Tom Keogh, Film.com
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For 135 reviews, this critic has graded:
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48% higher than the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4 points lower than other critics.
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Tom Keogh's Scores
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Positive: 62 out of 135
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Mixed: 39 out of 135
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Negative: 34 out of 135
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movie reviews
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Tom Keogh 90
[Roos's] dialogue (including an on-and-off voiceover by Ricci's pregnant, runaway sociopath) has a ringing clarity, his satire is low-key but quite real, and his actors mesh so perfectly you'd swear they rehearsed for months before shooting. -
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Tom Keogh 90
Director Gary Winick ("Sweet Nothing") ingeniously complements Draper's layered approach by modulating the film's energy in fascinating ways. -
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Tom Keogh 90
Firmly establishes Crowe as a standard-bearer of original thinking in the dispiritingly redundant state of American cinema. Don't miss this one. -
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Tom Keogh 90
This is vintage Allen, his powers intact after a string of increasingly cranky, creaky films in the last few years. -
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Tom Keogh 90
Finally, there's a female action hero for the summer of 2000, and she's a . . . chicken. But a chicken to believe in. -
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Tom Keogh 90
One of the best films seen in many years about the mysterious workings of time and memory. -
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Tom Keogh 90
By creating characters from emotional wellsprings rather than concepts, Leigh thrills us with the possibilities that emerge when people are merely in the same room. -
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Tom Keogh 90
The lure of Sling Blade is both elemental and hauntingly familiar, and I would not be surprised if Thornton's breakthrough film is one day considered a classic in its own right. -
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Tom Keogh 90
So funny and smart that holding it up against its predecessor is as pointless as comparing peak episodes of "Seinfeld." -
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Tom Keogh 90
Levinson is at the top of his game with Liberty Heights, his instincts acutely cinematic, his purpose clear. -
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Tom Keogh 90
The extent to which Black and Louiso help make this film terribly witty and caustic and worth every minute of its almost two-hour running time is immeasurable. -
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Tom Keogh 90
Misshapen but magnificent vision of a soulful quest -- in the thick of misery and fear -- for the meaning of our lives. -
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Tom Keogh 80
A wonderfully witty homage to the very king of disco movies -- "Saturday Night Fever." -
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Tom Keogh 80
A satisfying love story about two very different people with a common cause, people who endure trials of trust and faith in each other. -
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Tom Keogh 80
What makes Hit and Runway uniquely fun, however, is the unapologetic extent to which Livingston and Cohen turn it into an index of beloved Woody-isms. -
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Tom Keogh 80
A smart marriage of modest technical ambition, sophisticated material, and a hang-loose presentation that belies the production's no-frills sacrifices. -
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Tom Keogh 80
Fascinating noir, which will long be remembered for its extraordinary lead performance by Catherine Deneuve. -
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Tom Keogh 80
Puts the Bond film series (this one makes number 19)-- back on track by stressing the fundamentals and applying a bit of authentic drama for a change. -
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Tom Keogh 80
Soderbergh appreciates the value of having fun with a so-so script, turning its cliches into fresh experiences and infusing energy into the margins of a predictable story. -
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Tom Keogh 80
If McCulloch can draw this much humanity out of his actors, and do it in comedies with a deceptively easygoing poignancy, he's definitely a director to watch. -
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Tom Keogh 80
A careful, intelligent, and seamless design that makes room for a couple of unexpected twists. -
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Tom Keogh 80
It certainly has a place among the year's more accomplished productions. -
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Tom Keogh 80
The look, the feel, the brood-y, brilliant cast: This is an oddly affecting movie, all right, a jellyroll of Bronte and Hemingway. -
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Tom Keogh 80
Chalk this film up as an unusually intelligent thriller about that which scares us the most: accepting our accidents of fate. -
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Tom Keogh 80
A pulsing, wooshing, visceral experience that amounts to great fun and an entirely disposable movie. -
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Tom Keogh 80
Over the course of two-and-a-half hours, the film not only gets up on wobbly legs but learns to dance by the closing credits. -
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Tom Keogh 80
A huge surprise: a startlingly resonant yet unabashedly entertaining slice of American history, a popcorn movie with complex observations about, of all things, racism. -
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Tom Keogh 80
An unusually clear, compassionate, and grownup satire about a rare subject: the true psychological underpinnings of young manhood. -
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Tom Keogh 70
As he did in "Run Lola Run," he has clearly patented an original combination of cinematic eye and ear candy and a profound, irresistible fascination for the role of chance in this world. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Captivating an audience from the get-go and drawing our attention and emotions ever deeper into the layered mysteries of a dreamy fable. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Lots of movies deal with friends and lovers of a certain age growing apart. But few can hear, as Thraves does, the sound of death chains rattling in the background. -
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Tom Keogh 70
If you like a little action with your war movies, or maybe some butt-kicking Resistance types and a Mission: Impossible-like finale, you won't be disappointed. -
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Tom Keogh 70
A very pleasant experience in watching life unfold in its own direction and time. -
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Tom Keogh 70
One can be forgiven for leaving the theater feeling a modicum of hope, and for that we owe Warren Beatty something. -
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Tom Keogh 70
It is unusually but effectively organized as an almost unbroken chain of intimacies between the small and large players in this story. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Few movies this year have been quite so rewarding with their 11th hour epiphanies. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Its own, tough-minded antidote to the grab-the-brass-ring whimsy of its premise. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Will eventually be remembered as a disposable farce, but one that leaves a happy memory. -
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Tom Keogh 70
