Dan Jolin

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Empire, Time Out
For 260 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Dan Jolin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 My Neighbor Totoro
Lowest review score: 20 Perfect Stranger
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 130 out of 260
  2. Mixed: 127 out of 260
  3. Negative: 3 out of 260
260 movie reviews
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Jolin
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    Despite an occasional burst of self-mocking glibness (mostly via Robbie, who skirts but never quite tilts into the manic-dream-pixie playground), this is a movie that isn’t afraid of sincerity, and it brings a bit of silver-lining energy to our overcast world.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Jolin
    Prisoners
    A decent, cogent, greyly atmospheric thriller with something to say about War-On-Terror America.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Jolin
    City of Ember
    With Ember's hydro-electro-punk charms, Kenan's convinced us he's one of Hollywood's most exciting (and excited!) visualists. But on the evidence of this, his storytelling skills still need honing.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Jolin
    The Look of Love
    A solid, straightforward biopic about a fascinating individual and his destructive relationships, with strong performances and a healthy sense of naffness.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Jolin
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    It also benefits from some engaging supporting characters.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Jolin
    Ant-Man and the Wasp
    While it proves an all-round well-mounted distraction, Ant-Man And The Wasp undeniably lacks the scale and ambition of recent Marvel entries.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    TRON: Ares
    Despite grasping for topicality and insight into human nature, Tron: Ares doesn’t have anything new or interesting to say.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Tales from the Lodge
    Less Tales Of The Unexpected, more Tales Of The Unconvincing, this uneven comedy horror fails to handle its ambitious structure, or deliver on its promising premise.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    Lacks the ‘ick’ factor of the earlier Bay-directed efforts, and Fishback and Ramos do a great job as the token humans, but this is still just silly and derivative.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver
    Marginally better than Part One, but still a weird, messy and humourless sci-fi that gives you little reason to cheer the potential continuation of this Snyderverse.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Year One
    Unless you pine for second-tier Mel Brooks, you'll find more laughs in the Old Testament itself.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Skyscraper
    The building may be taller than The Towering Inferno and the stakes may be higher than those faced by John McClane in Die Hard, but in comparison to both, Skyscraper is little more than a cinematic bungalow.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    The Pale Blue Eye
    A handsome murder mystery with a neat literary twist and an impressive turn from Harry Melling, but which is overcast by the gloominess of its protagonist and the implausibility of its revelations.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Casanova
    Occasionally fun, always pretty, completely a mess, Casanova never quite finds its footing.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    The Pink Panther
    With a better story, director and support cast, Martin could have made Clouseau his own. Still, it's not as bad as the one with Roberto Benigni.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Boogeyman
    An opportunity to exploit childhood nocturnal fears is missed in a second-rate horror.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    San Andreas
    If you crave Emmerich-esque disaster-porn with a mega body count, there’s plenty here to OMG at. But when it comes to character depth or plotting, San Andreas is a sadly familiar wasteland.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Get Hard
    Belying its title, this is a pretty flaccid offering which fails to gel the comedy stylings of Hart and Ferrell.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    On the Ferrellometer, Talladega Nights sits just above "Kicking & Screaming," when it should be redlining it up there with "Anchorman."
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Not the return to form you might have been hoping for. Its story might cover all the same beats as the 2003 original, but there’s little of that film’s spark or spirit.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Terminator Genisys
    Director Alan Taylor handles the big action adeptly as he did in Thor The Dark World, but the script is an ever-decreasing cycle of tool-ups, chase sequences and daft monologues.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Machete Kills
    Violent, silly, embarrassing, clumsy, confusing, juvenile, occasionally offensive, occasionally a little bit fun.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Live by Night
    A handsome period drama with the occasional impressive flourish, but despite its rich subject matter, it's Affleck’s weakest film yet as a director.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    The Wizard of the Kremlin
    An occasionally interesting but over-stretched attempt to recount Putin’s rise to power, best appreciated for the few moments in which Jude Law appears.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Dom Hemingway
    Bitty and frustrating, its bigger laughs are set against some off-balance storytelling and crude comedy. Not one to take your nan to.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    The Little Things
    A throwback thriller which brings nothing new to a crowded genre, and has little to say along the way. They don’t make ’em like this anymore, and, to be honest, they probably shouldn’t.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Trap
    An initially cool premise that goes nowhere interesting as it heads off somewhere else too quickly. Hartnett does his best, but director Shyamalan seems more interested in trying to convince us of his daughter’s pop-star credentials.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    The Happytime Murders
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Meets The Feebles, in a disappointing adult comedy that never lives up to the promise of its premise.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    The grave tone makes it stiff and leaden, the digi-saturated look is a turn-off. Damnable and disordered.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Gemini Man
    To be fair, pulling off complex action sequences in such unforgivingly high definition is a ballsy move—it’s much harder to hide the joins between what was captured in camera and what was added later. But as impressive as the action is—and a Smith-vs.-Smith motorcycle chase in Colombia is a superb sequence worthy of peak Bond—the high-definition format just doesn’t work.
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