Jake Coyle

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For 402 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jake Coyle's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Licorice Pizza
Lowest review score: 25 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 302 out of 402
  2. Mixed: 78 out of 402
  3. Negative: 22 out of 402
402 movie reviews
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    Venom: The Last Dance
    I kept rooting for the surprisingly lifeless “The Last Dance” to pull way back on its save-the-world plot (and its CGI) and lean more into its most potent effect: Hardy’s split-personality double act.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    Marlowe
    As much as Neeson might seem to have the special set of skills required to play Marlowe, his detective feels hollow and maybe a little too tired.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    Super Troopers 2
    While Super Troopers 2...may be just enough to satiate any remaining die-hards, it’s not likely to convert many new moviegoers to their syrup-swilling, “meow”-ing ways.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    White Men Can't Jump
    This limp, half-hearted, breezy remake makes some modest improvements. The film, directed by Calmatic, bounces to a hip-hop beat and the gameplay action is smoother. But the drop off in personality from that original trio is like going from the Lakers to the G-League.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    The Boss Baby: Family Business
    It’s a manic movie in a familiarly corporate kind of way that provides kids with a computer-generated candy rush. The movie’s own business imperatives occasionally show through like a leaky diaper.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    The Exorcist: Believer
    The Exorcist: Believer never manages anything like the deep terror of the original, and the film’s climactic scenes pass by with a lifeless predictability. Been there, exhumed that.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    Dear Evan Hansen
    For much of the film, it’s difficult not to imagine the Saturday Night Live sketch that’s probably already being written. More than the age difference, though, Platt’s performance is a constant reminder of Broadway artificiality in a movie striving for something real.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Michael
    The nostalgia of “Michael” is for more than Michael Jackson. But blindly believing only in that celebrity, in that fantasy, is repeating a sad history all over again.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    Pinocchio
    The best reason to see “Pinocchio” is, unsurprisingly, Hanks, who brings a soulful melancholy to Geppetto.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Him
    If the issue of some thrillers is that they have nothing to say, the problem with “Him” is that it has exactly one thing to say, which it does again and again and again. “Him” does have some style, though.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    Men in Black: International
    The plotting is clunky and haphazard. But when together, Thompson, Hemsworth and Nanjiani turn Men In Black: International into something funny and silly: a pleasant enough lark in formal wear.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Kinda Pregnant
    Like any good high-concept comedy, Kinda Pregnant is predominantly a far-fetched way for its star and co-writer, Schumer, to riff frankly on her chosen topic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Velvet Buzzsaw
    Velvet Buzzsaw doesn’t lead anywhere inward; it becomes just a litany of (exquisite) death scenes for art-world caricatures. Still, what caricatures they are.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Kin
    For a movie centered on brotherhood, it’s remarkably empty of any sense of kinship.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    Venom
    The film’s off-kilter schizophrenia gives it a madcap appeal. While Fleischer seems to have a darker, moodier film in mind, Hardy has the good sense to steer Venom in a more over-the-top direction, even if the movie around him can’t catch up.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Argylle
    Criss-crossing patterns of ridiculousness and self-satisfaction run through “Argylle,” a tiresome meta movie that puts an awful lot of zest into an awfully empty high-concept story.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Red One
    Red One comes off a little like the holiday version of “Cowboys and Aliens” — enough so to make you nostalgic for leaner tales about folkloric figures starring Johnson, like “The Tooth Fairy.”
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Smurfs
    Rihanna voices Smurfette and supplies a new song, giving a half-hearted injection of star power to an otherwise uninspired, modestly scaled, kiddo-friendly cartoon feature.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Artemis Fowl
    For those who have spent the last few months hungering for a big-spectacle mess (they are, after all, a feature of summer moviegoering), now you can take in a big-budget flop from the comfort of your own home.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Coyle
    The Happytime Murders
    It’s almost reassuring that in today’s often sanitized, assembly-line mainstream moviemaking that a film can be as crude, as off-brand and as bad as The Happytime Murders. Almost.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Jake Coyle
    Dolittle
    Perhaps the biggest disappointment of Dolittle isn’t the incoherent story line, the suffocating CGI or the unfunny stable of celebrity-voiced creatures. It’s that Downey’s personality doesn’t come through at all, either a victim of the surrounding mess or a party to it.
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