Jordan Ruimy

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For 106 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jordan Ruimy's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 David Crosby: Remember My Name
Lowest review score: 25 The Secret Scripture
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 106
  2. Mixed: 32 out of 106
  3. Negative: 6 out of 106
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    We the Animals
    This is an assured, confident feature-directing debut for Zagar who shows great promise in his ability to render a confident and brilliant work of art from difficult-to-adapt source material. His film is a complicated coming-of-age tale that not only brings refreshing insights but gives us beautifully rendered images that have the power to haunt you for days.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    Border
    Unique, unforgettable and cathartic, Border is an oddball, but poignant cult classic in the making. Abbasi’s sincerity wisely avoids caricature and mocking his marginalized characters and in doing so he crafts a surprisingly humanist and artful story of love for the diminished and dismissed outsiders of the world.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    Whitney
    Stripping the “I Will Always Love You,” singer away from sensationalist tabloid dirt that marred her life, MacDonald’s thoughtfulness is arguably its standout element. The finesse with which he crafts his doc makes for, quite simply, an absorbing and moving portrayal of an unforgettable heartrending figure.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    Dogman
    A hyper-realistic urban tragedy Dogman is ferocious and in its own way, much more frightening than “Gomorrah.”
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    Capernaum
    Capharnaüm is not without its issues. The director over-relies on the courtroom scenes and the movie’s message is heavy-handed at times. Yet, the sheer force of the filmmaking and its artful delivery overpowers sappy overreaching.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    Shoplifters
    Trying to pick apart his native country’s struggles between tradition and modernity, legality and crime, Kore-eda takes the time to affectionately dissect the way family functions, before carefully deconstructing it and revealing the contoured complexities that live within.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Jordan Ruimy
    Burning
    Simmering with ambiguity, Burning plays its staging, writing, dialogue, acting, music, everything with carefully calibrated minimalism, but in turn it makes some grandiose statements. An unrecognizable murder-mystery Burning torches genre clichés and leaves a lasting, scorching blister.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Jordan Ruimy
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    While Long Day’s plot seems an afterthought, the experience is all that matters: the audience gathers all the clues, rummage through them to soak up the atmosphere and enter a world unlike any seen before. Make no mistake about it, Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a flat-out masterpiece.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    Happy as Lazzaro
    Through a few dreamlike, discreet and beautifully placed sequences, Rohrwacher makes us believe that a world of empathy and accord may someday exist again.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Jordan Ruimy
    Girl
    With enlivening performances and thoughtful filmmaking, Girl has the power to not just change lives but reinvigorate your belief in cinema.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Jordan Ruimy
    Cold War
    The minute-to-minute detail is absolutely stunning, from the period costumes to the on-set locations, there’s a searing authenticity to the time period that is undeniably absorbing. However, the almost too tightening restraint he gives his film forces us to quickly witness its events rather than be enveloped or moved by them.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Jordan Ruimy
    Arctic
    The simplicity of the film is commendable, but it’s only in the last act where things finally come together and any kind of visceral thrills arrive far too late. Even Mikkelson’s on-screen talents can’t save an admirable yet stagnant film in dire need of a heartbeat.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    Ash Is Purest White
    Ash is Purest White borrows heavily from “Mountains May Depart” — the narrative construct, the same actress, the musical gimmicks, even the flawed ending — and yet we are nevertheless absorbed by the finesse and grace in a film by this venerable artist.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 58 Jordan Ruimy
    Mrs. Hyde
    The film is a trifle, albeit one spiked with mirth and malice.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    The Wife
    As fraught with drama as this powder keg of heightened circumstances may be, make no mistake, The Wife is more than an actor’s showcase. The film itself is superb, a ticking time-bomb of simmering tension which benefits from the audience knowing as little as possible in advance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jordan Ruimy
    Roxanne Roxanne
    Telling this story with a deep specificity, Larnell does the artist proud by artfully using his camera to capture a woman forging her identity through her art. He and Adams make a formidable team and finely stamp their own mark on the hip-hop movie genre.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Jordan Ruimy
    Prospect
    The filmmakers brilliantly set-up an atmosphere that feels uniquely cinematic and wholly original. But when impressive world-building is established and story takes over, Prospect quickly devolves into a mess of contrivances and overstuffed characters in its more problematic second half.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Jordan Ruimy
    6 Balloons
    As striking as some of these performances are, 6 Balloons is not without its problems. At a barebones 74 minute running time that doesn’t dive into the emotional texture as much as it could, 6 Balloons at times, feels slight.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Jordan Ruimy
    Ready Player One
    Dazzling in form and a chase film at its heart, Ready Player One is exhilarating, but it also can’t sit still. Fitting to the content perhaps, the movie still arguably suffers from troublesome A.D.D. with its hyper fast cutting and its tendency to wander narratively.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Jordan Ruimy
    A Quiet Place
    A thrilling, near-silent film that brilliantly toys with the audience’s nerves while deftly avoiding familiar cliches, Krasinski shows a surprisingly assured and suspenseful touch within the horror genre.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 42 Jordan Ruimy
    Kings
    The missteps seem to never end as the director and actors struggle to bring some kind of coherence to this unwieldy film. Although it tries to be political and relevant to our times, Kings becomes such a confusing blur that one wonders where precisely in the process it all went wrong.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Jordan Ruimy
    Outside In
    The struggles that Chris and Carol are put through may be brought to life with an authentic touch by Shelton, but they are explored with much complexity in better, more substance-filled endeavors.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Jordan Ruimy
    The Vanishing Of Sidney Hall
    A manipulative mess from start to finish.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Jordan Ruimy
    Murder on the Orient Express
    Branagh—the actor—dominates the film, with everyone else in supporting roles. Meanwhile Branagh—the director—relies on a too-colorful style and atmosphere, shooting himself in the foot by cutting short the darkness that loomed in Christie’s original vision.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Jordan Ruimy
    Coco
    After a string of films ranging from safe sequels (Finding Dory) to franchise duds (Cars 3) to not-fully-realized adventures (The Good Dinosaur), this is Pixar coming back in a heartfelt, gorgeous way.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Jordan Ruimy
    Wonder
    Much of the film’s success does reside upon Chbosky’s mostly restrained execution, but it is Tremblay that carries it. His fully rendered and exceptional performance is something of a miracle as it joyously goes past the prosthetics and into the core of his character’s roller coaster of emotions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Jordan Ruimy
    The Disaster Artist
    A valentine to movies and an ode to the stinkers which we love and can’t live without, Franco exudes cinematic passion with his finest directorial outing yet.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Jordan Ruimy
    The Mountain Between Us
    The fact that you do care about their being together means Abu-Assad and company have succeeded, at the most basic level, what they set out to achieve.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Jordan Ruimy
    Battle of the Sexes
    Although it may be lacking originality, Battle of the Sexes is finely-tuned storytelling that has been consummated by real pros.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 67 Jordan Ruimy
    Rebel in the Rye
    There seems to be something missing; his life was an enigmatic puzzle and Strong hasn’t found all the pieces. It doesn’t help that his visual style is flat and the narrative is conventional enough.
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