Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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For 1,207 reviews, this critic has graded:
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21% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 13.7 points higher than other critics.
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Michael Wilmington's Scores
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Positive: 983 out of 1207
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Mixed: 142 out of 1207
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Negative: 82 out of 1207
1,207
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Michael Wilmington 38
Just another self-absorbed teen chronicle, with the added twist of a little time travel and a surprise ending.- Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Michael Wilmington 38
Superhero comic book movie with a script so feeble it might have been written with crayons. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
Though I would agree it's original -- it's the first aboveground romance movie I've seen in which the heroine is repeatedly spanked, verbally tormented and tied to a chair by her lover--- it's not an experience I much enjoyed. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
Despite a big budget, lots of technical flair and a good cast headed by Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames, it's mostly a bloody mess. -
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Michael Wilmington 25
there's no joy in this movie. It's a safe, compromised, even preachy, fable; a wannabe hip romp that never gets going. [07 Jul 1995] -
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Michael Wilmington 38
A gaudy yet grim science-fiction horror movie of such surpassing silliness, humorless intensity and stylistic overkill that watching it may actually put you in a state of paranoia. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
A contemporary teen summer romance with a modern sexual twist--though in many ways, it's just the same old malarkey. -
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Michael Wilmington 25
The kind of fascinatingly bad film only a really gifted and fearless moviemaker could make: a 92-minute long raggedy-raunchy vision of sex, transit and alienation in which Gallo focuses on himself so obsessively, it's as if he'd become his own stalker. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
The Favor is a sex comedy without sex-and pretty much without comedy. [29 Apr 1994] -
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Michael Wilmington 25
Think about the worst movie ideas you've had in your life, the ones so embarrassing they make you wince. Now imagine this: a modernized version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" titled Scotland, Pa. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
This clunky remake can't rise from the ashes, nor would you want it to. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
It's one of those movies where talented filmmakers waste time with stale, phony material. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
The idea may sound like fun, but the movie isn't. It's a travesty of a picture that's a disgrace to the memory of the great film from which it's remade. [5 February 1999, Friday, po.A] -
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Michael Wilmington 38
Just withers compared with many older, better movies about teen alienation and nihilism, from "Rebel Without a Cause" to "River's Edge." -
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Michael Wilmington 38
An odd little ghoul too cleaned up to survive, a bloodless vampire movie that's mostly lifeless as well. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
Often ridiculous, mostly poorly written and, surprisingly poorly acted too. No matter how many flashy scenes the filmmakers shoot, the bad lines just keep dripping down. [21 Aug 1998] -
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Michael Wilmington 38
Technically clever but emotionally bankrupt...it's an almost laughably opportunistic movie. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
I can't think of much that might happen on a date evening that could be more annoying than this movie. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
An oppressively cute Manhattan time-travel romantic comedy that’s lost in time, space and cliches. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
One more movie comedy about how love can turn you into an idiot. And its major flaw, among many others, is that the idiocy takes over the movie. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
The crass sentimentality of American Wedding increasingly fits Norman Mailer's definition: "the emotional promiscuity of the basically unemotional." The jokes are unemotional, uncouth and mostly unfunny. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
In this bizarre tale of man among the apes and a psychiatrist among madmen -- an over-emotional hybrid of "Gorillas in the Mist" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" -- style buries substance. -
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Michael Wilmington 38
It may entertain you if you don't mind senseless stories and screaming soundtracks. -
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Michael Wilmington 25
Serves up horrendous lead acting, murky cinematography, bland atmosphere, unengaging romance, mug-crazy cameo performances, bash-on-the-head satire and ill-timed slapstick gags that look like outtakes from a Bozo the Clown show gone berserk. [20 Oct 1995] -
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Michael Wilmington 38
Some film premises are so outlandish, so thinly worked out and so deep-down ridiculous that they wind up sinking the show -- and White Chicks collapses under a real doozy. -
