New Times (L.A.)'s Scores
- Movies
For 639 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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48% 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: 311 out of 639
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Mixed: 212 out of 639
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Negative: 116 out of 639
639
movie reviews
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Robert Wilonsky 80
Signs blessedly displays a sense of giddy dark humor absent from Shyamalan's previous outings. It appears for much of the film he's merely having fun with the genre, goofing on its paranoid roots. -
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Andy Klein 80
The plot may be nothing, but the film is something indeed. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
Sharp, smart and robustly engaging film. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
Maybe Baby is Elton's stab at romantic comedy, and it's a strong feature debut, spiffy, quick-witted and more than a little shocking in its unflinching acknowledgement of English people having sex. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
Arteta targets Middle American ennui with wit, compassion and no shortage of ornery malaise. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
Not only is Undercover Brother the funniest spy-thriller since "The Nude Bomb" (oh, behave), it feels like the proper sequel to "The Blues Brothers," crossing all kinds of lines between cartoonish buffoonery and genuine compassion for its characters. -
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Andy Klein 80
Washington creates an indelibly charming and terrifying character whose volatile blend of dedication and horrible expediency keeps us off balance. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
A happily self-aware body-count flick that's as brutally funny as it is plain-old brutal. A broad slash of scary, sci-fi fun, the project leapfrogs all the Scream and Last Summer junk to carve itself a new, high-tech niche. -
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Bill Gallo 80
In elevating bawdy teen farce to political metaphor without squeezing the fun out, Alfonso Cuarón has pulled off a nice little miracle. -
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Robert Wilonsky 80
If Dubus' work always resembled some sort of literary therapy session, as has often been said, then Field's version requires grief counseling. It is, at times, that devastating. -
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Andy Klein 80
Office Space's pleasures don't really depend on plot. It's pretty much what a Dilbert feature should look like. -
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Andy Klein 80
Wisely, Run Lola Run lasts something under 80 minutes; any longer, and it would have been as exhausting and boring as a half-hour Donna Summer track. -
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Luke Y. Thompson 80
One of the few unanimously acclaimed classics of Japanese animation. -
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Robert Wilonsky 80
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of About a Boy is how substantial it plays -- as a feel-good film with weight, a knowing comedy with dramatic depth. -
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Bill Gallo 80
En route, we also get a chance to examine the nature of the self and the responsibilities of science. Das Experiment has all this and more, excitingly packaged as a prison movie featuring superb performances and high emotional tension. -
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Bill Gallo 80
It's vastly enjoyable in a low-down, scandal-mongering way. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
In the realm of B-movies about messing with nature, it's as enjoyable as "Frankenstein Unbound," and unlike, say, "A.I." it's intentionally creepy. It's also occasionally masterful. -
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Bill Gallo 80
A beautifully acted, carefully written meditation on one woman's grief, the enigma of imagination, the persistence of desire and -- let's face it -- the power of denial. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
It's pretty safe to say that claustrophobic, gay-themed murder mysteries haven't been this much fun since "Deathtrap." -
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David Ehrenstein 80
Has all the crowd-pleasing elements moviegoers respond to: appealing hero, absorbing story, a solid group of supporting players and a big fat happy ending. -
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Bill Gallo 80
There are a couple of technical rough spots, but this daring film challenges most widely held notions about religious conviction while providing a complex portrait of an identity crisis that's run amok and a good mind that's jumped the tracks. -
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Luke Y. Thompson 80
As a gallery of the grotesque, however, the cinematic equivalent of a Joe Coleman painting or Adam Parfrey publication, The Salton Sea is a blast. -
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Robert Wilonsky 80
Not only an exceptional thriller, but a transcendent summer movie: It assumes, for two hours, you've brain and heart enough to stick with a film that doesn't condescend, doesn't beat you up and doesn't dumb you to death. -
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Robert Wilonsky 80
Audiard keeps things shaky, grim, claustrophobic, doomed. His film has the feel of documentary, as he follows Clara through the daily grind that pulverizes her. We're in her head, literally. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
There's just no arguing with 12 centuries of flamenco, and, in this sensuous movie, no resisting it. -
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Gregory Weinkauf 80
While you think you're watching just another in a series of British gangster films, you may suddenly realize that you're watching what is, thus far, the year's best horror movie. -
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Robert Wilonsky 80
As stirring as it is slight, as effective as it is familiar. -
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Andy Klein 80
What Nolan does accomplish here that we haven't seen from him before is staging a few horrifyingly effective suspense set pieces -- one of which, in particular, is likely to stay with you for a long time. -
