Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
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For 614 reviews, this critic has graded:
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73% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.1 points lower than other critics.
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Michael Atkinson's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 201 out of 614
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Mixed: 259 out of 614
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Negative: 154 out of 614
614
movie reviews
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Michael Atkinson 30
At its most indulgent and posturing, Piñero plays like a movie the man himself might've made, between scores. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Cannot help but be merely another debacle that Tammy Faye will survive, eyelashes and integrity intact. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Not only is the dialogue endless...it's like driving behind a 15 mph geezer on a one-way street. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Soft-boiled blarney so sluttish with Hollywood clichés it could've been made in Burbank. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
The story is little more than overdetermined trials and triumphs. Kids won't care, but they won't fall for it either; unsurprisingly, it doesn't stand a chance of providing them with the memories the book provided their parents. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Fawzi shoots the proceedings in clumsy, gotch-eyed spurts, and the level of incoherence is impressively high. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Agazzi's movie rather provincially hints at sexiness, humor, and satire without actually manifesting them. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
85 percent explosions and editing idiocy (a window can't break without director Peter Hyams cutting between five different angles) and 15 percent Arnold trying to grow a third dimension. Seeing him try for "sad" is like watching a dog try to talk. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Beautifully shot and littered with disquieting character business, the film is hog-tied by its own bad Big Idea. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Indiana Jones has never been so missed, but instead this shaggy God story hones in on the faith dilemmas of Banderas and a sputtering Derek Jacobi, so Sunday-hammy you want to rivet him with cloves. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Logic, motivation, suspense -- anything that might make the film frightening or resonant -- is buried under Dolby blams, medulla-shaming dialogue, and a rain of overdubbed hunting-knife schwings that grate like a 3 a.m. car alarm. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
It's not easy to endure, despite -- or due to the embarrassment of -- an all-star cast. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
It'll make you cyberlaugh, it'll make you cybercry, just like cyberlife -- One thing is certain: your boredom -
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Michael Atkinson 30
The director knows how to apply textural gloss, but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
The carload of codgers in Fred Schepisi's Last Orders merely bellyache, philosophize, crack unfunny jokes, and ruminate simplemindedly about Death. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
First-timer Dylan Kidd's film isn't Molièrian in its misanthropy, but rather as boneheaded as an hour of talk-radio hobgoblin Tom Leikis. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
The story -- is just what fills in the gaps between slow-motion fireballs, Matrix-style frozen mayhem, and Halle Berry's notoriously undraped breasts. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Allegiance to Chekhov, which director Michael Cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, is a particularly vexing handicap. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
The movie neither inspires us to pine for what might've been nor makes Gilliam-style filmmaking seem like a noble pursuit. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Offers director Roger Spottiswoode a chance to have the worst actor in Beverly Hills play scenes with himself. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
The entire matter of totemistic home-team dementia is roasted on a spit and then embraced for all its sorry pointlessness. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Scene-by-scene, things happen, but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why; occasionally, a poetic moment leaps out of the soup. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Throughout, Tykwer reaches for mysteries he has no idea how to evoke, relying instead on his actors' empty stares. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Every other line is a coy Oirishism, and Brosnan, despite being Irish, isn't any more convincing than twinkly-eyed barmaid Julianna Margulies. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
Diesel himself has the personality of a golem and a knack for dialogue delivery that suggests recent oral surgery. -
