Brett Buckalew

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For 7 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Brett Buckalew's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 91 Bones and All
Lowest review score: 50 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Brett Buckalew
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    It’s an easier-to-follow variation on the template than most of its predecessors, but still one dependent on long-winded exposition dumps. And the character-based material here lacks Bumblebee’s sweetness, coming off as cloyingly manipulative instead.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 58 Brett Buckalew
    A Little White Lie
    The execution of the simultaneous mistaken identity and fish-out-of-water shenanigans that ensue is oddly muted; you keep waiting for Maren to amp up the comic energy and narrative complications, but it isn’t until the satisfyingly madcap climax that he really does.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Brett Buckalew
    There There
    If the resulting film feels like little more than the cinematic equivalent of a series of B-sides of varying quality strung together, it at least whets the appetite for the next proper cinematic album that Bujalski releases.

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