Mr. Showbiz's Scores
- Movies
For 720 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: | Brigham City | |
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Lowest review score: | Dude, Where's My Car? |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 339 out of 720
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Mixed: 241 out of 720
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Negative: 140 out of 720
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Cody Clark
Spacey and Bridges -- generally provide exactly the level of investment required for their characters to be convincing. Neither one showboats, and both make good use of the dry humor in Leavitt's script.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
An enjoyable female buddy caper -- more "Outrageous Fortune" than "Thelma and Louise."- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
The only reason to sit through On the Line is for some entertaining, if fleeting, musical moments.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
There's really nothing more to this by-the-numbers, ailment-of-the-week fodder dressed up with a classy cast.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
This predictable romantic comedy outing has occasional flickers of ingenuity.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
This might be as perfect a new-millennium Halloween creepshow as we can expect.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
The nerviest, oddest, most outlandish and idiosyncratic American indie debut since "Buffalo 66," Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko defies description.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
The rapper-ever-increasingly-turned actor -- is having the time of his life, big pimp styling in a flashy wardrobe as he guts and struts.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Relevant message aside, there's no good reason to sit through photographer Neal Slavin's directorial debut.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
This bed-swapping crime story is ultimately too protracted, but Piñeyro's direction is richly atmospheric, full of noir shadows and strong period detail.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
The movie's most glaring flaw is that the brothers and their screenwriters, Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias, don't manage to preserve the secret of the Ripper's identity for nearly as long as they intend to.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
It's good enough, smart enough, and people will like it. It's also a high-concept cop-out, a convention-strangled genre movie that never zigs when your every instinct is screaming that it's about to zag.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
It's Zahn's heartbreaking performance that drives Riding in Cars with Boys.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
Like being jacked directly into Linklater's alpha waves, and the experience is bracingly new to movies.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
Exhausting and fruitless: Having seen it, you know nothing more about strippers or the stripper mentality than you did going in. What's the point?- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
This self-consciously kooky road movie about an unusual trio of bank robbers aims for Hal Ashby misanthropy, but hasn't a single emotionally grounded or plausible moment to justify its purely cinematic eccentricities.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Frankly, there wouldn't have been enough shtick here to warrant an SNL skit. And if the material isn't even up to those standards, then who the hell green-lit it as a feature?- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
High drama this ain't. And yet, anyone looking for a hearty banquet of gymnastic, kung-fu tomfoolery won't walk away hungry.- Mr. Showbiz
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Michael Atkinson
Amid the chaos of this marvelous, uncategorizable film squirms one of the year's best performances.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
It's all well-acted and eerily compelling, but the shocker ending is patently implausible.- Mr. Showbiz
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Cody Clark
I'd write it all off as something that is, after all, intended for young viewers -- but then I'd be insulting their intelligence as cruelly as the movie does.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Ultimately, Grateful Dawg will only be of real interest to musicology students and diehard Deadheads.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
The wrap-up's pretty charming, as are the performances, but the film's too heavy for its soufflé-ready ingredients.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Born Romantic feels less like it was born than assembled, in a kooky Britcom factory. It's no "Four Weddings and a Funeral," but it's certainly a happier conception than last month's "Maybe Baby."- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
This is nothing more than one more run-of-the-mill, surprise-free, suspense programmer.- Mr. Showbiz
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Kevin Maynard
Basically one elaborate joke about male modeling and all the vanity, emasculation, and fatuousness that attend it. Fortunately, it's a good joke.- Mr. Showbiz
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