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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Exit 8
    By its nature, “Exit 8” is sparse and repetitive. But in the not-especially-decorated annals of video game adaptations, it’s one of the most compelling and clever meldings of the two mediums — cinema and gaming — we’ve seen yet.
    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
    Written and directed by series veteran Dean DeBlois, “The Hidden World” may not overwhelm in its necessity.... There are two compelling parts of “The Hidden World” that validate it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Blinded by the Light
    Blinded by the Light isn’t a new tune, but it’s sung with an infectious passion and it captures something sincere about the globe-spanning, life-changing influence of great pop music.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Theater Camp
    Theater Camp might have worked better with a “Meatballs”-style structure, focusing on a camper and a counselor. But it knows how to put on a show. With songs written by the screenwriters and Mark Sonnenblick, Theater Camp in the end hits just the right note between satire and sincere.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    I Care a Lot
    It doesn’t all fit together, and I Care a Lot has ultimately no way of resolving its fairly ludicrous plot. But it’s strong, gripping, unpredictable pulp, and Pike pulls something off that few else could as a protagonist. She’s quite detestable and completely compelling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Bikeriders
    The movie is unabashedly romantic about the Vandals but it’s equally dubious about the rugged masculinity they embody, too. “The Bikeriders” has its hands firmly on the throttle just it does the brakes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    The Devil Wears Prada 2
    I wouldn’t begrudge anyone who just wants to see her and these actors together again. But the movie, well stocked in Prada, could have used a bit more of Streep’s unflappable devil.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Monkey Man
    Regardless of any incongruities, “Monkey Man” makes for a forceful directorial debut from Patel. More than anything else, he brings a compelling gravity to a film that is quite serious about getting seriously brutal.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Herself
    The film, earthy and sober, refuses to be carried aloft by sentiment, instead navigating a difficult and painful path toward self-preservation and renewal.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Ant-Man and the Wasp
    For some Marvel devotees, Ant-Man and The Wasp will be a clever enough diversion in between the more main-event releases. But it’s pretty much exactly what I’d want in a superhero movie: a funny cast, zippy action scenes and not an infinity stone in sight.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    Anthony Fabian’s charming adaptation, snuggly tailored to star Lesley Manville, proves the durability of a good fairy tale and a smashing dress.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Late Night
    It’s an admirably fun and light movie about more serious issues of representation and equality.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Old Guard
    The Old Guard, while in many ways typical, is wonderfully unconventional in all kinds of less obvious ways.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Yellow Rose
    Yellow Rose sings an affecting, sorrowful and defiant song where dreams collide with a cruel reality.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Rocketman
    Rocketman is happiest with its feet far off the ground in a dreamy pop splendor, with headlights all along the highway.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Blockers
    The antic chemistry between Mann, Cena and Barinholtz is stellar. Together, they capture the panic, embarrassment and sentimentality of young-adult parenthood as they scramble after their kids, none of whom need saving.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Jake Coyle
    Moffie
    By burrowing within the brutal propaganda of apartheid, Hermanus, in his intensely expressive, achingly sorrowful fourth film, has captured a mean machinery at work — one that still abides, long after the end of apartheid.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Tenet
    Tenet lacks the elegant mastery of “Dunkirk” or the cosmic soulfulness of “Interstellar,” but it has a darkly grand geometry.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Fighting with My Family
    Pugh never looks quite at ease in the ring in Fighting With My Family, but her performance is so layered with ambition and self-doubt that the film exceeds its familiar framework.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Smile
    It should surprise no one that a movie marketed with creepy smiling fans at MLB games might not actually have genuine concerns about pain and healing on its mind. But it still makes “Smile” a cynical and shallow piece of work unlikely to put a you-know-what on too many faces.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    It takes a little while to get going...The “Borat” sequel will make you laugh and squirm as much as it will send shudders down your spine.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Thunderbolts*
    All the assembled parts here, including an especially high-quality cast (even Wendell Pierce!) work together seamlessly in a way that Marvel hasn’t in some time. Most of all, Pugh commands every bit of the movie.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Jake Coyle
    Richard Jewell
    If Eastwood had extended the sensitivity it shows to Jewell to others, it might have been worth something more. Instead, it becomes just what it preaches against: a hatchet job.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Jake Coyle
    American Animals
    American Animals would be a legitimate cautionary tale if it wasn’t invalidated by its own existence.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Hustle
    The film, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, isn’t the farce you might expect. Rather, it’s one of the most textured and affectionate films about basketball that’s come along in a long time. Starring Sandler as a road-weary NBA scout and with several teams’ worth of all-stars in cameos, Hustle has a surprisingly good handle and feel for the game.
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