Johnny Oleksinski

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New York Post
For 682 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Johnny Oleksinski's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Avatar: The Way of Water
Lowest review score: 0 Gotti
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 365 out of 682
  2. Mixed: 125 out of 682
  3. Negative: 192 out of 682
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    One Life
    When a movie wades into the vast pool of World War II and Holocaust titles, the viewer expects a splash. One Life is, at best, a spritz. It delivers a lot of what we’ve already seen before, but on a less-than-cinematic scale. Yet spending some time with Hopkins and exploring a speck of light in one of the world’s darkest chapters is just satisfying enough.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    It: Chapter Two
    A very fine follow-up to the most successful horror film ever.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    F9: The Fast Saga
    I don’t mind Diesel and Cena starring in movies like this, because it helps keep them out of other, better movies. But to see folks such as Helen Mirren (doing her weird cockney accent again), Russell and Theron’s talents wasted on such schlock is a shame.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Last Shift
    It’s a low-key rest-stop story that appreciates life’s banalities and the struggles of ordinary people.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Freaky Tales
    Even though you definitely don’t leave contemplating the narrative, the detailed and authentic ‘80s aesthetic conjures a spell.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    Eternity
    It’s Olsen’s emotional frailty that helps pump up a bad movie into a mediocre one.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Mule
    The embarrassing drama — offensive, clunky, poorly written — sullies Eastwood’s storied legacy, and makes great actors such as Bradley Cooper and Dianne Wiest come off like amateurs.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    There’s a lot going on here, but Washington’s complex, emotionally turbulent performance makes it all work.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Come Play
    For the most part, the film is second-rate horror, but watchable enough.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Midnight Sky
    At the film’s most entertaining heights, it recalls the novels of Ray Bradbury and the Matt Damon flick “The Martian.” But its final twist is an extremely implausible, easy way out.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Christy
    The film is an often ugly character study of a hard life that only got worse the more famous Martin got.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The High Note
    The lovable Ross, who does her own singing, doesn’t have her mom Diana’s diva energy, and Johnson speaks with only a rote understanding of music. The film’s one twist is as predictable as tomorrow’s itinerary.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Moana 2
    The studio’s latest likable musical is nicely animated, has nice characters and a few nice songs. At risk of repeating myself: It’s nice.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Equalizer 3
    Finally, on the series’ supposedly last outing, one of its films lives up to the ever-deepening talent of its leading man. Equalizer 3 adds nothing new to the thriller genre, true, but it wisely acknowledges what’s worked well before.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The One and Only Ivan
    The director of all this airiness comes as a surprise — Thea Sharrock, the British theater artist known for her Broadway production of the play “Equus,” in which a naked Daniel Radcliffe stabbed the eyes out of a stable full of horses. “Ivan” is about as far from that as you can get.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    Like in "Crystal Skull,” director James Mangold’s movie aims to merge Indy’s earthy supernatural framework with science fiction, to mixed results. The love-it-or-loathe-it ending is a real doozy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Wicked: For Good
    Darker and grimmer Act 2, though, by a hair, makes a meatier movie because characters aren’t as silly — the first flick was practically a pageant — and they are actually propelling toward a satisfying conclusion.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Elemental
    The love story is nice, but Ember and Wade’s relationship also goes from zero to 60 awfully fast. There have been many a romance told inside of two hours, but these guys’ instant gushiness is awkward and doesn’t ring true — even for CGI blobs.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Pet Sematary
    Although mostly routine, Pet Sematary is intermittently scary.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Laundromat
    Netflix needs to add a category for its new original film The Laundromat. Right under “Movies you might like” should be “Movies you will loathe.”
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Dicks: The Musical
    Having written this script for themselves, Sharp and Jackson are a scream. Imagine if a vodka Redbull transformed into two human beings — that’s who they are.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Road House
    The beefcake Swayze role, Dalton, is taken over by an intense Jake Gyllenhaal in this entertaining and, for better or worse, less mockable update of the cult classic.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Broken Hearts Gallery
    The film’s worst offense is that it works way too hard for it to be a light watch.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Army of the Dead
    When the massacre starts, the movie gets better. But the methods of murder are, like everything else, awfully self-serious and limited to mostly just plain old guns and knives.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Thor: Love and Thunder
    Love and Thunder is an urgent reminder that in order for the MCU to keep going, in an entertaining, soulful way, creativity and innovation is required. You can’t just say “multiverse” 1,000 times and call it a movie.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Fall Guy
    The core problem facing the rather annoying new movie “The Fall Guy” — starring Ryan Gosling as a professional daredevil — is that we can’t believe. Never for a second does the viewer buy that goofy Gosling is an in-demand stunt person who sets aside his ego for the betterment of a project.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Our Friend
    Some will accuse Our Friend of being sentimental, and it is, but not in an “Oh no! The golden retriever was kidnapped!” way. It’s subtle. The wisdom of Brad Ingelsby’s script is that Dane’s assistance is unnoticeable until very late in the movie. His acts of kindness sneak up on you.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Cold Pursuit
    Cold Pursuit is stark and refreshing, like taking an icy swim with the Polar Bear Club. A jolt. The movie makes you want him to stay around for a while longer.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Wrath of Man
    Wrath of Man isn’t as blatantly funny as “The Gentlemen” is, though it has its laughs, but it is taut and exhilarating without a single wasted moment.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Breakthrough
    It’s a harrowing tale that deserves a much better movie than this insipid junk.
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