously silly movie that makes me laugh.
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  4. While both leads are appealing enough, it's the stuff on the sidelines that keeps All Over the Guy entertaining.
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  5. Pie 2 has neither undercurrent, and hence what was passably cute the first time seems much more puerile and shrill here.
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  6. The flat, gross-out live-action bits, directed by (surprise!) Peter and Bobby Farrelly, don't jive with the zippy, Tex Avery-style animated segments, directed by former storyboard artists Piet Kroon and Tom Sito.
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  7. Its emotional sweep is ultimately undercut by murky characterizations and generic plotting.
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  8. May not quite be more than the sum of its creepy parts, but as a reality-is-fear launch into workaday darkness, it clearly points toward the horror genre's best destiny.
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  9. Some moviegoers are bound to take issue with the trick, "Sixth Sense"-style ending (or cynically see it coming), but The Others is mostly spooky fun, and a strong calling card for Amenabar.
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  10. Goran Visnjic is such a sensitive, non-menacing gentleman that any woman would want him as her own personal blackmailer.
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  11. Too poignant and funny to be dismissed.
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  12. An early scene inside a theater seems intended to wink at Sin's critics: "Disgusting! Cheap melodrama," a lady sniffs during intermission. It's a neatly reflexive acknowledgement of what we ourselves are watching, but even at that, our filmmaker is praising himself too extravagantly by half.
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  13. Oy, it's such a pleasure that you'll be begging for Rush Hour 3.
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  14. Families already know exactly what they're in for, and they're likely to leave the multiplex high on the hum of a charming cast, sunny San Francisco locations, and a suitably happy ending.
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  15. The most disappointing aspect of Planet of the Apes is that, despite its presentation, the film is so very ordinary, without urgency or revelation.
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  16. Makes for compulsive viewing.
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  17. For some viewers, this will seem a trial of predictability and unrelenting sweetness; for others, it's more than enough.
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  18. The more we realize that we're stuck in the company of a totally relentless loser, the drearier the entire experience becomes.
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  19. A mess, bouncing nonsensically from one style of farce to another, leaving large vacuums and dead spots — which may themselves, of course, be deliberate.
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  20. Watching this movie go through its simplistic dramatic motions, you begin to understand why some actors stick to summer stock and live Ibsen revivals.
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  21. In spirit, 101 Reykjavík is so Almodóvar that it could melt the polar icecap.
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  22. Sags, lollygags, and blusters too much to sustain the what-the-hell momentum that Kitano achieves in his best movies.
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  23. It's dull, two-dimensional, and totally toothless.
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  24. Stomps the summer movie competition with heart and humor.
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  25. The results are both savagely funny and poignant for anyone who's ever had a friendship that felt like their only connection to the outside world.
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  26. The ending is so absurd, in fact, that it feels like it was improvised by a committee of 6-year-olds. If the raptors truly were intelligent, they'd have eaten the final reel.
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  27. It's Norton's movie, really, and he shines both as cocky Jack and as cerebral-palsied Brian.
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  28. That's just not enough to recommend it, though it does have one moment of real justice: The person sentenced to jail has truly bad hair.
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  29. Oddly, Bully's only moments of power come at the film's end, after the crime takes place.
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  30. The result is a feast for the eyes but frequently a famine for the frontal lobes, a movie of towering imagination and middling rewards.
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