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
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Steak (R)evolution
    There are definitely more worthy endeavors than circling the globe in search of the perfect cut of meat, but French producer-director Franck Ribiere nonetheless delivers an absorbing, and often enlightening, quest for the world’s greatest sirloin in his exhaustive food documentary, Steak (R)evolution.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Broken Voices
    Shot in grainy 16mm to better capture the mood of the epoch, Broken Voices keeps its drama grounded in the social and cultural realities of its time. Provaznik coaxes strong performances from the young cast, whether in their chorus rehearsals or behind the scenes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    Grand Tour
    Fans of Gomes’ breakthrough 2012 feature, Tabu, will find much to love here as well, and in terms of craft his latest offers some truly beguiling moments. But anyone looking for a good story, or characters to get hooked on, may find themselves admiring the scenery without ever relishing it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Rye Lane
    Take the plot of one of Richard Linklater’s Before movies, combine it with the eye-popping aesthetic of Wes Anderson, then set it within the ethnically diverse, highly photogenic South London enclave of Peckham, and you’ll wind up with Rye Lane.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Bodied
    If the movie runs long in places, the vibrant performances from Worthy and the rest of the cast help push things ahead to the grand finale, and there are enough dynamo battles from start to finish to keep hungry rap fans satisfied.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Jordan Mintzer
    Apocalypse in the Tropics
    What makes Tropics so riveting is the way Costa constantly shifts between the epic and the intimate, the macro and the micro.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Embrace of the Serpent
    If the film runs a tad too long, especially in its second half, Embrace of the Serpent is still an absorbing account of indigenous tribes facing up to colonial incursions, revealing how Westerners are in many ways far behind the native peoples they conquer.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
    The film feels at times like Terrence Malick meets Hayao Miyazaki for tykes, combining playful subjectivity with surreal flights of fancy. But it also maintains a narrative throughline that’s simple enough for any kid to follow, showing how its titular heroine literally emerges from her bubble to discover the pleasures and dangers of real life.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    The Girl Without Hands
    Composed of broad, colorful brushstrokes and minimalist figuration, this seldom-told story can be a bit slow on the plot side but makes up for it with exquisite artistry and a welcome sense of gloom.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    The Climb
    The script intelligently dishes out key information in each vignette, with the scenes separated by major narrative ellipses that force the viewer to work a little in order to figure things out.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Intregalde
    The subtleties and vagaries of human behavior sometimes get lost in the sheer mundanity of the action, although the film gradually builds toward a meaningful depiction of what charity actually means — and it’s far from what the volunteers set out to do in the first place.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Stranger by the Lake
    Stranger by the Lake invites you into its alluring and peaceful world, only to gradually uncover the darkness beneath it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    The Stranger
    Camus’ formidable antihero may be lost to his own demons, as well as to the demons of colonialism, but Ozon boldly suggests that the memory of his Algerian victim may live on as a harbinger of what’s to come — that is, of a time when rebels like Meursault no longer exist, in a country finally free of them.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Jordan Mintzer
    Top Five
    It’s like watching a first-rate standup routine transformed into fiction, or in this case auto-fiction, as Rock has more on his mind than just making us laugh, offering up a witty celebrity satire that doubles as a love story set during one long and eventful New York City day.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Jordan Mintzer
    Raw
    It’s rare to see such confidence in a first feature, yet Ducournau seems to know where she’s going at all times, keeping the narrative lean and mean while utilizing an array of stylistic techniques – slow-motion, sequence shots and tons of on-screen prosthetics – that never let up until the witty, and inevitably grisly, final scene.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    R.M.N.
    This is masterly understated filmmaking marked by a few stand-out sequences, particularly a one-shot town hall meeting that lasts for an entire reel and throws all the issues on the table before erupting into chaos.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    The Things You Kill
    The drama does eventually come full circle, but it’s gone so far off the rails by that point that it’s hard to bring us back.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    GEN_
    Matarrese may be capturing a tiny utopia in one public hospital in northern Italy, but his movie leaves us with the hope that, sooner than later, such a place may not be so unique.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    I Lost My Body
    A highly original and rather touching account of loss, both physical and emotional.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    The Guardians
    It proves that Beauvois still masters his uniquely classical brand of filmmaking, coaxing strong performances out of veteran Nathalie Baye and newbie Iris Bry, who makes an impressive screen debut.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    The World's End
    While things get a tad buckled town in mayhem and special effects throughout the film’s busy final reels, Wright spends enough time sketching out his mischievous middle-aged men so that their journey...feels worthwhile and even meaningful for a few of them.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Woman at War
    There are a few standout scenes in War's closing reels, as well as a few cleverly executed twists, yet Erlingsson doesn't let them undercut the movie's emotional sway.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    The Night of the 12th
    This taut and piercing thriller is one of Moll’s stronger works to date, using a genre template to delve into issues of violence, gender and policing in contemporary France.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Jordan Mintzer
    12 Days
    By keeping the camera focused on the faces of patients and judges alike, Depardon — working again with sound recordist and producer Claudine Nougaret — reveals shreds of humanity, and even moments of hilarity, in these closed-door sessions.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Tantura
    Tantura finally attempts to get the record on that incident straight, but as a movie, it serves an even greater purpose by bringing it to a wider public than ever before.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Bad Press
    What ensues is a long battle that has all the trappings of a small-town political thriller: corrupt officials, refuted elections, reporters fighting for their rights at the risk of their own livelihoods… It’s a story we’ve seen before, but never in this kind of setting.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Jordan Mintzer
    20,000 Species of Bees
    Carried by impressively fluid, determinedly naturalistic filmmaking, with performances that never hit a false note, 20,000 Species of Bees (20.000 especies de abejas) marks an assured debut, slowly but surely hitting an emotional crescendo during its final minutes
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Drowning Dry
    Part of the appeal of Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareisa’s subtly powerful second feature, Drowning Dry (Seses), is that you never know if what you’re watching is taking place in the present, past or future.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
    This very Bronx tale of teenage pregnancy and inner-city strife can seem familiar in terms of content, but never in terms of form.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    The Divide
    Part gritty public service dystopia, part modern-day farce about the yellow vests movement that ripped through the country in late 2018, the film can be both entertaining and surprisingly funny, especially if you’re familiar with France’s politics and current economic woes. But it’s also too on-the-nose about what it wants to say, or rather, shout as loud as it can, regarding the country’s accumulated social wreckage.
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