Mark Holcomb
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33% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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63% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 17.5 points lower than other critics.
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Mark Holcomb's Scores
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Average review score: | 47 | |
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Highest review score: | Robot Stories | |
Lowest review score: | Rollerball |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 117
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Mixed: 53 out of 117
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Negative: 35 out of 117
117
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- Mark Holcomb
What's unexpected is how thoroughly The ABCs of Death's ample duds overshadow its treasures, and how uninspired it feels as a whole.- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 19, 2013
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- Mark Holcomb
Nawal's travails are more in the vein of a Latin American soap opera than Greek tragedy, and Jeanne and Simon's climactic, genuinely god-awful discovery plays like artistic sleight-of-hand rather than the profoundly tautological revelation it aspires to be.- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 19, 2011
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- Mark Holcomb
Tender irony and dark humor abound in Israeli director Eran Riklis's latest account of bureaucracy colliding with burgeoning compassion.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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- Mark Holcomb
Porterfield intersperses these delicately underplayed scenes with doc-style question-and-answer exchanges that, while initially jarring, achieve maximum cumulative impact.- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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- Mark Holcomb
A wispy mix of boy-boy romance and noir-lite potboiler, the Shumanski brothers' (Wrecked) latest wastes a promising premise by loading up on tender whimsy and skimping on grit.- Village Voice
- Posted Jan 25, 2011
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- Mark Holcomb
This earnest, well-observed weepy has more depth than its genteel trappings might imply.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Unfortunately, Rae's film is split down the middle, and the appeal of its latter half depends on your tolerance for earnest politico-poetry set to wailing rock guitar and Native American chants and extraneously endorsed by celebrity talking heads. The backstory portion of the film, though, is riveting.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Comfortably familiar. It lacks the tension between grandeur and intimacy that characterizes the films it apes.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Continues Disney's trend of crafting animated movies as much for adult viewers as for their pre-adolescent progeny.- Village Voice
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Treading the same supernatural turf trampled by "Somewhere in Time" and "Frequency," director Alejandro Agresti's gooey, ostensibly spooky romance yarn The Lake House flounders less on its thudding familiarity than on its mood- killing dourness.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
The scenario recalls everything from "High Noon" to "Unforgiven," but Costner is less interested in grappling with the grim ambiguities underlying those films than in codifying them. There's still much to like, including the warm, thoughtful performances and cinematographer James Muro's fearless use of natural light.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Suffice it to say that if you've always wondered how a fish out of water and a band of resourceful yokels would behave in the Quebec hinterlands, this is your movie.- Village Voice
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Despite its affinity for whimsy over realism, Small Voices effectively captures the embittered desperation and ragged dedication of its exploited teachers.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
These after-school specials are distinctly depoliticized and seem tailored for Western audiences, so the African settings feel oddly superfluous.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Happily, beneath the film's nostalgic veneer and tooth-rattling visual and aural effects lies a mature ambiguity that's unusual for a holiday blockbuster -- and all but unheard of in a Tony Scott movie.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
The result is a film as tenacious, peculiar, and likable as Burt Munro himself.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
The results are predictably lachrymose, especially with the reinstated "unhappy" ending from the original French version.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Rifkin milks the generic Bukowski-land setting for all its melodramatic potential, but what little grace his tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Most Wanted isn't aiming for social commentary, but it isn't too difficult to enjoy its good-natured humor.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
What keeps Murderball from devolving into redemptive drivel is its insistence on treating the players it profiles as jocks first and disabled men second.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
With its lukewarm gender politicking and clumsy performances, Make a Wish achieves only one real distinction: It has to be the dullest lesbian campout movie ever made.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Eschewing the jock-like aversion to "artiness" inherent in most sports docs, John Hyams's contemplative snapshot of professional bull riding, Rank, ups the ante for the form.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
What finally makes Town Bloody Hall so compelling -- and unsettling -- is the impression that such serious, spirited debate is a thing of the past.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
A fresh and uncompromising account of emotional self-immolation and romantic flux. And it has a happy ending to boot.- Village Voice
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- Mark Holcomb
Charles Bukowski, the bard of post-war L.A.'s working-class underbelly, was no ordinary cult writer, and John Dullaghan's thorough, compelling doc Bukowski: Born Into This does a credible job of showing why.- Village Voice
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