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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Every aspect — acting, writing, special effects, score — is a notch above its superhero peers. In the best possible sense, you forget you’re watching just another Marvel movie.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 World War I novel, the German film on Netflix is unsparing in its portrayal of the horrors of battle. It’s sensory-overload, tough-though-rewarding viewing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Wonder
    The supremely talented Florence Pugh has rapidly rebounded from the “Don’t Worry Darling” debacle with The Wonder, a creepy new Netflix drama that’s unusually strong for the streaming service. For once, it’s the characters who endure hardship — not the audience.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Ticket to Paradise
    Ticket to Paradise would be a better time if it was as campy as its lead actress’ frozen hair.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Black Adam
    The Rock arrives with the power of a pebble in the new action movie “Black Adam,” in which the popular star plays the titular anti-hero in his first solo outing. It’s just as thoughtless and rancid as the rest of DC Comics’ crummy catalog.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Halloween Ends
    What I love about Green’s style is he has both a sense of the grand — he gives Michael’s mask the cinematic weight of Moses’ Ten Commandments slabs — and the goofy.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    TÁR
    The match of larger-than-life actress to larger-than-life role is perfection.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 0 Johnny Oleksinski
    Amsterdam
    Amsterdam has every advantage imaginable. Doesn’t matter. It’s the worst movie of the year so far, and I will bow down to whatever comes along and tops it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    Hocus Pocus 2
    Hocus Pocus 2 is also awful to the core, but charmless and too low stakes to keep our interest.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Blonde
    There’s so much anguish, we eventually become numb to it over the nearly three-hour film. We come to know her only as a victim, not a fleshed-out person. Is that take enlightening? Meh. Entertaining? Not really. Long? Extremely.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Don't Worry Darling
    Pugh, a sensational actress, keeps our interest as she grows increasingly suspicious and sees disturbing visions in mirrors and on windows. She brings class and gravitas to a movie that would otherwise be kinda trashy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Whale
    Fraser, so good, takes what could be a joke, a flat tragedy, or even a lecture about weight and imbues it with gorgeous humanity.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Allelujah
    There’s nothing wrong with some silver screen sorrow, but not when it amounts to indecisive mush.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Fabelmans
    It’s gripping, visually mesmeric, boasts an exceptional, grounded script by Tony Kushner and is acted to the hilt.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Banshees of Inisherin
    Banshees, reuniting Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell from “In Bruges,” is a scream from start to finish-erin.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Son
    Zeller’s latest mental health movie is an exhaustingly tedious experience in which you check your watch several times a minute while taking breaks from giggling at the clumsy dialogue.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Catherine Called Birdy
    Dunham has made a really attractive and cohesive film, merging her modern, punky sensibilities with the dirt-and-stone drear of the time period.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    On the Come Up
    Lathan, who has had a long and fruitful career as an actress in TV shows like “The Affair,” does well in her first go as a director. She has just enough visual flair so as to not overwhelm the rich characters and vibrant place.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Johnson still does whodunits better than Kenneth Branagh’s horrid Agatha Christie adaptations he keeps torturing audiences with. Yet despite the giggles and the beefier budget — explosions, an exotic locale, massive sets — “Glass Onion” comes off slight.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    My Policeman
    I can’t speak to Bethan Roberts’ 2012 novel the film is based on, but the story’s climactic reveal is one of the most predictable in ages. It gets the award for Biggest Duh!
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Woman King
    What a refreshing break from what usually constitutes an epic nowadays — mixing Ant-Man and the Hulk.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    What Yankovic and director and co-writer Eric Appel have done, brilliantly in spots, is parody Yankovic’s own life while sending up the whole biopic genre. In a messed-up way, the maneuver is kinda poetic. And so very funny.
    • 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.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    Day Shift
    Lucky “Day Shift” has an Oscar winner in Foxx, who’s appealingly heroic, and gags about a burning sensation on characters’ privates.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Bodies Bodies Bodies
    Reijn’s film, which was written by Sarah DeLappe and Kristen Roupenian, succeeds in making a young basement horror movie for today. And, as least year’s “Scream” reboot showed us, it’s a genre that’s been stuck for far too long in 1996.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Bullet Train
    Bullet Train is a fun flick, to be sure, reminiscent of director Guy Ritchie’s better crime comedies such as “The Gentlemen” with Hugh Grant. But, as the title suggests, it’s louder and faster. And, a warning to the squeamish, there’s a swimming pool’s worth of blood.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Vengeance
    Novak’s forever-skill as an actor is likability, and that approachable magnetism is on display here. What doesn’t work in this otherwise naturalistic movie are the punchlines he’s written for himself. Too planned and stilted, not terribly funny. The huge size of all the actors’ humor never matches the intimate way the film has been shot.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Thirteen Lives
    In attempting to dramatize their harrowing story in the film Thirteen Lives...the director doesn’t make quick, from-the-gut decisions the way that the intrepid team did. Instead, he takes a chill ride on the Lazy River.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Gray Man
    You simply cannot believe you’re staring at megastars — so sapped of individuality and charisma they are. My barista could have been cast as the lead of this action-thriller, and the film would be absolutely no different.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Nope
    The movie is a bit long, and the culmination overstays its welcome. That is the only section of the movie where the viewer is a step ahead — and therefore it doesn’t sizzle like what came before. Yet the visual splendor of the sequence also proves the director has a flair for the epic we didn’t know about before. And that makes me all the more excited for the next “Untitled Jordan Peele Project.
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