Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
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For 1,399 reviews, this critic has graded:
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23% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.9 points higher than other critics.
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Kevin Thomas' Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 931 out of 1399
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Mixed: 342 out of 1399
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Negative: 126 out of 1399
1,399
movie reviews
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Kevin Thomas 30
Implausible at every turn, it offers a dab of quirkiness and edge from writer-director Finn Taylor, but otherwise has nothing for audiences to embrace. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
You can't help but feel that Disney has delivered a turkey for Thanksgiving. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
All strained artifice, inhabited by individuals who either lack dimension or are merely stereotypes. The result is a movie not nearly as amusing as its makers may think. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Has plenty of warmth, affection and conventional wisdom, but too much of the time it plays out in routine fashion with moments of contrivance. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
By the time the heavy-handed Solomon & Gaenor is over, it has become such a punishing exercise in the self-evident that one is left numb and eager for escape. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Psycho Beach Party is, from the start, in dire need of the electroshock therapy that Florence ultimately undergoes. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Not even the strong, reflective, world-weary presence of Reno or Cassel's energy can make a dent in a movie in which suspense and tension dissipate quickly, with action sequences not spectacular enough to compensate. All that's left is gratuitous gore. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Can never rise above the melodrama of a past era, despite a splendid, impassioned portrayal by Willem Dafoe and an affecting one by Luo Yan. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
It's too labored and ponderous to qualify as a so-bad-it's-good amusement. Original Sin is merely an old-fashioned bore. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Begins as a captivating romantic comedy and then, at the very moment it's most involving, takes a wholly gratuitous and disastrous swerve and just keeps on going from bad to worse. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
A trite psychological thriller -- all buildup and no payoff, a mystery that essentially offers only two alternative solutions, which diminishes the element of surprise and strings the viewer along way past caring which possibility proves to be true. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
An undernourished romantic comedy-drama that's especially short on that most essential ingredient: credibility. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Looks sensational, moves like lightning. But its script (by Joel Soisson) makes no pretense about being logical or even comprehensible. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Dust is a bust, a big bad movie of the scope, ambition and bravura that could be made only by a talented filmmaker run amok. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
The look of the film is great, the soundtrack glorious, but more often than not the dialogue is atrocious, featuring a lot of long-winded gobbledygook. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Far from great, and this off-putting French romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of "Amélie." -
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Kevin Thomas 30
It's too bad this Rollerball veered off-track so swiftly, derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Whatever his intentions, Clark, in his third outing as a director, has come up with a film that is seriously flawed. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
Opens and closes on a jaunty note: It's the tedious, relentlessly talky 80 minutes in between that's the problem. -
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Kevin Thomas 30
The best the makers of Down to You can hope for is that girls in their early teens--clearly the film's target audience--will be so carried away by its charismatic stars that they'll overlook the film's various flaws. -
