Mike Clark, USA Today
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For 928 reviews, this critic has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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40% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Mike Clark's Scores
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| Average review score: | 64 |
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12
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 575 out of 928
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Mixed: 237 out of 928
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Negative: 116 out of 928
928
movie reviews
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Mike Clark 75
Exceedingly well cast and assembled with flashy visuals and pacing by Harron, this period piece is diminished by its relative pointlessness. -
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Mike Clark 75
Shouldn't be overrated, but it's the first film of the year - and it's mid-February already - capable of keeping a grown-up awake. -
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Mike Clark 75
It's a sweet tale, but the movie's real subject is Zhang, the camera's muse that the lens adores. -
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Mike Clark 75
Williams is impressively restrained as well as funny, so fans need not fret. It only means that instead of Good Morning, Preppies, we're given a bittersweet, even eerie Goodbye, Mr. Hip. [2 June 1989, Life, p.1D] -
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Mike Clark 75
Alas, what you've heard about Sofia Coppola (as Michael's daughter) is true; she swallows words and speaks “valley girl.'' What a difference Winona Ryder would have made. [24 Dec 1990, Life, p.1D] -
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Mike Clark 75
The star interplay and anachronisms recapture some of the surreal spirit of the Crosby-Hope Road movies, and the end-credit outtakes are funny enough to sustain that getting-hoary device for at least one more picture. -
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Mike Clark 75
A long-on-video 1993 release now restored to its original Cantonese with different music and more audio pop. -
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Mike Clark 75
The finale, which utilizes vintage home movies to show us the real people we've just seen portrayed, packs a wallop. [19 February 1999, Life, p.13E] -
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Mike Clark 75
Though this is a tough movie to dislike, it plays more like a second draft than a final product. -
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Mike Clark 75
Ultimately, this film is more interesting than rousing; missing is a John Ford-ian wealth of idiosyncratic characters. [9 Nov 1990, Life, 4D] -
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Mike Clark 75
It's gratifying to see a comedy can have no redeeming social value yet be full of hearty laughs. -
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Mike Clark 75
The distanced result, screen-adapted by playwright Christopher Hampton, never quite overwhelms you. [21 Dec 1988, Life, p.1D] -
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Mike Clark 75
The No. 1 thing Only the Strong Survive will have to survive is being overshadowed by "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." Less focused than last fall's slam-dunk Funk remembrance, Survive is a more modest soul review. -
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Mike Clark 75
This may be the most uncompromisingly raw police drama since "Across 110th Street," starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto. -
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Mike Clark 75
While this movie is sometimes overbaked, it is the first major studio release in a while to engross wall-to-wall. -
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Mike Clark 75
There's a cold intelligence at work here. Though its pleasures are plentiful enough to reward a second viewing, only Nicholson has saved Warners from a wing-clip. [23 June 1989, Life, p.1D] -
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Mike Clark 75
Bottom-line funny, often convulsively so. [2 Dec 1988] -
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Mike Clark 75
Salvaged by its rally, Reloaded seems less tired than "X2," its current sequel rival. But since its creators have said it's only half of a movie, we won't really know until The Matrix Revolutions arrives Nov. 5 whether this chunk is fizzle or sizzle. -
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Mike Clark 75
Deliberately downbeat, it's best as a two-person character study, stumbling a bit whenever it extends its parameters. -
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Mike Clark 75
The presence of "Election's" Chris Klein as the male contingent's most sensitive member only emphasizes how much smarter that high school comedy was. -
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Mike Clark 75
Kudos go to the great Thomas Newman, whose score contributes as much as either lead to what is finally a two-character movie, though one well-performed by all. [23 Sept 1994] -
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Mike Clark 75
This is a movie to be knocked, chewed and gummed, but not dismissed. It's the first 2001 release I've rushed to see twice. -
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Mike Clark 75
Woody Allen is good for his funniest screen romp in a while, thanks to a few evenly spaced standout scenes of laugh-out-loud intensity. -
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Mike Clark 75
The story itself is surprisingly seamless, yet it's the individual components that linger. -
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Mike Clark 75
This is intelligent grown-up entertainment on both a political and a humanistic level. -
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Mike Clark 75
Don't underestimate the appeal of a heart-tugger that's this well mounted. -
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Mike Clark 75
Crystal is such a panic - and normally uptight Patinkin is so attractively relaxed as a Spanish swordsman - that Bride's charms just can't be ignored. [25 Sept 1987] -
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Mike Clark 75
I enjoyed everything about Moonstruck except for its meandering mid-section. On cassette, with vino accompaniment, it may seem perfect. In theaters, with a diet drink, it still rates as the holiday sleeper. [18 Dec 1987] -
