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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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Shrek the Third
    Another summer threequel, another case of slipping standards – not so much in the visuals, which remain predictably impressive, but in the all-important gag rate. To waste both Donkey and Puss is a crime…
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    Bond without the style and Team America without the bellylaughs. The moronic script and nonsensical plot are good for a snicker, though.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Robin Hood
    Like Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur, this tries hard to do something new and exciting with an old formula. It quickly makes you wish for something more traditional and straightforward.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Iron Lung
    Despite Fischbach’s arguably admirable intent and exertion, this low-budget sci-fi horror makes Event Horizon look like 2001: A Space Odyssey.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    All the boys might love Mandy Lane - discerning horror fans, however, will not.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    A Good Year
    The Merlot to "Sideways" Pinot, this is one of those middling movies that, while never terrible, also never really impresses.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    A wildly ambitious space opera, but also a self-indulgent narrative morass. Sometimes, it seems, creativity can benefit from a few limitations.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Justice League
    It’s breezily fun at times, in a what-the-hey way. But, lumbered with a story that struggles to find resonance beyond its improbable plot devices and preposterous MacGuffinry, Justice League isn’t about to steal Avengers’ super-team crown.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Hellboy: The Crooked Man
    Valiant though this low-budget attempt to reclaim Hellboy may be, it sadly lacks the storytelling and stylistic savvy to rise above its all-too-obvious budgetary limitations.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Concussion
    Writer/director Peter Landesman has turned out a film that nonetheless remains desperately conventional and never communicates that sense of inspiration.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Up for Love
    An otherwise mundane rom-com that doesn’t know how to handle its one point-of-difference; and even that isn’t as much of a big deal as its writers think it is.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    A Minecraft Movie
    A hyperactive hot-pink mess of a movie, which fails to elevate its cubic source material and revels in that failure like it’s achieving something.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Borderlands
    A botched Guardians wannabe that isn’t half as fun as you’d hope from the punky sci-fi promise of its video-game source material and the presence of Blanchett at the top of the cast list.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Apostle
    A muddled Wicker Man-inspired horror that has bursts of style, but fails to find depth beneath its blood-spewing surface.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Kicking & Screaming
    This year's Dodgeball? Not a chance. Ferrell admirably tackles the so-so material, but it soon defeats him.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Mute
    Fans of Moon and Source Code be warned: Mute is sadly, almost tragically, not worth the wait.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Jolin
    Free State of Jones
    Too long, arduous, lecturey and patience-testing for even the all-new Matthew McConaughey to rescue. Director Ross is apparently so swamped by a sense of historical righteousness he hasn’t noticed he’s smothered a decent story.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Dan Jolin
    Perfect Stranger
    A twist-burdened techno-thriller that would be by-the-numbers if it could count.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Dan Jolin
    Fire and Ice
    Better avoided unless you're doing a study on vaguely titillating rubbish 80s animation.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Dan Jolin
    Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot
    A forgettable fantasy cheapie whose gruff earnestness feels hollow thanks to the unforgiveable thinness of its story and the weakness of its grip on its source material. Oh, and a note to whoever came up with the title: neither Arthur nor Merlin are knights of Camelot.
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