TNT RoughCut's Scores

  • Movies
For 261 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 62 out of 261
261 movie reviews
  1. Soderbergh, like Tarantino, has a knack for making every shady character onscreen fascinating.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 65
    Weaver herself inhabits her character with confidence and passion, although she's inconsistent in spots.
  2. An enormously satisfying corndog of a movie.
  3. It's essentially a play-by-play of events that's so cheaply made it reeks of made-for-TV status.
  4. It’s Del Toro who really gets to strut his stuff with a subtle, ambiguous, and riveting performance. In a field of top-notch actors, he’s the one whom you remember days later.
    • Metascore: 34
    • Critic Score 65
    As brain candy goes, Isn't She Great is just that and a little bit more.
  5. An utterly competent, systematically entertaining summer movie.
  6. The Big Kahuna -- for its superb performances -- wants to be too much, but is about too little, working better as a series of fine monologues than as a cohesive story, the film's makers trapped somewhere between potential and reality, deal unclosed.
  7. Kay doesn't seem to know the meaning of moderation.
    • Metascore: 31
    • Critic Score 60
    A disposable flick.
  8. Singleton's lack of influence makes Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" look far funkier in comparison.
  9. Haunting character study filled with fascinating personalities, robust images, and eccentric behaviors that will please art-house fans.
  10. (Ferguson is) so cheeky and effeminate, he becomes more of a caricature than an actual person.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 60
    Tumbleweeds has a certain hopefulness about it. "Anywhere But Here," on the other hand, gives you nowhere to go.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 60
    Focuses on everything and nothing like a grown-up Disney phenom, making it a great family movie enjoyable for everyone.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 60
    Banderas has taken a brilliant novel and made a small movie with lots of bright moments, and honestly, that's quite an accomplishment for his debut.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Critic Score 60
    Though Williams gives one of his better performances in recent years -- finding the right combination of humor and restraint for this role -- none of the human characters are fleshed out in any way.
  11. In the end, the performances and the basic strength of the premise make Shadow of the Vampire a relatively diverting ninety minutes. But there is the inescapable feeling that it is a shadow of the great film it might have been.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Critic Score 60
    With Gary Shandling appearing in just about every scene, only fans of his trademark whiny, disinterested delivery and sexist un-political correctness have a hope of enjoying his new film.
  12. It's not nearly as much fun as the action-packed trailer makes it seem.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 60
    While slight and fairly unassuming considering its subject, the cast is uniformly fine.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 60
    I wasn't the only one crying in the theatre. Not by a long shot.
    • Metascore: 23
    • Critic Score 60
    The B-movie is back, folks, but who knows how long the fun will last.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 60
    An impossible, yet funny scenario.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 60
    One major inappropriate casting decision (Kirsten Dunst, who's made a solid leap to young adulthood in "Dick" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous" is cast as 14-year-old Lux?) and an underdeveloped motive for the girls' self-demise left me unaffected.
  13. By the end, we simply have no idea what he (Lee) feels or what the film is really about. And we are too worn out to care.
  14. Worth watching.
  15. Generally engaging.
  16. Pretty hysterical.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 60
    What is refreshing about this film is that most of the characters seem like real people.