Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer
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For 301 reviews, this critic has graded:
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33% higher than the average critic
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65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.7 points lower than other critics.
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Robert Wilonsky's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 103 out of 301
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Mixed: 116 out of 301
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Negative: 82 out of 301
301
movie reviews
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Robert Wilonsky 50
Runs out of breath and collapses into a heap of feel-good endings that turn a soaring feeling into a sinking one. But by then, the audience that adores it will forgive it its sins. -
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Robert Wilonsky 50
It should be said that Travolta delivers a wonderful performance that's lost in a mediocre -- and, at times, rather misogynistic and homophobic -- film. -
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Robert Wilonsky 20
It wears out its welcome well before its halfway point, by which time you're either so tangled up in plot points you're strangling, or so bored you just wish you were being strangled. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
To damn Herbie: Fully Loaded as soporific crap, as lazy profiteering, as yet another needless and cynical remake in a season populated by such con artists, would be as pointless as the movie itself. -
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Robert Wilonsky 50
Ultimately, the filmmakers build toward a reasonably satisfying "Twilight Zone" climax, only they crawl toward the ho-hum ending; the movie appears to have been written and edited in a swamp too. -
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Robert Wilonsky 60
The result is something that feels very much like an overachieving made-for-TV movie--a history lesson dolled up like an action movie, with the action relegated to the final third, and even then, the battle is over before it really begins. -
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Robert Wilonsky 40
The movie comes off as willfully eccentric when it should have been charmingly touching. -
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Robert Wilonsky 50
By offering up the feel-good, MGM-styled musical version, a movie you can hum along to, his biopic serves only as a giant question mark; why bother if you're going to excise the interesting and naughty bits. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
It has but one thing going for it: a cast filled with Oscar nominees. -
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Robert Wilonsky 40
It winds up like all Hollywood comedies these days--merely resembling something funny. -
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Robert Wilonsky 20
A movie that leaves you wondering what the fuss was all about when its end credits appear; it's a mish-mash of a dozen other, better films ground up and watered down--Seven, Silence of the Lambs, and Manhunter, to name a few of the usual suspects. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
Nothing happens. At all. Ever. Remember when Steve Martin was funny? Apparently, neither does he. -
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Robert Wilonsky 50
You will leave Mona Lisa Smile with only the slightest hint of the grin every slick studio movie gives you--the grin of reassurance and superiority. But you will not be changed, only out about eight bucks. -
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Robert Wilonsky 20
Proof of Life kidnaps the audience, then tortures it to a slow death -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
Its execution is stultifying, laughable and ultimately a little offensive. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
Plays like something Dr. Phil and "Sex and the City's" Carrie Bradshaw might have written during a commercial break, a feel-good fantasy that sounds deep but has no more depth than a kiddie pool drained for winter. -
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Robert Wilonsky 40
The whole thing seems to meander aimlessly, rarely creating a chill. -
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Robert Wilonsky 40
Smith used to make movies to make fun of movies like Jersey Girl; now he's just another guy working the assembly line, which won't make you a sell-out if no one buys it. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
Paycheck is a terribly muddled mess, a Hitchcock homage (with generous, obvious nods to The Birds, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest) by a great filmmaker trying to say a great deal with so very little. -
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Robert Wilonsky 20
Freedomland manages a seemingly impossible feat: It's both turgid AND overwrought, eliciting the shriek that fades into a yawn without anyone ever noticing. It's a wholly dreary piece of work. -
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Robert Wilonsky 50
Ultimately only Moore, with her eyes always half-damp and voice half-cracked and body language half-mad, keeps the movie on the ground, when it too often threatens to fly into the thin air, where the audience would laugh it off the screen. -
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Robert Wilonsky 40
It's a plot more worn out than the tinsel boxed up in the attic. In the end, they've given us a Christmas gift barely worth returning. -
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Robert Wilonsky 40
A shame Johnson couldn't give the movie over to Bullseye, since Farrell displays more danger with a cocked brow and sharpened pencil than Affleck with pages of melodramatic mush he can't force out without sounding like a high-school drama student with a sore throat. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
Succeeds in scaring you and boring you at the same time; unlike Moore's movie, it's agitprop bereft of artistry, porn for Republicans. -
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Robert Wilonsky 60
It's left to Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman as Greg's parents to warm up the picture, and they light it on fire. Indeed, they're having such a swell time as Roz and Bernie Focker that they seem to be in an entirely different movie--a funnier one, a sexier one and a smarter one. -
