David James

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For 28 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David James' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 90 Christine
Lowest review score: 20 Coin Heist
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 28
  3. Negative: 3 out of 28
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 David James
    Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
    Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children is bizarre, imaginative and beautiful, but it's also crying out for a stronger narrative.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 David James
    The Survivalist
    Lean and mean, The Survivalist a realistically miserable apocalypse - and all the more terrifying for it.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 David James
    Mine
    The situation at the heart of Mine - what to do if you're stuck standing on a live landmine - is fascinating to imagine. But sadly, the film eventually devolves into cliched flashbacks and quickly loses momentum.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 David James
    The Discovery
    The Discovery has a fantastic premise but lacks the ambition. imagination or intellect to explore it satisfyingly. Instead, we're left with a gloomy, thinly written emotional drama.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 David James
    In Dubious Battle
    Sadly, In Dubious Battle is unlikely to inspire anything other than blank-faced boredom.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 David James
    Dark Night
    Dark Night is rigorously framed and edited, but it offers the illusion of complexity rather than the real McCoy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 David James
    T2 Trainspotting
    Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting is a diverting nostalgia exercise, to be sure, but it never really justifies its own existence.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 David James
    The Son of Joseph
    I can’t deny that Eugène Green is a talented, idiosyncratic director and his Son of Joseph has many visual and intellectual qualities to boast about. But it’s a film I appreciated much more than I actually enjoyed.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 David James
    Go North
    Though flawed, clunky and a bit Instagram-chic, Go North is an intriguing parable about how the next generation deals with the mess baby boomers have left behind.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 David James
    Sugar Mountain
    While there are moments to enjoy in Sugar Mountain, they simply don’t come often enough and by the end, you’ll find yourself struggling to care what happens to any of the characters here.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 David James
    Girls Lost
    Girls Lost fills the magical realism, gender dysphoria, Swedish indie teen drama-shaped hole in your life. It's just a damn shame it all falls apart in the final act.

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