Dominic Griffin

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For 25 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 84% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 16% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Dominic Griffin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 90 Marty Supreme
Lowest review score: 50 Shelter
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 65 Dominic Griffin
    Michael
    Few artists worth making movies about have led lives that can fit neatly within the confines of a feature film's runtime, but Michael Jackson's in particular feels too Herculean a task to undertake, given the complexities and challenges of his history. Yet "Michael" is an exuberant and entertaining film that sends the viewer home happy, salivating for another installment to stretch the foregone conclusion of its own success. 
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Dominic Griffin
    Shelter
    Shelter aims higher than typical Statham fare by taking itself more seriously, but in doing so, it misses the mark on what makes his best work so enjoyable in the first place.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Dominic Griffin
    Marty Supreme
    Marty Supreme is more than just a vehicle for one of this generation's most vital stars to ball out and push his personal brand. It is one of the most impressive films of the year, an ambitious and exhilarating effort whose biggest sin is fumbling a bit in the finale.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Dominic Griffin
    The Running Man
    The Running Man is such an enjoyable race while you're running it, but once you make it past the finish line and start reflecting on the experience, it leaves too much to be desired.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Dominic Griffin
    TRON: Ares
    Though it may sound like a fascinating sci-fi rumination on the intersection of technology and human life, "Ares" works best as a rollicking action picture with some strong visuals and incredible soundscapes. It lacks the acting acumen and depth of writing to achieve much more. 
    • 38 Metascore
    • 55 Dominic Griffin
    Him
    Him is a decent time at the movies and possesses an impressive sense of execution. It's just that the vision its putting forth feels like one we've seen a lot of in recent years, and some pretty pictures and scene stealing moments from the performers can't overcome the sense we've been here before.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Dominic Griffin
    The Conjuring: Last Rites
    While the movie does a fine job sending off the Warrens, it lacks some of the charm of its predecessors, and in the end, feels more like a comforting rerun than an exciting new horror effort.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Dominic Griffin
    The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    The film is not exactly exemplary or paradigm shifting, but it is entertaining, heartfelt, earnest, and largely unashamed of its comic book origins.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 55 Dominic Griffin
    Eddington
    Eddington is a fascinating film whose high points are sure to grow in the public estimation with the distance of time, but whose murky themes and punishing runtime have more in common with advanced torture tactics than with traditional cinematic expression.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Dominic Griffin
    F1: The Movie
    At the end of the day, the roar of the engines is loud enough to drown out any meaningful discussions about the intersection of commerce and art. For a movie about cars racing fast, it delivers.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Dominic Griffin
    Ballerina
    For someone enamored with the Wick-verse who just wants a new fix from that world, Ballerina is an unequivocal success. Ana de Armas holds her own as Eve Macarro, a dancer turned assassin trained by the same family that made John Wick such a violent threat.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Dominic Griffin
    The Accountant 2
    It's at once a fun and crowd-pleasing picture in that classic's vein as well as an extrapolation of what worked so well in the last outing. 
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Dominic Griffin
    Sinners
    The film is a gargantuan undertaking and its heights will reverberate through pop culture for the foreseeable future. But some of its bigger swings don't quite connect and suggest that it is possible for a movie to try to be too many things at once.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Dominic Griffin
    A Working Man
    It doesn't matter how regressive or repetitive these flicks are. They scratch a necessary itch.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Dominic Griffin
    Black Bag
    It's a sharp, sexy, and intoxicating drama that has more in common with Patrick Marber's play "Closer" than with most spook stories.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Dominic Griffin
    Captain America: Brave New World
    If nothing else, it's a true feat that a movie with this many writers and this tangled an editing process ultimately wound up as solid as it did. Yeah, a lot of the action set pieces are inconsistent and choppy. Much of the CG work is reliably cheap-looking and rushed. But in the end, they pulled together what could have been an embarrassing disaster into something entertaining and, at times anyway, inspired. 
    • 34 Metascore
    • 55 Dominic Griffin
    Red One
    It's a mechanically functioning, intermittently humorous amusement park attraction whose greatest sin is that it never rises to its hidden potential.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Dominic Griffin
    Juror #2
    Juror #2 is a meat and potatoes drama with a strong central premise, a great cast, and a runtime that doesn't overstay its welcome. It's exactly the kind of drama made for adults that has been jettisoned to television for the last 15 or so years.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 70 Dominic Griffin
    Venom: The Last Dance
    It's a singular thrill to see how deftly Hardy blends weird comedy, genuine pathos, and even pseudo-homoerotic undertones into the kind of performance that would win Oscars if it weren't housed within such a deeply unserious, commercial film product.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Dominic Griffin
    Speak No Evil
    It wrestles with similar ideas as its source material, sure, but when push comes to shove, Watkins is more than happy to deliver all the violence and hysteria that's been bubbling underneath the surface the whole time.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Dominic Griffin
    Twisters
    Twisters can't quite recapture the magic of its predecessor, but setting aside the Herculean task of clearing that high bar, it is nonetheless an entertaining and heartfelt attempt, if not to proudly step out of its forebear's shadow, then to charmingly poke its head out to smile and wave politely.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Dominic Griffin
    Despicable Me 4
    As a fun way to kill 95 minutes with your family, "Despicable Me 4" is an unassailable success, even if anyone hoping for more than clearing that low bar may be left wanting.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Dominic Griffin
    Bad Boys: Ride or Die
    Whether or not it proves a financial success, Bad Boys: Ride or Die is shocking in how effectively it pleases a crowd. It continues the work of "Bad Boys For Life," breathing new energy into a thirty year old franchise that, on paper, should have ran out of steam by now.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Dominic Griffin
    The Fall Guy
    Even though the film is essentially a sonnet with car crashes dedicated to the men and women behind the movie stars, much of the film's majesty comes directly from the charisma of its leading man.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Dominic Griffin
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    The craft is there. The new characters are solid enough. Visually it's a real treat to behold. But 145 minutes is too long to spend retreading the recent past.

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