Jordan Mintzer

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The Film Verdict, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
For 467 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 Colonia
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 285 out of 467
  2. Mixed: 165 out of 467
  3. Negative: 17 out of 467
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    The Twentieth Century
    The jokes are often ridiculous, as is pretty much everything else that happens, but there’s a palpable energy and visual inventiveness on display that keeps things watchable.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    Nocturne
    It’s not quite enough to prevent this B-grade rendition from feeling rather familiar and unsuspenseful, even if stars Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) and Madison Iseman (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) provide a decent level of tension throughout.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Jordan Mintzer
    City Hall
    At a time when America looks like it's tearing apart at the seams, there’s something altogether reassuring — even downright inspiring — about Frederick Wiseman’s new documentary.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    The New Mutants
    Generic and, at its best, straining to be heartfelt.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Desert One
    A film that can be somewhat conventional in form, including a score that overdoes it on the pathos, but one that still provides a fascinating deep dive into organized failure.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    The Vigil
    Thomas keeps the tension high throughout most of the movie, even if some of his scare tactics can feel redundant.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Slalom
    Beautifully directed and performed.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Lost Bullet
    This isn’t Hiroshima Mon Amour. It’s more like Need for Speed Mon Amour done on a modest scale, with an effectively simple plot and nonstop action scenes that find a daunting number of ways to wreck and destroy cars.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    The Audition
    Anna, who’s caught in a midlife crisis that deepens throughout the movie, clearly doesn’t know what she wants. But the problem is that Weisse, the director, doesn’t always seem to know what she wants either in this prickly, wavering character study that both confounds and compels, and that doesn’t manage to land its ending.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    Marona's Fantastic Tale
    The film has its upbeat moments but can also be a tad gloomy — or maybe just classically Romanian, for anyone familiar with the recent cinematic output of that country — for what’s essentially a movie aimed at children. But the colorful animation helps to liven up the atmosphere.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    This Is Not a Movie
    A no-nonsense, soft-spoken chronicler of conflict, especially from the point of view of the victims, Fisk is the centerpiece of a film that can sometimes feel more laudatory than necessary, but provides a comprehensive portrait of a man who has become essential reading.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    Becky
    Becky tends to work best when it revels in the blood-splattered set pieces of its script (written by Ruckus Skye, Lane Skye and Nick Morris), going that extra mile and a half in the gore department (special effects makeup was by Karlee Morse) to create some truly disgusting moments, albeit ones that are laced with a grim sense of humor.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    Sea Fever
    As Jaws and all the best predecessors have shown (John Carpenter’s The Thing also seems like a major reference), you really need to care about the crew before they’re eaten, and Hardiman doesn’t draw strong enough characters for us to latch onto.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    There's Something in the Water
    For those who have never heard of these cases, this short and very to-the-point exposé can be an eye-opening experience, especially as it is set in country we tend to idealize for its wholesomeness.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Away
    Somewhere between Hayao Miyazaki and Terrence Malick lies Away, a gorgeously made minimalist cartoon that’s long on beauty and breathtaking scenery, if somewhat short on traditional narrative.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    I Lost My Body
    A highly original and rather touching account of loss, both physical and emotional.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Jordan Mintzer
    A German Youth
    With no commentary beyond audio clips and visuals composed almost entirely of historical footage, Periot uses the radicals’ own images and words to show how their discourse evolved over ten years from progressive to militant.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Jordan Mintzer
    The Pretenders
    Not only does the film offer a superficial reading of all the famous movies that inspired it, but there’s also an incredibly bro-ish sentiment to the whole thing, as if Franco and Boone binge-watched half the Criterion Collection while slamming down brewskies on the couch.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 40 Jordan Mintzer
    Lucky Day
    Generic and too self-indulgent, if energetic and occasionally funny, the film’s greatest attribute is by far co-star Crispin Glover, who steals the show as a deranged French-speaking assassin named Luc Chaltier.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Proxima
    This superbly crafted yet intimate family drama is so realistic in terms of its setting and technical specificity, it sometimes feels like a documentary. ... It’s perhaps a tad deliberate in spots, hitting its central theme too heavily on the nose, but Proxima pulls off an impressive balancing act between the personal and the astronomical.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Jordan Mintzer
    Bad Education
    It’s perhaps less flamboyantly enjoyable than Finley’s first feature, but it also digs deeper into the souls of its characters, asking how a few people meant to ensure the pedagogy of hundreds of children could flunk out so badly.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Jordan Mintzer
    Abominable
    It’s a little too treacly and childish in places, with a storyline that goes exactly where you expect. But those drawbacks are somewhat compensated for by a series of arresting set-pieces, each one taking us to a spectacular Far East location not yet visited by this kind of high-powered Hollywood cartoon.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Jordan Mintzer
    A Rainy Day in New York
    Merely a watchable rehashing of his preferential themes and plot points, set in a present-day Manhattan so nostalgic and unreal it might as well be a period piece.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Jordan Mintzer
    Playmobil: The Movie
    To the director’s credit, the animated sequences are richly rendered, making the most of the rather stiff and plain-looking originals (though, if you want to get nitpicky, an early gag poking fun at the fact that Playmobil legs are unbendable is soon forgotten) and offering up a plethora of settings that help compensate for the lack of good writing.
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