Mr. Showbiz's Scores
- Movies
For 721 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 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: 340 out of 721
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Mixed: 241 out of 721
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Negative: 140 out of 721
721
movie reviews
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Kevin Maynard 87
Moodysson's teen protagonists are more complex than both the high school stereotypes (the nerd, the jock, the beauty queen) in films like "American Pie" and the self-absorbed philosophers on "Dawson's Creek." -
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Michael Atkinson 86
A superb, wise, and witty Taiwanese film about being single and what to do about it. -
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Kevin Maynard 86
Russell has combined pathos, terror, and black comedy with a dollop of Hollywood feel-good patriotism to make one of the best studio efforts this year. -
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Critic Score 85
Complaints? None, except perhaps a wish for more length, and a little more depth. -
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F. X. Feeney 85
Byrne is a stand-up poet the way some actors are stand-up comics. His innate depth prompts The Usual Suspects to transcend its own cleverness--and this is the movie's smartest, least predictable surprise. -
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Kevin Maynard 85
If you haven't seen his (Crudup's) work before, Jesus' Son could be the one that makes you his biggest disciple. -
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Kevin Maynard 85
The most poignant (if hard-hitting) depiction of childhood to show up this year. -
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Kevin Maynard 85
A uniquely personal, vibrant mosaic of the American dream, and like a dream, it evaporates beautifully before our eyes. -
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Kevin Maynard 85
There are only a handful of great music documentaries ... but Temple's film deserves a place in the canon. -
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Kevin Maynard 85
A hilarious and utterly faboo documentary...you'll be begging for more. -
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Larry Terenzi 85
Tucci has crafted a poignant remembrance of a bygone era, and a touching examination of the responsibilities of creativity. -
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Kevin Maynard 85
It's the sum of things not spoken, things too painful to express, that's the heart of this quietly moving drama. -
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Kevin Maynard 85
Captures the emptiness of small-time lives as evocatively as Peter Bogdonavich's "Last Picture Show." -
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Michael Atkinson 84
Dumont's movie has virtually nothing wrong with it -- aside from the fact that it drives people crazy. Take the leap, but expect no answers. Just like life, as they say. -
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Michael Atkinson 84
An explosive experience...and you have to love the movie's rabid energy and lust. -
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Cody Clark 84
Combining a seething physicality with enough weary nobility and tightly checked rage for a dozen wronged heroes, (Crowe) provides the movie's vital center of gravity without looming over his co-stars. -
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Kevin Maynard 83
The man (Apted) behind the excellent "7 Up" series has put a human face to science, making the seemingly abstruse both accessible and easily relatable. -
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Critic Score 82
A smart, sometimes pissingly funny romantic comedy that is also oddly unmoving and predictable in spots. -
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Kevin Maynard 82
This is certainly the best studio movie of the new year to date, and Douglas might even be remembered at next year's Oscars. -
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Cody Clark 82
The plot that propels them (Pitt, Roberts) along separate story lines is both unusually character-driven and a hoot. -
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F. X. Feeney 81
Has such perfect pitch in small matters that, as it builds, it proves no less capable in tackling bigger issues--and what begin as chuckles become deep belly laughs. -
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Michael Atkinson 81
Topsy-Turvy is flawless, borne along by a savagely witty screenplay that Leigh directs like the gears of a clock. -
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Michael Atkinson 81
Lacks scope and doesn't resonate grandly as a portrait of an American underbelly like Morris' earlier works do. But it still packs a wallop. -
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Michael Atkinson 81
Easily the best millennial movie, Don McKellar's Last Night is also the only one to use the idea of apocalyptic end-time as a vehicle to explore the absurdity of human desire. -
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Critic Score 80
Hallström, a past master at cockeyed coming-of-age chronicles ("My Life as a Dog," "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"), has a near-genius for unpatronizing tolerance, and for seeing beauty in the world and nature and seasons without turning them into postcards. -
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