Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly
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For 173 reviews, this critic has graded:
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34% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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62% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.8 points lower than other critics.
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Paul Malcolm's Scores
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| Average review score: | 48 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 50 out of 173
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Mixed: 70 out of 173
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Negative: 53 out of 173
173
movie reviews
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Paul Malcolm 50
It's abundantly clear that Lozano and company have been re-watching "Pulp Fiction" for the last decade, pausing long enough to pick up the fluid rhythms of "Y Tu Mamá También" and "Amores Perros" while completely missing those films' social and political edges. -
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Paul Malcolm 50
It's the zippy chatter among the Serenity's wised-up space pirates that gives the film most of its punch, but with only serviceable action sequences and largely cookie-cutter effects, you can still sense the void just outside. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Written by a team of three, the script is more plagued by groupthink than is the film's future Earth. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
A Rumor of Angels beats its wings furiously, only to sink back into spiritualist goo. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Director Ernest -- doesn't skimp on style in a film that bluntly exploits social conscience to pump up its taste for gore. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Kazantzidis struggles for the flavor of classic romance, with a string of standards on the soundtrack to little avail. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
None of it rings true, and it distracts from the film's real heart, which, on its own, would have made for a strikingly original first film. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Struggles to achieve a giddy eccentricity that never fully emerges. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Though the two-hour film can go slack with excess explication, Shiri compensates with an overheated drive that forces the myopia of current events toward a broader field of vision. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Unfortunately, it's our knowledge of what's actually to come that puts much of the chill and complexity in Hopkins' rather formulaic script. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
The film at times feels less than objective, in part due to Douglas' often breathless narration. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Despite the lack of zing in Hogan's frequently self-deprecating zingers, director Simon Wincer repeatedly lets scenes dribble on until an awkward silence engulfs everyone onscreen. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
The Kornbluths don't offer much visual style -- the film is as flat and sterile as its corporate environs -- but they build an excruciating tension from Kornbluth's confounding inability to lick a few stamps. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
A movie with a lot on its plate, but nothing interesting on its mind. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Torem drifts into formula and his initially promising film goes unbearably soft. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
It's finally a hilarious and cuddly flashback from the dog's point of view, to his training as a pup, that marks the moment when the film finds its sweetly moronic legs. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Whatever the cause, everyone involved takes this blend of slick Verhoeven sleaze and Deliverance-brand musk way too seriously. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Bounces through the bush in search of good will and comes up with recycled charm as it reintroduces most of the original's major characters. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
It boasts none of the studio's high-gloss animation. That said, Recess is not without its charms. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Salva falls back on dull, jumbled action and an awkward subplot as he lurches toward a sequel. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
In the end, Macartney and screenwriter Stuart Hepburn decide that love conquers all, which may have been the way it happened but doesn't leave the film with much going on. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
A satirist such as Shearer should need a license to go hunting on terrain so rich with easy targets; he tries to bag them all, and it leaves the film to founder in aimlessness. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
The convoluted plot unfolds mechanically and with little atmosphere as if sex and death in the Oval Office would provide enough gravity on its own. That it doesn't is a sign of mediocre filmmaking as well as a measure of just how cynical the times have become. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
Despite their appeal to patriotic horror fans, the makers of An American Haunting end up doing more harm than good to domestic fright production. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
If you can't count on a British con movie to deliver at least a few moments of entertaining color, well, then what can you count on? Director Richard Janes' slight and wobbly Fakers comes close to shattering one's faith in a just and orderly universe. -
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Paul Malcolm 40
A film that plays like warmed-over "Cold Mountain." -
