Mike Scott
Select another critic »For 979 reviews, this critic has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points lower than other critics.
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Mike Scott's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 62 | |
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Highest review score: | Presenting Princess Shaw | |
Lowest review score: | Emperor |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 426 out of 979
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Mixed: 491 out of 979
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Negative: 62 out of 979
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- Mike Scott
For all of the faults one can find with Kiet’s film, she’s also exactly the kind of hero many American women probably need right now.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Jul 5, 2022
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- Mike Scott
Mr. Malcolm’s List, like “Bridgerton,” is a highly enjoyable, low-calorie bit of cinematic frippery.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Jun 27, 2022
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- Mike Scott
From a filmmaking standpoint, capturing so successfully the spirit of such a multi-faceted celebration sounds like a logistical impossibility. But here it is.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Jun 1, 2022
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- Mike Scott
Charming as it all is, don’t expect A New Era to win many awards or break box office records. But it’ll definitely hit a sweet spot for those eager to visit with these old, familiar characters once more.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted May 20, 2022
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- Mike Scott
Heartwarming, beautifully shot and more English than a basket of fish-and-chips with a side of mushy peas, it’s an easy-to-watch, easy-to-love crowd-pleaser.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted May 2, 2022
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- Mike Scott
As his character’s cognitive abilities decline, Neeson’s repeated on-a-dime transition from killing machine to stuttering, doddering pawpaw — and then back again — feels eye-rollingly, almost offensively contrived.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Apr 27, 2022
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- Mike Scott
From “Dazed and Confused” to “Boyhood” to “Everybody Wants Some!!,” [Linklater's] become one of Hollywood’s chief purveyors of nostalgia, mining it for both humor and poignance. What’s more, he does it consistently well. With "Apollo 10½," he’s done it again.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Apr 5, 2022
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- Mike Scott
I Want You Back is sweet and enjoyable enough while it’s playing. At the same time, it’s not nearly memorable enough to earn a spot in most moviegoers’ annual Valentine’s Day rotation.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Feb 10, 2022
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- Mike Scott
You want to introduce your kids or grandkids to the undeniable pleasures of I Love Lucy? Then I’ve got one word for you: re-runs. Because Being the Ricardos doesn’t do Lucy justice or suitably celebrate her career.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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- Mike Scott
It is, in its best moments, an interesting exercise for Bullock — and a just-passable diversion for audiences in the mood for something a little more gritty and somber than a repeat airing of It’s a Wonderful Life or some other feel-good holiday standard.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Dec 9, 2021
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- Mike Scott
This isn’t your run-of-the-mill character study. It is a smartly conceived and beautifully executed meditation on the co-existing pain and pleasure, complexity and fragility of human existence.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Nov 29, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Marking the Oscar-winning actress’ feature directing debut, it’s unquestionably a formula film, telling the story of a talented but troubled fighter whose must overcome long odds, crippling self-doubt and tragic life circumstances to achieve in-the-ring redemption. Familiar though that plot might be, it’s the way she fills in the blanks that gives her film a sense of something new.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Nov 23, 2021
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- Mike Scott
it plays more like a drama kid’s fever dream. Overly self-aware, unfailingly melodramatic and very, very pleased with itself, it’s not half as clever — or a third as entertaining — as it seems to think it is.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Nov 22, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Taken all together, Branagh’s film is in its own special way like a cinematic equivalent of the Irish brogue that fills it: It’s lovely, it’s lyrical and it’s next to impossible not to be swept up by its charms.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Nov 10, 2021
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- Mike Scott
While Villeneuve’s film boasts a certain trippiness, for the most part it lacks any sense of joy, adventure or fun.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Oct 26, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Even though Blue Bayou could have been set anywhere, Chon is smart enough of a storyteller to leverage the personality and textures of New Orleans — just as he did with southern Los Angeles in his 2017 film Gook — to lend his film a very specific and very authentic sense of place.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Sep 15, 2021
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- Mike Scott
A humor-laced, richly produced adventure benefiting greatly from the charisma and rapport of its lead actors, it's built in the mold of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which was also based on a theme park attraction.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Aug 3, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Granted, nobody should expect Black Widow to unseat Spider-Man as the world’s favorite arachnid-inspired superhero. But between Shortland’s storytelling chops, the cast’s charm and Eric Pearson’s solid screenplay, this “Black Widow” has plenty of bite of its own.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Jul 6, 2021
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- Mike Scott
While Crisis can fairly be criticized as emotionally cold, with its heavy and humorless story generating more sympathy for its characters than empathy, there’s no denying its timeliness, offering a compelling look at what will certainly be remembered as one of the most underplayed tragedies of our time.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Jun 30, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Rarely have New Orleanians looked so ugly, but given current events, rarely has a film felt so essential.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Jun 16, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Granted, Luca might not go down as one of the more profound entries in the Pixar catalog. Don’t expect it to make you well up the same way Up or Toy Story 2 did. Still, at a time in which international travel is mostly for the bold, it’s an undeniably pleasant summertime trip.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Jun 16, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Audiences won’t likely find it Pixar-profound, but it’s not direct-to-DVD forgettable, either — or “My-Little-Pony”-cloying. Plus, it’s got horses. And, if you’re younger than 13, that counts for something.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Jun 1, 2021
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- Mike Scott
But the way [Stone] elevates things in Cruella, taking what is a mediocre, fairly formulaic script and making it sing — making us eager for the next scene, just to see what she’s going to do — isn’t something a lot of people can do, and it’s thrilling to watch.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted May 26, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Aside from the “you-got-your-zombie-thriller-in-my-heist-movie” element, there’s nothing here that’s strikingly original, but Army of the Dead is still fun in its overblown, unapologetically violent way.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted May 18, 2021
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- Mike Scott
As effective as it is, The Djinn won’t conjure up nearly as many eyeballs as Spiral, but those who watch it won’t be disappointed — although they might never look at I Dream of Jeannie the same way ever again.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted May 11, 2021
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- Mike Scott
Rarely, however, are such stories as emotionally laden as that told in Lucy the Human Chimp, a documentary ostensibly about a science experiment but which quickly evolves into something both heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted May 5, 2021
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- Mike Scott
From the blow-by-blow ticktock of the efforts of Secretary of State James Baker during Bush the elder’s administration to Bill Clinton’s failed Camp David summit, they push The Human Factor into surprisingly suspenseful territory, even if we all know how it ends.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted May 4, 2021
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- Mike Scott
If your definition of a good story is one that keeps you on the hook, wondering where the heck this particular journey will take you, then French Exit certainly qualifies.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Apr 6, 2021
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- Mike Scott
The good news is that when the monkey and the lizard start fighting — which, let’s be honest, is really why we’re all here — brother, it is a sight to see. Between the chest-beating, fire-breathing and general mayhem, Godzilla vs. Kong is, if nothing else, a visual feast.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Mar 29, 2021
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- Mike Scott
If nothing else, Cherry proves Holland has a lot more to give us when his web-slinging days are over.- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Posted Mar 16, 2021
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