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 3.2 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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Critic Score 80
In a season of mechanized spectacle and brain-dead comedies, Bulworth is a brave and bracing exception. -
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Critic Score 80
This isn't a crowd-pleaser in terms of subject matter -- you've got a convict and a nun, with no love scenes -- but Robbins keeps it interesting. -
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Critic Score 80
It's so easy to be mesmerized by Chocolat's brilliant indulgences that one abandons reason altogether. -
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Critic Score 80
The film's technical brilliance and sentimental kick seduced many viewers unsuspecting of its polemical intent. -
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Reviewed by
Cody Clark 80
Something of a featherweight, but it's also a positively divine comedy. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
Best of all is the supporting performance of The Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band, a real group of high-school musicians in which the three girls all perform. -
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Michael Atkinson 80
Myers has hit upon a genuinely original schtick, and that fact alone is immeasurably groovy. -
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Larry Terenzi 80
Marred by an unconvincing love triangle and an insincere dénouement, it's a story that nonetheless resonates as much as "Saving Private Ryan does." -
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Kevin Maynard 80
Goran Visnjic is such a sensitive, non-menacing gentleman that any woman would want him as her own personal blackmailer. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
Optimistically explores how vastly different people can come together, and how any journey is more about what happens along the way than simply getting from one place to another. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
A sentimental slice of 1950s Italian-American life that doesn't soft-pedal its characters' simmering prejudices within their insulated community, or pander to their dreams of getting out. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
This one's still worth checking out -- especially for the naturalistic performances by the feisty Touly and the rest of the young cast. -
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Michael Atkinson 80
A delicacy for mature filmgoers who are able to derive as much pleasure from a perfectly, sympathetically crafted essay as from a well-spun yarn. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
Though similar thematically to "Anywhere But Here," Tumbleweeds is a breath of fresh air that busts the cliches of dysfunctional mother-daughter sagas. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
Agnes Browne hums along as a series of pleasant vignettes, only frantically shifting to a single narrative track in its third act for the sake of an unbelievably upbeat ending. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
Smith and Fitzgerald are funny, feisty, poignant, and altogether realistic. Will they end up lovers, friends, side-by-side corpses? Their sharp performances make Series 7 as frighteningly addictive as crack, or even "Survivor." -
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Kevin Maynard 80
A literate, dialogue-driven treat delivered by a cast that truly savors the script's wicked wit. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
This is such seductive entertainment that you might as well stop grousing and give in. -
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Cody Clark 80
Rises instantly above its genre merely by taking the time to develop its characters and scenario. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
It's such a sensory experience; in its best moments, the film washes over you like a fever dream. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
A meticulously mounted film that retains the author's ambiguous characterizations yet is still emotionally accessible. -
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Larry Terenzi 80
A 25-minute third act is far too short to suffice, especially when the previous two hours are as astute and technically impressive as they are here. -
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Reviewed by
Cody Clark 80
A bully good romp, and it thumbs its nose at the bloated blockbusters towering over it at the multiplexes by ending the moment it arrives at its raucous, richly deserved climax. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
While both leads are appealing enough, it's the stuff on the sidelines that keeps All Over the Guy entertaining. -
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Michael Atkinson 80
Emblematic of the man's (Oshima) career: ironic, ambiguous, sublime. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
It's Zahn's heartbreaking performance that drives Riding in Cars with Boys. -
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Kevin Maynard 80
It's a pleasure to watch these unhurried, character-driven vignettes when such great actors are anchoring them. -
