Scott Tobias
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47% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.2 points lower than other critics.
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Scott Tobias' Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 61 | |
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Highest review score: | Safe | |
Lowest review score: | Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 935 out of 1846
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Mixed: 694 out of 1846
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Negative: 217 out of 1846
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- Scott Tobias
It functions elegantly as both a victory lap for longtime fans and a belated introduction to the Belchers, a family of lovable misfits and cranks that’s as genuinely close as any on television.- The Guardian
- Posted May 25, 2022
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- Scott Tobias
Told with the stark simplicity of a fairy tale, Sansho The Bailiff demonstrates how compassion can overcome the forces of hatred and oppression, and shows how trying it is to remain decent and humane in an inhospitable world.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Jan 11, 2022
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- Scott Tobias
The film is a powerful reminder never to underestimate the historical evils that have been, and could again be, unleashed.- Variety
- Posted Sep 23, 2021
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- Scott Tobias
Its whimsical touches, along with a reverence for creative young minds, gives the film a warmth that counterbalances its shocks.- Variety
- Posted Sep 15, 2021
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- Scott Tobias
Sun and Chiang strike a tricky balance between a high-stakes making-of documentary and an intimate, observational family portrait, but Maleonn is such a thoughtful, sensitive, brilliant subject that the film is compelling no matter where on the creative spectrum they find him.- Variety
- Posted Sep 10, 2020
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- Scott Tobias
The film remains an exemplary piece of popular entertainment, full of vibrancy and wit, with unforgettable characters and a delicate, bittersweet tone that considers their emotions in balance.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Apr 16, 2020
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- Scott Tobias
The overall effect of Heise’s work is mesmeric, persuasive and cumulatively powerful, as each piece of the puzzle falls into place and he lands on overarching insights into a German century and what it portends for the future.- Variety
- Posted Mar 12, 2020
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- Scott Tobias
The film can feel worked-over and schematic, as if Bonello was too preoccupied with serving the thesis to trust his peerless intuition.- Variety
- Posted Jan 24, 2020
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- Scott Tobias
Natali whips up an atmospheric frenzy in kind, but every new addition is a subtraction. Two characters condemned to an eternal game of “Marco Polo” is scary enough on its own.- The New York Times
- Posted Oct 3, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
While it was ultimately the songs—You Can Get It If You Really Want, Many Rivers To Cross, Pressure Drop, and the title track, among other classics—that carried the day, The Harder They Come remains a powerful testament to their meaning.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Oct 3, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
It’s a fatally old-fashioned and lugubrious historical drama, muting the emotional payoff it labors so hard to deliver.- Variety
- Posted Sep 14, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
Shin’s film gets tangled up in its own web. ... His film leaves a vivid impression without quite leaving a mark.- Variety
- Posted Sep 10, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
There’s no denying the emotional pull of Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble’s storytelling or the vivid rapture of the images, but “The Elephant Queen” adheres too closely to the parameters of family-friendly nature docs, and the formula doesn’t always serve it well.- Variety
- Posted Sep 10, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
Schindel is more interested in suspense gamesmanship for its own sake, and all other provocations fade from the canvas.- The New York Times
- Posted Aug 1, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
Lavant’s performance as a wordless, deranged, bloodthirsty cult leader is the one note of genuine eccentricity and menace in a film that’s mostly devoted to slapstick comedy and decapitation.- Variety
- Posted Jul 25, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
While it falls short of its predecessors, the film is generally more confident and inventive than any of the non-Toy Story Pixar sequels.- The Verge
- Posted Jun 13, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
Trobisch has made a drama of tragic accommodation — limited not to one woman’s sexual assault, but to the everyday interactions that all women must navigate carefully.- The New York Times
- Posted Jun 6, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
Pritzker and Rothschild’s script feels like such a composite of jazz biopics that its only in the performance sequences, parceled out stingily amid the misery, in which Bolden really comes alive.- Variety
- Posted May 2, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
The Silence posits a grand evolutionary struggle between mankind and its winged tormentors, but every moment feels like regression.- The New York Times
- Posted Apr 25, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
Shot on three mobile phones, Fazili’s Midnight Traveler is a documentary that feels like a modern-day message in a bottle, an urgent appeal for help from a family that’s still searching for a home.- Variety
- Posted Apr 18, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
The message here is that there’s no one-size-fits-all formula for adulthood, but the film doesn’t bear it out.- The New York Times
- Posted Apr 8, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
Claire Denis’ grotesque, mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind new science fiction movie.- The Verge
- Posted Apr 4, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
Zelker’s three-ring circus of digital and social-media content needs a compelling main event, and this movie seems unlikely to inspire many to check out the supplementary materials.- Variety
- Posted Apr 3, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
The dynamic between Sam and Micah shifts the film into romantic melodrama, as lifeless and as chaste as the windswept apocalypse that surrounds them.- The New York Times
- Posted Jan 24, 2019
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- Scott Tobias
First-time director Tom Volf plainly adores Callas — sometimes to a fault — but his film stands as a necessary corrective to decades of bad press. It’s an unalloyed tribute to her as a musical genius who gave all of herself to the public.- Variety
- Posted Nov 1, 2018
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- Scott Tobias
Amandla Stenberg carries the magnetism she brought to her breakthrough role in the YA romance “Everything, Everything,” but she’s betrayed by a stilted rendering of a rarely illuminated piece of history.- Variety
- Posted Sep 11, 2018
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- Scott Tobias
Tartakovsky’s instincts are to keep the action moving quickly and let one piece of kid-friendly slapstick tumble into the next, but when the jokes are this consistently uninspired, it doesn’t matter how fast they’re dispensed.- Variety
- Posted Jul 7, 2018
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- Scott Tobias
Compared to the CGI chaos that tends to engulf DCEU and MCU movies, especially in crossover teamups, the clean zip of Pixar animation feels exhilaratingly rare, like a lost language rediscovered.- The Guardian
- Posted Jun 12, 2018
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- Scott Tobias
Newton has made a beautiful little film about sacrifice and redemption, and he earns it one tiny brushstroke at a time.- Variety
- Posted May 21, 2018
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- Variety
- Posted Apr 23, 2018
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