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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Respect
    The supporting voices are sublime. Alongside Hudson are Audra McDonald, Tituss Burgess and Broadway’s Hailey Kilgore and Saycon Sengbloh. But the music, absent a believable 1960s sense of place or real concert atmosphere, doesn’t rouse so much as please, not unlike the familiar movie it’s a part of. Respect settles for being respectable.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    CODA
    CODA is part of that fizzling genre of film, popular in the ’90s, in which you’re almost always on the verge of sobbing while watching it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    Free Guy
    The script by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn is hysterical, but director Shawn Levy must’ve sold his soul to the devil to secure this cast.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Vivo
    Vivo is a heartfelt piece with catchy songs and a much more cohesive plot than Miranda’s Moana, which gets tangled midway through. Sure it could do with a touch more depth, but in the kids movie genre, you could do a lot worse.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Suicide Squad
    Unlike Zack Snyder’s Justice League, there is nothing serious about The Suicide Squad. That’s a good thing.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Green Knight
    The film seizes Lowery’s best skills as a director: his eye for innocence and nature (Pete’s Dragon) and how he uses slowness to deepen a story (The Old Man and the Gun).
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Stillwater
    What director Tom McCarthy’s intriguing film — which is a tad overlong — deftly explores are the cultural barriers that prevent us from achieving basic goals, such as solving a murder, and connecting with people unlike ourselves. The story is a lot more nuanced than France vs. America.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Jungle Cruise
    To bulk up the thin material, the film steals from countless other, better adventure movies to create an altogether less satisfying combo plate that costs $30 to rent on Disney+.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
    The fights, taken on their own, are occasionally OK, but not enough to lift this joke-and-fun-free slog.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Old
    M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller, Old, is campy, poorly written, candy-colored and subtle as Eurovision.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Space Jam: A New Legacy
    Over its interminable, nearly two-hour runtime, the film repeatedly mocks its very existence.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
    The best thing about the Escape Room film series is that it gives audience members clear directions in the title about what they should immediately do: Escape. Room. Get out of that theater and go see Black Widow instead. Run for your lives — and sanity!
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Pig
    It’s my favorite Cage performance in some time, after overly bizarre turns in recent years as a murderous parent in Mom and Dad and an inmate on a mission in the Japanese film Prisoners of the Ghostland. When he goes back to basics, it’s as rich and juicy as a delicious ham steak.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Fear Street Part One: 1994
    1994 plays more like television than a theatrical film. The more limited scope isn’t bothersome, though, because you can only watch it on your TV, after all, and two more films/episodes are soon on the way.
    • 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Tomorrow War
    The Tomorrow War, in trying to become the new Independence Day (this release date is not arbitrary), throws Alien, The Terminator and A Quiet Place in a blender. And, like that gross kale smoothie you made once, the result is gray goop.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Black Widow
    How unfortunate that we have two Ant-Man films and soon will have a pair of Doctor Strange flicks, but in all likelihood just a single Black Widow — a much deeper, more fascinating, more exciting character than either of those two duds, sorry, dudes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Werewolves Within
    What Werewolves Within aims to be is a Knives Out of the horror genre, with a wacky ensemble having a blast while they play enormous characters and follow clues. They do, and their antics are enjoyable for the most part. However, unlike the Daniel Craig mystery film, Werewolves can sometimes be overly spastic and annoying.
    • 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.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
    The characters are so wacky you don’t believe them as killers or strategists or even just bystanders who are in the right place at the right time. You simply don’t buy anything about them. Ever.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Luca
    For the most part, though, Luca is light and effervescent as a summertime Bellini, which is something parents can drink while the kids watch this.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    In the Heights
    Trust me — it’s been ages since you’ve seen actors have this much fun in a movie.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    Devil, make a better movie.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Spirit Untamed
    I’d rather put Baby Shark on repeat all day than spend another 90 minutes with this adult horse.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Cruella
    This film is so sexy and cool and punk rock, you forget all about that Mickey logo and Cinderella’s cutesy castle.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    A Quiet Place Part II
    The hugely enjoyable second entry doesn’t lift the franchise to new artistic heights, a la The Empire Strikes Back, but Part II is every bit as good and scary as its predecessor, and the characters, especially the kids, go to deeper and braver places.
    • 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Johnny Oleksinski
    Those Who Wish Me Dead
    Despite being a She-Hulk who’s seemingly impervious to physical pain, Jolie turns in her best performance in a while — arguably in over a decade. She’s relaxed, determined and maternal here, and connects well with Little, who is a big talent.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Woman in the Window
    The long-gestating thriller The Woman in the Window, based on A.J. Finn’s novel, is here, and it sure is dusty.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Water Man
    Off-screen, Oyelowo moves the camera elegantly, and he creates a few cool moments in the woods.
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