For 61 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 24% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 73% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mark Keizer's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 51
Highest review score:
Critic Score 80
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 61
  2. Negative: 8 out of 61
61 movie reviews
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Mark Keizer 50
    Appearances by Toni Collette and Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-Hughes should draw a few curious parents to what is, most of the time, a quirky and quite enjoyable coming of age saga.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Mark Keizer 50
    Those unfamiliar with the Duplass' previous movies won't realize what's missing; they'll just enjoy the earthy angst, edgy laughs and off-kilter casting of Jonah Hill.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Mark Keizer 50
    The original Jonathan Ames novel from 1998 is a rich, funny and unusual work. The movie opts for the funny and unusual, leaving us with characters ill-equipped to rise above their shtick or engage our sympathy.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Mark Keizer 50
    Sitting through The Winning Season you marvel at how it obsessively duplicates all such films that came before but still consistently thwarts your impulse to dismiss it out of hand.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Mark Keizer 50
    There is so much wrong with the political system at this point that gerrymandering, in which politicians shamelessly redraw electoral boundaries to rig the outcome of elections, seems almost quaint.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Mark Keizer 50
    The problem is that once you get past the barriers that Jewish players dramatically overcame between the early 20th century and post World War II, the rest is precipitously less interesting.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Mark Keizer 50
    The movie was written and directed by Oscar winner Paul Haggis (Crash) and when stripped to its logline, it's pretty ridiculous.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Mark Keizer 50
    The hijinx get deflating, yet the tension and genuine sense of investigation keep you involved.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Mark Keizer 50
    Scott excels in maintaining a low, persistent hum of eroticism whose purpose is not titillation or camp.
    • Metascore: 50
    • Mark Keizer 50
    This depraved charmer offers enough to admire and a specialized hipster crowd will enjoy it, if to a mutedly positive effect.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Mark Keizer 50
    Pierce delivers everything the role requires except serious menace, while the less-seasoned Crawford improves as his handsome face bares more of the evening's scars.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Mark Keizer 50
    It's not much, but adult audiences starved for mature entertainment should be counted on to investigate this flawed, if admittedly heartfelt, work.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Mark Keizer 40
    Nobody here brings their A-game, denying us the pleasure of what Adams and director Anand Tucker could create together.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Mark Keizer 40
    One of Hot Tub Time Machine’s only genuinely nifty moves is getting John Cusack, Dobler himself, to topline the film.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Mark Keizer 40
    So it's apropos that Forby's biggest misstep is his thin and careful script that can't carry us away on the same winds of fate that would put a sovereign republic's future in the hands of such a young woman.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Mark Keizer 40
    Stone embarrasses himself by backing the wrong horse and then making a weak case for him.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Mark Keizer 40
    RED
    No one is expected to take any of this seriously, so Schwentke keeps things light: light on big laughs, light on unique action set pieces and light on any sense that these game but retired spies are too old for this crap.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Mark Keizer 40
    Even Reese Witherspoon, whose adorable scrunch-face projects the romantic travails of lovelorn women everywhere, looks unsure of herself.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Mark Keizer 40
    The new film could have benefited from even a moment of genuine reflection. Being a mechanic seems like a thinking man's occupation. The Mechanic, though, barely has a thought in its head.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Mark Keizer 40
    It becomes a parade of interpersonal conflict and miserable circumstances that adds up to nothing less than angst-porn.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Mark Keizer 40
    Brotherhood moves fast, but it can't outrun its superficiality.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Mark Keizer 40
    It's only sporadically amusing and it's certainly not original.
    • Metascore: 50
    • Mark Keizer 40
    A charmingly hardened Carla Gugino reprises her role as the titular porn star, still pregnant and now coping with retirement.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Mark Keizer 30
    Conceptualized and re-conceptualized, written and re-written, shot and re-shot, cut and re-cut, the final product is the world's longest short film.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Mark Keizer 30
    Robert Young's Eichmann feels the burden of history so heavily that it's effectively smothered by it.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Mark Keizer 30
    The movie is a bit of a departure for the mumblecore pioneer, one that does not play to his strengths.
    • Metascore: 22
    • Mark Keizer 20
    If "Midnight Run" and "His Girl Friday" had an unwanted, mutant baby, it would be The Bounty Hunter, a romantic comedy where the jokes sputter and die immediately after exiting the character’s mouths.
    • Metascore: 24
    • Mark Keizer 20
    Burzynski may have credibility in the eyes of some, but the movie about him has no credibility, so no one will be receptive to its message.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Mark Keizer 20
    Inside the dreadful action comedy Cat Run, there are about three terrible action comedies struggling to get out.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Mark Keizer 20
    The Undefeated says less about Sarah Palin than about the political and cultural environment that made her big screen beatification possible.