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
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Jon Watts deftly weaves the epic and the mundane aspects of Spider-Man’s existence throughout the film.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Saloum
    With expert visual precision, the film flows into each new, wild narrative wrinkle as if it were the most logical thing in the world.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Manon of the Spring
    This tonal shift transforms Manon of the Spring from a caustic morality play into something more reflective, an elegy to a way of life whose residents did not fully appreciate until they themselves had helped to end it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Bodied
    The anti-P.C. scorn that establishes a white boy's nervous entry into rap gradually becomes a sincere, if hilarious, treatise on the impossibility of reducing art to value judgments.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Hail, Caesar!
    Joel and Ethan Coen's idiosyncrasies elevate the film above the level of a mere creative exercise.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    The film is a showcase for preposterous (and mostly practical) action and an unabashed sentimentality that Ethan feels for the makeshift family of spies he’s assembled over the course of the series.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    The Batman
    The film stands apart for thoughtfully suggesting that Batman might actually one day make Gotham a better place, and not merely a safer one
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Tokyo Tribe
    Sion Sono's film imagines gangs not as rebels without a cause, but a lost generation of displaced, poisoned youths.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    With its fine-tuned comic timing and feeling of constant action, Into the Spider-Verse is downright invigorating, and that’s evident even before it gets to its dazzling, dimensional-colliding climax.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Genèse (Genesis)
    Lesage pulls focus onto the aftershocks of trauma rather than the traumatic events themselves.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    The Suicide Squad
    Throughout the film, James Gunn renders the half-grim, half-absurdist nature of the Suicide Squad with delightfully bloody abandon.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Last Hurrah for Chivalry
    Not yet a master, Woo here nonetheless demonstrates far more than mere potential as he starts to lay the foundations for his breakout successes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    The Creator
    With The Creator, Gareth Edwards finally finds the balance between arresting images and grounded emotional stakes.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Time Bandits
    Good as the cameos are, however, the lasting draw of the film is its exceptional aesthetic. Gilliam keeps his camera low in a child’s perspective, and wide-angle lenses only exacerbate the magnified sense of scale that everything has.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov depicts pain in blunt terms, but he traces the aftershocks of coping and collapse with delicate subtlety.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Quibbles dissipate in the face of the giddiness of the action, which builds to such a relentless head that even the serious stakes of the film’s motivation give way to a largely pleasant vibe.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Gloria
    Cassavetes and Rowlands lend a screwball energy to this thriller, ably playing conflicting moods of suspense and silliness off each other to complicate an otherwise straightforward genre film.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
    Little Amélie or the Character of Rain changes up its breezy account of a toddler’s growth with the occasional moment of slowed-down rumination.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Anaïs in Love
    For all of its farcical overtones, the film contains many shrewd observations about the power games inherent in relationships.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Roma
    Roma is autobiography as autocritique, and in exploring a point of view adjacent to his own, Cuarón appears to have rediscovered his identity as a filmmaker.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    PVT Chat
    Ben Hozie’s wry, observational film positions a young man’s repressed sexual paranoia as a reflection of a more general social malaise.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Marx Can Wait
    Marco Bellocchio uses his film, a delicate mix of biography and autobiography, as the catalyst for long-delayed therapy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    In the Shadow of Women
    Philippe Garrel's film uses its characters' stodgy, formal language to betray their self-consciousness.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    The Year of the Everlasting Storm
    These shorts capture everything from how fear of the unknown can rewire relationships to the natural world exerts its pull on us all.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Remembering Every Night
    The film is a gentle evocation of contemporary Japanese life in its pleasures and frustrations.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Tragic Jungle
    It operates in an ambiguous register, suggesting that a woman is working in unison with nature to dole out revenge for their exploitation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Superman
    This film finally admits that Superman has been a mainstay for nearly a century precisely because he stands for things outside of faddish trends.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    Color Out of Space
    The film is a vivid depiction of how a confrontation with the unknown can so easily shatter the fragile bonds that hold us together.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    The Nice Guys
    Shane Black's The Nice Guys doesn't want for great exchanges, and even disposable conversations brim with acidic wit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Cole
    The Load
    Chromatically, The Load makes Saving Private Ryan look like The Band Wagon. Yet Glavonic still manages to convey the devastation and numbness that results from atrocity without resorting to exploitation. Trauma is approached obliquely, more a subliminal fact of life than a single psychological rupture to be confronted and mended.
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