Paula Nechak, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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For 291 reviews, this critic has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.7 points higher than other critics.
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Paula Nechak's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 186 out of 291
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Mixed: 86 out of 291
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Negative: 19 out of 291
291
movie reviews
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Paula Nechak 50
Despite his harrowing real-life experiences, Downey, good as he is, is simply too young for the part. This callow telling begs for a more mature approach. -
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Paula Nechak 42
Kilner and crew cough up a mish-mash of contrasting tones and tempos and wind up a rather odd, misshapen curiosity that wavers into too many styles to avoid a slow death by overkill. -
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Paula Nechak 75
Brokedown Palace does have some plot implausibilities but Kaplan, manages to turn some hashed story lines into something substantial and emotionally affecting. -
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Paula Nechak 58
Maybury's attempt at a more mainstream movie is really just a simple love story cloaked in a lot of metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. -
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Paula Nechak 50
There's not an original idea rattling around in the empty-headed but gorgeous-to-behold period film. -
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Paula Nechak 83
It's the chemistry between Vardalos and Collette that gives the film its magical dazzle. Despite Vardalos' ingratiating, big and breathy presence, Collette, as the pulse and conscience of these two dreamers, very nearly steals the film. -
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Paula Nechak 58
The Village goes up in smoke (and mirrors). It wants to find a profoundness that hints at something deep and dimensional, but it hasn't the courage of conviction to stay on course as an unabashed ode to innocence. -
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Paula Nechak 42
Racing Stripes is oddly torn in tone: is it an old-fashioned family drama, a coming-of-age story or a crass comedy? Live action or animation? Unlike "Babe," it fails to integrate its conflicting personalities. -
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Paula Nechak 75
What emerges is a funny and sometimes aching movie that treads familiar dysfunctional family turf but still manages to eke out an emotionally toned balance. -
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Paula Nechak 42
Pretty silly stuff, designed to appeal more to older kids and adults than the toddler brigade. -
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Paula Nechak 16
So badly plotted and written that it rarely makes much sense, even with the elementary story line. -
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Paula Nechak 58
Strikes a universal chord, no matter what rung of the popularity ladder we were on in high school. -
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Paula Nechak 42
Though the cast is talented, the script is a mess. It's essentially a collision of missed opportunities. -
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Paula Nechak 42
As has been the case with most of Shepard's plays, transfer to the movies spells doom. -
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Paula Nechak 50
The restless, selfish, unfriendly people created by Lachow as protagonists only make the movie hard to warm up to. It's more akin to fingernails scraping a blackboard than an updated morality play. -
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Paula Nechak 58
Lawrence uses the stand-up forum less as a weapon to blast us with his incisive, razor sharp insights into life, sex and ethnicity than as a pulpit or confessional to chronicle his rehabilitation and reformation. -
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Paula Nechak 50
In the end, it trivializes the psychological complexity of the girl's post-traumatic stress and betrays a game group of actors who struggle to find balance between the alternately dark drama and the silly, over-the-top melodrama. -
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Paula Nechak 42
This collision of popular Emmy-winning TV shows is strangely uninspired and, well, a bit dull. -
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Paula Nechak 42
A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop. -
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Paula Nechak 50
The film, despite the occasional gross-out joke, can't disguise the fact that it's a sweet old sappy -- even dated -- love story. Only Molly Ringwald is missing. -
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Paula Nechak 50
I scratched my head in wonder as to why this pair of one-dimensional characters couldn't find happiness in such a shallow story. -
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Paula Nechak 42
The vapid plot line follows the same narrative arc as "Tootsie" but hasn't the heart or purpose of that film. -
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Paula Nechak 50
It lacks, despite the remarkable techno effects by wizard Stan Winston, originality and charisma. -
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Paula Nechak 58
Would be totally unexceptional if not for its visual telling of the Apollo 11 flight and the fact that the movie is impressively shot - the first animated feature film in 3-D. -
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Paula Nechak 16
Though the pop idol recently said that movies are his ultimate goal, the best thing about On the Line is its music. -
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Paula Nechak 42
Though it does present the facts of Susann's life, it skims them so quickly and with such glorious glee that we never get a sense of who this woman really was. -
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Paula Nechak 25
What it doesn't have is a script that has anything original, cohesive, or, gasp -- funny -- to say. -
