New Times (L.A.)'s Scores
- Movies
For 639 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
| Highest review score: | Donnie Darko | |
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| Lowest review score: | Rollerball |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 314 out of 639
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Mixed: 210 out of 639
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Negative: 115 out of 639
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Luke Y. Thompson
Only Quaid, as a semiretarded horny robot, and Cleese as a fussy chauffeur hologram seem to get it. Even Murphy, as the titular nightclub big shot in outer space, forgets to be actually funny until the climax.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
There's nothing more enervating than a stupid film with only random, and perhaps accidental, flashes of smarts; the rare prescient moments only serve to highlight how banal and vacant the rest of the movie is, especially when it stoops to conquer the gross-out market bled dry by the Farrelly Brothers and their myriad acolytes.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
Lansdown has a pretty good score by Atli Orvarsson... Nope, nothing else nice to say.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
The movie climaxes with an entire audience farting -- a more concise review than this one.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
The movie's all flash and formula, as original as the letter A, especially when it collapses in a dung heap of gunfire and corpses.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
It's just that this clunky, inane vehicle sputters barely a few feet down its quaint English highway before you want to bid it "do zvidániya, dumb-ass!"- New Times (L.A.)
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Bill Gallo
With malice for all, Drop Dead Gorgeous isn't likely to win any popularity contests.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
The acting tends toward the cartoonish (not in a good way), and the story is built on a series of illogical motivations.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
Indeed, the best that can be said about The Majestic is that it may boost Capra's reputation by virtue of comparison. Apparently, it's not so easy to weave that kind of magic.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
Given how uninvolving Summer Catch is, the truly remarkable pitching here was not so much on the mound as in the executive office where someone convinced Warner Bros. to green-light this turkey, which should have been called Good Will Hitting.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
It's an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work, every bit as imperious as Katzenberg's "The Prince of Egypt" from 1998.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
The overall film is hideously grating, thanks to an inconsistent look, animated titles all over the place, excessive explanatory commentary and abrasive R&B videos inserted throughout.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
A film bereft of emotion, characters and words with more than two syllables.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
Doesn't swing, doesn't score, can't make it to first base, never even drags its sorry ass out of the dugout.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
In one of the year's most woefully manipulative and oppressively pandering offerings: I Am Sam, a dolled-up TV movie-of-the-week masquerading as profound cinema.- New Times (L.A.)
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Jean Oppenheimer
Numbingly feeble -- The dialogue is witless, the situations are lame, the humor juvenile and the chemistry between the stars nonexistent.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
Snow Dogs may simply be a stupid waste of your time. But if you know the source, it's an abomination.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
A bland, obnoxious 88-minute infomercial for Universal Studios.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
An overlong compendium of Oprah moments meant to move and inspire, even if, by the end, it's too exhausted with itself to offer up a single authentic tear or revelation.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
Warner Bros. is presumably aiming this movie not at children but at full-grown dopers with bad munchies glued to the Cartoon Network. Dude, pass the Scooby snacks.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
Just when it looked like "Not Another Teen Movie" might claim the crap crown comes this stoner's tale.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
Not strong enough to stomach this leather-clad jerk-off session, which Miramax dumped onto Paramount in a rare case of common sense.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
It took five men to concoct the hackneyed plot and conceive the brainless jokes that constitute Not Another Teen Movie, meaning there are five men in Los Angeles right now still trying to wash that stink off their soft, idle hands.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
As in the comparatively quaint original film, there are whiffs of greed, carnage, social upheaval and the triumph of the numskull, but it's all rendered noxious nonsense by zooming hot rods, vague T&A, irritating jump-cuts and a bunch of dipshit Power Ranger wannabes slamming in hell's moshpit.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
An ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental. Surely, no one PLANNED something this disastrously unfunny.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
Alas, Slackers sucks. It's so bad Schwartzman can't save it, though he tries mightily; a flash of nudity from Pearl Harbor babe and male-named model-turned-actress James King isn't even worth the price of a video rental down the line.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
Sandler and Spade continue their avid quest to dumb down America.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
Even those looking to catch a few Diane Lane tit shots will be so exhausted by the endless nothingness between each one that it won't be worth it.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
Seems to exist solely to prove there is something beneath the bottom of the barrel.- New Times (L.A.)
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