Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer
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For 1,335 reviews, this critic has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.4 points higher than other critics.
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Lawrence Toppman's Scores
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Positive: 857 out of 1335
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Mixed: 229 out of 1335
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Negative: 249 out of 1335
1,335
movie reviews
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Where "Wedding" introduced us to a Greek family most of us had never seen before, "Connie" plays out like a clumsy episode of "Laverne and Shirley:" familiar, phony and forgettable. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Man on Fire is as ludicrous as "John Q," "Virtuosity" and "Out of Time," yet substantially more violent, artificial, self-conscious and dull. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
De Niro wears a shamefaced look most of the time, as if doubly embarrassed: He agreed to a movie he knew was worthless, yet he's too lazy or indifferent to give us his best. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Like so many sequels, The Chronicles of Riddick demonstrates Hollywood's law of diminishing returns: Its quality is inversely proportional to its budget. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
A Frankenstein's monster of a movie: clumsy, patched together from parts that don't align properly, desperate to be loved, destined to be chased by mobs with pitchforks - those will be the critics - until it stumbles into its grave. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
If they decided not to give us Camelot, did they have to leave us with so Camelittle? -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Has any movie this millennium had less reason to exist than First Daughter? -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
As a vegetarian, I'm grateful that Around the Bend -- an extended commercial for KFC passing itself off as a heartwarming family drama -- is a loser. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
This picture has an ugly habit of humiliating Bridget, which "Diary" did not. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Everything about the film seems to have been done on the cheap. The music sounds like it came from a high school band. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
M. Emmet Walsh and Elizabeth Franz enliven the film as a couple across the street...These wonderful old actors briefly raise the level of the picture to the kind of warm but honest drama it ought to have been. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
A long, slow pity party full of characters who constantly bemoan their fate while telling other people not to pity themselves. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
The assault is against our ears, as the soundtrack pours forth a stream of thrash and Goth music. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Hamlet has audacity, intelligence, a provocative visual and musical style, virtually no poetry, a garbled story line weakened by savage cutting of the play, and a great yawning hole where a Hamlet ought to be. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
It took four years to come up with this? Someone needed that long to assemble this patchy, recycled collection of gags about stinky butts, superfreaks, finger-wide blunts and racial cliches? -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
It's yet another warm, fuzzy, New-Age tale that cozies us into believing the grave doesn't mean oblivion. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Far be it from me to spoil the secret, but I will say this: The last reel should've been sent straight to the city dump. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
There's a potentially good story rattling around somewhere inside this broken, self-contradictory and finally meaningless film. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Recycling is a good idea in principle, but certain products should be sent directly to a landfill without re-use. Be Cool, the feeble film follow-up to "Get Shorty," is one of them. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
It's a disconnected, implausible story that aims for a tone of magic realism and falls short on both counts. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
Goes wrong in less than two minutes, which may be a world record for sequels to decent movies. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
The special effects excite at first but wear out their welcome. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
The story's so sloppy that it contradicts itself constantly. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
There's one thing to be said for The Perfect Man: It confirms my belief that I'll never need to see another Hilary Duff movie until (1) she turns 30 or (2) she plays a crackhead in "Requiem for a Dream II." -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
The year's least necessary and most unimaginative remake slogs half-heartedly to its pre-destined conclusion without making a ripple. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
There's nothing wrong with Simpson's performance that a head transplant wouldn't cure, and the grinning Reynolds looks Botoxed into immobility. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
The film seems almost intentionally bad in most ways, as if Gilliam were expressing a suicide wish for his directing career. -
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Lawrence Toppman 38
The writers supply character traits that seem to point toward a pay-off but never reach one. People all end up as tight-lipped, indistinguishable automatons who plummet 50 feet down jagged rocks with scarcely a scratch. -
