Jordan Hoffman

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For 487 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jordan Hoffman's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Lowest review score: 0 Charlie Countryman
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 248 out of 487
  2. Mixed: 191 out of 487
  3. Negative: 48 out of 487
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    Birds of Passage
    In the most reductive way, it is another mafia story. But as with their previous film, it is the specificity that counts, and while certain genre tendencies prevent the narrative from truly unmooring, hardly a scene goes by without something fundamentally familiar being rendered in a unique fashion.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    The Treasure
    Laughs emerge from the recognisable micro-horrors found in modern living, which, if the world was run in the way we all agree it should be run, wouldn’t exist.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Jordan Hoffman
    Mudbound
    A hundred well-placed plot breadcrumbs lead us to our perfect ending, but apart from scriptwriting craft Rees gets in some bravura scenes of high tension.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 86 Jordan Hoffman
    The Past
    The Past is just about as good as a relationship drama is ever going to get. The plot is teased out with deliberate grace, the performances are sublime and the revelations, even the most melodramatic, feel right and true. It’s big canvas stuff painted by a new master.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Jordan Hoffman
    Aferim!
    It’s worth mentioning again that, somehow, this movie, with all its full-frontal historical horror, is still loaded with laughs.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Hoffman
    War Witch
    It does a marvelous job at giving us an impressionistic taste of horrific circumstances without using them to beat us into submission.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Jordan Hoffman
    On the Record
    On the Record itself is a thorough and self-aware film.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    The Witch
    This movie may be too slow and verbose to be the next breakout horror hit, but its focus on themes over plot is what elevates it to something near greatness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 40 Jordan Hoffman
    Kubo and the Two Strings
    Little kids will be bored, as there are only a few scenes with any action, and of those, only one, featuring an enormous skeleton with swords sticking out of its skull, has any oomph.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    A Ghost Story
    Not all is explained in A Ghost Story, but enough is there for vibrant discussion to break out the minute the credits rolled.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    De Palma
    So many documentaries about artists just want you to accept that their subject is an innovator. De Palma breaks it down and shows you why he is.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    The Forbidden Room
    Maddin’s zeal for old cameras and stocks is matched only by his revelry in evoking an entire genre with a single image. The film’s apogee literally opens up The Book of Climax in a sequence of pure, knowing cinematic joy. Film-lovers, this ludicrous movie is for you.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Jordan Hoffman
    Barbershop: The Next Cut
    Barbershop: The Next Cut is hardly subtle, but it is more nuanced than you might expect.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Hoffman
    Blackfish
    It’s unlikely anyone who sees Blackfish will be trekking to Shamu Stadium this summer.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    Field Niggas
    This movie is foremost an ethnographic exercise, and whether it is a rallying cry or poverty porn is for the viewer to decide.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    Mandy
    Either you are one of the devoted or you’re not. You won’t know what camp you’re in until you see it.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    20th Century Women
    For all of Mills’s cinematic tricks, he’s emerging as a great realist film-maker.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    Sol LeWitt
    Teerink’s reserved, spare form mirrors LeWitt’s work, which gives it tremendous impact.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    Ixcanul
    What’s most striking about Ixcanul is the elegant way in which it is shot. Scenes are given space, and the audience is allowed ample time to soak up the atmosphere.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    Burning Bush
    Burning Bush is a rare accomplishment. It’s a political film with clear heroes and villains, and true to its HBO roots, it works as a fleet-of-foot juicy plot-delivery system.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 95 Jordan Hoffman
    Cutie and the Boxer
    The emotions the Shinoharas’ story inspire are all over the road. It is at times triumphant and warm, then sad and even enraging.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Hoffman
    Moonage Daydream
    If there’s a message at all in Moonage Daydream, it is secondary to the experiential nature of the movie. That’s hardly a knock. One goes to a concert to be thrilled, not necessarily to gather life lessons. Leave that sort of thing for the other, lesser documentaries.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    Mustang
    While the subject matter is enraging, the film is not without warmth and occasional levity.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Hoffman
    Neptune Frost
    There’s little about it that is realistic, but it has points to make about the real world.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Jordan Hoffman
    Creed
    The script may feature numerous wobbly passages in which everyone eerily states precisely what they are thinking (an unfortunate tradition that runs throughout the series) but if anyone can sell it, it’s Stallone and Jordan.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Jordan Hoffman
    Frances Ha
    The film is so engaging because it's so damn funny.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    A Hijacking
    A Hijacking isn’t boring, but it is not an adventure film – it is a frustratingly realistic take on the unfortunate modern threat of piracy, and a bit of an emotional workout.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Hoffman
    The Spectacular Now
    From a distance The Spectacular Now is mere soap opera, but it is one of those films that grow more fascinating upon inspection.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Hoffman
    Nuts!
    Mixing droll animation, stock footage and a restrained number of talking head interviews, the director Penny Lane’s biography has all the whimsy of a tall tale, until a late change in tone surprises with genuine emotion. Nuts! is really a kick.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Jordan Hoffman
    The Age of Adaline
    Age of Adaline, which starts off looking like a frothy series of excuses to put Blake Lively in some fabulously timeless gowns, ends up an emotional and even bold chamber drama. Its ending is ludicrous, but also perfect, and I’d be lying if I didn’t get a little choked up.
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