David Rooney

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The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
For 1,359 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David Rooney's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 The Hand of God
Lowest review score: 10 The School for Good and Evil
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 838 out of 1359
  2. Mixed: 437 out of 1359
  3. Negative: 84 out of 1359
1359 movie reviews
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    Locked Down
    A lo-fi treatment of a high-concept crime rom-com deficient in sexual chemistry, laughs and suspense, this is a grating stunt in which actors who ought to know better, led by Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor, play synthetically movie-ish characters meant to tickle us with the all-too-real trials of the COVID era. If you still think frozen screens and kids disrupting Zoom business calls are a hoot, it's all yours.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    Kraven the Hunter
    Punishingly dull.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    Games People Play: New York
    This artless, unpolished venture adds a heavy sex-and-skin factor to a poorly defined game show, lurching awkwardly between exploitative voyeurism, maudlin confessions and self-consciously risque titillation.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    The Electric State
    The actors are all game for anything, but this is thankless work, in which the mix of live action and animatronics has no magic. The same goes for the talented voice cast, which also includes Colman Domingo and Hank Azaria in small roles.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    The Last Face
    [A] stunningly self-important but numbingly empty cocktail of romance and insulting refugee porn.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    Force of Nature
    Michael Polish (Big Sur, Amnesiac) directs with his foot nailed to the accelerator, but all the manic energy in the world can't stave off the boredom of Cory Miller's script, which is a deadly combination of convoluted and thin.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    The Chronicles of Riddick
    May not quite gain entry to the hallowed pantheon of interstellar cheese of a "Battlefield Earth," but it's not far behind.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    The Captive
    The plotting here is so hopelessly tangled, clichéd, and bereft of psychological complexity that it's difficult to care what happens to any of these people.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    Twice Born
    Dripping with floridly phony dialogue that no actor should be forced to speak, this paternity mystery uses the Bosnian conflict as the manipulative backdrop to a preposterously overwrought and overlong melodrama.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 David Rooney
    Infinite
    Infinite is a soulless grind. Juiced up with a succession of CG-enhanced accelerated chases and fight action interspersed with numbing bursts of high-concept geek speak, Antoine Fuqua’s sci-fi thriller isn’t helped by a lead performance from Mark Wahlberg at his most inexpressive.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 David Rooney
    Falling for Christmas
    This sub-Hallmark dreck made by a bunch of hacks that don’t deserve to be named is the first film out of Lohan’s Netflix deal and her first feature in three years. Not to beat up on a former child star who has overcome more than her share of demons, but if this is the best vehicle she could find, waiting another three might not have been a bad idea.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 David Rooney
    Argento's Dracula 3D
    Utterly lacking in imagination or suspense, this inane effort is strictly for hardcore Argento cultists.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 10 David Rooney
    Boat Trip
    Washout. Lacking the mojo even to be offensive in its stereotypical view of gays and women, this excruciating cocktail of sitcom plotting and gross-out humor makes a clunky cheesefest like "The Love Boat" look like breezy, sophisticated fun.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 10 David Rooney
    The School for Good and Evil
    This is a uniquely tiresome slog — madly over-plotted, thuddingly derivative, insanely overlong and slathered in a big symphonic score that strives to infuse momentum into a saga with minimal emotional stakes.
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