Ed Park, Village Voice
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For 148 reviews, this critic has graded:
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27% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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69% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Ed Park's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 47 |
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90
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10
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 148
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Mixed: 79 out of 148
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Negative: 40 out of 148
148
movie reviews
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Ed Park 40
The self-consciousness is unintentionally touching, but it wet-blankets the film into a thirdhand lark. -
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Ed Park 40
Stateside's real-life frame allows the complexities of mental illness and military service to lose dramatic tension, resulting in a desultory home stretch of group therapy, tears, and reconciliation. -
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Ed Park 40
Grim headlines aside, FireDancer is hard to recommend, with its haphazard tone, wobbly acting, and cipher-like lead. -
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Ed Park 40
Aside from cameos by Jim Broadbent (as the drunken major) and Peter O'Toole (as Nina's reclusive, eccentric father), much of the acting strains for a sophistication that quickly becomes annoying. -
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Ed Park 40
Shark Tale's shallow plot and leagues of padding put it fully in the shadow of last year's animated underwater offering, the nifty, heartfelt "Finding Nemo." -
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Ed Park 40
A huge problem with the whole shebang is that the impressions (all courtesy Cornwell and Sessions) are shaky at best. -
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Ed Park 40
Craig keeps Joe Rose on a hair trigger, but Morton is wasted as Claire; Ifans simply looks stoned. -
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Ed Park 40
Chad Friedrichs's doc has too many rock-crit talking heads, too often saying the same thing based on scant information -- a clumsy portrait of the artist that inadvertently serves as a mirror of the critical faculty itself. -
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Ed Park 40
So true to its title that I've forgotten many of the details already--and I just saw it this morning. This latecomer has been rendered completely obsolete by “Memento.” -
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Ed Park 40
White Noise vigorously pushes the supernatural line throughout, but unfortunately its final movement is so incoherent that the whole thing collapses. -
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Ed Park 40
At least Sean Astin, as a scene-chewing prima donna, seems to be having a good time--and mom Patty Duke gets to call him a "turd." -
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Ed Park 40
This poorly conceived sequel to Gore Verbinski's "The Ring" ditches that film's scariest conceit. -
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Ed Park 40
The most blatant rip-off is of the "Rushmore" soundtrack. But Ralph Walker is no Max Fischer, and his monomania gets dull fast. -
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Ed Park 40
Alas, The White Countess, the final Merchant Ivory film, is something of a lacquered dud. -
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Ed Park 40
More fun to listen to than watch -- though this still leaves the problem of dialogue. -
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Ed Park 30
If The Last Man were the last movie left on earth, there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows. -
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Ed Park 30
Less effective in dramatizing the choices facing second-generation Indian Americans than as a showcase for Sheetal Sheth's terrific hair. -
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Ed Park 30
As earnest as a community-college advertisement, American Chai is enough to make you put away the guitar, sell the amp, and apply to medical school. -
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Ed Park 30
So busy rehashing rom-com clichés that it shirks the genitive, prelude to other flaws. -
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Ed Park 30
Though ample time is spent mingling Murphy's jabberjaw locutions and Wilson's curveball spaciness, the film leaves only the bitter reek of a botched chemistry experiment. -
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Ed Park 30
The only possible surprise in The Tuxedo would be an extended demonstration of what was once Chan's trademark, the daffily choreographed kineticism forbidden of late by either his own age or the scruples of story editors. -
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Ed Park 30
Director Chuck Russell lacks the visual panache, the comic touch, and perhaps the budget of Sommers's title-bout features, which refined a historically grounded B-movie sensibility into pure, gasp-inducing entertainment. -
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Ed Park 30
Though The Sea (and the sea) wants to capture some elemental, unruly truths, it's ultimately an over-lacquered jidai-geki curio, something for the appendix of the next book on Kurosawa. -
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Ed Park 30
CCM's dissipated endgame borrows soggily from "The Ring," resulting in something that wouldn't make it past the first script meeting for Scary Movie 4. -
