Mr. Showbiz's Scores
- Movies
For 720 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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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: | Brigham City | |
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| Lowest review score: | Dude, Where's My Car? |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 339 out of 720
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Mixed: 241 out of 720
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Negative: 140 out of 720
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Kevin Maynard
Good old-fashioned romantic entertainment, just restrained enough to skirt schmaltz.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
While both leads are appealing enough, it's the stuff on the sidelines that keeps All Over the Guy entertaining.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
Pie 2 has neither undercurrent, and hence what was passably cute the first time seems much more puerile and shrill here.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Its emotional sweep is ultimately undercut by murky characterizations and generic plotting.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Goran Visnjic is such a sensitive, non-menacing gentleman that any woman would want him as her own personal blackmailer.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Oy, it's such a pleasure that you'll be begging for Rush Hour 3.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Larry Terenzi
The most disappointing aspect of Planet of the Apes is that, despite its presentation, the film is so very ordinary, without urgency or revelation.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
For some viewers, this will seem a trial of predictability and unrelenting sweetness; for others, it's more than enough.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
The more we realize that we're stuck in the company of a totally relentless loser, the drearier the entire experience becomes.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
A mess, bouncing nonsensically from one style of farce to another, leaving large vacuums and dead spots — which may themselves, of course, be deliberate.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
Watching this movie go through its simplistic dramatic motions, you begin to understand why some actors stick to summer stock and live Ibsen revivals.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
In spirit, 101 Reykjavík is so Almodóvar that it could melt the polar icecap.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
Sags, lollygags, and blusters too much to sustain the what-the-hell momentum that Kitano achieves in his best movies.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Stomps the summer movie competition with heart and humor.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
It's Norton's movie, really, and he shines both as cocky Jack and as cerebral-palsied Brian.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
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.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Oddly, Bully's only moments of power come at the film's end, after the crime takes place.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
The result is a feast for the eyes but frequently a famine for the frontal lobes, a movie of towering imagination and middling rewards.- Mr. Showbiz
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