Greg Cwik

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For 23 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 21% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 75% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Greg Cwik's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Legend of the Mountain (1979)
Lowest review score: 12 The Girl in the Spider's Web
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 23
  3. Negative: 3 out of 23
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Greg Cwik
    Before We Vanish
    On its own, this is a fun, broadly satirical alien-invasion film, more self-aware than self-serious, but its beauty, its poignancy, comes from its relationship to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's other work.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Greg Cwik
    First Reformed
    After more than 20 features, Paul Schrader has been reborn with First Reformed, an unhurried, furious, deeply agonized look at faith and skepticism that’s as reverent as it is blasphemous.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here could be considered artsy exploitation, a film whose formal dexterity belies its debts to its chosen, and quite squalid, genre.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Greg Cwik
    Wildlife
    Wildlife is at once loquacious and laconic, a film in which simple words hold unspoken and unequivocal power, and the space between banal utterances become chasms.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    In their best films, the Coens mine the depths of loneliness and egotism and frailty and solipsism. But in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS there's a noticeable lack of deeper insinuation, a lack of curiosity.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Greg Cwik
    Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis finds the inexorable beauty (and sadness) in that most corrosive and fugacious of feelings.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Greg Cwik
    Brawl in Cell Block 99
    Brawl in Cell Block 99 rarely drags, even when delivering exposition, and the economy of the storytelling is as efficiently brutal as the eventual skull-crackings.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
    The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello’s film works better as a story of self-loathing and self-destruction than it does as a social critique or political statement.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    1945
    The fractured rhythm of 1945 and the desolate aesthetic are engrossing, but Ferenc Török's film doesn't linger.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    The characters' emotional vacancy feels like another auteurist tic to which Yorgos Lanthimos is dauntlessly committed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    Her Smell
    A story of filth and fury and, eventually, of placidity and peace, Her Smell is Alex Ross Perry’s most chaotic and unmuffled film — until it isn’t.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    Double Lover
    Though Double Lover has a slight oneiric quality from the start, it grows increasingly delirious, the plot threads knotting in convoluted patterns and the overall mood more and more ridiculous.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Greg Cwik
    Legend of the Mountain (1979)
    Every pan and snap zoom and dissolve is exact, every whorl of smoke and wind-thrown swath of leaves pulled from a dream and placed methodically before our eyes.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Greg Cwik
    Duck Butter
    The setup of a 24-hour relationship that bypasses the getting-to-know-you phase speaks to the nature of expedited modern dating culture, but despite its attempts at intimacy, Duck Butter is difficult to fall in love with.

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