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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    The Kingmaker
    Intercutting interviews with Marcos and her son with archival footage and other experts on the Marcos regime, Greenfield has put together her best film yet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    No Sudden Move
    No Sudden Move is like watching a musician return to the themes and ideas explored throughout a career but with the renewed insight that comes after decades of success.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    Sisu: Road to Revenge
    It’s an absolute blast of an action movie, another showcase for Jalmari Helander’s increasing skill with action choreography and inventive set pieces.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Stronger
    Some of it is too broad, and I wish the film dug a little deeper at times, but this is one of those rare inspirational films that earns its inspiration.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    At Eternity's Gate
    It’s an impressionistic film, concerned more with the atmosphere around genius than explaining it away.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
    The Godfather Coda does seem different, thanks largely to how he opens and closes the film. Overall, this version feels even more elegiac—a true coda instead of just another part of the same story.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    10 Cloverfield Lane
    A tight, tense thriller carried by excellent performances from John Goodman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Tigers Are Not Afraid
    At its best, López’s movie has that del Toro signature style, and she also proves herself a deft director of children, another element she shares in common with the Oscar winner.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    American Symphony
    This is a film that captures how art isn’t just how we heal; it’s how we live. And how we can each write our own symphony, especially if we have someone who inspires us to do so.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Paris, 13th District
    Audiard is invigorated by these vibrant, gorgeous young people, delivering one of the most sexually active films in years, even for the French. And his cast fearlessly work through their characters most private moments and emotions, leading to a movie that isn't voyeuristic as much as it is genuine.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    A Hard Day
    A Hard Day has a breakneck pace that allows one to easily dismiss the more ridiculous, downright nonsensical aspects of its plot. Only occasionally will the eyes roll. For the most part, it works.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Brian Tallerico
    The Amateur
    The Amateur skims the surface of what has worked in spy thrillers of the past, never finding its own rhythm, identity, or personality.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    Hokum
    Hokum rises above so many films like it because it takes its character’s plight seriously, never winking at the audience, even as the impossible happens.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    The Mend
    When Magary’s dialogue gets a bit too theatrical and self-conscious in the final act, you notice just because of how strong it’s been for the previous 80 minutes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Frank
    A film that is always interesting, largely thanks to an entirely committed cast and a writer willing to play with themes like a band improvising until it finds the right tune. There are a few off-key notes but the melody finally comes together.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    What Happened, Miss Simone?
    What Happened features some of the best concert footage and musical performances in recent music doc memory, even if it never quite answers the question in its title.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Brian Tallerico
    Reptile
    Del Toro always brings it, and this is actually one of his more intriguing performances in a long time, but one consistently wishes that it was in a movie that knew what to do with it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Undine
    Petzold keeps his mystery afloat (sorry) thanks to his impeccable craft even if this is a tale that sometimes feels like it needed a more magical and less direct approach.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Stamped from the Beginning
    Stamped from the Beginning drives home Williams’ point that racism is so deeply embedded in our culture and society and that it takes this kind of fury to talk about it adequately.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Free Time
    This is one of the better indie comedies in a long time, enjoyable from minute one until the final frame, and deceptively insightful about the structure of the modern world, one that encourages us to do more with our free time but doesn’t offer much guidance to what exactly we should be doing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Time to Choose
    The main reason that Time to Choose feels different and has value is that it actually offer solutions and hope.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Influencers
    So much of “Influencers” works as well as it does because of Harder’s cleverly unpredictable and often remarkably funny script.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Benedetta
    There are times when Verhoeven is throwing so many ideas into his purposefully overcrowded screenplay that it starts to feel unfocused, like a dramatic version of the legendary "Aristocrats" joke. And yet there are also times when it feels like a culmination of his career, a film he was inevitably going to make in how it distills sexuality, corruption, broken systems, and provocation into one fascinating story.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Brian Tallerico
    Night Moves
    Night Moves eschews traditional tension-building through plot twists and betrayals to focus on its characters, as Reichardt uses her increasingly impressive sense of composition and intuitive pacing to slow burn the audience into a state of anxiety instead of manipulatively pushing them there.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
    If you’re not enraptured with the work of Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and the rest of the artists at Ghibli, it may not be precisely what you’re looking for, but Sanada captures something poetic about art and creativity that could speak to anyone, animation fan or otherwise.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Brian Tallerico
    The Wolfpack
    Despite the sense sometimes that Moselle isn’t driving “Wolfpack” in the way needed to make it truly work, she undeniably finds some beautiful moments in the trajectory of the Angulos, although they are sometimes so fleeting as to frustrate when they aren’t further developed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    Hammer
    Hammer is a tense little thriller, a tight movie about someone who made a very bad decision and is now trying to fight his way out of it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Brian Tallerico
    Finding Vivian Maier
    She was a true talent. And yet Maloof and Siskel’s film presents an interesting moral quandary along with its profile of an amazing photographer. When does creative ability and the desire to share a true artist’s eye trump what has to be considered an invasion of privacy?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Brian Tallerico
    When Evil Lurks
    It’s an admirably vicious piece of work when it wants to be—although arguably could have gone even further and more frequently.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brian Tallerico
    The Bob's Burgers Movie
    On the fresh side of the bun, The Bob’s Burgers Movie is briskly plotted and nails the big heart and wonderful characters of the beloved FOX show. On the stale side, it lacks a little in the ambition department, setting up an interesting tale of various issues of doubt within the members of the Belcher clan only to not do much with that set-up until a rushed finale. But it’s never boring, and it’s smarter than most pop culture-obsessed children’s entertainment.
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