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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Suzanne
    An episodic coming-of-age story whose plot holes are paved over by strong performances and a few emotional highlights.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Sympathy for the Devil
    Cage chews up every scene he’s in and seems to be having a blast — he’s always over-the-top and never boring to watch, in a film that delivers the goods for those who like him best when he’s just about lost his mind.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    1:54
    England steers his talented young cast in the right direction despite some snafus in his story, and the fine acting is what ultimately brings 1:54 to the finish line.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Sibyl
    It’s about as French as you can get, to a point that feels borderline absurd in places, and yet Triet handles the material gracefully and altogether skillfully, directing star Virginie Efira to one of her most impressive all-encompassing performances to date.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Maya
    The result is a drama whose emotional charge is a tad more subdued than usual, even if there are several grace notes throughout.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    The Red Turtle
    While the plot can sometimes feel too lightweight for feature length, with a score by composer Laurent Perez del Mar (Now or Never) that tends to overdo it on the gushy side, The Red Turtle benefits from the beautiful animation work of Dudok de Wit and his team.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Nocturama
    As a portrait of French youth ridden by angst and anger toward the powers that be...Nocturama makes an intriguingly cinematic case for showing over telling. But as a depiction of how, and why, terrorists (or anarchists or whatever they are) can take down a city, it falls apart in the face of what happens in the real world.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Rock'n Roll
    Canet manages to deliver a fresh celeb satire here that doesn’t shy away from the uglier side of star power, with “uglier” taking on various meanings as the script (co-written with Philippe Lefebvre and Rodolphe Lauga) heads to some outré places in the last act.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
    It’s hard not to be both moved and slightly blown away by the plight of these birds.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    DogMan
    It’s a lot to handle and also a bit silly, but Besson often pulls it off — thanks in no small part to a commanding performance by the chameleon-like Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), who manages to be touching and slightly terrifying at the same time.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    The Mountain Between Us
    What really helps Mountain overcome its far-fetched scenario is the pairing of Winslet and Elba, who know how to turn up the charm tenfold yet make Alex and Ben seem (mostly) like real people.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Black or White
    Black and White never panders too easily to sentiments, creating characters who are riddled with flaws but likeable all the same.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Gemma Bovery
    As pure entertainment it certainly does the job, although much of the text's existential weight is lost in the process.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Greenland
    And yet, what makes Greenland stand out is how, at certain times, what we’re watching doesn’t seem so spectacular, but very much like the real thing — albeit with a fair amount of VFX and Butler’s own brand of sweaty, stress-bucket bravado.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    The Competition
    In the end, it’s hard to tell whether Simon is actually critical of her establishment’s methods or whether she fully embraces them, although she is clearly compassionate toward the applicants and offers a reasonable payoff when we finally learn who made the cut.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Kill Boksoon
    At well over two hours it’s way too long and heads more or less where you think it will, but it’s fun to watch Byun and Jeon deliver the goods both viscerally and, at times, movingly.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Pawn Sacrifice
    A classically helmed biopic that brings nothing new to the genre, but benefits from handsome craftmanship and solid performances by Tobey Maguire as the Brooklyn boy wonder, and Liev Schreiber as his longtime Russian nemesis, Boris Spassky.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    birth/rebirth
    Moss tackles the idea from a more intimate and feminist perspective, questioning how far mothers are willing to go for their children, or simply to become mothers at all. If what happens in her movie seems altogether extreme, maybe it’s because the world we live in tends to push such women to extreme places.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Camille Claudel 1915
    Juliette Binoche’s portrayal of the ill-fated artist is a study of restraint peppered with brief outbursts of emotion -- a riveting performance in an imposing, at times off-putting micro-biopic.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    The Whispering Star
    Like many science-fiction films, Star slowly but surely reveals itself as a parable of our self-destructive times – an artsy Interstellar with a threadbare narrative rather than one that’s forever running on hyperdrive.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show
    Doyle overstuffs some of the content, jumping through dozens of interviews without allowing us enough time to process them. Still, the director and editor John Murphy manage to give all the material a solid through-line, making the many voices echo into one underlying argument: Showrunning sucks, but it may be the greatest job in entertainment today.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Point Blank
    Unlike John Boorman's trippy 1967 L.A. noir of the same title, frenetic Gallic suspenser Point Blank provides few existential thrills but plenty of heart-racing action as it follows one man's marathon dash to save his kidnapped wife from execution.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Tragic Jungle
    What Olaizola does best is create an atmosphere of almost mystical uncertainty at times, setting her film in a place where the frontiers between countries, cultures, reality, folklore, past and present are in constant flux.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
    What’s most striking about Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, whose title is how Hassona describes venturing outdoors when she can be killed at any moment, is the way it forces the viewer to experience the blunt repetition of death and devastation faced by its central figure.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Misericordia
    The two movies don’t always crystallize into one, and if you’re looking for a credible crime thriller in which everyone behaves logically, Misericordia may not be for you. If, on the other hand, you’re looking for an exploration of repressed sexual desire and religious hypocrisy in backwoods France, Guiraudie’s strange and sober new film does the trick.
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