Brent Simon

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For 40 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Brent Simon's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 91 Ghostlight
Lowest review score: 16 Monstrous
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 40
  3. Negative: 6 out of 40
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Brent Simon
    Echo Valley
    To the extent Echo Valley sporadically connects or has some saving grace, it’s because of the efforts of its other players, behind but especially in front of the camera.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Brent Simon
    Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
    If Don’t Die had a bit more of the discipline its subject imposes on his own days, those feelings might linger longer.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Brent Simon
    Omni Loop
    In fitful moments, Omni Loop touches upon this truth in beguiling fashion. Mainly, though, it is a softly mumbled affirmation of immutable truths: that not all mysteries can be solved, and not all problems fixed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 42 Brent Simon
    Handling the Undead
    There’s a genuine sense of lived-in sadness here, but it isn’t enough to elevate the proceedings into something special or compelling.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Brent Simon
    Humane
    It certainly makes good on its modest budget. Future historians, meanwhile, can more fully assess the noteworthiness of its narrative choices.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Brent Simon
    The Killer
    As The Killer moves through its nearly two-hour runtime, the vapor-high of a tightly choreographed opening sequence and the undeniable pleasure of being comfortably cradled in the hands of a master craftsman give way to a wandering mind.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Brent Simon
    Boston Strangler
    The movie attempts to serve multiple narrative masters, but ends up coming across as vague and indistinct.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Brent Simon
    I'm Totally Fine
    It’s a movie that purports to root itself in grief, but instead wraps itself in such a cloak of wispy, noncommittal vagueness that virtually everything about it dissipates on contact.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 42 Brent Simon
    Love & Gelato
    Love & Gelato is basically the professional equivalent of a work-study program, the type of movie which affords young actors the opportunity to cut their teeth on uncomplicated material within the well-manicured confines of an easily prescribed genre.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Brent Simon
    Infinite Storm
    What sustains a viewer’s interest in Infinite Storm is Watts’ controlled performance, and the film’s direction.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 42 Brent Simon
    Ahed's Knee
    If it sounds flamboyantly colorful to call Ahed’s Knee the cinematic equivalent of an echoing regurgitative scream, it’s also accurate. The film is a highly personal work that becomes trapped in its own feedback loop, making the same point over and over.

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