Jonathan Pile

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For 26 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jonathan Pile's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Annihilation
Lowest review score: 40 Saban's Power Rangers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    A Woman's Life
    Complex, poised and beguilingly earthy. Stephane Brizé’s decade-spanning epic is a sensitively performed, memorably fragmentary look at one woman undone by the feckless men in her life.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    Ralph Breaks the Internet
    Entertaining, and occasionally inspired, but Ralph Breaks The Internet is too often content to achieve a quick laugh, rather than exploring the themes its set-up suggests.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    Early Man
    An often amusing reimagining of Bronze Age history 
that, while it doesn’t quite match the best of Aardman, is still solid family entertainment.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Jonathan Pile
    The Limehouse Golem
    A great cast is let down by a script that fails to provide a compelling mystery to solve. Never mind as a big-screen production, this would be disappointing as a BBC mini-series.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    Borg vs. McEnroe
    A sports film with an arthouse sensibility. It benefits greatly from its chosen subject matter — two of the most remarkable characters in sporting history — but only manages to truly get under the skin of one of them.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    Kong: Skull Island
    King Kong lives! But only just. This is an uneven adventure that’s saved by the spectacle of its towering title character and the various beasts with whom he shares his island home.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Jonathan Pile
    The Dinner
    What promised so much, delivers so little thanks to a script that too often veers from the point. A missed opportunity.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Jonathan Pile
    Adrift
    Hampered by a script that fails to make the central love affair work and few new ideas while they’re stranded at sea, even the best efforts of its talented lead pair can’t keep this afloat.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    Life
    Part Alien, part Gravity, just not as good as either of them. But Life whips along at a decent pace and deploys enough engaging action sequences to make it work.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Jonathan Pile
    Final Score
    A nice idea, and the setting makes it instantly more interesting to a UK audience, but it’s let down by lapses into cliché and by simply not being audacious enough with its action set-pieces.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    Despicable Me 3
    The third Despicable Me film chronologically is also the third-best in terms of quality. But it has just enough energy and flashes of inspiration to suggest it’s a franchise that could run and run.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    The Mountain Between Us
    Two compelling leads and a mix of adventure and romance. It’s a pleasant experience, if not one that will linger long in the memory.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Jonathan Pile
    American Assassin
    An uneven thriller that would have been better served aiming for a lighter tone.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Jonathan Pile
    Unforgettable
    Scuppered by a lazy script that fails to effectively build tension, Unforgettable lives up to its name, but not for the right reasons.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Jonathan Pile
    Saban's Power Rangers
    There is fun to be had.... But it essentially feels like an overlong, mega-budgeted episode of a Saturday-morning serial.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Jonathan Pile
    Churchill
    A fascinating but flawed portrait of a fascinating but flawed man. However, with Cox so good, it’s a surprise Churchill isn’t being held back until awards season.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 40 Jonathan Pile
    The Snowman
    A case of a missed opportunity. It references all the right films, but The Snowman comes off as a pale imitation.

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