Dallas Observer's Scores
- Movies
For 1,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
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47% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 662 out of 1519
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Mixed: 617 out of 1519
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Negative: 240 out of 1519
1,519
movie reviews
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Reviewed by
Gregory Weinkauf 30
The new version by Harold Ramis trots out a load of bargain-rack gags, tarted up with pricey effects for the A.D.D. generation. Woe to those who cannot leave well enough alone. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
One can only assume all the, ah, good stuff landed on the cutting-room floor, because it sure as hell didn't make it to Mars. -
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Critic Score 30
Notting Hill offers another example of moviemakers consoling themselves about how tough it is to be famous while congratulating themselves on how down-to-earth they really are. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
Like a half-remembered dream, the movie's often so overwhelming that even its dull, dead moments (of which there are many, unfortunately) leave you wondering what you're missing and what you've just forgotten. -
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Robert Wilonsky 30
Banal sit-comedy masquerading as religious deepthink dolled up as boy-meets-goy love story. -
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Reviewed by
Gregory Weinkauf 30
Sits before us like an exquisite platter of wax fruit, colorful, flavorless, and, if you eat it, very likely to come back up. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 30
The fact that Romance was written and directed by a woman doesn't make the film any better; it simply makes it objectionable on other grounds. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 30
Forces its snuggly weirdo upon us and instructs us from the get-go to love him. -
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Jean Oppenheimer 30
That this mess should come from the hand of Istvan Szabo, the brilliant Hungarian director of "Mephisto" and "Colonel Redl," is the real shocker. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 30
Taken as a whole, the movie seems to be searching for a harmony it never really achieves. -
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Reviewed by
Luke Y. Thompson 30
What keeps Love in the Time of Money from being truly awful is the fact that the actors give it their all -- they may be in contrived situations, but by golly they'll make the best of them. -
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Andy Klein 30
It's not really a kids' film, nor it is particularly funny, by either design or execution. It is, rather, Columbus' latest attempt at a comically tinged tearjerker. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 30
Björk holds the movie together, her natural charisma and the overwhelming intensity of her emotions should blind a lot of viewers to the ludicrousness of the story and the intentionally rotten videography. -
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Luke Y. Thompson 30
This sort of thing is the problem with making stuff up as you go along. -
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Critic Score 30
Not too far from the version of "Serpico" staged by the Max Fisher Players in "Rushmore." -
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Reviewed by
Robert Wilonsky 30
Adequately breezy and sleazy -- a movie about the horniest man in the universe looking for a little one-night stand. -
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Critic Score 30
It doesn't help that the special effects aren't spectacular, the pace is numbing, and Bierko is an even less mesmerizing presence than Keanu Reeves. -
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Critic Score 30
By the end the movie audience, like the electorate, is less satisfied than strung-out and exhausted. -
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Reviewed by
Gregory Weinkauf 30
At its best (which isn't much), Le Divorce blusters along with the tolerable tedium of had-to-be-there home movies; at its worst (which is about 90 percent), it illustrates why the French went and invented the word merde. -
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Reviewed by
Luke Y. Thompson 30
No doubt Fox wants to tap into those Latina dollars, but you've got to spend money to make money, and this shoddily cheap-looking product ain't gonna do it. -
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Critic Score 30
There are enough good scenes within the 94 minutes of The Guru to make an entertaining coming-attractions trailer. -
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Reviewed by
Bill Gallo 30
The pseudo-mystical nonsense in Brian Helgeland's supernatural thriller far outweighs its scare factor. -
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Luke Y. Thompson 30
LaBeouf's got the beef, and his inevitably bright future may be the only reason anyone will ever look back on The Battle of Shaker Heights. -
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Reviewed by
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. -
