Justin Clark

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For 85 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Justin Clark's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 88 The Chronology of Water
Lowest review score: 12 The American Society of Magical Negroes
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 85
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 85
  3. Negative: 14 out of 85
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Over Your Dead Body
    Once it turns into a home-invasion thriller, the film becomes more sadistic than hilarious.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Eternity
    The film is very old-fashioned in its thinking and approach to fantastical romance, despite some occasional, vague allusions to the fact that it is, still, a 2025 film.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    A Magnificent Life
    Sylvain Chomet provides only a scant sense of Marcel Pagnol’s creative inklings, such as the ideas and themes that fuel the films that he fights so vehemently to make.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Him
    The film leaves you wishing that the aspirational way the sport is presented in real life had been read for filth.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    The Roses
    The War of the Roses, both the book and the Danny DeVito film, is an infamously brutal comedy of terrors, and The Roses is cuddly by comparison.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Honey Don't!
    The film is paced in such a languid, dreamy way that it’s hard to get a grasp on how each scene connects to the larger themes or the larger mystery until fairly late.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    How to Train Your Dragon
    As heartwarming as this story remains at its core, it’s hard to shake that you already know how it will play out.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Ballerina
    Sans a mythology of its own, or any substantive ties into where the John Wick films go chronologically after this, Ballerina is just another 87Eleven joint.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Fight or Flight
    Dramatic moments create tonal stutters that prevent the film from becoming the unhinged Looney Tune that it wants to be.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    The Gorge
    For a solid hour or so, the film is patient and tense, with just the right touches of levity and romance. Until, suddenly, it isn’t.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Moana 2
    For a story that so prizes how far its heroine will go, Moana spends so much of this sequel stuck in a rut.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Red One
    It’s neither naughty or nice, and in Santa’s book, that likely means it just ends up getting nothing this Christmas.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Plastic
    Even a banal life can have a musicality and life to it, but once it leaves high school, Plastic’s portrait of adult life comes off as a monotone drone.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Trap
    M. Night Shyamalan’s stylish thriller is schizophrenic in more ways than one.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    IF
    The most charitable read on John Krasinski’s IF is that using your imagination shouldn’t be bound by traditional story structure, so why should a film about unfettered imagination need the same?
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Humane
    Caitlin Cronenberg vests her images with an eerie, confident power, but that’s more evident in her examinations of the frictions between the characters, and not so much in the tapestry of murder and mayhem that ensues.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver
    The Scargiver feels like a loosely threaded series of grand ideas and sincere emotional beats that require so much more connective tissue to thread together into an actual narrative worth investing in.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
    There are protracted moments of humor, fright, and pathos in Frozen Empire, but as it’s all so scattershot and disconnected, the film ends up being defined by its lack of conviction when it comes to exploring its ideas to the fullest.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Shirley
    In the end, this sub-Sorkin-esque political potboiler sidelines Chisholm's most meaningful community work to the fact that she tried and failed to run for president.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Seeking Mavis Beacon
    The film proves itself incapable of or unwilling to follow through on its ideas to an ultimate conclusion.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    I.S.S.
    The film is in such a rush to get to the bloodshed, deception, and panic that most of the fertile ground of its premise goes unexplored.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
    The film hits its plot milestones as fast as humanly possible, cohesion or depth be damned.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Justin Clark
    Blue Beetle
    Blue Beetle plays out with all the revelry of a contractual obligation, hitting every note of the hero’s journey with no variation, murky action sequences, and little in the way of imagination, despite the titular object itself granting Jaime the ability to manifest anything that he imagines.

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