Jay Weissberg

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The Film Verdict, Variety
For 254 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jay Weissberg's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Sunday's Illness
Lowest review score: 10 Another Me
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 133 out of 254
  2. Mixed: 106 out of 254
  3. Negative: 15 out of 254
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Petite Solange
    Ropert’s understanding of how children furtively watch the adults around them, soaking up the friction, is well-observed and the best thing in this otherwise insipid film that perversely discards any shred of naturalism for an outdated and phony ingenuousness. Even the performances are airless, and consequently there’s no emotional investment in a family whose rapport is so clunkily established.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Casanova, Last Love
    Whatever the truth, there’s nothing in Jacquot’s vision of Charpillon to inspire devotion. There have been other unlikely Casanovas, yet the best of them conveyed not just the man’s charm but a depth of intelligence. Lindon’s downturned eyes have always exuded a world-weariness that fits with his characters, but there’s no spark here, no understanding of the man’s aura.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    The Professor and the Madman
    For those that have been anticipating this curious, much-delayed oddity, the good news is that Gibson is fine; it’s everything else that doesn’t work.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Elisa & Marcela
    A dully made, frequently ridiculous eye-roller shot in standard issue black-and-white that gussies itself up as a brave clarion call for gay rights.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    The Black Prince
    Clunkily scripted and generically pretty in a Stately Home porn kind of way, the film is vaguely accurate in its sequence of events but falls completely flat on personal relationships, psychology and political undercurrents — in other words, the stuff that makes history come alive.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Lost in Florence
    Bland even for the armchair traveler, “Lost” is as inoffensive as a picture-souvenir booklet, and equally unmemorable.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Correspondence (La corrispondenza)
    Even if Tornatore were deliberately aiming for the artificiality that clings to nearly every frame, the pic would still feel needlessly airless, hampered by an Italian-to-English script translation that may be precise but lacks naturalism.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Marguerite & Julien
    The film is a painfully silly, laughably naive Romance with a capital “R.”
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Gerontophilia
    Maybe if the actors had been coached to actually act, it would have come across better, but their painfully stilted delivery is leaden rather than campily artificial.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Inside the Mind of Leonardo
    The documentary envisions the groundbreaking visionary as a voracious polymath (true) while giving shockingly short shrift to the man as artist.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Autómata
    Even for sci-fi, some logic has to enter the plot, which also needs to be devoid of major holes if it’s not to fall into ridiculousness, and that, unfortunately, is where Automata lies.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Jay Weissberg
    Another Me
    Stunningly unsuccessful on all levels, this gothic dud wants to play on the real and metaphoric anxieties of post-adolescents discovering who they are, but the ham-fisted script is incapable of a multilayered approach, while the helming and editing are at the level of mediocre TV.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
    When does an exercise in style become a wearying ADD slog through blood-splattered pseudo-Freudian nonsense? When it’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Jay Weissberg
    Stalingrad
    Assaults are filmed in ubiquitous slow-mo to better register the way bodies are thrown into the air. It’s all rather confusing, actually, since the monochromatic tonalities and weak script, lacking in any comprehensible battle strategy, tend to meld the two sides together.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Jay Weissberg
    Truth
    A low-budget potboiler with an overblown score not loud enough to drown out the hackneyed dialogue.

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