Jay Carr, Boston Globe
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For 727 reviews, this critic has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Jay Carr's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 519 out of 727
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Mixed: 114 out of 727
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Negative: 94 out of 727
727
movie reviews
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Jay Carr 50
Has more ambition than the usual serial killer film, but curiously less urgency. -
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Jay Carr 50
Takes on provocative and stimulating subject matter, but can't bring it into satisfying dramatic focus, stranding three strong actors who are superior to their material. -
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Jay Carr 50
Rarely has a movie that looked so good on paper fallen so flat as the aptly named Charlotte Gray. It's not a bad movie. Bad movies have more flavor. -
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Jay Carr 50
There's a whole lotta latex goin' on. The trouble is that not enough else is going on. -
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Jay Carr 50
What saves it is that it's lighter than mousse and is animated by a handful of engaging performers. -
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Jay Carr 50
Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater. -
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Jay Carr 50
You'll laugh at Bones a lot more often than you'll be scared by it, assuming you'll be scared at all. -
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Jay Carr 50
Ultimately, the kids carry this manipulative tear-jerker. They're warm, lively charmers. -
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Jay Carr 50
An example of a film that begins with a provocative idea and then runs itself into the ground with clumsy structuring. -
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Jay Carr 50
If you liked the earlier ''Mummy,'' you'll probably like this one. In fact, at many points you'll probably think you are watching the earlier one. -
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Jay Carr 50
This good-hearted but undersupplied ensemble piece is only appetizer-deep. -
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Jay Carr 50
In the end, it's much ado about not very much, certainly not enough to catapult Bass into a film career, but probably enough to satisfy 'N Sync fans. -
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Jay Carr 50
It's too psychically flat and dramatically inert. Instead of reinvigorating a Hollywood classic, Burton only takes it to camp. -
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Jay Carr 50
A sweet, visually handsome sermon, but it's too dramatically bland to convert even the converted. -
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Jay Carr 50
This one is nearly as bad as it gets, suggesting that all the wrong people were wielding the sledgehammers here. -
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Jay Carr 50
Seems to be going through a series of motions so obviously virtual that it makes you wish that the filmmakers had stayed away from the computer keyboards entirely and stuck with the rotting tape look. -
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Jay Carr 50
A climactic explosion is too obviously a rigged gunpowder charge, and it becomes a metaphor for the film's mistake of diminishing the frantic motion that kept things fizzy and fun. -
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Jay Carr 50
Cries out for the brisk pacing of a Sturges or a Wilder. As is, it's too lumpish, languid, and lukewarm to hit even the guilty pleasure zone. -
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Jay Carr 50
Doesn't so much strike a lot of sour notes as fail to strike the right ones. -
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Jay Carr 50
A film that begins with a train wreck and then, figuratively speaking, becomes one. -
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Jay Carr 50
About everything is big in The 13th Warrior except the writing, which is microscopic. -
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