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 2.1 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
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Avengers: Endgame
    Generous in humor, spirit and sentimentality, Anthony and Joe Russo's Endgame is a surprisingly full feast of blockbuster-making that, through some time-traveling magic, looks back nostalgically at Marvel's decade of world domination. This is the Marvel machine working at high gear, in full control of its myth-making powers and uncovering more emotion in its fictional cosmos than ever before.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Radical
    While Radical, an audience winner at the Sundance Film Festival, is formulaic in its approach, it gets enough out of it likable cast to earn at least a passing grade.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Shithouse
    It’s one of the freshest college movies in years, a nano-budget breakthrough of rare sensitivity that announces more than one new talent.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Painter and the Thief
    Through twists and turns, The Painter and the Thief depicts not just the two-way transactional relationship between artist and subject, but the shared pain and mutual rehabilitation that can inspire and surround art making.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Trip to Greece
    Watching The Trip to Greece at a time when such travel is impossible has only heightened the considerable pleasures of these movies (and made the food all the more appetizing). But mostly it’s reinforced the simple delight of sitting table-side with Coogan and Brydon. For all their trivial sparring, they are exceedingly good company.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Instigators
    Though Liman knows how to mix action and comedy as well as anyone, “The Instigators” is better whenever there’s less going on.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Polite Society
    Polite Society, the feature film debut of writer-director Manzoor, creator of the British sitcom “We Are Lady Parts,” is a fun and increasingly preposterous comedy. But it’s propelled by an infectious and genuine punk-rock energy. Make no mistake about it, the sisters of Polite Society are here to take down Pakistani tradition, the patriarchy and anything else you got.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Vast of Night
    The Vast of Night is, in a slinky way, about escaping small-town small-mindedness.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Green Knight
    The chapters don’t cohere in a sustained rhythm, but in richly evocative imagery, The Green Knight makes its own vivid film language and pacing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Card Counter
    Toggling between Texas Hold ’Em and Iraq War nightmares makes for a head-spinning collision. But I think the incongruities of The Card Counter also give it its power. Schrader’s film is so self-evidently the impassioned work of a singularly feverish mind that its flaws add to its humanity.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Mutant Mayhem...can’t entirely get over the feeling of trodding over well-covered turtle ground. But if we must go once more into the ooze, the film by director Jeff Rowe (co-director of “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” ) and co-written by co-producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is probably the best of a not-so-stellar franchise.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Pillion
    It’s based on Adam Mars-Jones’ “Box Hill,” but Lighton’s film largely avoids the darker, abusive turns of the novel. Lighton is more keen to enjoy the unfolding dynamics of a relationship in the extreme, one that ultimately, like any other, is guided by needs and wants.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Priscilla
    As a movie, Priscilla is the diametric opposite of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.” Where Luhrmann’s film was lurid and careening, Coppola’s is muted and textured. Her film is a kind of fairy tale that turns claustrophobic and cautionary.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Lean on Pete
    It’s less Haigh’s mournful view of American society — one that, for sure, rarely finds American movie screens — that makes the heartfelt Lean on Pete stay with you. It’s Plummer’s wounded, achingly alone Charley, humbly striving across a darkening land, holding on desperately.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Menu
    Even as The Menu teeters unevenly in its third act and things get gruesomely less appetizing, its greasy last bites succeed in capturing one common aspect of molecular gastronomy: The Menu will leave you hungry.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Spaceship Earth
    Spaceship Earth, with a glowing score by Owen Pallett, doesn’t cast judgment on most of its subjects. It’s content to go along for the ride, marveling at all the surrealism. You’d say the story was out of this world if it wasn’t so much of it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Room Next Door
    What absolutely, undoubtedly does work is Moore and Swinton together. If some of the more melodramatic or crime-movie flourishes feel forced, the central relationship of “The Room Next Door” is consistently provocative.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Brittany Runs A Marathon
    Brittany Runs a Marathon starts comically; its first moments, with Brittany working as an usher at an off-Broadway theater are its funniest. But it grows increasingly earnest. That’s part of the movie’s charm but also what leads it a little off track.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Nyad
    Nyad is balanced between Diana’s admirably insane ambition and Bonnie’s loyal (up to a point) support for her friend. In any case, it’s a reminder, like a pail of cold water, of just how good Foster can be.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Splitsville
    Though there are elaborately choreographed long takes that smack of contemporary moviemaking, “Splitsville” belongs more to a screwball tradition stretching back to the 1930s.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Worth
    A story about the victims of Sept. 11 maybe ought not to focus on a lawyer dispensing the cash. But Keaton — a truly great actor in his responsiveness to those around him — makes a compelling, initially tone-deaf listener to the stories that filter through Worth.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Hubie Halloween
    The jokes aren’t often Sandler’s best material but Hubie Halloween is as sweet and easily digestible as a Milky Way.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Plan B
    Pointed as the message of Plan B is, nothing supersedes just letting these two characters — traditionally bit players at best in high-school comedies — be themselves. They’re a pair of the most authentic 17-year-olds lately seen at the movies, something owed very definitely to two stars in the making in Verma and Moroles.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Onward
    Onward makes the most of its strange assemblage to tell a sweet and moving story — enough so to leave you yet again shaking your head at Pixar’s magic act.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Beast
    It’s a movie well engineered as a late-summer diversion — a big cat movie for the dog days of August — that Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (“Adrift,” “Everest”) insures stays well within the paths of man-against-nature films before it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Nouvelle Vague
    Nouvelle Vague, with a young Godard making things up off the cuff and on the fly, is a reminder how less can be so, so much more. And how it’s nice, as a young filmmaker with big ambitions, to have some company.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Blitz
    Blitz feels stuck between a conventional war drama and something more adventurous and probing. It doesn’t coalesce the way McQueen’s best work does, but the frictions that drive Blitz make it a singular and sporadically moving experience.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Equalizer 3
    Antoine Fuqua’s Equalizer 3, a taut and textured sequel to Washington’s vigilante series, isn’t one of the actor’s best films. It wouldn’t crack his top 10. But it vividly encapsulates Washington’s formidable on-screen potency.
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