Joe Leydon

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Variety
For 872 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joe Leydon's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 No Greater Love
Lowest review score: 0 Movie 43
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 363 out of 872
  2. Mixed: 380 out of 872
  3. Negative: 129 out of 872
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    Best of Enemies
    Both fascinating as a glimpse at the not so distant past, and provocative as an account of what arguably was an early step in the decline of political discourse on television.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    Matilda
    A delightfully twisted fairy tale that artfully juggles broad tomfoolery and sly drollery, along with a generous serving of sight gags enhanced by special effects. Even though it's being pitched primarily at younger moviegoers and their parents, pic is exuberantly quirky enough to please almost anyone.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    Pleasantville
    Ingeniously conceived and impressively executed, Pleasantville is a provocative, complex and surprisingly anti-nostalgic parable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    Kedi
    [A] splendidly graceful and quietly magical documentary.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    ZigZag
    Evidencing savvy visual flair and compelling storytelling skill, Goyer infuses heart and vigor into material that could have come off as overly familiar at best, sappily improbable at worst.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    Then She Found Me
    A smart, subtle and seriously funny dramedy bound to find favor with sophisticated auds.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    Office Space
    Imagine a live-action version of the "Dilbert" comic strip with a touch of Hal Hartley's deadpan absurdism, and you're ready for the frequently uproarious "Office Space."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    Teacher's Pet
    A doggone hilarious cartoon extravaganza...virtually bursts at the seams with a supersized abundance of witty wordplay, silly songs and inspired sight gags.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Joe Leydon
    We Feed People
    [A] technically polished and emotionally stirring close-up view of celebrity chef José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    A Crooked Somebody
    Working from a smartly constructed script by Andrew Zilch, director Trevor White (“Jamesy Boy”) does an impressive job of propelling the narrative along parallel tracks of arrestingly suspenseful thriller and knowing media satire.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Robots
    It's meant as high praise to say that, very early in Robots, the extraordinary starts to seem perfectly ordinary.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Jack Frost
    Jack Frost is a slickly packaged and engagingly sentimental fantasy-comedy that stands out as one of the season's most pleasant surprises. Pic offers a shrewdly balanced mix of humor, high concept and heart tugging, along with some amusingly impressive special effects.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Miracle
    Key to drama's success is the artful underplaying by Kurt Russell in the lead role of Herb Brooks.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    People's Republic of Desire
    People’s Republic of Desire is provocative and unsettling as it brings us on a guided tour through the digital marketplace for something resembling human contact.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Joy Ride
    Hot-wired, white-knuckle thriller.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
    “Portrait” abounds in the sort of ironies and contrasts that can make a biodoc fascinating even to auds totally unfamiliar with its subject.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    The Legend of Drunken Master
    Well positioned to slake the thirst of action fans for world-class, slam-bang rough stuff.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    A lavishly mounted and appealingly old-fashioned swashbuckler with nary a trace of wink-wink irony or revisionist embellishment.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Saving Grace
    Harvests a bumper crop of laughs.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Mayhem
    A smartly constructed and sardonically funny indie with attitude that somehow manages the tricky feat of being exuberantly over the top even as it remains consistently on target.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Dr. Dolittle 2
    Even more family-friendly than its immensely popular predecessor.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Facing Nolan
    Its lack of manufactured drama is one of the most engaging things about it, especially if you are a baseball fan who has ever marveled at the miracle that was, and is, Nolan Ryan.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    All Things Must Pass
    It is much to the credit of Hanks and his collaborators that All Things Must Pass makes this particular iteration of the oft-told tale come across as freshly compelling, even poignant.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Screwball
    It works surprisingly and consistently well as a storytelling flourish for a documentary that does not traffic in subtleties or moral indignation while repeatedly and boisterously posing the question: “Can you believe these people actually did this?”
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Bossa Nova
    Imagine a '30s screwball comedy played to a sensuous Brazilian beat and you're ready for Bossa Nova, a delightfully amusing romantic roundelay.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Raging Grace
    Raging Grace strikes a skillful balance of sociopolitical commentary and conventional yet effective spooky stuff, and maintains that equilibrium after Zarcilla flips the script in regard to motivations and assumptions.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    In Search of Beethoven
    Beautifully lensed and intelligently crafted.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Five Fingers For Marseilles
    Five Fingers for Marseilles turns out to be an impressively effective and engrossing cross-cultural hybrid that has a great deal more than novelty value going for it.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Dudley Do-Right
    One of the summer's more pleasant surprises. A silly bit of tiptop tomfoolery with cross-generational appeal.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Leydon
    Reign Over Me
    Sandler (never making a false step while maneuvering though vertiginous mood swings) and Cheadle (deftly commingling instinctive decency with quiet desperation) are individually excellent, and bring out the best in each other. And the picture itself transcends its real but relatively minor flaws to score a satisfyingly potent impact.
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