Gabe Toro

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For 149 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Gabe Toro's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 Holy Motors
Lowest review score: 0 Saving Lincoln
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 149
  2. Mixed: 47 out of 149
  3. Negative: 39 out of 149
149 movie reviews
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Gabe Toro
    The Machine
    When Lotz is not onscreen, Stephens is miserable company. But James does reveal a deep fascination with the robotics that suggests the threadbare story was a chance for him to explore the very real advances in artificial intelligence.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Gabe Toro
    Bad Milo!
    Bad Milo! is ultimately a fairly pedestrian film, but in those moments where Milo takes action, if you squint, there’s just a little bit of that old-fashioned movie magic.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Gabe Toro
    Snowman's Land
    It is a credit to Snowman's Land that it's plot twists are, for the most part, not entirely predictable, nor do they ever come across as far-fetched.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Gabe Toro
    Peeples
    The cast alone deserves to be recognized more than the notes of “Speak It, Don’t Leak It.” And yet, here I am, humming it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Gabe Toro
    17 Girls
    17 Girls is mostly fueled by grrl-power, from it's nineties-era femme-centric alt-rock, to it's marginalization of boys as sperm-deposit devices, unfair but a natural corrective to years of women onscreen as purely sexual objects.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Gabe Toro
    Painted Skin: The Resurrection
    An outlandish fantasy that surrenders to overheated melodrama, but nonetheless titillates the eyes like a grand feast.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Gabe Toro
    Coherence
    It feels like this is a short film idea stretched to feature length, and the padding doesn't work.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 58 Gabe Toro
    Hell Baby
    Hell Baby works as a joke factory first and foremost, a collection of tropes (some mocked) second, and a movie a distant third.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Man of Tai Chi
    Exceptionally gorgeous and exceptionally silly.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Down the Shore
    Down The Shore at least deserves credit for its strong performances.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Movie 43
    An oddity recommended for only the most fervent, undemanding comedy junkies.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Enemies Closer
    Van Damme’s an arresting presence in his old age... His performance is a wonder, showcasing a man who has never found his physical equal, and how amuses himself by telling stories that ultimately mock opponents.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Supporting Characters
    There is a lived-in quality to Supporting Characters that comes from either a strong cast or days of rehearsal – unclear as to whether they had the latter, though they definitely have the former.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Hit and Run
    What dooms Hit and Run, which, charitably, is not as generic as it's name implies, is that the film itself comments on its own sincerity.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
    The project seems compromised by a meager budget and limited scale.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Raze
    You get the feeling that if there were less fighting and more character work, not only would Bell knock it out of the park, but Raze would be a better, more interesting movie.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Trust Me
    Being played by Gregg himself makes the transition more organic than it was for Rockwell in "Choke," but it still rings false.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Caught in the Web
    Caught In The Web grows slack as its premise evolves.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Art Machine
    Karr came up through documentary filmmaking, and he knows how to turn the switch on an event to make it feel immediate and dangerous. Unfortunately, the picture strands its characters in the middle of this event, building to a climax that seems open-ended if only because the story, and its skimpy characters, has nowhere to explore.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
    Directors Kramer, Miller and Newberger prefer embellishment, allowing personal stories about Downey to fuel animated re-enactments that trivialize rather than penetrate.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Kick-Ass 2
    The crime isn’t that Kick-Ass 2 is vulgar (which it is), but that it’s for so little gain.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Closed Circuit
    The sloppy reveals of the third act can be seen from miles away, turning this into a low-impact actioner where characters are turned into chess pieces, and the narrative’s aim is to strategically assemble the parts like a play set.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Scenic Route
    For Scenic Route, it doesn’t seem to be the journey as much as the destination: seeing two sorta-friends wailing on each other feels like the shortcut a better movie never made.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    After Earth
    The film progresses to the point where it feels less like father and son, and more like a young boy listening to an inspirational audiobook.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Terms and Conditions May Apply
    Even given the shapelessness of the picture, Hoback does the best he can in providing an imperfect timeline to a possibly worsening issue.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    A Haunted House
    The film similarly boxes itself in when it feels the need to mimic the third-act occurrences of "Paranormal Activity" when it's obvious that improv had the film going in an entirely less predictable direction, clearly pointing out the fallacy of A Haunted House: you can't parody something and also try to emulate it as well.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Tomorrow You're Gone
    Most of Tomorrow You’re Gone moves incredibly slow for a ninety minute movie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    About Alex
    About Alex is about too much and too little, a sandbox for its considerable cast, but ultimately just following the reunion rulebook.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
    The picture isn’t plotted with story beats, only shock moments.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Gabe Toro
    The Frozen Ground
    Ultimately, the cumulative effect is deadening, just another chapter in an endless battle between overtasked and underpaid good guys, and cowardly baddies; the only real humanity in the film comes from Hudgens’ Cindy, who seems like a wild card of sorts, her character’s dimensions suggesting a world outside of the lurid details of this case. Refreshingly, she’s the only one in the film who refuses to be defined by the death and tragedy surrounding her.
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