Jen Yamato

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Los Angeles Times, Washington Post
For 45 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jen Yamato's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 90 The Transfiguration
Lowest review score: 30 Antebellum
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 45
  3. Negative: 4 out of 45
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 37 Jen Yamato
    Novocaine
    Even with a gimmick engineered to orchestrate endless bursts of Looney Tunes-style hyperviolence, “Novocaine” lives up to its name, all right — a tedious action-comedy so numbingly bland, you feel the pain of its 110-minute run time even as its protagonist can’t feel a thing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Jen Yamato
    It's a Wonderful Knife
    Try as it does to mash slasher and Christmas picture together into some kind of a yuletide “Scream,” “It’s a Wonderful Knife” so badly miscalculates both genres that you count down the minutes, wishing for a guardian angel to save its likable young stars from the movie they’re stuck in.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Jen Yamato
    Antebellum
    Antebellum ultimately trips over its gimmicky plotting en route to a conclusion that rings false.
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    • 30 Jen Yamato
    Dead Awake
    Despite Donahue’s best efforts in a grand finale sleep session with life-or-death stakes, the premise never lives up to its promise.

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