Adam Markovitz
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55% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 15.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Adam Markovitz's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 47
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Mixed: 20 out of 47
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Negative: 13 out of 47
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- Adam Markovitz
It’s a rom-com setup lamer than anything in the Barrymore-Sandler canon, but Binoche and Owen tackle it like high drama and eke out a few sweet moments.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 21, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
There's barely a trace of the magic of 1939's "The Wizard of Oz"; the bricks are still yellow, but the road doesn't lead anywhere special.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 9, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
Director Richard Ayoade (Submarine) gets a huge impact from minimal expressionist sets, but the thin story — loosely based on Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella — plays like a pale reflection of a more exciting tale.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 7, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
The movie doesn’t grab you emotionally, but director Atom Egoyan (Exotica) teases apart the case’s details with grim fascination.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 7, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
The jokes are flaccid, the acting is stiff, and the whole idea is such a boner, you have to wonder if the writer was missing another critical organ when he came up with it.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 1, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
It's fun to watch at first. All that twirling and sliding is a nice change of pace from the usual seat-shaking pyrotechnics.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 24, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
Heaven is for Real has lots of sweet, Rockwellian imagery of small-town life and family high jinks. What it doesn't have is dramatic tension.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 18, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
There's an elemental appeal to watching these animals hunt and play in the Alaskan wildnerness, and the Disneynature team has mastered the art of capturing it.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 17, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
Colin Firth smolders as the PTSD-riddled veteran (played in flashbacks by War Horse‘s Jeremy Irvine), and Nicole Kidman cries dutifully as his wife — but they’re both derailed by the movie’s tidy emotional resolutions.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 9, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
Sit tight through the end credits and you'll be treated to a few off-the-cuff outtakes of the guys doing things much funnier than anything in the film itself.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Feb 3, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
When the movie occasionally does confront its hero’s foibles, its answers are disappointingly pat.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jan 2, 2014
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- Adam Markovitz
It would make for a pretty ghastly pageant if not for smart, understated turns by Watson and Geoffrey Rush as the charmingly Teutonic couple who rescue both Liesel and a stranded Jew (Ben Schnezter) — not to mention the movie itself — with honorable matter-of-factness.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Nov 6, 2013
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- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Oct 4, 2013
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- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 12, 2013
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- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 30, 2013
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- Adam Markovitz
Sarcastic quips and cynical attitudes abound, maybe as a way for the movie's makers to telegraph that they know this is all just so much kid stuff. But if the characters can't muster genuine awe for their adventure, it's a tall order to ask us to do it for them.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 9, 2013
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- Adam Markovitz
PA4 develops the story ever so slightly (not enough to satisfy fans) and delivers a few good scares (not enough to satisfy newbies); mostly, it plays like a overlong prologue for the already-in-the-works PA5. Here's hoping this is just the tension-racking lull before the next big scream.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Oct 18, 2012
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- Adam Markovitz
Cooper, who looks appealingly wolfish in his expensively tailored suits, plays the whole thing with a dutiful, earnest expression lacquered on his face, his eyes misting on cue at the exact same moments yours will be rolling into the back of your head.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 8, 2012
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- Adam Markovitz
All those twangy, homespun observations interrupt and annotate the narrative until Black and MacLaine's scenes start to feel as trivial as reenactments on a true-crime TV show.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 25, 2012
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- Adam Markovitz
You can almost smell the brine in the boat helmed by Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) on his quest to win Pirate of the Year.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 25, 2012
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- Adam Markovitz
Most of the movie's action-horror set pieces play like lame Gwar music video outtakes, and Cage's signature mix of irony and off-the-rails mugging only works when you can see the actor's face. In Ghost Rider form, his character is just a skeletal automaton with neither a tongue nor a cheek to put it in.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Feb 17, 2012
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- Adam Markovitz
Trite lessons are learned. Plotlines play out in familiar arcs. A few blips of sex and drug use aim to make the movie feel more grown-up. Instead, they make it off-limits to the only age group likely to find any charm in its smug Britcom cutesiness.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jan 25, 2012
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- Adam Markovitz
Why are they fighting again? Never you mind. Just sit tight till the next action sequence (it won't be long), and get ready to laugh - with equal parts scorn and fanboy joy - as Beckinsale strikes another Rodinesque pose under a slo-mo shower of inhuman innards.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jan 20, 2012
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- Adam Markovitz
Good news: The shrill CG rodents, who last infested theaters in 2009's Squeakquel, are stranded on a jungle island with little hope of survival. Bad news: They've brought us along.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 15, 2011
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- Adam Markovitz
What saves Immortals as a moviegoing experience is the exuberant, kid-in-a-candy-store virtuosity of its director, former music-video wunderkind Tarsem Singh (The Cell).- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Nov 11, 2011
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- Adam Markovitz
A ho-hum series of kills and lulls so predictable that it doesn't even look like much fun for the sharks; when they open wide, they might as well be yawning.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 2, 2011
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- Adam Markovitz
They're all fascinating 
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- Posted Jun 22, 2011
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- Adam Markovitz
Though it doesn't work as entertainment, this numbingly chipper rom-com (directed by Dermot Mulroney) might be of historical value someday as an A-to-Z guide to the genre's most overworked clichés.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 29, 2011
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- Adam Markovitz
Spectacularly poor judgment in everything from acting to costuming (Olsen's Harajuku-troll get-up is scarier than her curse) puts Beastly right on the cusp of the so-bad-it's-good Hall of Shame.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Mar 5, 2011
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- Adam Markovitz
Lawrence's gender-bending jokes are played out, and his slapstick is wooden and slow.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Feb 18, 2011
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