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 often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the American "hosts" and their "guests," but its effect is diluted by slow pacing and lengthiness.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
Reasonably well-made and all, but it's simply too familiar, too derivative and too inferior to its predecessors to have any reason to exist.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
While this production from Michael Douglas is being touted as a sexy romantic comedy, it's more precise to think of it as big loud fun for when you're feelin' dumb.- New Times (L.A.)
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Jean Oppenheimer
Worth the price of admission if only to see the slinky Thurman decked out in a form-fitting, sequined pre-flapper era outfit. The word stunning hardly does her justice.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
Once the action kicks in -- starting with an extraordinary balletic fight in the rain featuring the two masters and a flying wooden beam -- you can't take your eyes off the screen.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
I still think the first is the best in the series, but I'm in the minority: Number two has a stronger following among the legions of Hong Kong movie buffs.- 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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Bill Gallo
This is a highly original film blessed with fetching complications all its own and some hair-raising turns of plot.- New Times (L.A.)
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M.V. Moorhead
It would be hard to imagine a less exciting movie. Still, inoffensiveness can sometimes lead to success, at least initially, for a family film.- New Times (L.A.)
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Bill Gallo
In the end, it demonstrates all over again the virtual impossibility of doing Nabokov justice on film, because his work is so resolutely and brilliantly made of words.- New Times (L.A.)
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David Ehrenstein
May be too low-key for its own good. Still, if you want to get in on the ground floor of Aidan Gillen's certain-to-be-skyrocketing career, it's a good place to start.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
The film is a somewhat disjointed affair that, like the man himself (Green), is occasionally brilliant, frequently repetitive and sometimes merely annoying.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
For better or worse the movie is simply simple -- the project's quality and significance depend upon one's perspective: Is this a daring and impressive homespun yarn or just a very middling stab at soft-core?- New Times (L.A.)
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M.V. Moorhead
Forster is the reason that even non-Mamet-heads might consider giving Lakeboat a shot. It's worth it just to see him in his long one-take exchange with Johnston about booze, but he's remarkable throughout.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
The urge to laugh is superceded by the urge to slap everybody and command them to stop embarrassing all of humanity.- 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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Robert Wilonsky
Sandler and Spade continue their avid quest to dumb down America.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
Everything leading up to the finale is funny and often heartfelt.- New Times (L.A.)
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Andy Klein
Dominik's stylistic choices are savvy, but what really makes the movie work is Bana's extraordinary performance as Chopper.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
No B-movie fan, save perhaps the extremely obsessive for whom this is old hat, should miss it.- New Times (L.A.)
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Luke Y. Thompson
For folks who like a genuinely tense suspense film with heavy doses of black humor, however, this ought to do it.- New Times (L.A.)
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Jean Oppenheimer
A spare film, with little dialogue but a lot to say.- New Times (L.A.)
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David Ehrenstein
More art-directed than directed, there's nothing in the way of serious thought to be found here,- New Times (L.A.)
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Jean Oppenheimer
Farmanara, the actor, brings a real poignancy to the role and, thus, to the story that seems, more than anything, the tale of a man coming to terms with his life.- New Times (L.A.)
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Gregory Weinkauf
Startlingly, this is not the trite beer commercial one might expect.- New Times (L.A.)
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