Michael Rechtshaffen

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For 935 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 9% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Michael Rechtshaffen's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Lowest review score: 0 Unfallen
Score distribution:
935 movie reviews
    • 33 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    The guys occasionally over-reach for irreverence, director and fellow "Workaholics" veteran Kyle Newacheck mainly succeeds in delivering the most defiantly outrageous farce since "Borat."
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    While it has its moments of pure Farrelly inspiration and swell performances from Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear...the patented blend of the outrageous and the sweet that has become the brothers' trademark struggles to find the desired balance here.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    While its two credible leads are certainly up to the challenge, there's a relentless claustrophobia that prevents the film from taking on a fully dimensional life of its own.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Queen Latifah finally gets a vehicle that gives her formidable talents and expansive spirit plenty of blooming room.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Like an uncle making a long-winded, embarrassing toast to the bride, Smith may have a lot of defining childhood memories at his disposal, but that doesn't mean they all need to be shared.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    It's frustrating to see this wonderful-looking, laugh-out-loud funny survival tale fall short of its potential.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Copeland's victories are shortchanged by the film's prevailing sense of detachment from its main subject.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Despite the unique premise and some truly inspired casting, the picture remains stuck in an existential rut of its own.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    After a very funny start, there just isn't enough content to fill the feature-length curriculum.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Although Fontaine, a former soap opera actor, hits the saga's sins-of-the-fathers theme too often, there's a palpable small-town-in-transition feel to the fictional Braxton.... And there's no denying Fontaine's reflective but rumpled Rolando Ramirez is an interesting protagonist.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    While undeniably a rough-around-the-edges first feature, there's something so appealingly genuine about Arkansas-based Justin Warren's loosely autobiographical Then There Was Joe, that you're willing to forgive the shortcomings.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Works better than one might think, thanks to the group's modus operandi, which combines a fundamental reverence for the target material and a sly irreverence that's key to their skewering technique.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Rather than further expanding those seemingly limitless SpongeBob horizons, the live action/CG stuff never satisfyingly jibes with the traditional nautical nonsense down below.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    If Weather Girl were to furnish its own forecast, it would be something along the lines of "Warm and breezy before becoming overcast and muggy late in the day."
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    While we may have been locked up with these characters before...Cohen's unwavering commitment nevertheless commands attention.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Although it has some commitment issues in terms of wanting to be both a probing domestic drama and a flat-out thriller, Aaron Harvey's The Neighbor finds a sturdy constant in its thoughtfully delineated performances and handsome production values.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Thanks to a sparkling ensemble headed by Francois Cluzet and Marion Cotillard, the familiar backdrop still provides ample opportunity for audience pleasing in Guillaume Canet's nicely observed dramatic comedy.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Although a number of the gags fall flatter than a crepe, the accent is on the charmingly juvenile as opposed to the purely puerile, with a fresh-faced cast of amiable young performers on hand to make the trek relatively painless.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Cruises along agreeably on the easy chemistry between Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, who step in where Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul left off.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    A frostbitten B-movie can still provide a little welcome relief in the dead of summer. Edge of Winter suffices as a diverting breath of recycled cool air.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    It's very much in "A League of Their Own" league, but what the inspirational sports drama Believe in Me might lack in freshness, it nicely compensates for in heartfelt, winning conviction and spirited performances.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Although it has its involving moments, the watered-down Waugh fails to make any kind of lasting connection.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    While Little has a assembled a sharp ensemble, including Bruce Davison as the sheriff who hunts down the felons and the late John Heard as the prison warden, it’s ultimately the hardened intensity of Patrick’s commanding portrayal that gives Last Rampage its take-no-prisoners tautness.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Get past what sounds like a melodrama about a forbidden love affair, and director Oren Jacoby's carefully crafted film deftly blends archival footage with dramatic re-creations and interviews with surviving family members to illuminating effect.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Ultimately falls short of reaching the pleasingly pulpy heights of an "L.A. Confidential" or a "Chinatown" despite those obvious aspirations.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    There are sufficient pratfalls and Miley/Hannah quick-changes to satisfy the fans, while Cyrus retains that natural, unforced likability that made her a star in the first place.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    As long as it shuts up and keeps moving, Tracers makes for a sufficiently diverting, not to mention zero-emission, vehicle.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Manages to retain a certain goofy appeal thanks to the stand-up efforts of its comically adept cast members.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    The film taps into some genuine, relatable truths lurking beneath all that try-too-hard quirkiness.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Michael Rechtshaffen
    Baby Boom serves up plenty of smart, knowing laughs early on, but by the time it hits the third act (or would that be trimester?), it barely crawls to the finish line.

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