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
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Spider-Man: No Way Home
    If Spider-verse was about how anyone can be Spider-Man, No Way Home is a more authorized Spider-Man compendium; its tone leans more operatic than antic. Still, Watts has a human touch that can be lacking in superhero films, and nearly all of the actors who appear in No Way Home come across as individuals despite the high-concept narrative.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Jake Coyle
    West Side Story
    This West Side Story succeeds most as a revival not just of Robbins’ musical but of the best of classical, studio-made, big-screen cinema.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Hand of God
    Paolo Sorrentino’s films can be overwrought, grotesque and uneven but they are rarely not alive. His latest, The Hand of God, is a catalog of wonders — of miracles both banal and eternal.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Jake Coyle
    Licorice Pizza
    It’s the performances of Haim and Hoffman that most lend “Licorice Pizza” its authenticity. Neither has acted in a film before and their fresh-faced presences electrify the film.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Jake Coyle
    The Power of the Dog
    The Power of the Dog may in the end be more a twisty psychological thriller than a transcendent frontier epic. But the film’s shape-shifting transformation is also part of its ruthless finesse.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    tick, tick...Boom!
    Tick, Tick... BOOM! is a tender ode to Larson, just as it is a tribute to all Broadway pursuit.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Spencer
    Spencer may be a let down as a story about Diana, but as an exaggerated portrait of Stewart, it’s magnetic.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Last Night in Soho
    While neither of their character’s gets enough depth, McKenzie and Taylor-Joy sustain Last Night in Soho, a movie filled with reflections to both past fiction horrors (Straight on Till Morning, Suspiria) and today’s #MeToo terrors.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Jake Coyle
    Dune: Part One
    With an immense sense of scale ranging from mosquito to (Jason) Momoa, Dune renders an age-old tale of palace intrigue and indigenous struggle in exaggerated cosmic contours. Like any drift of sand, Dune feels sculpted by elemental, primal forces.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Last Duel
    The movie, written by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Nicole Holofcener, is not the tale of manly valor that it first appears. The Last Duel is more like a medieval tale deconstructed, piece by piece, until its heavily armored male characters and the genre’s mythologized nobility are unmasked.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Jake Coyle
    Mass
    Kranz’s film isn’t perfect. As the conversation ebbs and the four parents stagger out of the room and awkwardly part, the movie, too, struggles with how to walk away. But in this plainly photographed, mournful, restrained movie, the back-and-forth is bracingly sincere.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Everybody's Talking About Jamie
    What’s most disappointing about the film, considering its origins, is just how distant anything like real life feels. From the first moment Jamie slides on a pair of ruby red stiletto pumps, there’s not any doubt things are going to work out for him.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Reminiscence
    Like its characters, it’s drunk on what came before, relying too heavily on noir tropes. But its smart, thought-provoking concept isn’t so easy to shake off.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Free Guy
    It’s a charming concoction of cliches cribbed from other movies, from Tron to Truman, without its own coding.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Suicide Squad
    They are outcasts, weirdos, laughing stocks and whatever you call Nanaue. That makes The Suicide Squad — as ridiculous as it is to say about a movie that renders a bloody rampage with gushes of animated daisies and birdies — kind of beautiful. Plus, the shark in jams is funny.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    The Tomorrow War
    McKay, director of The Lego Movie, is most at home in humor, and The Tomorrow War can be funny. It’s less adept at some of the operatic notes it tries to strike, but, well, aliens can be tricky.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Black Widow
    As played by Johansson, excellent here, every action for Natasha is tinged with acceptance and revulsion for her own nature. Black Widow becomes, kind of stirringly, a movie not about franchise extension but sisterhood, improvised families and traumatic pasts.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    F9: The Fast Saga
    Much of F9 is kind of a slog. There are some not very dynamic car chases, a lot of flashbacks, ho-hum villains and an oddly prominent role for magnets. But when Taj and Roman reach zero gravity, the movie finally takes flight with goofy grandeur.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Jake Coyle
    Luca
    Casarosa’s film comes and goes like a soft summer breeze, but that doesn’t stop it from being utterly charming and, by the time of its magnificent final shot, a little devastating, too.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    All Light, Everywhere
    It’s an exploration that touches not just on policing and justice, but astronomy, politics, phrenology and race.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    The Mitchells vs. The Machines
    But for all its fast-paced zaniness, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, scripted by Rianda and his writing partner Jeff Rowe (also co-director), is basically a good old-fashioned family road trip movie, and the Mitchells slide in somewhere between the Griswolds and a more accident-prone Incredibles.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Jake Coyle
    Gunda
    Gunda ultimately falls somewhere between banal and profound. Maybe it’s both.
    • 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Jake Coyle
    Godzilla vs. Kong
    Godzilla vs. Kong, the only creature feature to dare wide release in some time, is a rock ‘em-sock ’em monster-movie revival with all the requisite explosions, inane plot twists and skyscraper smashing to satisfy most lovers of gigantic amphibians. Vive le cinéma!
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