Jessica Winter

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For 266 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 25% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 75% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 16.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jessica Winter's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 49
Highest review score: 90 Marion Bridge
Lowest review score: 0 Hide and Seek
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 266
  2. Mixed: 129 out of 266
  3. Negative: 72 out of 266
266 movie reviews
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Behind Enemy Lines
    Though Wilson gives a customarily sympathetic, engaged, and unpredictable performance, his work is drowned out by pyrotechnics and orchestral paroxysms of patriotism.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Jessica Winter
    Bicentennial Man
    Amid the complacent self-congratulation...is a bizarre reactionary bent.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Wolves of Kromer
    Largely inept and weirdly endearing.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Bangkok Dangerous
    The movie is a technical marvel from its lysergic cinematography (by Decha Srimantra) to its pulsing-vessel sound design, but it has no identity apart from its influences, however dazzlingly they're deployed.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    This Is Spinal Tap
    Begs the question: Did the lads from Squatney trail the zeitgeist at every turn, or were cobandleaders David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel simply in touch with their past and ahead of their time?
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Young Adam
    Doesn't quite know how to take its leave; it tapers off like a curling cigarette trail, but it lingers like a ghost.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Last Life in the Universe
    Cheeky and elusive, Last Life in the Universe inhabits a high-lonesome world unto itself, a bright daydream that dissipates in the aching gap of a missed connection.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Asylum
    Mackenzie and Marber opt for an anonymous viewpoint of clinical detachment, which generates about the same psychodramatic tension as reading the "DSM-IV."
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    A Good Woman
    Pleasant and undemanding, all the more so whenever Tom Wilkinson's on-screen as a possible Erlynne suitor, the movie miscasts Hunt as the pragmatic seductress.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Legally Blonde
    A junk-food movie striving to be nutritious -- it's one of your racier Be Yourself after-school specials crossed with 'Who Moved My Cheese?" for Cosmo girls.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Jessica Winter
    Nicholas Nickleby
    The entire unwieldy contraption rests on the shoulders of erstwhile "Queer as Folk" jailbait Hunnam: Bleached and bland, earnest and wooden, he's exactly what the film asks him to be.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Made
    Handheld sprinting and swish-pans try to enliven the duo's shenanigans: undermotivated fisticuffs, fun with the nutty controls on their limousine (the roof slides open!), Vaughn's endless yapping.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    The Road Home
    The Road Home is foremost enthralled, however, with its lead actress -- wide-eyed and pigtailed, revered in close-up after stunned close-up.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    Intermission
    Like a loud and intermittently charismatic drunk at a dreary dive bar, Intermission grabs your attention, but in no time you're looking for the nearest exit.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Jessica Winter
    Johnny English
    Smug with timely zingers like "The only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion," the movie's recommended strictly for Bush advisers.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    The 40 Year Old Virgin
    The Virgin script occasionally resets a gold standard for refined crudery.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    My First Mister
    The best that can be said about director Christine Lahti's feature debut is that it doesn't fall into any ready category.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 30 Jessica Winter
    About a Boy
    Since the central odd couple have no rapport, their bond never seems to progress past mutual usury.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Sunshine State
    The whole of Sunshine State is less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are often lovely, and always true.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Iron Ladies
    We get a bunch of straight actors focusing on the "gayness" of their characters, mincing and lisping and melodramatically breaking nails, all in the besmirched name of tolerance.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Jessica Winter
    A Love Divided
    Brady and Cunningham share a volatile, symbiotic chemistry, sketching in elegant shorthand the rhythms of a lusty, combative marriage.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Novocaine
    Martin seems uncomfortable and oddly waxen (the orange Al Gore makeup doesn't help), injecting Frank with neither restless anger nor wry humor.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Auggie Rose
    Amid the awkward pacing and gaping plot holes, the film's chief point of interest is Goldblum's morbidly fascinating performance: equal parts Walter Neff and Captain Kirk.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Jessica Winter
    Margarita Happy Hour
    Chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident -- she catches subtler interior strains, too.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    The Edukators
    The Edukators smiles indulgently as the kids rage belatedly against the dying of the SDS light.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Jessica Winter
    Hit and Runway
    A show about nothing—its jokes based on stick-figure stereotypes, its lunges at humanism premised on imbecilic pity.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Jessica Winter
    Casanova
    Ledger's deadpan baritone pumps wit into his tepid one-liners like collagen into a wilted starlet's kisser, and the clumsy staging might not grate so much if the tone weren't so self-congratulatory.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Jessica Winter
    Justifiable Homicide
    Meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concealment.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Jessica Winter
    Deterrence
    Begins and ends with footage of FDR intoning "I hate war," something the film takes two interminable hours to say.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Jessica Winter
    Return to Me
    First-time director Bonnie Hunt pays slavish adherence to the Nora Ephron rules of assembly for the prefab rom-com.
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