Danette Chavez

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The A.V. Club
For 7 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 28% higher than the average critic
  • 14% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Danette Chavez's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 70
Highest review score: 83 Mucho Mucho Amor
Lowest review score: 42 The Curse of La Llorona
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Danette Chavez
    Mucho Mucho Amor
    As one former collaborator notes, Mercado almost certainly wouldn’t have achieved the level of fame if he’d ever come out as gay. Mercado proved you could be idolized while still being othered, a fact that’s too often glossed over in stories of marginalized people who break down barriers. But that reality couldn’t dampen Mercado’s love–or lust, as he put it—for life, nor does it prevent Mucho Mucho Amor from radiating with it.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Danette Chavez
    In the Heights
    In The Heights’ irrepressible energy—transmitted by a big cast of rising stars and veteran performers—is the perfect note on which to kick off this summer’s blockbuster season.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 83 Danette Chavez
    Roma
    The result is a little too rose-tinted an homage, but Roma is still an exceptionally moving story, as well as another technical feat from Cuarón.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Danette Chavez
    Love Affair
    Rather than put a new twist on an old tale, Love Affair adds a chapter to a real-life romance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Danette Chavez
    Raya and the Last Dragon
    When Raya And The Last Dragon takes the time to ruminate on grief and recovery from trauma, it meaningfully distinguishes itself from the rest of the princess oeuvre. Just as unique as the film’s world-building is its sense of hope burnished by loss, not undermined by it. Only the Disney boilerplate messaging—believe in yourself/others—obscures the power of this moving tale and how it captures, intentionally or not, a specific form of sorrow.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Danette Chavez
    Rent-A-Pal
    Rent-A-Pal goes full-tilt mayhem in its final act, shattering its carefully calibrated dread in a race to make an already belabored point: that technological advancements are to be questioned, and there is no substitute for human connection.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 42 Danette Chavez
    The Curse of La Llorona
    More fitfully funny than it is frightening, The Curse Of La Llorona might be the first film in the Conjuring universe to remain a standalone.

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