Michael Atkinson, Mr. Showbiz
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For 200 reviews, this critic has graded:
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39% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Michael Atkinson's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 55 |
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100
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3
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 81 out of 200
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Mixed: 74 out of 200
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Negative: 45 out of 200
200
movie reviews
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Michael Atkinson 38
The characters aren't convincingly written, rarely if ever behave like believable humans, and consequently don't matter to us in the least. -
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Michael Atkinson 36
Pushes the standard tropes of gay romance movies a few more steps toward full-blown cliché-dom. -
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Michael Atkinson 33
A ponderous stage adaptation that expends only the mildest effort to overcome its staginess. -
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Michael Atkinson 32
A tepid, pretentious indie that flies from the memory like a tissue in a twister. -
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Michael Atkinson 31
Oak-stiff and witless, but a few scenes muster up embarrassed chuckles. -
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Michael Atkinson 31
One of our very few consummate movie star actors, Washington can't quite elevate this dismal material as he's been able to do in the past, but he retains his dignity. -
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Michael Atkinson 31
It's a chilling piece of legal hysteria, and ripe for nasty farce. But Pooh plays it all for buffoonish pratfalls and fart jokes. -
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Michael Atkinson 31
The movie is so slovenly in its animation and graceless in its writing that few viewers over the age of 9 are likely to notice. -
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Michael Atkinson 31
An earnest but fatally amateurish and stereotypical melodrama about fraternity hazing. -
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Michael Atkinson 30
A laughable disaster: an agonizingly long, perversely dull, childishly conceived fantasia on marital sexual angst that could only have been made by someone (like Kubrick). -
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Michael Atkinson 27
If Lee's intention was to cement our loathing of blackface comedy, he's succeeded all too well. -
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Michael Atkinson 26
You'd think creating confusion during something as woodenly simpleminded as Dudley Do-Right is no easy task, but you'd be wrong. -
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Michael Atkinson 23
Hamilton's quasi-Luddite tale doesn't make a coherent movie under the best of circumstances, and these were, apparently, something substantially less than that. -
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Michael Atkinson 22
A swamp of clichés, contrivances, and cheap ham-and-cheese hero sentimentality. -
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Michael Atkinson 21
There's nothing wrong with Down to You that a smart script and savvy direction couldn't cure. -
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Michael Atkinson 20
The dialogue is trite and tinnily recorded, and the actresses have the chops of high-school drama students. -
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Michael Atkinson 20
A peerless indignity, a club-footed vomit launch of teen-horror clichés, overproduced self-importance, and scareless gore. -
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Michael Atkinson 20
It is merely another inept teen movie ripping off better horror movies. -
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Michael Atkinson 20
Yet another leaden, witless, cliché-drunk, teen romantic comedy starring the preposterously good-looking stars of mediocre TV series. -
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Michael Atkinson 20
It's a warped kind of romantic comedy in which the whole is substantially less than the sum of the parts. -
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Michael Atkinson 20
A clumsy, witless cartoon version of E.B. White's rather uncelebrated children's story. -
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Michael Atkinson 18
Invoking unpleasant memories of "Caligula" (only without the sex), Titus does no justice to Shakespeare. -
