Betsy Sharkey
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61% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.1 points lower than other critics.
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Betsy Sharkey's Scores
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Average review score: | 64 | |
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Highest review score: | Trucker | |
Lowest review score: | Nothing Left to Fear |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 342 out of 635
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Mixed: 255 out of 635
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Negative: 38 out of 635
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- Betsy Sharkey
Director Brett Haley, who co-wrote the film with Marc Basch, has managed to create a film about those final years that gets to the heart of things like loss and love without patronizing or parody. No small thing to create a movie whose cast is mostly in their 70s yet whose story is so relatable whatever your age.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 14, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
From the beginning, the filmmakers promise an affectionate look at the man, and in that they deliver.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 14, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
The comedy choir wars are more intense, more absurd and more lowbrow fun than ever in Pitch Perfect 2. It is almost impossible not to be amused by the cutthroat world of competitive a cappella.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 14, 2015
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- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 7, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
The plot is lean, the dialogue is spare and there are some intriguing stabs at intellectual and emotional terrain. But the pacing is deadly, so slow there might be time for a catnap or two without missing anything important.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 7, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
There is a great deal of silliness about Allan's journey from start to finish and no real message other than to never stop taking life as it comes. But there is also a great deal of fun in watching a 100-year-old man climb out a window and disappear.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 7, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Between the sheer on-screen beauty and the finely wrought performances of Mulligan and Schoenaerts, Far from the Madding Crowd has its appeal. Yet like unrequited love, one can't help but lament what might have been.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 30, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Though some of the jabs "Me" takes at reality TV are clever, the film, like Alice, tends to fracture at key moments. What makes it worth watching is Wiig.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 30, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Knowing the outcome behind the true-life tragedy 24 Days doesn't diffuse the horror, the tension or the sadness of watching one family's drama unfold day after agonizing day when a son is kidnapped and hope dies.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 23, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
The kind of comedy that goes down easy even as it looks at the hard stuff.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 23, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Not "An Affair to Remember," mind you, but a welcome change from the Nicholas Sparks brand of mush that has overtaken the hearts-and-flowers corner of movieland.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 23, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Stewart does exactly what Valentine describes as Jo-Ann's great gift — she becomes the character, completing disappearing inside Valentine. It makes the interplay between Binoche, a master of that sort of disappearing act as well, and Stewart mesmerizing to watch.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 9, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
The two-plus hours is mostly marked by an emptiness born of scene after scene designed to blatantly manipulate emotions rather than trigger them.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 9, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
The banter between Brian and Arielle is easy and often amusing. But despite all the tangled sheets and entwined bodies during assignations at the St. Regis hotel, the relationship never moves beyond the look of puppy love.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 2, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
When the writer-director is on his game, as he is in Ned Rifle, the effect is bizarre black comedy that is designed to set you thinking about what his satire is really saying.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 2, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Furious 7 is the fuel-injected fusion of all that is and ever has been good in "The Fast and the Furious" saga.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 1, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Get Hard... is certainly a better name than, say, Laugh Hard, which you won't do nearly enough.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 26, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Tension is one of Home's biggest issues. There just isn't nearly enough of it. Story is another.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 26, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Ethan Hawke's documentary on pianist Seymour Bernstein is very much like the sonatas Bernstein plays so beautifully, teaches so insightfully — quietly moving, infinitely deep.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 20, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Instead of a pot-boiling crime noir like the one that exists in the pages of the late French novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette's "The Prone Gunman" (which sounds better in French), the adaptation is a frustrating fiasco that kills the material and squanders its exceedingly fine cast.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 19, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Though it might not sound it, watching Kumiko brood is mesmerizing. Kikuchi uses her mournful eyes to take us to dark places, though she's equally adept at surprise and confusion, even joy when it comes along.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 19, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Despite Almereyda's invention in approaching this tawdry Shakespearean tale, he misfires badly. All that is left is the semblance of Cymbeline.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 12, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
As pure of heart as its heroine, Cinderella floats across the screen like a gossamer confection, full of elegant beauty and quiet grace.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 12, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
The movie has a few bursts of energy and invention — a cleverly executed jailbreak is one. But the story drifts and the pacing drags, failing to gather much steam until the final moments.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 26, 2015
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- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 26, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
All the Wilderness seems tailor-made to play to the actor's strengths — Johnson's script is as lean as Smit-McPhee, both proving adept at doing more with less.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 19, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Romance, or the desire to find someone special, isn't a bad thing — if it's not the only thing. But as it stands in DUFF, the denouement at prom has cliché written all over it.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 19, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
The Last Five Years is not unpleasant to watch — the leads are delightful — but as a movie experience, it's not especially satisfying either.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 12, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
The tragedy here is not a single story but that a process so inequitable and so inane continues in a place that is considered to be enlightened. Gett, in moving and infuriating ways, exposes a very bleak corner of that world.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 12, 2015
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- Betsy Sharkey
Directed by "Kick-Ass" action specialist Matthew Vaughn with slightly more vigor than necessary and a shade less restraint than needed, it's a bit too too to be "brilliant," as the Brits say. But it's not half bad either.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 12, 2015
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