Robert Koehler, Variety
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For 504 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.6 points lower than other critics.
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Robert Koehler's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 153 out of 504
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Mixed: 239 out of 504
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Negative: 112 out of 504
504
movie reviews
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Robert Koehler 100
An exquisite ode to a working-class hero, Cinderella Man takes the almost impossibly perfect elements of the saga of underdog boxer James J. Braddock and fills it with emotional gravitas, wrenching danger and a panoramic sense of American life during the Great Depression. -
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Robert Koehler 100
The concert film has never looked or sounded classier than Jonathan Demme's superbly crafted Neil Young: Heart of Gold. -
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Robert Koehler 100
A rock-ribbed sense of committed, personal cinema and a core belief in people being able to pull themselves out of misery supports Ballast, an extraordinary debut by editor-writer-director Lance Hammer. -
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Robert Koehler 90
A gently and genuinely observed film whose subject is a garish, artificial display of mayhem. -
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Robert Koehler 90
The balance between feeling and distance is never a contradiction here but, rather, the dynamic that makes this film an especially humanistic entry in the Maysles canon. -
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Robert Koehler 90
A triumph of indie casting of unknowns, Good Housekeeping is knee-deep in delicious thesping. -
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Robert Koehler 90
Jacobson produces a remarkably creepy piece of cinema that disturbs by suggestion, nuance and ambiguity. -
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Robert Koehler 90
This edition of the seminal example of genre sensationalism refined by the cream of Hollywood craftsmanship is more complicated than a standard director's cut. -
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Robert Koehler 90
A resoundingly old-fashioned and well crafted study of evil infecting an American family, Frailty moves from strength to strength on its deceptive narrative course. -
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Robert Koehler 90
Belzberg's unsparing camera sometimes portrays a level of cruelty that tests viewers' tolerance, but her fearless aesthetic is also a measure of the film's brilliant indictment of any society that can allow its most vulnerable to slip into oblivion. -
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Robert Koehler 90
The elusive, quicksilver nature of young love is often reduced to crude simplicities by the movies, but director Sebastien Lifshitz and writing partner Stephane Bouquet have observed it with a superb balance of aesthetics and insight in Come Undone. -
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Robert Koehler 90
Los Angeles may be the most photographed city in the world, but it has never have been captured with such complex layers of meaning and fascination as in Thom Andersen's remarkable Los Angeles Plays Itself. -
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Robert Koehler 90
Ghobadi in this pic displays a complete command of his art as he shifts between -- and even blends -- wrenching tragedy and amusing comedy. -
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Robert Koehler 90
Observing locally and thinking globally, Laura Dunn's astonishing debut doc feature The Unforeseen is the kind of transformative viewing experience that has made the current period a golden age for nonfiction film. -
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Robert Koehler 90
Similar in its battlefield passages to last year's Danish-made "Armadillo," Dennis' film scores a layered perspective that follows Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris into combat and back home.- Posted Feb 13, 2012
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Robert Koehler 90
Jeter's film takes on the quality of a sustained dream, as if the theatrical conceits of Jean Genet were married to a children's story retold via William Faulker's Southern brand of stream of consciousness.- Posted Feb 14, 2012
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Robert Koehler 90
Departing from two decades' worth of domestic and personal dramas and returning to his roots as Japan's maestro of mayhem, Kinji Fukasaku has delivered a brutal punch to the collective solar plexus with one of his most outrageous and timely films.- Posted May 24, 2012
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Robert Koehler 80
With Undisputed, writer-director Walter Hill is back in contention as one of Hollywood's last defenders of the muscular, no-nonsense genre movie. -
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Robert Koehler 80
Sandler turns the joke around on his detractors and manages to lead a devilishly energetic vehicle that contains about as many laughs as his previous features combined. -
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Robert Koehler 80
Burning with a quiet intensity, Monster's Ball is bolstered by a poetic, intelligent sensibility not seen in an American film since Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line." -
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Robert Koehler 80
Director Phil Alden Robinson -- has done just about everything he can do to build a sleek, involving and -- for a few minutes -- terrifying movie that can get viewers past the young Ryan factor. -
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Robert Koehler 80
The deft shading he (Byler) elicits from his thesps is of a piece with his dramatics and his understated, artful approach to compositions and movement. -
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Robert Koehler 80
Disney's tradition of intelligent, live-action family period cinema is magnificently revived in Tuck Everlasting. -
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Robert Koehler 80
Though animated sequels of popular kids' fare tend to perform lower than their progenitors, this one should buck the trend. -
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Robert Koehler 80
Light, taut and compact, the zippy adventure is sometimes much too hip for the room. -
