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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Andy Klein
The film is overwrought, slow, and portentous, with confusing surreal elements and a narrative time scheme that's impossible to keep track of.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
Who wants to pay to see a movie so bad the actors and writer-director feel the need to keep reminding us of how bad it is?- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
Mostly this happy train wreck feels like a longer, better movie that was chopped up and reassembled by retarded monkeys; what should have been a rush instead feels rushed.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
Its most redeeming quality is that it's so inoffensive parents can feel OK about taking kids.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
OK, so you can't afford women who'll bare flesh for what you're paying. Then don't make an exploitation film!- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
This pallid little ditty, like the rest of Lance Bass and pals' oeuvre, is soulless, banal and derivative.- New Times (L.A.)
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Bill Gallo
There's little evidence to suggest Schneebaum was one of the great explorers of the 20th century, or even that he was particularly curious.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
The film was cut down from an R rating to get a PG-13, but even if it had full-on Eliza Dushku nudity -- and it doesn't have anything close -- Soul Survivors would still suck.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
With virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on, Chelsea Walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge.- New Times (L.A.)
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Jean Oppenheimer
There is something distinctly self-satisfied about Amy's Orgasm that rubs the viewer the wrong way. The film should come with a warning label: Vanity project ahead!- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
When emotion is called for, Cassavetes drags out every tear-jerking moment beyond the point of tolerability.- New Times (L.A.)
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Bill Gallo
Say what you want about Hollywood losing its way in recent years, there's something beautiful about moviemakers who paint themselves into corners this tight.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
With a movie like this, there's no risk of spoiling the ending, because the entire plot is merely a formality trudging toward a foregone conclusion. The viewer's biggest challenge is to survive fits of yawning so violent they could disrupt ornithic migratory patterns.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
Nearly every attempt at humor in this witless, completely reprehensible "movie" is mean-spirited and stupidly conceived at the expense of some group that deserves better.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
This limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's "Tootsie," forgetting only to retain a single laugh.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
What it lacks are solid performances, save Slater's game attempt to take everything seriously.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
The lack of profanity or even alcohol (when in Mexico, the gang downs shots of hot sauce, not tequila) makes the film suitable for all ages, except for those old enough to want actual content in their movies.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
Boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up, but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
But there is a saving grace: Seemingly aware of how weak the material was, the filmmakers have filled it with wall-to-wall beautiful naked women in every other scene, complete with a little gratuitous lesbian action. It can't save the film, but it'll keep you from dozing off.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
Feels like an in-joke, a party where everyone on the screen's having a better time than anyone in the theater, and they all couldn't care less. And that's just no fun at all.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
It punishes rather than entertains; it condescends, it offends, it loathes its audience.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
If this it supposed to be comedy, why isn't it ever, for one second, funny?- New Times (L.A.)
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The film feels like what it is: an improvised comedy bit that two friends came up with.- New Times (L.A.)
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Bill Gallo
It's a paint-by-numbers job of the worst sort, stuffed with more tired old baseball baloney than Harry Caray and about as dramatic as shagging flies in St. Pete.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
A shame, this frenetic mess, as there were loads of reasons to be hopeful.- New Times (L.A.)
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Jean Oppenheimer
The predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch, so stilted and unconvincing are the performances. Poor Roth has nobody to play against and flounders in trying to keep the ship upright. Herzog aims for a kind of operatic sweep that he fails to achieve.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
There is nothing particularly interesting about either the people or the situations. Barrial might as well have filmed ANY body.- New Times (L.A.)
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Robert Wilonsky
Travolta is stuck giving a remarkable performance in a film so trivial and offensive its mere existence is as loathsome as it is laughable.- New Times (L.A.)
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