If you don't ponder too much the script's muddled, self-serving influences, Arlington Road succeeds at discomforting a viewer and making one apt to look over one's shoulder for a day or two. -
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Tom Keogh 70
It is Foster who presents the biggest single problem, delivering a monochromatic performance that finds her character not much more than flinty and strained. -
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Tom Keogh 70
A film so driven by pure style that a script barely seems necessary in its first half, Boogie Nights becomes bogged down in a predictable aftermath of drug deals, post-stardom decay, cocaine-fueled nuttiness, and self-loathing. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Snappy heist film that keeps changing the rules of a mystery so that one is never sure whose hands are at the controls. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Beyond the fantastic contrivances of Gods and Monsters, these performances are startlingly human. -
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Tom Keogh 70
It's possible that Ritchie's most important asset is the comic constant within his characters' existential dilemmas. To a man (and, indeed, they're all men), Ritchie's anti-heroes are at odds, in either large or small ways, with their own natures. -
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Tom Keogh 70
The kind of minor work that may very well speak greater volumes about (Stone's) thoughts and feelings right now than another masterpiece would. -
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Tom Keogh 70
As with Bill Clinton himself, Primary Colors forces one to take the disappointing with the good, the letdown with the promise, the compromises with the hope. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Let your children have their childhood while you have a rare, grown-up experience at the multi-plex for a change. -
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Tom Keogh 70
Whether or not Breaking the Waves succeeds as a profound work is something that's hard to say after one viewing, but it is certainly a wholly original piece of work. -
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Tom Keogh 70
The film's bemused but genuine respect for the ingenious obviousness of a bygone cinematic language is quite moving. -
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Tom Keogh 60
About two lives in which transformation is a constant, destabilizing threat to freedom and sanity. That's a very provocative premise, though halfway through the movie Doyle and Walsh abandon its potential to go for easy laughs. -
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Tom Keogh 60
A mixed bag, all in all (casting Huey Lewis was not the best idea), but worth seeing. -
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Tom Keogh 60
All fleeting charm where it could have been one of the most memorable films of the decade. -
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Tom Keogh 60
The true star of this film, funny and often breathtakingly lovely, Zellweger carries virtually every scene in which she appears -- which aren't nearly as plentiful as one might like. -
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Tom Keogh 60
If you're paying close attention, there is reason enough to find Up at the Villa a fascinating experience, almost an experiment in some ways, but it's not a fully realized work of cinema. -
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Tom Keogh 60
Streep delivers another of her chameleon-like transformations in appearance, accent, and manner. -
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Tom Keogh 60
It is an ostensibly serious story about being young and struggling to wrest control over one's life from the hands of fools, yet it doesn't behave like a serious drama that wants to lead us anywhere. -
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Tom Keogh 60
The film's light success really comes down to Shannon, though, the exuberant "SNL" star whose alter ego actually seems more real and sympathetic here than she does in brief TV skits. -
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Tom Keogh 60
Doesn't go the distance in either story or style, unwilling to liberate itself from real or presumed expectations about what it takes to sell a movie featuring teenagers. -
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Tom Keogh 60
The effects never really get ahead of the characters or the script's layered personality. -
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Tom Keogh 50
The story, ultimately, is about the classic conflict between a desire to cherish and protect one's unique gifts from a brutal world and a more practical instinct to compromise beauty. -
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Tom Keogh 50
Shaft is a decent popcorn movie and Jackson rises to the responsibility of appearing bigger than life. -
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Tom Keogh 50
This is still Ron Shelton in good -- not great, but good -- form here, and the rewards are plentiful. -
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Tom Keogh 50
Comes across as a deceptively streamlined comic-drama; an unnervingly violent, gritty film noir with a wink. -
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Tom Keogh 50
Ross might have been better served by dismissing verisimilitude altogether and going for a real fable-fable to make what is essentially a very simple point about the dangers and rewards of accepting life's beautiful risks. -
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Tom Keogh 50
Lawrence's style is purely will-it-stick-the-wall-or-not, and when it doesn't he looks pretty puny up there on the big screen. -
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Tom Keogh 50
The filmmakers went for cheap laughs as well as for some a little harder-earned. The only thing pure about this film is the dog, and he's magnificent. -
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Tom Keogh 50
Simply a case of severe overreaching and the illusion that an overstuffed movie is an epic movie. -
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Tom Keogh 50
A dark comedy that squanders its potential and never quite, as they say, suspends disbelief. -
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Tom Keogh 50
While we may like what we see, it's impossible to comprehend what much of it means or why we should care. -
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Tom Keogh 50
The would-be emotional centerpiece of his three-hours-plus adventure flick is the most juvenile romantic tale of 1997. -
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Tom Keogh 50
Once at sea, The Perfect Storm collapses in a heap of spectacle and a dubious piling-on of scary incidents. -
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Tom Keogh 40
The film's very premise, while initially promising, doesn't hold up to lengthy scrutiny. -
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Tom Keogh 40
Rounders is more involved with the insulated, arcane world of a gambler than it is with the things that actually make a movie work, such as characters and relationships and a script that connects all its dots. -
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Tom Keogh 40
All such good intentions collapse by the third act, when Mission to Mars becomes a tediously late pastiche of chimerical nonsense from the early 1980s. -
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Tom Keogh 40
For Stallone, and his original script for Driven reflects a more mature, self-effacing perspective. -
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Tom Keogh 40
When Phillips is out of the zone, however, Road Trip slows down, awaiting another redemption. -
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Tom Keogh 40
Rob Schneider's stab at an "Ace Ventura"-like gamble for stardom. -
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Tom Keogh 40
So mired in his own ludicrous equation for contemporary action pictures that it's constantly stuck in first gear. -
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Tom Keogh 40
This much-anticipated but terribly underwhelming black comedy represents a seriously squandered opportunity. -
