Kim Morgan, Portland Oregonian
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For 278 reviews, this critic has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points higher than other critics.
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Kim Morgan's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 126 out of 278
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Mixed: 118 out of 278
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Negative: 34 out of 278
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Kim Morgan 58
The dialogue is clipped and theatrical, and, aside from Harvey Keitel's German officer, accents are abandoned, which may distract viewers. For me it worked fine. -
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Kim Morgan 67
This is a movie where you can just sit back and revel in it, warts and all. -
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Kim Morgan 75
Though stilted and emotionally vacant at times, it's still an entertaining and absorbing experience. -
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Kim Morgan 50
This is not a movie about actors. It's a movie about racing, chasing, chicks and adrenaline -- just what many theatergoers are dying for in a summer dominated by a sweet ogre and a dumbed-down historical tragedy. -
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Kim Morgan 50
On paper, it sounds like the start of a good film. Too bad McKee made such a lackluster thing of it. Though the horror comes from an interesting place, it's frequently forced, negating much of the humor and pathos the film attempts to instill. -
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Kim Morgan 100
Simultaneously modern and yet gorgeously primitive with its budget sets and simple but influential score, this is not just a film re-release but a film event. -
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Kim Morgan 67
A bit of exotic neo-noir, clunky in parts and long, but often engaging and artfully atmospheric as well. -
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Kim Morgan 58
So what will happen? Sadly, some overacting and a bad "And Justice For All"-style speech at the end. -
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Kim Morgan 75
With very little dialogue and through what's essentially a gimmick, we come truly to like these guys. -
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Kim Morgan 50
Another Bond film that turns out to be an unspectacular spectacle, at times winking and fun but too often plodding and hackneyed. That said, as usual Brosnan is terrific, walking through dunderhead moments and a tedious plot with grace. -
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Kim Morgan 75
For all its superfluous and self-conscious moments, the picture is a draining kick. -
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Kim Morgan 42
Accuracy and realism are terrific, but if your film becomes boring, and your dialogue isn't smart, then you need to use more poetic license. -
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Kim Morgan 50
So strained in its "charm" and "pluck" that you grow weary by minute 15, hoping that the teens whose lives it depicts will stop being so darn peppy or sweetly confused or irritatingly dramatic. -
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Kim Morgan 42
It's nice that Demme reveres the Hollywood classic, the French cinema and the glamour of his actors. But nice is all The Truth About Charlie is -- a nice mess. -
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Kim Morgan 58
Sometimes complicated, sometimes incredibly simple, the film explicates or fawns over the human condition with occasional charm and poignancy but too often it's just cloying. -
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Kim Morgan 50
Written and edited by Sayles, "Casa" is certainly the artist's baby, but he crams too much into a relatively brief running time. Worse, though it should be longer, we're not especially unhappy that it isn't, for being around these women gets tedious. -
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Kim Morgan 50
Though not terrible, and blessed with some nice performances, this Irish-eyes-are-smiling-despite-the-rain-and-nasty-nuns story is Hallmark Hall of Fame material. -
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Kim Morgan 58
Judging by the beautiful photography of Salvatore Totino, Howard knows what a Western should look like. But the thrills suggested by the trailers, in which the picture is presented almost like a frightening supernatural horror story, are nowhere to be seen. -
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Kim Morgan 58
Singleton just may be challenging us to laugh at the film or with it and then feel extremely uneasy for doing so. If so, that's admirable; if not, he's made a very strange soap opera. -
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Kim Morgan 75
Though the picture is definitely flawed, it maintains a joie de vivre that's surprisingly refreshing. -
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Kim Morgan 50
With little cohesion and no respect for the editing process, Old School often feels like someone threw film clips on the floor and strung them together willy-nilly. -
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Kim Morgan 58
The film isn't so much a demanding character study as it is a lot of pretty parts pushed together. -
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Kim Morgan 33
Groove seems to be less about what it is chronicling than what its attempting to decipher. -
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Kim Morgan 67
Intriguing, containing a truthful kernel of sweetness, rot and brutality that will shock many. -
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Kim Morgan 42
Somewhere along the way, Stephen Herek's Rock Star decided to become a dippy, cliche-ridden drama and, worse, an odd indictment of metal music. Joy. -
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Kim Morgan 42
Lacks the perfect timing, luster and true vitality of its predecessors. -
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Kim Morgan 42
Filled with too many issues -- along with young motherhood, street gangs, city life, sex, peer pressure, grief and, oh yes, dancing, which is nearly lost in so many poorly written subplots. -
