Jeannette Catsoulis

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NPR, The New York Times
For 1,835 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jeannette Catsoulis' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 10 Cloverfield Lane
Lowest review score: 0 The Tiger and the Snow
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 801 out of 1835
  2. Mixed: 718 out of 1835
  3. Negative: 316 out of 1835
1835 movie reviews
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 35 Jeannette Catsoulis
    The Iron Lady
    Whichever side of the aisle you inhabit, you will leave The Iron Lady feeling disgusted; you will also feel cheated - of information, insight or even an identifiable point of view.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Greener Grass
    A deadpan take on suburban hell — I hesitate to call it a comedy, black or otherwise — the movie takes competitiveness to such excruciatingly surreal lengths that every would-be joke feels agonizingly strained.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    A Score to Settle
    Not even John Newman’s distressingly awful dialogue can slow Cage’s roll to a histrionic finish.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Tony N' Tina's Wedding
    The film version is now being granted a limited release. Exactly how limited will depend on your tolerance for tasteless behavior, extravagant overacting and a decibel level to rival the unveiling of Oprah’s Favorite Things.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Our Friend
    This drippy drama presents precisely the kind of prettified portrait of death that Teague’s candid writing sought to rebut.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Gone
    Seriously depleting the skanky-villain bin at central casting, the moronic thriller Gone stars Amanda Seyfried as Jill.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Unfreedom
    Unspooling with an angry intensity and without a single sympathetic character, “Unfreedom” (originally titled “Blemished Light”) is a hard-line thriller derailed by messy editing and narrative silliness.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Night Hunter
    Caught between a hero with no personality and a villain with way too much (Fletcher’s slobbering performance has to be seen to be believed), Raymond comforts himself with shots of people gazing pensively at clues and pulling grisly things from drains.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    The Vanishing Of Sidney Hall
    Handsome cinematography and a highly competent supporting cast — including Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Lane and Alex Karpovsky — can’t save The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, a tortured mystery dripping with pretentiousness.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    August
    The movie's amoral momentum is fatally slowed by an acronym-heavy script and flimsy characterizations that offer fine actors -- including Rip Torn as Tom's contemptuous father and Naomie Harris as his missed opportunity -- little to play.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Edie
    Hancock is wasted here, as are the meaty dramatic threads that Elizabeth O’Halloran’s formulaic screenplay never bothers to pull.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    VHYes
    Even when the ghost of a point materializes — that recording ephemera can be a self-soothing behavior — VHYes is too unsophisticated to develop it.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    The Black Tulip
    Newlyweds are slaughtered, a child kidnapped and a suicide bombing foiled, all of it advanced by chunks of clumsy dialogue and embarrassingly labored acting.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Never Back Down
    The movie speeds up and slows down as though controlled by a director in the grip of competing medications. For those who make it to the final beatdown, however, the only pill worth taking is the one that makes you forget.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Special ID
    Maddeningly muddled and frustratingly counterintuitive... the story shuttles between Hong Kong and mainland China without a noticeable gain in logic or reduction in decibels.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Deepsea Challenge 3D
    James Cameron upstages the ocean in Deepsea Challenge 3D, a shallow vanity project that invites us to join him in marveling at his own daring.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    The Strip
    As depressing as the résumés of its 9-to-5 characters, The Strip sweats to wring laughs from overworked themes and underwhelming performances.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Untogether
    There’s scarcely a behavior or line reading in this exasperating relationship drama that doesn’t feel like affectation. Fraudulence might be a plot point, but only the writer and director, Emma Forrest, knows why it has to permeate the entire movie.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    A story that kicked off two years ago at a reasonable gallop has now slowed to barely a limp.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    War Story
    Aiming for a moody portrait of psychological distress, Mark Jackson directs with a sluggish pace, an abstract style and a dismal aesthetic that rebuff involvement.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Fear the Night
    As for LaBute, a once incisive chronicler of male cruelty and ineptitude, his continued dabblings in genre are lamentable. Perhaps the kindest thing to do is pretend this dud never happened.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Deadline
    Without Mr. Roberts and his grinning insouciance, this well-meaning mess would have no heartbeat at all.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Rememory
    A hodgepodge of pseudoscientific twaddle and variously shifty murder suspects, Rememory satisfies neither as science fiction nor as psychological drama.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Maggie Moore(s)
    Top-heavy with big names (Tina Fey, Jon Hamm) and set in a nondescript small town populated primarily by sad sacks and losers, the movie struggles to get out of second gear.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Speciesism: The Movie
    A painfully gauche, galumphing attack on factory farming, meat eating, animal experimentation and human supremacy.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Farmland
    Smooth and folksy, it traffics in broad, unchallenged claims that serve a single purpose: to persuade us that the only thing wrong with today’s farming methods is our misinformed perception of them.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Zaytoun
    In grabbing for the heart this one-size-fits-all fable sadly ignores the mind.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Footprints
    From its "once upon a time" beginning to the anticlimactic end, Footprints remains fatally lodged in La-La Land.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    Meet Bill
    Harnessing mostly fine actors to a wholly asinine script, the directors, Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann, have created a movie as spineless and dithering as its benighted namesake.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Jeannette Catsoulis
    The Misfits
    For the first 20 minutes or so — a blitz of eye candy and ear worms — its breezy action and the performers’ good cheer are enough to entertain. Too soon, though, the movie drifts into narrative doldrums that derail its momentum and drain the cast’s energy.
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