Allison Benedikt
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44% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points lower than other critics.
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Allison Benedikt's Scores
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Average review score: | 59 | |
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Highest review score: | The Squid and the Whale | |
Lowest review score: | Mindhunters |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 51 out of 103
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Mixed: 30 out of 103
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Negative: 22 out of 103
103
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- Allison Benedikt
With humor, honesty and awe, Feuerzeig's portrait may love Daniel Johnston, but it won't give his parents much hope.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
Overall the film is alluringly over-the-top without being overcooked.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
Match Point is fantastic to look at, sharply dramatic and Allen is--who knew?--a master of suspense.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
Ingenious with his use of music and hypnotic pacing, Winterbottom keeps us in his world as usual. But this time that world feels ever more gratuitous, meandering and puzzling, with sex that's less and less authentic even though it's real.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
Yes, Steve Carell can carry a movie. Yes, Judd Apatow can direct a movie. Yes, we'll all relate to a middle-aged virgin. And yes, when an aesthetician yells to her assistant "we're gonna need more wax," you best run.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
It's a joy to see so many cheerful and contented characters on screen, especially on a screen that looks this good.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
The world of his films may be violent, but Hill's vision is a delicate, subtle one-of individuals packing away the tiny bit of meaning and emotion life has granted them, and fighting to protect it at all costs. It's not a sentiment that can survive in cartoons; that it emerges at all in Red Heat is a tribute to Hill's still great talent. [17 Jun 1988, p.A]- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
I'll describe the central characters in Disney's new ice-skating flick, Ice Princess, and you guess the plot.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
Roos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy, but he bogs down every character with so much baggage that it's impossible to render them honestly without the captions.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
But though you'll laugh your head off, the whole film kind of morphs into a blur, with one poop/sex/abuse joke after another. It's exhausting, really. And save for the very best tellings, you do start to wonder: What's so funny?- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
It's not exactly a good time at the movies, and even as pure education, it's a rather dull film with very little dialogue, but Glawogger does succeed in capturing the images, sounds and even imagined scents (oh, those burning goats) of contemporary hard labor, work that has become nearly invisible to us cubicle jockeys.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
It's all neat and sweet and one-dimensional, more the moral to a story than a story.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
Jacobson, whose earlier film is a docudrama about Jeffrey Dahmer, is clearly fascinated with men who would be monsters. It's a ripe and infinite topic to explore, but without Norton, theme alone could not have sustained Down in the Valley.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
The film never gets going. It's too slow and plodding for kids--even too obvious.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
Though the film has a plot a simpleton could follow, its hallmark is confusion. Its sense of time and place and its point of view are muddled. [13 Oct 1989, p.L]- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
But alas, even with young talent, director Roger Kumble and writer Adam Davis rely way too heavily (no pun intended) on the fat-suit joke and titular impasse.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
The scenery is pretty and the locals endearing, but Schorr never gets past charming.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
The movie here is Treadwell's footage--some of it beautiful, much of it difficult to watch.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
It's not so important to follow plot twists--I couldn't--but the emotional thrust Kelly and Scott want to drive home is plain: Once Domino is asked to use guns and knives and nunchucks for a purpose outside the law, she's alarmed, appalled, aghast.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
If "Roll Bounce" and "Boyz n the Hood" fell in love and had a PG-13 baby, it would be ATL.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
It's a cheap thrill, with twists that later seem evident and foreshadowing that often seems obvious, with a B-movie look and vibe reminiscent of the much tighter "Jagged Edge."- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
Willis never develops a rapport with Def, and in the end it's not the predictable action but this lack of chemistry and camaraderie that sinks 16 Blocks.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
More often then not, the relationships and performances are strong and moving, with an effect both breezy-fun and profound.- Chicago Tribune
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- Allison Benedikt
The trouble with Bridget redux is also simple: Thai jail.- Chicago Tribune
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