F. X. Feeney
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82% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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15% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.1 points higher than other critics.
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F. X. Feeney's Scores
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Average review score: | 71 | |
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Highest review score: | Big Night | |
Lowest review score: | Baby Geniuses |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 116 out of 164
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Mixed: 37 out of 164
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Negative: 11 out of 164
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- F. X. Feeney
Of the many excellent animated features Disney has produced over the past decade, this is the one that feels the freest, and sweetest.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
Cox's own directorial style is innocent, in the sense of being original without ever straining for effect.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
Christine Lahti, making her directorial debut, wrings good laughs and strong emotion throughout, largely through the performances.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
It's a cheerfully deranged stunt, executed in a spirit of infectious lunacy that powers the resulting film to its strongest laughs, and weirdest depths.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
This gets my vote as director Franco Zeffirelli’s finest film. Certainly, it’s his most personal.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
Writer-director Gianni Amelio masterfully chronicles the ways two people can betray each other, and especially themselves, in the name of love.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
This is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
The fun is in getting there, and in the mechanics, charted by writer-director Francis Veber.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
I've not stopped thinking about it -- weighing might-have-beens and alternative courses of action, as though remembering an actual event rather than a nimble, superbly-realized fantasy. That's a first-rate achievement.- Mr. Showbiz
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- F. X. Feeney
The picture's deepest strength, however, is the fire Fernán-Gómez conjures from deep within himself, as if "honor" were an extinct volcano he could will into exploding, given enough anger and time.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
Alas, for now we're at the mercy of a screenplay whose beats are too often as poorly calculated as the movie's title.- Mr. Showbiz
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- F. X. Feeney
Writer-director David Jacobson has an excitingly clear-eyed, unsentimental feel for the intensity of adolescent passion.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
It's a fresh installment in what appears to be a self-perpetuating sitcom of British life.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
The deeper strength of Smoke Signals rests on the sensitivity and truthfulness of Farmer’s performance as the ebullient, self-hating alcoholic father, and that of Irene Bedard as the young woman he knew in later life.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
Catches the volatile beauty of what it was to be alive and politically aware in the early '70s with a rare accuracy and depth.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
Writer-director Kasi Lemmons works fast, and the world she conjures is powerfully realized.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
Williams is a great clown, and Oedekirk and Shadyac give him room to really cut loose, and cure the movie. That’s as it should be.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
The barometer of the film's undoing is Burns' super-low-key performance, which starts out as a pokerfaced spoof on heroic cool, but takes a misstep more fatal than mere time travel can undo.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
Director John Dahl ("Red Rock West," "The Last Seduction") has a pronounced knack for snap reversals and out-of-the-blue shocks.- L.A. Weekly
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- F. X. Feeney
No parent who's been roped into leading the troops to a matinee need fear being bored: gags are, Simpsons-like, conceived to tickle several generations at once.- L.A. Weekly
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