Hunter Lanier

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For 47 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Hunter Lanier's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Lowest review score: 20 American Dresser
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 47
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 47
  3. Negative: 4 out of 47
47 movie reviews
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Hunter Lanier
    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
    Nearly all of the footage in the film is incredible, both in terms of content and restoration. The performances are like nothing else in Dylan’s career or anybody’s career.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Hunter Lanier
    Hope
    There’s much to like about Hope, but it’s the honesty I liked best.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Hunter Lanier
    The Green Knight
    Had these themes of accepting the consequences of actions, living up to one’s word, the moral weakness of youth been better capitalized on, or had a little fun been had, The Green Knight would have done a better job at earning itself a place in the storybooks.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Hunter Lanier
    Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    You don’t see people like this or interactions like this in the movies unless they’re hopelessly overdone, to the point of drying out all the truth. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets is a special movie for this reason and too many others that shouldn’t be read about but seen with your own eyes.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Hunter Lanier
    The Lighthouse
    The Lighthouse becomes something that few movies can claim to be: memorable. Detractors might shrug it off as self-indulgent, artsy slop, but it’s too damn fun and aesthetics-minded for that accusation to hold much weight.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Hunter Lanier
    The Old Man & the Gun
    The movie feels like a Sunday drive with your own thoughts, where you get some good thinking done, even if you don’t come to any lasting conclusions.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Hunter Lanier
    Chained for Life
    Toying with the audience’s own expectations and predispositions, Schimberg has made a movie that can be confidently called original.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Hunter Lanier
    i'm thinking of ending things
    i’m thinking of ending things is a lawless movie, made up of one memorable scene after another, none of which are restrained by any storytelling edicts—anything goes, and it goes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Hunter Lanier
    You Will Die At Twenty
    While it could have easily been a dark comedy, and almost is, instead, it’s perfectly sincere.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Hunter Lanier
    Sea of Shadows
    It’s the investigative portion of the movie that is most engaging.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Hunter Lanier
    Blaze
    As far as romantic laments of starving artists go, Blaze is one of the better ones.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Hunter Lanier
    Undine
    The mundane is only as mundane as you make it, and the supernatural can be painfully mundane.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Hunter Lanier
    True History of the Kelly Gang
    As you follow Ned into adulthood and bear witness to his many exploits—bare-knuckle brawling, throwing together a gang of brutes who wear pretty dresses, walking into a gunfight with a homemade suit of bulletproof armor, and more—you figure out quickly that the movie’s biggest strength is its desire to disgust and disorient.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Hunter Lanier
    Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
    Instead of stitching together interviews and footage into a chronological plot, Wharton goes with the proverbial flow.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Hunter Lanier
    Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
    Taking on the melancholy, rain-tapping-a-window tone of Leonard’s music, Broomfield doesn’t try to draw a line through the story artificially but embraces the natural disorder of real life.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Hunter Lanier
    Fail State
    The ham-fisted approach undercuts the valuable information that makes up Fail State.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Hunter Lanier
    Framing John DeLorean
    Aside from the poorly considered inclusion of staged drama, Framing John DeLorean competently breezes through the rise and fall of the legendary car mogul.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Hunter Lanier
    Dolemite
    Even with its amateurish presentation and off-kilter action, Dolemite is far more fun than a good many of the high-stakes, high-budget films that the big studios roll out every month or so. Personality goes a long way.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Hunter Lanier
    Gaia
    Gaia uses its atmosphere to great effect.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Hunter Lanier
    Drunk Bus
    Drunk Bus, directed by Brandon Laganke and John Carlucci, is a deja-vu inducing coming-of-age story with enough character and good cheer to make you forgive how unadventurous it is.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Hunter Lanier
    Monster Hunter
    Monster Hunter is red meat to any cynical moviegoer of the modern age looking for exhibit A. It’s been commodified and globalized to the point of nonidentity.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Hunter Lanier
    The Europeans
    The Europeans expects you to meet it halfway. When you do, you’re rewarded with a story that’s rich with complicated emotions, despite its self-confident exterior. It’s like its characters in that way, and also in the way, it thinks highly of itself and presents itself accordingly. Modesty never did a movie good.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Hunter Lanier
    The Traitor
    It has a television movie quality to it as if it’s a dramatization of a newspaper article, rather than something cinematic.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Hunter Lanier
    Gwen
    For the most part, Gwen achieves what it sets out to do. It surrounds you in scenic hopelessness and lets you stew in it until you’re done, or Gwen’s done. By the end of this movie, somebody’s definitely done.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Hunter Lanier
    Lupin III: The First
    It’s an old-fashioned escapade with a helplessly likable hero—a criminal who can’t help but be better at the former than the latter, despite his best efforts.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Hunter Lanier
    The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
    There is no emotional manipulation, and there are no ideological hand-outs. You almost feel like you’re watching the events unfold through a keyhole, which gives every hushed exchange and passive-aggressive examination a voyeuristic thrill.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Hunter Lanier
    Vice
    Vice, written and directed by Adam McKay, plays straight to the cable-news generation of political enthusiasts. It’s depthless, has the attention span of a gopher, and is more concerned with appearances than getting to the root of anything.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Hunter Lanier
    Memoir of War
    Every once in a while, the story of an individual slips through the cracks. Memoir of War is one of those stories and, as such, provides an unseen perspective to a plotline that we all know well.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Hunter Lanier
    Galveston
    With characters that we watch but never know and some imitative storytelling, Galveston can’t help but feel like a compilation of cover songs, which, while listenable, are stilted and perfunctory.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 90 Hunter Lanier
    Loro
    If being dull is the cardinal sin of the movies, as Capra supposedly said, then Sorrentino is a saint. There’s not a dull moment in Loro, whether it’s the hypersexual, reality-bending party scenes or the quiet backroom conversations where the truth comes at the characters so unexpectedly, they don’t have time to prepare their usual defenses. All of it is visceral pleasure at an eye-bleeding volume.
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