Ed Gonzalez

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For 255 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 66% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ed Gonzalez's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 Deep Red
Lowest review score: 12 Nurse 3D
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 116 out of 255
  2. Mixed: 51 out of 255
  3. Negative: 88 out of 255
255 movie reviews
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    Asphalt City
    Shove everything into the meat grinder of cynicism and, in the end, your insights come to feel purely incidental.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    Battle of the Year
    Remarkably, the highlight of Benson Lee's film, essentially a fiction reboot of his Planet B-Boy, isn't the scene where Chris Brown gets punched in the face.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    No Man's Land
    No Man’s Land mostly suggests a performance of allyship on the filmmakers’ part.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    Honour
    Paddy Considine's benumbed ambiguity at least works against writer-director Shan Khan's reduction of honor killings to grist for the cheapest of pulpy thrills.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Piranha 3DD
    John Gulager is neither artist nor genius, bringing only straight-to-video conviction to Piranha 3DD.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    With dubious scruples, and much Broadway-style caterwauling, the film imagines what The Wizard of Oz would look like with a should-have-gone-straight-to-video chimney on her.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Criminal
    Criminal's absence of style, the lack of relish the filmmakers take in the material's inherent ludicrousness, is a failure of conviction.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Silent House
    Silent House dies a sudden and egregious death when the amateur players in Olsen's company, Adam Trese and Eric Sheffer Stevens, as her character Sarah's father and uncle, respectively, open their traps.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Storage 24
    More chilling than the horror of the alien's close-quarters assault is the rank misogyny that more than offensively underscores the Melrose Place-grade human drama.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    The Ice Road
    The film is a muddle of clichés and unremarkable action sequences that bleed together into a cacophony.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Dracula Untold
    It's a story arc that wouldn't be out of place on Game of Thrones, except it lacks for the HBO program's dense and surprising dramatic reflexes.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Aftermath
    The film evokes nothing more strongly than a live-action adaptation of a Crate and Barrel catalog.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    The Tortured
    Robert Lieberman's Perverted Justice advert spins its wheels with scene after scene impatiently cut like a montage sequence.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    The Lifeguard
    The film heroically stretches out its governing water metaphor to a point that allows it to best Garden State's Guinness World Record for most incessant navel-gazing.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Child 44
    The film is at once devoted to corroborating and casting an exaggerated light on Soviet paranoia and the state's rhetoric of unmasking its enemies.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    The 9th Life of Louis Drax
    Every incident in the film is a time-bidding maneuver, completely and unimaginatively untethered from logic.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Nina
    The film is committed to the sort of broad strokes that reduce a great artist's life to a spectacle of self-pity.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Brightburn
    The way the film shuttles through its 90 minutes, it’s as if it’s been stripped of its most crucial narrative parts.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    The Lazarus Effect
    David Gelb doesn't evince so much as a single compositional sleight of hand, merely delighting in turning lights on and off and watching Zoe appear in random places.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Temple
    The film is only in the business of supplying the sort of fear that hinges entirely on the shock of the exotic.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Beyond the Reach
    If all a movie needed was a boy with abs and a gun (or slingshot), then Beyond the Reach would be a masterpiece.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Rock the Kasbah
    The film quickly settles into a depressingly one-note groove as a culture-clashing circus act.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Sinister 2
    It merely exudes an aura of cheap manipulation by which the audience is simply asked to rank the film's characters on a d-bag scale and root for their survival, or destruction, accordingly.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    Kitsch sprung from the lame imagination of adults who probably wish their tweeners lived their lives like Judy Blume characters.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Ride
    Throughout, Helen Hunt obsequiously tends to her character's evolution as a parent through a flagrant indulgence of sitcom-ish scenarios.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Deadline
    By the end of it, you'll be crying uncle--or wish you were watching The Help instead. At least that was a more artful lie.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Ed Gonzalez
    Monster Trucks
    The film cartoonishly admonishing Big Oil while hypocritically fetishizing the gas-guzzling appetite of a cute and cuddly machine-creature hybrid.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 12 Ed Gonzalez
    Jurassic World Dominion
    When Dominion isn’t suffocating itself with world-building, much of it frustratingly untapped, it’s wholly given over to corny fan service.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 12 Ed Gonzalez
    Backtrack
    The film is the cinematic equivalent of watching a Rubik's Cube noisily solve itself for 90 minutes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 12 Ed Gonzalez
    The Impossible
    A sham realist's disaster movie, tackily insulting the deaths of 300,000 people by reducing the horrors of the Indian Ocean tsunami to a series of genre titillations.
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