Joshua Rothkopf

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For 1,122 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joshua Rothkopf's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Vertigo
Lowest review score: 20 The Back-up Plan
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 487 out of 1122
  2. Mixed: 576 out of 1122
  3. Negative: 59 out of 1122
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    Sing Street
    Like an updated The Commitments in rouge (liberally applied), Sing Street nails the details.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    Brawl in Cell Block 99
    Brawl then becomes a nightmare in scenes of skull-splattering violence that are truly sickening (and wonderful). Don’t look for a deeper meaning. Just soak up the grindhouse.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Joshua Rothkopf
    Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
    Breathtaking imagery competes with a scary lack of human interest in this hypnotic, potentially alienating documentary.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    The Green Fog
    They get at the essence of Vertigo, haunting us via ghostly transmissions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Joshua Rothkopf
    Beware of Mr. Baker
    An aggressively unpleasant man somehow lands a perfect series of gigs in this rudely funny documentary: first as a pounding rock drummer who revolutionized the field; then as a fearless, rage-filled polo player; and finally as an impatient interviewee.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Joshua Rothkopf
    The Soft Skin (1969)
    Redemptively, the cast goes a long way: Jean Desailly is perfect as a jowly literary celeb deep in midlife crisis, while the aloof Françoise Dorléac is magnetic as his airline stewardess and all-too-scrutable love object.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    Gloria Bell
    Moore makes it all play like the classic club remix it is.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    Monos
    Kids train for guerrilla fighting in a gorgeously atmospheric film that feels like a transmission from the future.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Joshua Rothkopf
    Blue Jasmine
    It’s real Streetcar Named Desire territory as the fights pile up, and if you think that doesn’t sound entertaining, know that it is, in a hypnotically catastrophic way.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Joshua Rothkopf
    It Comes at Night
    It Comes at Night is a film of tense gradations, a chamber piece set at the twilight of humanity.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Joshua Rothkopf
    Please Give
    She has real sympathy--characters that might have been brittle, mockable creations in another writer-director’s hands gain resonance here. But the filmmaker also might have very little to say apart from the way guilt enters into life, and then suddenly recedes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    5 Broken Cameras
    There has to be room for this kind of plea, especially a work that, obliquely, captures so many largely unreported details: the night raids rounding up children, the torn-up olive trees and kids' soccer games in the battle zone.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Joshua Rothkopf
    The Lost City of Z
    The grandeur of this movie is off the charts. For a certain kind of old-school film fan, someone who believes in shapely, classical proportions and an epic yarn told over time, it will be the revelation of the year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    Avengers: Endgame
    Endgame often pays tribute to itself, which makes it as fascinating as it is self-serious. It taps into a live wire of doomy tragedy and phoenix-like rebirth that comics do so well.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Joshua Rothkopf
    The Tempest
    A tiresome mess that's completely bereft of a quiet moment in speech or manner, The Tempest aches for the wisdom of discipline.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Joshua Rothkopf
    Beach Rats
    Beach Rats could have explored that ethical quandary with more depth; instead it settles for something blocked, oblique and fascinating.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    The Case Against 8
    The documentary is strongest during these conference-room brainstorms, similar to those of a political campaign. (It could have used more of Boies’s witness-demolishing courtroom eloquence.) The draw here is watching a careful process unfold, regardless of the outcome.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    Kedi
    These beasts awaken something within the people, making them kinder and more playful. If Kedi did the same for audiences, that wouldn’t be so bad.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Joshua Rothkopf
    Waste Land
    It probably would have helped if Walker (who credits two other codirectors) had chosen just one of those avenues for deeper study; her doc has a vertiginous way of feeling arty and ephemeral at one moment, humane and maybe too earthbound the next.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Rothkopf
    Logan Lucky
    When the plot stops cold for a beauty-pageant performance of exquisite purity, you’ll feel like you’re watching the most American film of the year.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Joshua Rothkopf
    The Personal History of David Copperfield
    The Personal History of David Copperfield feels, to a large degree, like a writer’s stunt. If you’re in a mildly irreverent mood (like Iannucci himself), you won’t complain too loudly about that.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Joshua Rothkopf
    Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
    The film isn’t heavy on earth science, yet these orange-tinted tide pools and shuddering protomammals indicate a strain of serious research. The world is a miracle and a gift in the movie’s eyes; it would be no small thing if audiences left with the same sense of wonderment.
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