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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    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Jen Chaney
    Turbo
    A derivative but nevertheless good-hearted movie that’s peppered with enough clever touches to engage adults as well as moviegoers of the smaller, squirmier variety.
    • 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.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Jen Chaney
    The Internship
    The fact that this overlong, often preposterous comedy succeeds at all (which it does, only occasionally) proves that the Vaughn/Wilson charm can still work a measure of magic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Jen Chaney
    Fast & Furious 6
    Like its predecessors, doesn’t need CGI, 3-D glasses or even praise from film critics. It just needs to please its audience with amped-up, old-school thrills that make its target demo whoop and holler with every zoom, smash and ka-BOOM. Consider this review a declaration that it does just that.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Jen Chaney
    Arthur Newman
    A film in search of a tighter edit and a stronger point of view. It meanders from scene to scene, calling to mind the images of leaking faucets and dribbling IV fluid that appear here in close-up.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Jen Chaney
    North by Northwest
    Hitch's masterpiece.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Jen Chaney
    Stagecoach
    Although undeniably a western, Stagecoach transcends the genre, as both a character study of the relationships among a socially mismatched crew of stagecoach passengers and an action movie about their attempts to avoid the dangerous Geronimo and his Apache tribe. And that action, by the way, is impressive, even by today's standards. [28 May 2010, p.WE37]
    • Washington Post
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