Jordan Mintzer

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The Film Verdict, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
For 459 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jordan Mintzer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 The Club
Lowest review score: 20 The Pretenders
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 279 out of 459
  2. Mixed: 163 out of 459
  3. Negative: 17 out of 459
459 movie reviews
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    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    Son of Bigfoot
    Animation work is never exactly jaw-dropping but fits the bill, with plenty of colorful set pieces in both the great outdoors and the high-tech headquarters of HairCo. Snarky dialogue is minimal compared to most tongue-in-cheek cartoons, while a few pop culture nods (to Star Wars and Better Call Saul) will give older viewers something to look out for.
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    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    9 Fingers
    Good luck trying to make heads or tails of it, but as an eye-popping exercise in cinematic strangeness, 9 Fingers is a rare breed.
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    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    Paris Is Us
    Vogler creates an intoxicating mood at times, especially through slick visuals and a trippy score by French electro maven Laurent Garnier, but her movie is like something you distractedly watch out of the corner of your eye in a café or train station or on someone else’s iPhone on the subway. In other words, it belongs on the small screen.
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    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    Game Girls
    Game Girls doesn’t really go beyond its fly-on-the-wall approach to its heroines, offering us lots of intimacy but nothing that really sets its story within a greater social or political context.
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    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    In Safe Hands
    Intelligently observed and backed by a strong cast, this well-performed ensemble piece oscillates between documentary-style study of the French social care system and Lifetime-style tearjerker that tends to overdose on the saccharine.
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    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    The Tower
    The pacing is a bit flat in parts, with a little too much dead air, but the drama builds its way to an emotional finale where Sidi’s long and difficult life in exile comes full circle.
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    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    System K
    The result is a film that sometimes feels as frenzied as the world it’s depicting, but one that benefits from being such a full-blown nosedive into a unique moment of collective creation.
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    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    Made in Bangladesh
    There’s no denying the power inherent in Shimu’s grueling pursuit: one which, in many other countries, would simply be a matter of filling out some forms, but here takes on nearly Melvillian proportions of impossibility.
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    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    South Terminal
    Ameur-Zaïmeche remains vague, perhaps frustratingly so, about his movie's identity — per the closing credits it was mostly shot in the South of France — but what he says about fear and isolation in a totalitarian society has a universal tinge.
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    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Five Years North
    They’re two out of millions of New Yorkers, but the more we get to know them, the more we see how these opposites — who exist on opposite sides of the law — are bound together by their mutual struggle to make it in the big city.
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    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    Simply Black
    The movie itself doesn’t always live up to its ambitions, playing like a loose assembly of sketches that are by turns hilarious and tedious, with a third act that fizzles out and an ending that doesn’t land smoothly.
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    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Kirikou and the Men and Women
    Like the previous Kirikou movies, the combination of classic animation and straightforward storytelling provides a welcome antidote to the kind of overcaffeinated cartoons gracing today’s screens.
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    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    The Last Out
    The Last Out is a moving reminder of how hard it is to make it to the big leagues.
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    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Critical Zone
    It feels closer to Taxi Driver or the films of Gaspar Noé than to Kiarostami’s work, and yet Ahmadzadeh’s portrait of his country’s disaffected youth, especially during the current period of revolt, is just as socially vital.
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    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    A Long Shot
    It’s a solid ending that helps compensate for the film’s somewhat opaque plotting and languid drama, despite sturdy performances from Feng and the rest of the cast.
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    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    The Inner Cage
    This is still earnest, compassionate filmmaking that tries to cut past clichés and show how even the worst criminals have a heart — and, because this is Italy, how they can also cook up a solid batch of meatballs and marinara sauce.
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    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    At Averroès & Rosa Parks
    By giving the patients considerable time and space to bare themselves before the camera, Philibert grants us access to the the darker sides of the human psyche, portraying mental illness with an innate sense of compassion and understanding.
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    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Hacking Hate
    Working without much in terms of visuals but talking heads and screens, Klose manages to make his film feel both suspenseful and informative.
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    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    Mexico 86
    If anything, Diaz succeeds in conveying how fatal the conflict in his homeland truly was, making its way into foreign lands and tearing loving families apart.
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    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Lucky Lu
    The director never sugarcoats life in the Big Apple for Lu, his family, nor for the rest of the striving migrant underclass. There are no moments of triumph or dreams coming true, no holding hands and cheering together at a Yankees game.
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