Dan Jolin

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Empire, Time Out
For 259 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: 129 out of 259
  2. Mixed: 127 out of 259
  3. Negative: 3 out of 259
259 movie reviews
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Arrival
    Arrival is a beautifully polished puzzle box of a story whose emotional and cerebral heft should enable it to withstand nit-picky scrutiny. And like all the best sci-fi, it has something pertinent to say about today’s world; particularly about the importance of communication, and how we need to transcend cultural divides and misconceptions if we’re to survive as a species.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    A Serious Man
    Admirably low-key, deeply compelling and their warmest movie since Fargo.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    A bit "Up," a bit "Moonrise Kingdom," a bit "Midnight Run," even… Taika Waititi’s latest is an oddball treat of a mismatched-buddy pursuit move.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    The Wrestler
    An emotional smackdown. Rourke's never been better, and the change of pace and texture suits Aronofsky perfectly. "The Raging Bull" of wrestling movies? Oh, go on then.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Stories We Tell
    Polley’s fearless personal journey is a huge achievement, a genuine revelation — but the less detail you know beforehand, the better. Go in cold, come out warmed.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Toy Story 3
    A kids’ movie for grown-ups. A grown-up movie for kids. Exactly what you’d expect -- and hope for -- from the latest, and we’re guessing final, Woody and Buzz adventure.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Oppenheimer
    A masterfully constructed character study from a great director operating on a whole new level. A film that you don’t merely watch, but must reckon with.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Waltz with Bashir
    A bravura documentary which balances the personal and the political as it peers into the First Lebanon War, its animated approach never feeling like a novelty. Astonishing, unforgettable: you have to see it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Grizzly Man
    A complex, unique and engrossing journey into the murky recesses of an unhinged mind. It really needs to be seen to be believed.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Nightcrawler
    Sharp, dark, satirical and bone-rattlingly thrilling, with a career-peak turn from Jake Gyllenhaal. It’s this year’s "Drive."
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    United 93
    Impossible to recommend as a great Friday night out, yet agonisingly vital as thought-urging cinema.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Blade Runner 2049
    As bold as the original Blade Runner and even more beautiful (especially if you see it in IMAX). Visually immaculate, swirling with themes as heart-rending as they are mind-twisting, 2049 is, without doubt, a good year. And one of 2017’s best.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    King Kong
    Unlike its newly trim director, Kong does boast some flab around the middle but by the final reel there’s little doubt that what could have been Jackson’s folly is a triumph, the kind of romantic action spectacle that makes the big screen silver and provides box-office gold. Puts the prime in primate.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Captain America: Civil War
    Matching its blockbuster scale and spectacle with the smarts of a great, grown-up thriller, Captain America: Civil War is Marvel Studios’ finest film yet.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Your Name.
    Part body-swap comedy, part long-distance romance, part... something else. If you only see one Japanese animated feature this year, see this one, and see it more than once.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Sicario
    A beautifully murky, hard-edged thriller. Quite simply, one of the best films of the year.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    Inside Llewyn Davis throbs with melancholy, hunches under heavy skies, revels in music history's unsexiest scene and unapologetically leaves you dangling. It is also beautiful, heartfelt and utterly enthralling.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Spider-Man: No Way Home
    A monumentally successful Spider-instalment which pulls off a tricky and ambitious narrative trick with all the grace of a balcony-top backflip. At the risk of getting cheesy, it won't just make you cheer, it'll make you want to hug your friends, too.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Moonlight
    A genre-defying film. Its visual splendour belies its tough, surface-level subject matter, while the performances pull us deep below that surface with their soulful naturalism.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    My Neighbor Totoro
    An otherworldly tale of childhood and a definitive work of imagination.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Captain Phillips
    Both Greengrass and Hanks are on award-deserving form in a riveting, emotionally complex and hugely intelligent dramatisation of a real-life ordeal.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Hereditary
    A raw horror masterpiece from a first-time director that deserves to be mentioned in the same frantic breath as the genre’s greats. Even the most jaded viewer should find something in Hereditary to disturb and distress them.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Warrior
    It hardly rewrites the rulebook, but Warrior is a powerful, moving and brilliant sports-pic-cum-family drama. Like "The Fighter," but with kicking.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    McQuarrie also builds on the last film’s self-aware level of wit and, most importantly, its set-piece-crafting sophistication. No action sequence is allowed to peter out, or be chopped to ribbons in the edit, or lean on the crutch of CG augmentation.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Jolin
    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    Absurd, outrageous, gross, disturbing, insightful, and so funny it’ll burst half the blood vessels in your face.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Jolin
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    An honest, affection-hooking, coming-of-age drama which proves that there is life beyond Hogwarts for Emma Watson.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Jolin
    What We Do in the Shadows
    Here it is at long last: a truly great vampire comedy. And also the funniest horror film to come out of New Zealand since Braindead.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Jolin
    Victoria and Abdul
    A sorta-sequel to Mrs Brown deals effectively with another of Queen Victoria’s unconventional friendships and reprises Judi Dench’s powerful and unparalleled portrayal.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Jolin
    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    Marvel's most deranged and energetic movie yet, as much of a winning comeback for director Sam Raimi as it is a mega-budget exercise in universal stakes-raising.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Jolin
    Mother
    A difficult film and one that's likely to offend in some ways. But as an elliptical, dream-logic infused visual poem, it certainly leaves a searing impression.
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