Jude Dry

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For 215 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jude Dry's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Alien on Stage
Lowest review score: 0 A Dog's Purpose
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 148 out of 215
  2. Mixed: 50 out of 215
  3. Negative: 17 out of 215
215 movie reviews
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Peppermint
    The new action flick Peppermint is a rare return to form for Garner, who doles out her vigilante justice with effortless charm. Unfortunately, that’s about the only reason to see Peppermint.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Single All the Way
    Though the title may be the cleverest thing about this cookie cutter affair, it’s refreshing to see a gay family film that doesn’t use its characters’ sexuality for dramatic conflict.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    It delivers plenty of blood spattered, gut-spilling gore to satisfy genre lover’s bloodlust, even if we’ve pretty much seen everything a chainsaw can do by now.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    This Is Not Berlin
    The film has style in spades; it would have substance, too, if only it knew when to quit.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Abe
    With a more streamlined script, or even fewer characters and more developed relationships, Abe could have made a real impact. As it stands, there are too many cooks in the kitchen.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Fast X
    The action delivers, but the film’s third act suffers from an excess of set-ups, cameos, and minor deaths played up as major losses. After all, they have two more to go.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Cora Bora
    With a thinly sketched premise and a Hail Mary pass at emotional depth arriving late in the final act, the film feels like a series of vignettes draped around Stalter’s charms. Unfortunately, charisma alone doesn’t make an interesting narrative.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
    Freeland is clearly having fun behind the camera, but broad and superficial performances mean the fun doesn’t always translate.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    You Don't Nomi
    It’s a shame that You Don’t Nomi, a new documentary about the failure and reevaluation of Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 pulp film “Showgirls,” doesn’t live up to its truly inspired title.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    The Seagull
    Theater lovers will enjoy seeing these actors take on such iconic roles, but they’ll find themselves wishing they were seeing the same great talent on the stage.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    House Party
    Though Latimore and Cole have enough charisma to skate by, the movie lacks the originality and scrappiness of its inspiration. Trading on celebrity cameos and impressive set pieces, House Party feels like an uneven amalgam of so many studio comedies that came before it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure
    In making Water Makes Us Wet, the filmmakers have embarked upon the noble pursuit of moving people to care about climate change as if their lives — and their sex lives — depended on it.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    The Invitation
    The pace picks up when the slashing finally begins in the third act, but it’s too little, too late to get the blood going.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Straight Up
    Straight Up is meticulous in building its hyper-stylized aesthetic, but doesn’t have much to say about the human condition.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Please Baby Please
    With its bisexual lighting and hyper-designed oddball aesthetic, Please Baby Please looks a lot more polished than its messier camp influences. Aesthetically, the film cobbles together its many cinematic influences with admirable swagger. But film isn’t solely a visual medium — it’s a storytelling one as well.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    You Can Live Forever
    Though the well-crafted film makes use of a unique regional setting for some moving moments, its straightforward approach to well-worn territory offers few surprises
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    A Man Called Otto
    While “Otto” may reach fresh audiences who’d otherwise balk at subtitles, this sluggish rendition is unlikely to inspire anyone to seek out the original.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Official Secrets
    Like its heroine, Official Secrets is shouting into an echo chamber.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Aviva
    It’s an ambitious piece, but in the dance between experimental ideas and grounded storytelling, Aviva should have listened to her body.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Everybody's Talking About Jamie
    With its “Glee”-colored dance numbers and drag-lite drag scenes, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie just isn’t serving.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Serenity
    The big reveal at the end of the second act is absurd enough to pump some adrenaline into the third act, but the movie drags on too long afterwards.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    A Man Named Scott
    Fans will praise this film as yet another brave sacrifice at the altar of artistic vulnerability — because that’s what “A Man Named Scott” wants you to believe. But the authorized film lacks the artistic vision of Cudi’s musical talents, despite its best efforts.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Framing Agnes
    Unfortunately, Framing Agnes gets too wrapped up in the questions surrounding storytelling to do any actual storytelling.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Jude Dry
    Lady Buds
    It’s a wrenching look at the perils of prohibition, and who wins when all is said and done.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Jude Dry
    Together Together
    Harrison is the brightest point in Together Together, which plods through a gimmicky premise without finding much levity along the way.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Jude Dry
    Hearts Beat Loud
    By all rights, it should be a heartwarming comedy with a few more tender moments. Instead, Hearts Beat Loud operates like a sad drama with a few moments that might make you smile. We knew punk was dead, but the comedy doesn’t have to be.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Jude Dry
    This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
    Gigi is an invaluable role model to young trans people in her ferocious courage and undeniable fabulousness, but the film is little more than a celebration of that.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Jude Dry
    Anything's Possible
    Unfortunately, in its valiant effort to avoid cliches, the story falls flat. By focusing on what not to do, there’s just not a lot there.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Jude Dry
    Beauty and the Beast
    Aside from the thrill of its lavish sets and costumes, there isn’t much new to offer in this Beauty and the Beast.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Jude Dry
    Smallfoot
    Smallfoot really flounders with its obligatory message-mongering: a hodgepodge of didacticism about the importance of celebrating differences, asking questions, never fearing the unknown, or judging someone because they look different. Plenty of sound lessons in there, to be sure, but without a singular focus, they all blend into one.
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