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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Adam Project
    Although it is a soft PG-13, The Adam Project is stylistically geared toward 5-year-olds who aren’t going to watch a movie about time travel and frayed parent-child relationships. Today’s teens and 20-somethings are too smart for a movie so dumb.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Beast
    After some early thrills, director Baltasar Kormákur’s movie ceases to excite because the creature has no more surprises left. He just jumps through the window — again.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Zack Snyder's Justice League
    How would “Slightly less terrible!” look on a poster? That is my approved quote for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a perverse exercise in fanboydom on HBO Max that tacks on two extra hours of footage to a maligned 2017 DC Comics movie to create a kind of new, still-bad movie.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Voyeurs
    Writer-director Michael Mohan’s “drama” tries to be a modern Rear Window (emphasis on “rear”), but Hitchcock it ain’t. The Voyeurs is a cheap, never-ending trifle that takes itself more seriously than Hamlet.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Kung Fu Panda 4
    The so-so story aside, like the previous three movies and most of DreamWorks’ catalog, this iteration of “Panda” appealingly wears its heart on its paw. And that’s sufficient reason for families to choose it over a lot of other animated schlock out there.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Bad Boys: Ride or Die
    With a formulaic plot and adequate supporting players, Smith phoning it in presents a major roadblock for a series as reliant on two leads’ chemistry as this one.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    M3GAN 2.0
    With “M3GAN 2.0,” the filmmakers have employed a bold strategy: Take a $180-million formula, shred it and forget it.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Moxie
    A frustratingly bland young-adult feminist comedy without good jokes, Moxie is a cross between a hokey ’90s family sitcom and a vastly superior teen film, such as Lady Bird.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Greta
    Moretz, meanwhile, acts like Little Red Riding Hood talking to her conspicuously hairy grandma — impossibly naive, and therefore dull and unbelievable. She’s a solid actress, but she shines best in indies or in parts with real edge. Greta is a camp-fest.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Cocaine Bear
    Impressively, however, director Elizabeth Banks keeps the powder gags fresh throughout, as the mammal maims her way through a Southern forest preserve. The movie about blow never blows.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
    Despite the lacking wrap-up, “Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is, like most of the “Hunger Games” films, a well-made dystopian yarn that’s better acted than it needs to be.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Little Things
    A couple of grand, intriguing ideas does not a movie make. Say it with me, folks: It’s the little things.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Penguin Bloom
    Subtlety is kicked to the curb in favor of volcanic drama, and nary a moment goes by without some screaming or an inspiring message.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    Terminator: Dark Fate
    As blissfully simple as James Cameron’s original “Terminator” framework was, “Dark Fate” has a tendency to toss in unnecessary confusions.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    It Ends with Us
    It Ends With Us is, despite its failings and indulgences, a highly emotional and absorbing couple of hours.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Artist's Wife
    The Artist’s Wife can, at times, come off as a collage of other, better movies.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Anemone
    Ronan has a flair for visuals, no doubt about it. And I liked looking at them. The trouble is his slideshow of impressive landscapes and environments evokes nothing deeper and, actually, is a roadblock to character development and story momentum. Scenic detours.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Alita: Battle Angel
    By the end of this derivative, heartless mess, you’ll conclude that a garbage dump is exactly where writer-producer James Cameron’s new project belongs.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
    Although director J.J. Abrams tries his darndest to finish the job, conjuring up nostalgia like a TV medium, “Rise” doesn’t feel like the last chapter of the biggest American movie franchise. It’s just another well-made “Star Wars” flick.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Aladdin
    Massoud and Scott make a live-action “Aladdin” succeed on a different level than a cartoon can — as a teary romance. “A Whole New World” is more moving than the original.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Forever Purge
    That idea was fun once, maybe even twice, but by the fifth outing the formula has given way to preachiness and predictability.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Emancipation
    Emancipation, which is an otherwise well-tread period drama about the horrors of slavery, features more of Smith’s rich emotionality and laser-focused intensity that he’s uncovered late in his career and that won him the Oscar for last year’s “King Richard.”
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Ma
    Ma is a much more enjoyable ride than the even more preposterous “Greta,” which got lost in undeserved self-seriousness.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Palmer
    For a film with the nuance of a nuke, Palmer’s by-the-numbers journey nods along like elevator music.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    Lilo & Stitch
    What was great fun before is mostly mopey and depressing now. A hunk, a hunk of burning IP.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Renfield
    Cage is amusing though, and exemplifies the old stage wisdom “if you’re having fun, they’re having fun.” However, that’s the biggest problem for Renfield: Whenever Cage leaves the frame, which is often, we immediately stop having fun — as if Dracula commanded us to.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    Devil, make a better movie.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Moment
    If you like Charli xcx’s songs and find her to be a unique and uncompromising presence in the often airbrushed world of pop, you’ll appreciate moments of “The Moment.” But that’s it. This is not a fully formed movie. At best, it’s a moderately intriguing pitch.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Five Feet Apart
    The movie is smartly paced, and Sprouse (“Riverdale”) and Richardson make for one of the more adorable pairs in recent films. You not only want what’s best for them, but believe it can actually happen.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Pokémon Detective Pikachu
    Being obvious nostalgia bait for children of the ’90s, director Rob Letterman’s film has no right to be as good or well-crafted as it is. The plot takes major twists that come as legitimate surprises, and seeing those old cartoon characters plopped into our world rendered in CGI is enormously satisfying.
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