David Lee Dallas

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For 22 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David Lee Dallas' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score: 88 See You Next Tuesday
Lowest review score: 25 Breathe In
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 22
  3. Negative: 6 out of 22
22 movie reviews
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 David Lee Dallas
    Tracks
    The feminist bent of Robyn's quest nicely shadows the film without ever being stated aloud.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 David Lee Dallas
    The Skeleton Twins
    Craig Johnson's film is ultimately most interested in what its jokes are implying or obscuring about the jokesters themselves.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 David Lee Dallas
    Frontera
    By turns abrasive and stately, sermonic and impartial, plot-heavy and meandering, often within seconds of each other.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 David Lee Dallas
    See You Next Tuesday
    The film is uproariously funny, but its laughs don't come with an aftertaste of cynicism so much as they are the aftertaste of cynicism.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 David Lee Dallas
    The Giver
    The internal crisis of its protagonist amounts to the flicking of an on/off switch rather than the ebb and flow of a consciousness being born.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 David Lee Dallas
    Moebius
    A kind of silent opera in which the actors' precise facial emoting and a muscular editing rhythm create a melodrama by turns horrific and hilarious.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 David Lee Dallas
    About Alex
    However self-aware the film may be, its characters and moods and conflicts are too over-determined and familiar to linger in the memory very long after the credits roll.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 David Lee Dallas
    Magic in the Moonlight
    A film of obvious characterizations and even more obvious plot machinations that render its moment-to-moment charms moot.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 David Lee Dallas
    I Origins
    It treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to "solve" existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 David Lee Dallas
    Made in America
    What could have been a spirited dissection of Jay-Z's optimistic enterprise is instead merely an advertisement for it.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 David Lee Dallas
    Tammy
    Ben Falcone's film is an almost plotless doodle, with low stakes made even lower thanks to the bratty passivity of its titular antiheroine.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 David Lee Dallas
    Begin Again
    It's a film that lives in the high and not in the comedown, even though its characters are often stalled and wallowing.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 David Lee Dallas
    The Last Sentence
    Though ambitiously busy, the film is also self-sabotaging and stagnant, showcasing its main character's struggles without interpreting them into a cohesive thesis.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 David Lee Dallas
    Violette
    By focusing on the tumultuous friendship between Violette LeDuc and Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Provost creates not so much a dichotomy of femininity as a funhouse mirror of it.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 David Lee Dallas
    Hellion
    Both film and protagonist are troubled works in progress that shuffle and meander and frequently falter, but occasionally sing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 David Lee Dallas
    The Fault in Our Stars
    It takes few chances, frequently using sass as a smokescreen, hiding what's unoriginal and cheaply sentimental about this story behind a veil of witticisms about oblivion and "cancer perks."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 David Lee Dallas
    Young & Beautiful
    The film's increasingly unnerving story mostly unfolds with minimal flair, intensely focused as it is on its steely and enigmatic protagonist.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 David Lee Dallas
    Authors Anonymous
    It takes the easiest approach to every scene, haphazardly juggling different tones without integrating them into a cohesive and consistent thematic identity.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 David Lee Dallas
    Goodbye World
    The tetchy band of thirtysomethings' interpersonal problems are infinitely less compelling than the mysterious and original global disaster the filmmakers have devised.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 David Lee Dallas
    Breathe In
    Seemingly high-brow because it's so low-key, but underneath that veneer is an inert, thinly plotted melodrama premised on trite characterizations that would be offensive if they weren't so absurd.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 David Lee Dallas
    The Art of the Steal
    An energetic but paper-thin genre exercise, filled with pleasant riffs on the standard heist flick, but ultimately lacking in payoff.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 David Lee Dallas
    In Secret
    A broad, crude mutilation of Emile Zola's noirish romance Thérèse Raquin that prioritizes heavy petting over plot.

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