Barbara Shulgasser
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40% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.4 points lower than other critics.
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Barbara Shulgasser's Scores
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Average review score: | 56 | |
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Highest review score: | A Family Thing | |
Lowest review score: | Love Stinks |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 103 out of 226
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Mixed: 71 out of 226
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Negative: 52 out of 226
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Foster has whipped the actors into the sort of comic frenzy usually reserved for farce, and the ready-for-anything energy serves the material well.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Tennant and company do a fine job of retaining the otherworldliness of a fairy tale while at the same time explaining all the archaisms for a modern audience.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Unfortunately, the movie never really goes anywhere. It's all pleasant enough to watch, but you never feel that Danny and Arthur's craziness (eventually Danny is committed), Sid's stoicism, Selma's selflessness and Steven's despair coalesce to mean anything significant or illuminating.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Be that as it may, the movie offers the uplifting news bulletin that life is not about being happy with how much you weigh but with what kind of person you are. This is where the movie starts getting sloppy.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Dalmatians proves an apt playground for Hughes as one could surmise that his inspiration for treating comic bad guys in his movies so violently comes from a cartoon sensibility.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
While Birdcage has many isolated funny moments, long bits of slowness interrupt the energy.- San Francisco Examiner
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But in its own overblown, melodramatic way, complete with hideous and obtrusive music by Michael Kamen, clanging sound effects that will leave your ears ringing and a penchant on the part of director Paul Anderson ( "Mortal Kombat" ) for quick flashes of blood-drenched gore, Event Horizon is kind of a hoot.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
I suppose Kusturica can justify the 167-minute length by the historical breadth of the movie, but it simply doesn't sustain one's interest, significant or not.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
It was the adult in me that wept when the movie ended. Take the kid and have a good time.- Chicago Tribune
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Mangold's vision is bold. There is nothing cutesy or gimmicky about Heavy, which may be why something in its grimness recalls the work of Ingmar Bergman.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
The only remarkable feature about this otherwise routine movie is that it vilifies two current icons of American life. One is The Internet and the other is The Mall.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Hush, which is an absurdly bad mixture of "Rosemary's Baby" and any Bette Davis movie from the 1960s, seems to be a classic case of a grasping mother trying to possess her beloved son.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
This is a piece of gloriously literary and serious filmmaking, but again it falls prey to misjudgments in pacing and rhythm.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
In order to like Striptease, you have to be a pretty serious Moore fan because although director Andrew Bergman's script (based on the book by Carl Hiaasen) has a few funny lines, this is otherwise one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
This is the kind of story that might have been interesting had it not been populated with dreary characters played by actors who were clearly coached to be as dull as possible.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Most disappointing is the fact that the movie ends so abruptly that you can't help wondering what the whole story amounts to, moving as it is.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Ransom is every bit as taut and expertly directed, and it's another in the emergency genre, one in which Howard excels.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
On the whole, the movie is a success. I still hope that children and their parents will read this wonderful book together, but it's nice that there's a movie they can see, too.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
It's all quite inspiring, but despite the fact that this is based on someone's actual experiences, the whole thing has an unfortunate Hollywood ring to it.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Aside from avuncular Lewis and two-bricks-shy-of-a-load Dunaway, this movie's greatest asset is Depp. With his scooped-out cheeks, flower petal mouth and an innately balletic approach to communicating with the camera, he is as natural a performer as film has seen in many years.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Director Cassavetes may want to cut back on the slow-motion stuff, but he's unquestionably a talent.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
While I was watching "Lone Star," I realized that what makes Sayles a good and socially responsible person - his ability to look at one thing a hundred different ways - is exactly what makes him a muddy filmmaker.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
One of the most blithely, giddily ridiculous movies to come along in ages.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
There isn't much to hold onto with this movie. If anything, Cry trivializes the plight of the South Africans in its breezy treatment of apartheid.- San Francisco Examiner
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- Barbara Shulgasser
Nostalgia has no real point to make here. All that Famuyiwa can hope to accomplish is to tell his story well. In this area he is less than competent.- Chicago Tribune
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- Barbara Shulgasser
You find yourself absorbed in simply looking at them to the extent that it's hard to hear what they're saying. It's a nice dilemma for a movie to present.- San Francisco Examiner
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