John DeFore

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The Hollywood Reporter
For 1,483 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

John DeFore's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Mandy
Lowest review score: 0 The Trouble with Terkel
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 703 out of 1483
  2. Mixed: 632 out of 1483
  3. Negative: 148 out of 1483
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 John DeFore
    Running with the Devil
    Though not quite as devoid of personality as those names and its boilerplate dialogue, the film nevertheless plays like a flowchart in search of a pulse, a drama whose "Traffic"-like ambitions aren't matched by narrative inspiration.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 John DeFore
    Guns Akimbo
    The ingredients for an engagingly ridiculous action pic are here, but the pacing's all wrong.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 John DeFore
    Human Capital
    Engrossing on a moment-to-moment scale thanks so some very fine performances, the film doesn't click together in the transformative way such stories occasionally do, and does less with themes of wealth and class than it surely intends to.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 60 John DeFore
    American Son
    Any failure to expand into cinema's possibilities is overshadowed by the uniformly strong performances in a four-person cast led by an excellent Kerry Washington.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 John DeFore
    Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
    The documentary plays like a home movie that snowballed, causing its maker to overestimate her subject's relevance to the outside world. Though parts of it will certainly resonate within the deaf community (assuming it is made available with closed captioning), the film has little of the philosophical appeal of other documentaries on this topic, and sometimes seems willfully solipsistic.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 John DeFore
    Sound of Metal
    A film about the sudden onset of deafness that is too attentive to specifics of character and setting to ever feel like a rote disability drama.
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