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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    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 David James
    Tower
    Propulsive, beautiful and tense as hell, Tower is superior documentary filmmaking.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 David James
    The Levelling
    The Levelling is a wonderful first feature from Hope Dickson Leach. Morose beyond measure, but leavened with subtle hope via Ellie Kendrick's superb central performance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 David James
    Raw
    It’s a wonderfully bizarre movie set in a world that at first glance might be our own, yet quickly slides off the rails into gonzo territory.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 David James
    The Survivalist
    Lean and mean, The Survivalist a realistically miserable apocalypse - and all the more terrifying for it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 David James
    Indivisible
    It’s always a shame when a promising film doesn’t quite stick the landing, but Indivisible is still undeniably a striking bit of work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 David James
    Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
    The doc is a great showcase for the pair’s qualities.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 David James
    Christine
    Christine is a fine piece of cinema, not only boasting one of the best performances of the year to date, but also tackling a difficult subject with ample empathy and intelligence.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 David James
    The Eagle Huntress
    Feminist by nature rather than design and consistently visually dazzling, The Eagle Huntress is top flight documentary cinema.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 David James
    Chronic
    Roth’s solid performance and Franco’s confident direction dovetail neatly into a film that knows what it wants to communicate and how to achieve it.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 David James
    Catfight
    Heche and Oh are both outright brilliant.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 David James
    Between Us
    Though it runs into a couple of bumps along the way, Between Us is a well observed and sensitive indie drama that'll be familiar to anyone struggling with the onset of maturity.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 90 David James
    The Man from Mo'Wax
    Clinically rigorous and hugely entertaining, The Man from Mo’Wax is a forthright examination of failure and disappointment. There’s not many music documentaries that can touch it.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 David James
    iBoy
    iBoy is a fully charged superhero tale that soon overcomes its admittedly ludicrous premise.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 David James
    Brimstone
    Brimstone is undeniably idiosyncratic, but it’s also an unpleasant, dull and indigestible film.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 80 David James
    Salt and Fire
    Audiences unfamiliar with Herzog will be largely baffled by this eccentric and meandering eco-drama, but aficionados will find much to enjoy here.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 David James
    In Dubious Battle
    Sadly, In Dubious Battle is unlikely to inspire anything other than blank-faced boredom.
    • 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.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 David James
    Solace
    It’s a practically criminal waste of acting talent, it looks and sounds terrible, and (despite being all cod-philosophical) is dumb as a box of rocks. Avoid avoid avoid.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 David James
    Coin Heist
    Coin Heist is like Ocean's 11 meets The Breakfast Club, but minus the charm, character and ambition.
    • 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.

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