Jake Cole

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For 321 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 30% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jake Cole's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 A Hard Day's Night
Lowest review score: 0 No Escape
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 173 out of 321
  2. Mixed: 46 out of 321
  3. Negative: 102 out of 321
321 movie reviews
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    Venom
    The final act's full-tilt embrace of action effectively undermines Tom Hardy's flashes of actorly idiosyncrasy.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    Argylle
    And the more each new twist is revealed and summarily falls flat, the faster the next one is slotted into place to get ahead of the story’s anticlimax, leading to a spiral in which the plot becomes even more meaningless.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Cole
    The Kitchen
    The Kitchen’s inability to criticize its characters without falling back on mild endorsement for their warped empowerment cheapens the film’s moments of reflection, turning them into perfunctory scenes of mild protest.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    The Dark Tower
    The decade-long effort to bring the Dark Tower books to the screen looks like a cheap, unauthorized cash-in.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    Siberia
    The film has the tone and look of a direct-to-video feature, and some shots of Keanu Reeves are so waxen that the actor almost looks rotoscoped.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    Zoolander 2
    The film is frequently guilty of the same obsolescence it accuses the characters of embodying.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Cole
    The Mummy
    Too much is at stake throughout, leading to formulaic plot filler and exposition that snuff out the spark of the early scenes.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    The Bubble
    The film’s toothless showbiz satire mostly comes down to teasing its characters for their entitlement and self-importance.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 12 Jake Cole
    Cats
    This adaptation gets straight to the heart of the material, which is basically two hours of stray cats introducing themselves.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    The relative grace of A Child of Fire’s action direction only underscores how disjointed and generic the rest of the film is.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 0 Jake Cole
    Death Wish
    At a time when Americans are constantly bombarded with reports of unpunished police brutality, the film suggests that the true problem with justice in our country is that law enforcement isn't violent enough.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    Fool's Paradise
    The film sprints past its targets, dealing glancing blows to subjects that have already been obliterated by decades’ worth of Tinseltown parodies.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Jake Cole
    Transformers: The Last Knight
    The sensory overload of Michael Bay's hyperkinetic cinema is such that it eradicates any actual sense of place.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    Terminal
    Terminal's actors are awkward and stiff in trying to project hard-boiled cool, and all while delivering lines that sound as if they had been passed multiple times through an online translation tool.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 12 Jake Cole
    Madame Web
    Madame Web grinds to a halt as it gets bogged down in scene after scene of characters, both good and bad, standing around explaining their backgrounds, hang-ups, and desires.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    The Snowman
    The Snowman is missing so much basic connective tissue as to be rendered almost completely inexplicable.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Cole
    Replicas
    The climax’s bizarre left turns culminate in a final image so bewildering that were the film not so relentlessly dour it might have clarified Replicas as an absurdist comedy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Short Vacation
    The film, lacking in conflict and danger, is guided by the poignant belief that there’s no end to the world.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Jake Cole
    Dug Dug
    The film is marked by an empathetic understanding of the inkling of belief that can be exhumed from even the most rational of minds.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Samsara
    The film exemplifies Lois Patiño’s ongoing efforts to complicate docufiction approaches with otherworldly reveries meant to communicate states beyond our immediate reality.
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