Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
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For 252 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2 points higher than other critics.
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Mark Caro's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 144 out of 252
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Mixed: 63 out of 252
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Negative: 45 out of 252
252
movie reviews
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Mark Caro 63
The movie seems so convinced of its own entertainment value that it has neglected to factor in the elements that make a comedic thriller more than just a facile exercise -- i.e., suspense, tension, heart. Being amused by plot turns is not the same as caring, and Clay Pigeons never inspires you to grab your armrest or catch your breath. [25 Sept 1998] -
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Mark Caro 63
Isn't exactly a good movie, but it turns out not to be bad, either. It's a romantic comedy that strains to be screwball but at least is likable. -
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Mark Caro 50
Just a vehicle for Carrey to do his hyperactive shtick. He has some entertaining bits, such as his rain-drenched meltdown in which he victimizes some stunned innocents, but he’s working so strenuously that at times he’s hard to watch. -
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Mark Caro 25
Although Banderas occasionally shows flashes of style, individual elements too often go together like grits in a puff pastry. -
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Mark Caro 38
The upside is that they're likable and play well together...The downside is that they're all still communicating roughly the same message, which lies somewhere between a wink and a nudge. -
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Mark Caro 50
cleverly conceived and professionally executed and to hell with that. It's a serial killer movie in the dime-a-dozen era of serial killer movies, with the selling point being that the murderer is played by a movie star. This way you'll like the guy. -
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Mark Caro 50
The comedy part of the equation is awfully mild, however. This is a movie that aims for warm smiles rather than belly laughs. -
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Mark Caro 38
This movie is phony, phony, phony -- from its Disneyland version of the Deep South to its pious lessons about the values of simple rural living. -
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Mark Caro 63
Crowe's chilliest movie. In part this is by design. Like "Open Your Eyes," to which Crowe is mostly faithful, Vanilla Sky is a head trip that merges thriller, romance and science-fiction elements while playing with our notions of dreams and reality. -
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Mark Caro 50
The absurd meets the violent meets the droll, and we just watch from the outside, never having been drawn in by anything resembling believable feelings or behavior. -
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Mark Caro 75
Never quite transcends its movie-of-the-week trappings. But either you're glad to have spent time with these three generations or you aren't. Bottom line: I was. -
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Mark Caro 38
Like an obnoxious uncle desparately trying to amuse the young'uns with poo-poo humor and dum-dum pratfalls. -
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Mark Caro 38
The difference between Head of State and a good comedy is like the difference between Chris Rock and a real actor. -
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Mark Caro 50
Some movies run out of gas. This one could use an alternate fuel source. -
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Mark Caro 50
Plays like a drawn-out outline of a better movie; no one got around to fleshing out the details or providing some soul. -
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Mark Caro 50
Superior to 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in almost every way. It's better directed, more consistently acted, and its writing, while at times ridiculous, at least has a modicum of logic at its core. I still had to slap myself to stay awake. -
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Mark Caro 50
I didn't believe it, and I don't think the people who made The Family Man did either. -
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Mark Caro 50
Lead actors seeming like they're taking it easy is one thing. But a filmmaker trying to construct a smart romantic comedy actually must do some work. -
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Mark Caro 63
This is camp, pure and simple, and unless the translators have taken far greater liberties than is apparent, the filmmakers know it. -
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Mark Caro 38
Recycling the regressive humor of his (Sandler’s) previous films, it piles on so much sentimentality that you wonder how anyone could consider him a renegade. [25 June 1999, Friday, p.A] -
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Mark Caro 38
When a movie is structured around the unveiling of secrets, you ought to care what the answers are. But writer-director Adam Brooks (Almost You), never offers any compelling reason to do so. -
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Mark Caro 50
The joys of singing give the movie a hook, but when Duets aims for lyricism, it's got a tin ear. -
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Mark Caro 50
Despite being positioned as a mold-breaker, Riddick now blends in with a sizable crowd of reluctant loner cinematic heroes, just as the movie fails to convince that it's going where no movie has gone before. -
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Mark Caro 50
You can take the director out of television, but sometimes you can't take television out of the director. Although Garry Marshall has been making movies for longer than he spent creating such series as "The Odd Couple," "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley," his work retains the scent of the small screen. -
