Mike Scott, New Orleans Times-Picayune
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For 477 reviews, this critic has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Mike Scott's Scores
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| Average review score: | 64 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 285 out of 477
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Mixed: 156 out of 477
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Negative: 36 out of 477
477
movie reviews
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Mike Scott 63
9, though animated, isn't really a movie for kids. The problem is that, despite its strikingly original set-up and its cool steampunk visual vibe, it's not much of a movie for grown-ups, either. -
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Mike Scott 63
Between its ridiculous setup and its hard-to-care-about ending, McDonald still manages to craft an engaging suspense film that -- when you're not scratching your head in puzzlement -- will have you on the edge of your seat. -
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Mike Scott 63
Twenty-five years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine that Imagine That would see Eddie Murphy and The Beatles coming together to create family entertainment, but I'll be darned if it doesn't work. -
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Mike Scott 63
If it weren't for the casting of Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in the lead roles, the film probably would have gone straight to DVD. -
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Mike Scott 63
Michelle Pfeiffer's performance brings life to a sometimes sagging script. Also, Kathy Bates is a hoot as the mother of Pfeiffer's love interest. -
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Mike Scott 63
Ritchie and company spend too much time being cute and not enough time being clever, resulting in a one-dimensional comic-book version of Doyle's detectives. -
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Mike Scott 63
If there's a prevailing problem with director Richard Loncraine's bit of period fluff, it's that many of the characters encountered along the way are a touch too cartoonish to resonate meaningfully with audiences. -
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Mike Scott 63
With its immensely likable cast elevating the material, Judge extracts just enough ironic chuckles to rescue the movie from being written off as an assembly-line comedy. -
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Mike Scott 63
The only thing missing from the film -- which is frequently amusing but too bleak to be consistently laugh-out-loud funny -- is a genuine connection with its audiences, or at least those audiences not raised in 1960s Jewish suburbia. -
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Mike Scott 63
Trades breathless romance for a fun "Ripley's Believe it or Not"-flavored weirdness. -
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Mike Scott 63
There's an overly episodic feel to it all, as Curtis and company seem happy merely to float along from gag to gag. -
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Mike Scott 63
Director Martin Campbell does a nice job of creating suspense, and Ray Winstone stands out for his performance as a conflicted hitman. -
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Mike Scott 63
The result is an often-screwball jaunt that isn't without its fun moments. -
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Mike Scott 63
Fortunately, there's enough charisma in those doe eyes -- to narrowly rescue the featherweight Leap Year from becoming a full-blown case of Erin-go-blah. -
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Mike Scott 63
It's a nice, feel-good story with an appealing cast and strong production values. -
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Mike Scott 63
This isn't the kind of film that will leave audiences in awe of clever writing. Rather, it will leave them thinking how much Fuqua wanted to make a movie version of "The Wire." -
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Mike Scott 63
Don't expect there to be a run on Secret of Kells action figures any time soon. -
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Mike Scott 63
There's humor there, but this is a "smart" comedy, which is to say it's not intended to make you guffaw. -
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Mike Scott 63
For her part, Stewart has Jett down pat: her strut, her slouch, her sexiness. This is a performance that goes far beyond Jett's shag haircut. -
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Mike Scott 63
A surprisingly entertaining movie on its own, a strap-yourself-in, suspend-your-disbelief summer popcorn adventure. -
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Mike Scott 63
Although they've left the city behind, the girls haven't forgotten the sex. They're still as frank as ever, as outrageous as ever, as liberated as ever. -
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Mike Scott 63
Worse, Shrek Forever After feels like just another animated movie -- which is exactly what the series was fighting against when it started, and a big reason why it caught on with audiences. -
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Mike Scott 63
What it does have going for it are its lead actors -- Brand and Hill both know exactly how to deliver a punch line -- and a lead character who represents one of the best bits of rock 'n' roll satire since "This Is Spinal Tap." -
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Mike Scott 63
As fun as it is at times -- particularly early on -- the longer The Sorcerer's Apprentice goes on, the more the magic wears off. -
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Mike Scott 63
What Noyce and company don't seem to realize is that there's a huge difference between a superspy and a superhuman. -
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Mike Scott 63
It's probably best not to think very hard about any of it -- just dummy up and laugh along. -
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Mike Scott 63
As with most Ferrell projects, there's nothing profound going on in The Other Guys. It's just a bit of good, stupid fun, had at the expense of an uber-formulaic genre that has long been ripe for the spoofing. But it also works. -
