Brian Tallerico

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HollywoodChicago.com, New York Magazine (Vulture), RogerEbert.com, The A.V. Club, The Playlist
For 923 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Brian Tallerico's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Shoplifters
Lowest review score: 0 The Fanatic
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 554 out of 923
  2. Mixed: 178 out of 923
  3. Negative: 191 out of 923
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Family Portrait
    Even at 74 minutes, “Family Portrait” sometimes feels like it would have made a stronger 20-minute short film. It’s stuck in that space where a filmmaker has too many ideas for a short but not quite enough meat on the bones for a feature. And yet, a mastery of tone here makes that criticism fade in memory—kind of like how we pick and choose what we remember from family gatherings.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Promising Young Woman
    I’m not sure the ending lands, and some of the tonal jumps could have been refined, but there’s so much movie here to unpack and discuss.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Bone Tomahawk
    Zahler and his talented cast are willing to take this journey deep into the heart of darkness, and it’s their commitment that makes the entire project more than skin-deep.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Let Them All Talk
    It’s a wonderful film to experience as an acting and filmmaking exercise. Just take the trip.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Meeting Gorbachev
    What makes Meeting Gorbachev most interesting is the way we see Herzog shape the narrative through his questions, narration, and filmmaking skills.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Infinity Pool
    It’s a great compliment to say that Infinity Pool works completely divorced from the legacy of the man who made it. Brandon has become his own captivating filmmaker. He’s no clone.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Screwball
    This weird world is the perfect place for a movie like Screwball, Billy Corben’s stranger-than-fiction telling of the Biogenesis scandal and a movie filled with enough memorable moments that it should please both fans of baseball and those who gave up on the sport years ago.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
    It's a deceptively complex piece of filmmaking, something that feels artfully executed and organic at the same time. It has so many layers, all of them covered in the emotions that erupt when we reconnect with our families.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Aaron Swartz’s story should make you furious. In an era when real criminals of our financial crisis ride limousines to dine with the President, our government overzealously tried to put a man behind bars for decades because he tried to better the world.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
    The result is a film that can be a bit dry when Oppenheimer leads the scientific discussion but that comes springing back to life when Herzog the filmmaker allows his awe to come through the camera.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    The Outwaters
    This film takes no prisoners, offers no explanations, and forces you to go on its twisted journey that blends found footage structure with something that H.P. Lovecraft might have dreamed up. It’s a ride.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    The Hunting Ground
    It is an infuriating reality that The Hunting Ground exposes. I was rattled watching it, finding it hard to catch my breath and harder still to imagine how many people are in positions of power who have heard these stories so many times and turned their backs on victims.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Orion and the Dark
    With sharp character design, entertaining dialogue, and positive messaging, “Orion and the Dark” is an early-year Netflix original surprise.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Blade of the Immortal
    Blade of the Immortal required the hand of an experienced director, and they don’t get much more experienced than Miike.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
    The result is a project that feels true to its source, a well-crafted epilogue for a beloved character who vividly understands the concept of consequences.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    The Killer
    The Killer may be based on a graphic novel by Alexis “Matz” Nolent, but it feels like Fincher's most personal film to date.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Brian Tallerico
    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    The truth is that manufactured spontaneity is almost impossible, and too much of “Honor Among Thieves” feels like it’s unfolding with a wink and a nod instead of being legitimately rough around the edges, in-the-moment, and fresh.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    The Suicide Squad
    Only the man who wrote Tromeo and Juliet could deliver something this gleefully grotesque, vicious, and unapologetic, and the DC Universe is all the better for it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    When Marnie Was There
    It is filled with the luscious, beautiful 2D animation that we’ve come to expect from Ghibli, and if the storytelling sometimes gets a bit lethargic for its own good, we’re more forgiving just to have one final dance in the moonlight.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    I Love Boosters
    Riley understands that satire can embed messaging in the whimsy. You’ll walk out of this one feeling boosted.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Heretic
    It’s designed to quicken your pulse and your mind at the same time, which is too rare in genre filmmaking. It’s also gorgeously made, and wonderfully performed.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Ema
    While Larraín has an undeniably strong eye, this film completely collapses without a believable performer in the title role, one who can sell both regret and passion, sometimes in the same dance move. Di Girolamo never takes a false step.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Spider-Man: No Way Home
    Yes, of course, “No Way Home” is incredibly calculated, a way to make more headlines after killing off so many of its event characters in Phase 3, but it’s also a film that’s often bursting with creative joy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Ralph Breaks the Internet
    Ralph Breaks the Internet dares to encourage kids to not only be themselves but allow their friends to be true to their wants and needs as well. Your friend doesn’t have to be exactly like you to be your friend. It’s a message that’s very well-threaded through an entertaining, clever ride.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Lorelei
    Anchored by powerful performances by two deeply underrated actors, Lorelei is a heartfelt drama that succumbs to some thin dialogue and set-ups but feels like it truly loves its outsider characters, and that empathy allows us to root for them too.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Brian Tallerico
    Broadcast Signal Intrusion
    It’s a film with echoes of recent horror movies about obsession like Berberian Sound Studio and Censor but those movies, despite their flaws, felt far more legitimately dangerous and fearless than BSI, which is content to maintain a slow buzz of paranoia for longer than it should.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    The Land of Steady Habits
    Despite a few very funny beats, and a charming performance from the great Ben Mendelsohn, there’s an air of tragedy throughout “Steady Habits,” as if everyone is one bottle of wine away from doing or saying something they will regret forever. In other words, it’s an insightful portrait of middle-age in the ‘10s.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Brian Tallerico
    Exit 8
    It’s a film that struggles to maintain its nightmare grip on the viewer as the repetition becomes more numbing than entrancing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Brian Tallerico
    Oasis: Supersonic
    There’s more to the Oasis story than what we see here, even if this does capture that historic moment when two brothers from Manchester fronted the biggest band in the world.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Brian Tallerico
    Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
    It is a true peek into the life of a private superstar. How did he become a rock icon? How did he turn his childhood pain into art? How did his emotional demons overtake him? These are much more difficult questions for a filmmaker to answer than “Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam” or other such garbage of the traditional rock doc.
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