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
A mockumentary about small-town beauty pageants that's so confidently unfunny it's DOA.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
A laughable disaster: an agonizingly long, perversely dull, childishly conceived fantasia on marital sexual angst that could only have been made by someone (like Kubrick).- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Pie has some nice surprises and is enjoyable in a smutty, sitcom way. It offers up the outrageousness of "There's Something About Mary" without wallowing in cruelty.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
In terms of raw wit and fearless satire, the South Park kids put Mike Myers and Adam Sandler to shame.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
The Spy Who Shagged Me is impossible-to-resist summer fun that left me feeling, dare I say, randy for more? Oh, behave.- Mr. Showbiz
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A smart, sometimes pissingly funny romantic comedy that is also oddly unmoving and predictable in spots.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Election is a bracingly intelligent adult comedy that shrewdly captures adolescence.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
John August's script is exciting, witty, original material, and this film's got the talent to match.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
This wildly imaginative thriller is a futuristic head trip you most definitely want to take.- Mr. Showbiz
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It's the awesome, metaphysically charged spectacle of man doing terrible things to man within the multicolored and multifarious cathedral of Nature.- Mr. Showbiz
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The result is a film that is as witty, astute, and romantic as its timeless subject.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
It's the funniest, saddest performance of the year in a film of uncompromising wit and heart.- Mr. Showbiz
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This historical epic about the "virgin queen" of England's early life moves with the crackling urgency of a contemporary political thriller.- Mr. Showbiz
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A profoundly moving human drama, a quasi love story about two lost men who form an unlikely friendship.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
American History X is a crash course on how to make a message movie that resonates with crackling power.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
Has one of the most stupendously tasteless premises in cinema history, and much of the time when this movie tries to beckon a smile, the effect is closer to astonished nausea.- Mr. Showbiz
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No Hollywood film within recent memory has achieved such richness and originality of texture, such a compelling amalgam of passionate human drama and awesome technique.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
The Truman Show is one of the films for which the '90s will be remembered, and it is not to be missed.- Mr. Showbiz
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In a season of mechanized spectacle and brain-dead comedies, Bulworth is a brave and bracing exception.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Billed cleverly as a comedy from the heart that goes for the throat. If only Brooks had had the guts to avoid the schmaltz.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Will take you by surprise as a romantic, fast-paced, entertaining spectacle that deserves to earn back every penny spent to produce it.- Mr. Showbiz
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Intelligently written, sharply directed, and beautifully played.- Mr. Showbiz
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See L.A. Confidential. Be astonished at discovering anew how very, very satisfying movies can still be. And how fine that can feel.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
A bully good romp, and it thumbs its nose at the bloated blockbusters towering over it at the multiplexes by ending the moment it arrives at its raucous, richly deserved climax.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
Myers has hit upon a genuinely original schtick, and that fact alone is immeasurably groovy.- Mr. Showbiz
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Until he (Smith) learns the difference between what has meaning and what's meandering, what feels real and what feels contrived, he'd be better off sticking to the funny stuff.- Mr. Showbiz