Christopher Gray

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For 127 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 25% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 73% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Christopher Gray's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Atlantics
Lowest review score: 0 4th Man Out
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 79 out of 127
  2. Mixed: 34 out of 127
  3. Negative: 14 out of 127
127 movie reviews
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Christopher Gray
    The Benefactor
    Writer-director Andrew Renzi treats unfettered wealth as a hyperbolic playground through which to explore masculine insecurity.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    Point Break
    In its philosophical and criminal investigations (largely imported from Kathryn Bigelow's original), the film moves in dozens of illogical directions, but not without achieving a patina of earnest credibility.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Dreams Rewired
    The documentary isn't advancing an argument so much as simply restating a European socialistic breed of fact.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Christopher Gray
    In the Heart of the Sea
    The narrative is helplessly adrift, a yarn that extols vague grit and determination with no discernible through line.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    The Night Before
    It aims to foster a spirit of giddy anarchy in order to tie a ribbon around its shambolic script and rickety pacing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Very Semi-Serious
    It doesn't seem to aspire to much more than proving that there are nice, talented people behind the New Yorker's walls.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    By the Sea
    If it stumbles when it seeks our sympathy, it thrives when it's exploiting our fascination with the surface of things, and all that's unknowable underneath.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Christopher Gray
    Of Men and War
    A work of astounding sensitivity and precision, it argues for emotional honesty as a moral and psychic imperative.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    The Hallow
    The film never really digs into its suggested themes of gentrification, domestic turmoil, or backwoods folklore, but most of its effectiveness stems from a kitchen-sink approach to genre clichés.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    Truth
    It can't develop themes because it's too busy disseminating information, and this extends to its main characters.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    Bridge of Spies
    The film has a streamlined efficiency, but it feels like the work of a master who wants to please rather than probe.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Christopher Gray
    Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
    Miguel Gomes combats austerity with expansiveness, leavened by doses of frivolity and scatology.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Christopher Gray
    Western
    After the film's early optimism and speculative midsection, Western struggles to manage all the rich dramatic irony of its final half hour, perched uneasily between plot and stasis.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    Mississippi Grind
    Ryan Boden and Anna Fleck convey an engagingly low-key atmosphere, pervasive with wayward souls haunted by poor choices.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Black Mass
    Like any crime saga without a more potent thematic hook, the film's relentlessly insular script dwells on themes of loyalty and fraternity.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Blind
    Unfortunately, the film's occasionally thrilling visual sleight-of-hand comes at the ultimate service of a boilerplate early-mid-life-crisis drama.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    We Are Your Friends
    As Zac Efront's Cole tiptoes away from his past, the film keenly observes a character who doesn't know how to secure his future, or his identity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Christopher Gray
    The Iron Ministry
    Though J.P. Sniadecki doesn't elucidate any broad structural motive, his film gradually adopts an engrossing rhythm among its clatter of steel and ambient chatter.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Christopher Gray
    Mistress America
    Mistress America is both the most concentrated and antic film in Noah Baumbach's unofficial New York trilogy.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    Ricki and the Flash
    Director Jonathan Demme grasps the well of feeling of Diablo Cody's script and eventually harnesses it in his own image.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Christopher Gray
    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    It can't resist winking at how this franchise manages to defy the limits of both human endurance and its superstar's rickety public status.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Christopher Gray
    Pixels
    This is a Happy Madison production, and as such it's exhaustively lazy, outside of its righteous dedication to the valorization of the man-child.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Alléluia
    Both Lola Dueñas and Laurent Lucas are impressively committed to their roles, but the film's script is elusive to a fault.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    Cartel Land
    A stunning work of war reportage nestled within a creaky study of ideological purity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Christopher Gray
    The Princess of France
    The distinctiveness of Matías Piñeiro's alluring brand of formalism lies in this deference to chance and alchemy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    Tomorrowland
    In Brad Bird's film, the way forward is backward, on a path that stumbles into misplaced nostalgia and dicey humanism.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Christopher Gray
    Zama
    How strange and apt that the year’s most sensorially and ideologically dense film is also a comedy of microaggressions, built on the minor workplace humiliations of a pencil-pusher in the 1790s.
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