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
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Christopher Gray
    A Hologram for the King
    Remarkably faithful, except in how it rather boldly transforms Dave Eggers's drama into a broad comedy.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    The Adderall Diaries
    It's too busy skipping through subplots to do much more than gloss over such heady issues as the fundamental subjectivity of truth and self-identity.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Demolition
    It takes its literalism to such an extreme that, at points, it's difficult to determine whether or not the film is operating with a semblance of irony.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Kill Your Friends
    Thanks to a strong performance by Nicholas Hoult, all reptilian sinew and heroin-chic vacuity, it keeps threatening to become more dynamic and self-critical than its final result.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    A sequel that functions as origin story, apologia, and harbinger of a second expanded universe of overpopulated action bonanzas.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Christopher Gray
    Midnight Special
    It starts off as a dynamic parable about faith before wilting into a glum and rather disingenuous paean to the family.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    Weiner
    Josh Kriegman and Elyse Sternberg's film never discovers a greater purpose beyond its undeniable sideshow appeal.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Christopher Gray
    Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
    The script labors to give the film a strong sense of place, but strange lapses confirm a sense that the city isn't a character here.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 0 Christopher Gray
    4th Man Out
    It's a bizarre and retrograde spectacle, as clueless and incurious about friendship as it is about the rudiments of composition and screenwriting
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Christopher Gray
    The Finest Hours
    A square journey through choppy waters, it boasts a Greatest Generation nostalgia so thoroughgoing it might as well be called Boys Becoming Men.
    • 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.
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