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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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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Luke Y. Thompson
Stallone's script is well structured, though the jaw-droppingly banal dialogue gives us little reason to care.- 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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Luke Y. Thompson
Every plot point is obvious a mile away to anyone who's ever seen a film, and made even more obvious by the fact that the camera blatantly points out clues shortly before they're put to use.- New Times (L.A.)
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M.V. Moorhead
Most of it is incredibly, gleefully crude and tasteless, but it is also good-natured and harmless, and there's a pretty good chance you'll find yourself laughing.- 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
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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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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Luke Y. Thompson
Highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply, but those who loved "Cool as Ice" have at last found a worthy follow-up.- 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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Gregory Weinkauf
Moves in fits and starts, with some crafty and credible fight choreography by Xin Xin Xiong on either side of the pretty but boring middle hour.- New Times (L.A.)
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Jean Oppenheimer
Nominal comedy has a few bright spots but never seems to find its rhythm.- 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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Bill Gallo
Merely labeling National Lampoon's Van Wilder "sophomoric" or "vulgar" doesn't do justice to the perpetrators' dedication.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
Has an awkwardness that defeats whatever emotional involvement it tries to achieve.- 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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Luke Y. Thompson
So desperate are the filmmakers to create a "hip" western that they try to cram it with action sequences that aren't very exciting.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
No one in a McCulloch movie is ever normal -- most of the humor comes from characters saying or doing the weirdest thing you could possibly come up with in any given circumstance, and if that kind of humor's your bag, there's frequently a lot to enjoy in the bizarre antics of Green and Jason Lee,- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
A happily self-aware body-count flick that's as brutally funny as it is plain-old brutal. A broad slash of scary, sci-fi fun, the project leapfrogs all the Scream and Last Summer junk to carve itself a new, high-tech niche.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
Joe Morton, Linda Hunt and Kathy Bates show up in supporting roles, only to have Costner's flagging energy drag them down, too.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
You probably saw this film the last time around, when it was called "Sleeping With the Enemy." This one merely adds a better car chase and more ass-kicking.- 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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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
It's a heartfelt and powerful examination of faith that no serious student or enthusiast of theology or philosophy should miss.- 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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Gregory Weinkauf
Director Mick Jackson (L.A. Story) delivers playful and charming teens-turned-30 moxie.- New Times (L.A.)
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