Tampa Bay Times' Scores
- Movies
For 389 reviews, this publication has graded:
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66% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 256 out of 389
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Mixed: 86 out of 389
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Negative: 47 out of 389
389
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Steve Persall 25
None of these complaints would matter if The Bounty Hunter possessed even a smidgen of inspired comedy. It doesn't. -
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Steve Persall 25
The only memorable aspect of She's Out of My League is Eve's performance. Not that it's good, but it does possess the hypnotic quality of a flicker ring. -
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Steve Persall 25
Our Family Wedding should embarrass Whitaker and each of his co-stars, perhaps except Carlos Mencia, whose chief attribute as an actor is that he's a so-so standup comedian. -
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Steve Persall 25
A sitcom pilot idea stretched to feature length boredom. -
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Steve Persall 25
If only one character in Stone reacted as someone in his position would to the preposterous situation at hand, the movie would be 15 minutes long.- Posted Oct 27, 2010
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Steve Persall 25
A smarter-than-average bear becomes a dumber-than-usual kiddie flick with Yogi Bear, the lone Christmas release specifically aimed at children, so it automatically qualifies as their lump of coal.- Posted Dec 15, 2010
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Steve Persall 25
Country Strong is a country music melodrama, but I'm not sure which country.- Posted Jan 10, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Billed as an action comedy, The Green Hornet isn't funny, and the action is often too frenetic to make any impression.- Posted Jan 12, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Yes, there is a hell, and this movie is showing at its local multiplex.- Posted Jan 27, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
A timid new take on the old fairy tale, and it's pretty grim.- Posted Mar 9, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Hop is harmless, which is the worst best thing to be said for any movie. It never decides whether to be a kiddie flick or a grownup lark and winds up as neither. As Roger might say: "Puh-puh-puh-puhleeze, don't waste your time."- Posted Mar 31, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Your Highness is drive-by directing at its laziest, linking late-night sketch ideas in a quest for comedy as difficult to locate as the Holy Grail.- Posted Apr 10, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Something Borrowed is a romantic comedy in which absolutely no one deserves to end up happy.- Posted May 4, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
The Art of Getting By is enough to drive a movie critic to drink. The next round's on the kid in the overcoat.- Posted Jun 15, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Can we please get over the notion that every superhero in a skintight suit deserves a movie? Green Lantern is the latest wallet drainer emptying the comic book bench, more thudding than "Thor" and sorely incoherent.- Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
30 Minutes or Less merely puts together actors with only one funny talent each, making them do it over and over again.- Posted Aug 13, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
I wouldn't even DVR What's Your Number? if under house arrest and starved for entertainment. I've got this movie's number, and it's zero.- Posted Sep 29, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Machine Gun Preacher comes alive only when Sam is pulling a trigger, which is most of the second hour. You can find the same thrill from watching a grindhouse descendant like "The Expendables" on cable TV.- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
This Thing is purely for the gorehounds, and they aren't likely to leave impressed.- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Breaking Dawn Part 1 confirms suspicions that all four books could've made a heck of a single movie.- Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
By the time Melancholia finally crawls to its conclusion, his (von Trier) round orb in the sky isn't as depressing as the rectangular screen.- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Through it all, Marshall sticks to his rose-colored principles: You gotta have hope, listen to your heart and take leaps of faith. Plus a new one: Parker should never make it through a movie without at least one pair of fabulous shoes.- Posted Dec 7, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Carnahan didn't make a movie unfit for mankind but it certainly isn't worth mankind's money.- Posted Jan 25, 2012
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Steve Persall 25
Move along, guys. Nothing to see in The Lucky One, unless you're in the doghouse at home and need to make nice.- Posted Apr 18, 2012
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Steve Persall 25
Two flesh-and-blood performers stand out among the machinery. One is pop singer Rhianna, looking lovely as usual despite the military gear and quite comfortable with high-powered artillery. The other is Gregory D. Gadson, an Army veteran who lost his legs to a roadside bomb in Baghdad.- Posted May 17, 2012
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Steve Persall 25
Other than its campy title, not much about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is fun.- Posted Jun 21, 2012
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Steve Persall 25
The word "sappy" comes to mind, constantly. So often that I wanted to make like a tree and leaf. Frankly I'm stumped, wondering exactly who the audience is for such a drab slab of saccharine uplift.- Posted Aug 14, 2012
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