Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
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For 902 reviews, this critic has graded:
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73% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.9 points lower than other critics.
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Joe Neumaier's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 160 out of 902
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Mixed: 542 out of 902
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Negative: 200 out of 902
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Joe Neumaier 60
Martin starts at the outrageous accent and spins out from there, and that's fine for this. And there are a few snicker-worthy scenes. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
A pensive and searching drama that explores how deep into the national psyche these murders in the Katyn forest went. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is better known for horror films; this is a movie where the horror is internalized, and hideously truthful. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
More deft than it first appears, director John Crowley's gentle-but-not-sappy drama features another late-day masterpiece-in-miniature from Michael Caine. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
As a virtual tour of what Earth Day is about, kids ought to be entranced. If it helps them get greener, even better. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
For the first time since "The Nutty Professor," Eddie Murphy successfully mixes his adult and kid-film personas -- imagine that. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Fascinating and, when you see Afghan versions of Simon Cowell and Co. reacting to tryouts, a reminder of how fame and the thirst for it is the same in any language. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Challenging and thoughtful, but is also, like its characters, a prisoner of its own anger. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
What's cool and always kicky is seeing a country's irreverent movie trash being treated with such, well, reverence. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Even with all the inconvenient truths exposed, Stone's film is still, sadly, inescapably crucial. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Sturgess is solid and Kingsley predictably sneaky, but the atmosphere -- scurries through the Catholic/Protestant border, tense stand-offs, spontaneous riots -- is what's genuinely gripping. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Something of a traffic jam--even with his usual restraint, Lee couldn't recount a key moment of the '60s without a blurry parade of personalities--and also lullingly dull. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
A snapshot of several New York eras that coincide with the Internet's growing pains, We Live in Public focuses on entrepreneur, party-thrower and dot.com bubble participant Josh Harris. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Whether the young ensemble attains it remains to be seen. The standouts, though, are Naughton, Pennie and Perez De Tagle. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Writer-director James Mottern's drama has a lived-in feel, but is notable mainly for Michelle Monaghan's glam-less turn as Diane. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Like a dime-store holiday card, this Christmas Carol is well-crafted but artless, detailed but lacking soul. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
As a misanthropic guy in a dead-end job, Matthew Broderick is more engaging than when he has to be perky. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
If you're looking for an incisive portrait of self-generated stardom, you won't do better than this. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
The problem with Russell Crowe's new take on the legend is that it has one muddy boot in history and the other in fantasy. The middling result is far from a bull's-eye. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
The trouble is, too much of director Shawn Levy's '80s-ish lark is filled with noise, when it really needed more quietly silly stuff. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Writer-director Kari Skogland adapts a beloved Canadian novel gracefully and with plenty of spunk, the same way its main character moves through the world from cradle to grave. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Only in its final scenes do the usual WKW themes emerge in full bloom, but purists shouldn't miss it. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
Utilizing copious film footage of her puckish subject and new interviews with Haring's contemporaries, gallerists and mentors, director Christina Clausen makes her fascinating movie as big-hearted, city-centric and energetic as its subject. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
It's amazing that in an era of oversharing and reality TV, a doc consisting mostly of cable TV clips and personal reminiscences can be so resonant. -
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Joe Neumaier 60
A little more variation in the script, though, might have yielded something truly great. -
