Jen Chaney

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New York Magazine (Vulture), The Dissolve, The New York Times, TV Guide Magazine, Washington Post
For 98 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jen Chaney's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 North by Northwest
Lowest review score: 0 Love the Coopers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 98
  2. Mixed: 35 out of 98
  3. Negative: 21 out of 98
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Jen Chaney
    The Hot Flashes
    Under the direction of Susan Seidelman—who first focused on a lost woman with identity issues in 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan—the leads in The Hot Flashes come across as one-dimensional, pseudo-feminist clichés whose conversations seem contrived and whose jokes land with the thud of airballs clunking on hardwood.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Jen Chaney
    Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    Animated in form but completely listless in content.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Jen Chaney
    Mademoiselle C
    It’s an air-kiss of a movie, one that places a non-contact peck on either side of its subject’s mouth, then breezes off before a serious conversation can begin.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Jen Chaney
    Road to Paloma
    Momoa does capture some scenes of genuine warmth and beauty that suggest he has the potential to develop a filmmaker’s eye for visual poetry.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 37 Jen Chaney
    The Angry Birds Movie
    After paying good money to take your family to see this film, you may be dealing with some anger-management issues of your own.
    • Washington Post
      • Posted May 19, 2016
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Jen Chaney
    Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    Even likable actors can’t obscure the fact that, holy gods on Mount Olympus, this thing is a slog, a movie that dutifully hits its plot points involving prophecies and fleeces without evoking a whiff of spirit or imagination.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Jen Chaney
    Dark Places
    Paquet-Brenner has assembled a talented cast.... Yet he elicits mostly unmemorable performances from just about everyone involved.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 37 Jen Chaney
    Need For Speed
    Need for Speed is a piece of auto-collision pornography that weighs down its car-flip-and-massive-fireball money shots with a preposterous plot involving vehicular manslaughter vengeance.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 37 Jen Chaney
    Victor Frankenstein
    Even McAvoy’s reincarnation-obsessed Frankenstein can’t breathe vitality into this shallow adaptation, which careens from moments of horror to serious drama to attempts at comedy that don’t quite land.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Jen Chaney
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
    The scenery in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, largely shot in Corfu and Athens, is gorgeous but everything else about the film’s construction is an absolute mess.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 37 Jen Chaney
    The Wedding Ringer
    What’s truly regrettable about The Wedding Ringer is that, at certain moments, it almost succeeds as a heartfelt comedy about male friendship in which its two stars, Josh Gad and Kevin Hart, get to demonstrate that they can act.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Jen Chaney
    Harold and the Purple Crayon
    Harold and the Purple Crayon makes the classic Hollywood mistake of taking a story that was lovely because of its concision and simplicity and turns it into a movie that is overly long and complicated for no good reason.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Jen Chaney
    Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club
    As directed by Perry, The Single Moms Club goes for a mix of escapism and reality-based drama and winds up with a movie that can only be enjoyed via the running, snarky commentary that will inevitably scroll through most audience members’ heads as they watch.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 0 Jen Chaney
    Love the Coopers
    Love the Coopers is one of the most jumbled, tonally misguided holiday movies in recent memory. It is an insult to tidings of comfort as well as joy, and a complete waste of the time and talents of its ensemble cast.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Jen Chaney
    Innocence
    The prevailing tone throughout Innocence is as somber as the onset-of-twilight blues and grays that dominate the movie’s color palette. All that seriousness ultimately doesn’t blend well with a narrative that marinates in the preposterous.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Jen Chaney
    The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
    The movie plays out like an improbably plotted work of overly aggressive schmaltz.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Jen Chaney
    Norm of the North
    You and your kids could probably craft a richer, more exciting polar bear adventure using nothing but Klondike bar wrappers and the power of the imagination.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Jen Chaney
    Mother's Day
    Despite an army of appealing actors in its large ensemble cast, the rom-com Mother’s Day is startlingly unappealing. Clumsily edited and culturally tone deaf, it’s more obsessed with the titular holiday than even most mothers would find reasonable.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Jen Chaney
    Best Night Ever
    Nearly every one of the film’s attempts at comedy is clichéd, tasteless, or forced—sometimes all three at once.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 30 Jen Chaney
    Authors Anonymous
    The faux-doc foundation simply doesn’t work here.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Jen Chaney
    Plush
    Plush fails to be a turn-on: It’s all surface and zero substance, with limp attempts at shock value.

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