Amy Biancolli
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50% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.7 points lower than other critics.
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Amy Biancolli's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 59 | |
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Highest review score: | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | |
Lowest review score: | Hobo with a Shotgun |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 98 out of 216
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Mixed: 78 out of 216
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Negative: 40 out of 216
216
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- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Dec 16, 2010
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- Amy Biancolli
Features an exceedingly dapper Richard Gere in a series of nice suits and handsome close-ups that serve no purpose other than to remind us how exceedingly dapper Richard Gere looks in nice suits and handsome close-ups. The rest of the movie registers as a loss of: time, money, talent and logic.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 13, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
No matter how well made, well acted and well intentioned, Lying Dingbat Procrastinator movies are excruciating to watch. Case in point: People Like Us, a film hell-bent on dragging its protagonist (and, sadly, us) through the LDP narrative playbook.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jun 28, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
The whole thing is monumentally gruesome and just as monumentally cynical, a riot of grisly cliches designed to titillate and amuse.- San Francisco Chronicle
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- Amy Biancolli
This one is a long, archetypal journey that screeches to a halt a few stops short of its destination.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Dec 8, 2010
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- Amy Biancolli
A handsome but gabby take on the standard survivalist thriller that's more concerned with lofty metaphysics than which poor blockhead is about to bite it next.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jan 26, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
There are six standard types of violence in film these days: Tarantino, comic book, Scorsese, martial arts, horror and stupid. For stupid, look no further than Centurion.- San Francisco Chronicle
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- Amy Biancolli
Let us recall that the first film was, in its blithely vulgar way, hilarious. And let us demand a moratorium on coked-out-baby jokes, which seriously kill the buzz.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Nov 3, 2011
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- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jul 5, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
Eisner has almost nothing on his mind, no political rumblings, nothing behind the urge to upgrade vintage trash.- San Francisco Chronicle
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- Amy Biancolli
Is it good bad? Nah. It's just bad. It's so bad it makes "Machete," the other movie based on a mock trailer from "Grindhouse," look like high-gloss Kubrickian satire.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 27, 2011
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- Amy Biancolli
It looks spiffy. It has an attractive cast. Marcel Zyskind's cinematography seethes and shines. And it's a crock.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jul 27, 2014
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- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 10, 2011
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- San Francisco Chronicle
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This is a terrible movie. It has no business being as terrible as it is, because it boasts a perfectly acceptable horror premise and a perfectly acceptable cast.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 24, 2011
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- Amy Biancolli
American Reunion isn't a total wash. Its one saving grace is Eugene Levy as Jim's dad.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 5, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
Most of the cast doesn't know what to do with their shallow characterizations and lackluster dialogue. The best lines were harvested for the trailer - so if you've seen that, you've seen it all.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jun 23, 2011
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- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jan 19, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
Rod Lurie's heated but empty-headed remake re-creates the original's trudge toward savagery but can't re-create its social context - and doesn't bring anything new to the table.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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- Amy Biancolli
The fact that Grandma is played by Jane Fonda, flouncing around in natural fabrics, should tell you something. It should tell you there is no casting decision or character nuance or plot turn too obvious to indulge.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jun 8, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
Rendered nearly unwatchable by overblown close-ups and an unrelenting shaky-cam.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 31, 2011
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- Amy Biancolli
If you don't guess the big twist in the first 30 minutes, Intruders is half of a good movie. If you do, it's about a third of a good movie. Either way, there's a whole lot of bad movie to contend with.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 29, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
Director-co-writer Gary McKendry seems to know a thing or two about hard-fisted fight scenes, but he muddies up the visuals with obligatory spasms of shaky-cam.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 22, 2011
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- Amy Biancolli
For a time, Journey 2 becomes a lost episode of "Lost," then it becomes "King Kong," minus the ape. Then it becomes a ukulele music video featuring the Rock's take on Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's "What a Wonderful World."- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 9, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
It's loud, it's large, it's stupid, and its best gag involves a chicken burrito.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 17, 2012
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- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jun 14, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
The Sitter is not (Funny). At all. By any definition, although an argument might be made for the alternate meanings "perplexing," "deceptive" and "slightly unwell."- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Dec 8, 2011
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- Amy Biancolli
Supposedly he's suffered, supposedly there are demons lurking within, but guess what: This is a movie. If we can't see it, it's not there.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 20, 2012
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- Amy Biancolli
Spiffy-looking, well-intentioned but ultimately witless film.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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