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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Ed Gonzalez
    Oculus
    Through a mini-triumph of montage, what begins as run-of-the-mill backstory vomit is thrillingly repackaged as an almost-Lynchian duet between warring states of consciousness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Ed Gonzalez
    Under the Skin
    Throughout, what truly matters to director Jonathan Glazer is articulating through visual and aural enticement the unconscious power of our death drive.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    Alien Abduction
    A few jolting scares are deployed throughout, but more difficult to shake is how the story's overacting lambs walk a rather programmatic path toward slaughter--or at least anal probing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
    One can never fully shake the feeling that the sense of unease the filmmakers rouse, every act of seduction, infiltration, and vengeance they orchestrate, is borrowed.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Ed Gonzalez
    The Den
    The film is dizzyingly creepy in its refracting of horrors through the cascading windows of computer programs we've come to understand more intimately than our own selves.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    Haunt
    Mac Carter repeatedly compromises his intuitive, and often elegantly framed, glances at his main characters' teenage blues by too busily going through amateur-night gesticulations of spooking his audience.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Ed Gonzalez
    Grand Piano
    Eugenio Mira thrills in watching his main character attempt to worm his way out of a most unusual hostage situation, synching his indulgences of style to the pianist's wily physical maneuvering.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    The Returned
    It proves that the zombie narrative is still capable of subversion, but does so with the laziest, Lifetime-grade intimations of social relevance.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 12 Ed Gonzalez
    Nurse 3D
    Rather than capture truly pained souls tangled in exuberant horror tropes, the filmmakers settle for retrograde anguish and warmed-over artistry.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 12 Ed Gonzalez
    Enemies Closer
    JCVD may not say it best, but he does say it aptly, when his manically cartoonish baddie caps one murder with the assertion that "shit happens."
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Ed Gonzalez
    Her
    A screwball surrealist comedy that asks us to laugh at an unconventional romance while also disarming us with the realization that its fantasy scenario isn't too far from our present reality.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Ed Gonzalez
    The Immigrant
    In its stripped-down realism and blistering fixation on its main character's grappling with life and mortality, the film is kin to Roberto Rossellini's collaborations with Ingrid Bergman.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Ed Gonzalez
    Dark Touch
    The film is beholden to a strange internal logic that gives primacy not to its protagonist's suffering, but to its maker's thirst for fun.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Ed Gonzalez
    Blue Is the Warmest Color
    Abdellatif Kechiche reveals through his sense of composition, and collaboration with his remarkable actresses, a sensitivity to emotional nuance that's striking.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    The Short Game
    This window into the world of youthful competition almost entirely disposes of social awareness in favor of routine drama.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Ed Gonzalez
    Prisoners
    Possibly year's most immaculate-looking drivel, a prismatically shot whodunit abundant in red herrings, but lacking in moral contemplation.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 50 Ed Gonzalez
    12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen's film practically treats Solomon Norhtup as passive observer to a litany of horrors that exist primarily for our own education.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Ed Gonzalez
    Una Noche
    Una Noche tugged at my heartstrings, but the film's almost phantasmagoric fixation on sex can feel crass and dehumanizing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Ed Gonzalez
    Cockneys vs Zombies
    Matthias Hoene allows the cockney swears to flow as deliriously as the truly convincing blood splatter, offering a few unexpected gut-busters along the way.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    Under the Bed
    The film's sense of conviction and psychological nuance never rises above that of the "I Learned It from Watching You" anti-drug PSA.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    Evidence
    One wishes it had spared us the remedial theorizing on media culture and artistic representation and license and less apologetically acted the part of a straight-up horror film.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Ed Gonzalez
    The Conjuring
    Though The Conjuring claims to be based on a true story, in truth it's based on every horror film that's come before it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Ed Gonzalez
    Pacific Rim
    Guillermo del Toro doesn't rise above the obligations of staging a film of this sort as a multi-level video game, a stylish but programmatic ride toward an inevitable final boss battle.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Ed Gonzalez
    Beneath
    Its stance toward every dipshit slasher and creature-horror flick that's come before it never feels less than casually hostile.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Ed Gonzalez
    Maniac
    Its audio-visual overload testifies to a group of filmmakers' belief that some films are made to be remade.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Ed Gonzalez
    The Purge
    A rote home-invasion thriller afraid to be seen as just another rote home-invasion thriller, the film turgidly grasps for profundity by framing bloodlust as patriotic duty.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Ed Gonzalez
    Byzantium
    Forlorn depictions of love and death may dignify Neil Jordan's film, but narrative withholding ultimately drives a stake into its unmistakable heart.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Ed Gonzalez
    Venus and Serena
    Opting for inspiration over insight, Venus and Serena is a starry-eyed pop documentary that cannot transcend its scattershot, for-fans-only filmmaking.
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