John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune
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For 120 reviews, this critic has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
John Petrakis' Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 62 |
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12
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 79 out of 120
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Mixed: 21 out of 120
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Negative: 20 out of 120
120
movie reviews
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John Petrakis 63
A multilayered documentary that explores music and friendship, and in its own quiet way, the battle with fame. -
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John Petrakis 63
The film is surprisingly easy to sit through, digest and even enjoy. Why? A lot has to do with Hogan's well-documented charisma as a performer. -
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John Petrakis 63
The film doesn't always take advantage of its dramatic potential (except for its strong soundtrack), as it relies too heavily on scenes of crazed warriors in makeup and costume, running and screaming and jumping up and down. -
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John Petrakis 63
By the end we are left with a mildly amusing comedy and the lingering memory of a sterling cast that deserved better material. -
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John Petrakis 63
Any Chekhov is better than no Chekhov, but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years. -
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John Petrakis 63
There's nothing more uplifting than a documentary that celebrates a man's capacity to dream, and nothing more depressing than one that mocks those dreams. Stephen Earnhart's Mule Skinner Blues walks the razor's edge between these approaches. -
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John Petrakis 63
Feels more like a music video than a serious look back at a time, a place and a very smart, funny and unconventional man. -
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John Petrakis 63
Less a pure documentary than it is a fact-finding mission, with the real story waiting to be presented somewhere down the line. -
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John Petrakis 63
The landscapes and backgrounds of the Min Valley and the Nanking Road, not to mention the cuddly pandas themselves, are the big-ticket items here. -
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John Petrakis 63
Falls prey to the all-too-contemporary problem of complicating the tale until the ending is not only obvious, but prayed for between yawns. [9 February 1999, Tempo, p.2] -
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John Petrakis 63
If you are willing to overlook the occasional missed block, clumsy tackle or dropped pass, there is more than enough in Varsity Blues to keep you engrossed. -
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John Petrakis 63
A hit and miss proposition, with an abundance of laughs and emotional highlights to help brighten the dimly lit corners of cliche-mongering. -
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John Petrakis 63
Ultimately a disappointment because it refuses to take any aspect of itself seriously. -
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John Petrakis 63
The animation itself is just OK. And the reworked script, despite some funny one-liners, is pretty much there just to pull the story along to its inevitable conclusion. [19 March 1999, Friday, p. A] -
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John Petrakis 63
So laden with forced plot twists that it will never be able to recover. -
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John Petrakis 63
It has terrific moments, but whenever it starts to cruise along nicely, it hits a comedic pothole that forces it to sputter on down the road. -
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John Petrakis 63
A shy and depressed college graduate falls in love with a Bohemian artist, as in Woody Allen's "Manhattan." -
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John Petrakis 50
Though this film shows flashes of the electric writer Mamet was to become, Lakeboat is mostly distant thunder over choppy waters. -
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John Petrakis 50
Rife with wrong people in major jobs, which leads to a movie that lacks the requisite verve to make to it sparkle. -
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John Petrakis 50
This is a big-hearted film with admirable ambitions, and the ending is appropriately bittersweet, with victory and comeuppance occupying the same time and frame. -
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John Petrakis 50
The ultimate shallowness of this film is reflected in the fact that their key bonding moment occurs when they bungee-jump off a bridge together. -
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John Petrakis 50
Works so well for the first 40 minutes or so, that when the bottom falls out of it, I felt more than disappointed. I felt betrayed. -
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John Petrakis 50
The very strong performances in this low-budget film deserve a better narrative structure to strut their stuff. -
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John Petrakis 50
The plot thickens and thickens and thickens until it chokes on a tangled mess of double-crosses. -
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John Petrakis 50
Has the potential to be much more than it is, especially with the collection of able actors on hand. -
