Kenji Fujishima

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For 194 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 25% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 72% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kenji Fujishima's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 91 Reds
Lowest review score: 10 Honeyglue
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 106 out of 194
  2. Mixed: 51 out of 194
  3. Negative: 37 out of 194
194 movie reviews
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Kenji Fujishima
    Aardvark
    The film adopts a half-hearted variation on A Beautiful Mind's gimmicky approach to grappling with a man's mental illness.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Victoria and Abdul
    By privileging the white characters in its narrative, Victoria & Abdul exposes itself as insidiously hypocritical.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 30 Kenji Fujishima
    Ripped
    Much of the humor in Ripped fails to inspire more than a mild chuckle at best, in part because Epstein’s deliberate pacing sucks the air out of countless scenes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Megan Leavey
    Everyone here, from fellow marines to Iraqis, is merely a supporting player in Megan Leavey's emotional journey.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 27 Kenji Fujishima
    Black Butterfly
    Black Butterfly plays as little more than the act of snickering adolescents toying with their audience, complete with an insulting final scene that confirms the film as a total waste of time.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Kenji Fujishima
    The Drowning
    The deeper Tom wades into this psychological morass, the more Danny's volatile behavior seems dictated by the screenwriters' convenience rather than by any plausible depiction of a tortured mind.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    The Promise
    The Promise simply turns this historical tragedy into mere background noise for a flimsy romantic triangle.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Wilson
    Wilson lurches jarringly from poignant melancholy to cartoonish slapstick, unable to settle on a consistent tone.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Before I Fall
    All the film has to show for its efforts are tired platitudes about the value of altruism and living each day as it if were the last.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    The Space Between Us
    The Space Between Us is simply disappointing when it isn’t trying to browbeat its audience into emotional submission.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Gold
    The film finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its energetically told but crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Sing
    In Sing, musical theater is simply an excuse for the filmmakers to deliver an animated version of American Idol.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Office Christmas Party
    Josh Gordon and Will Speck's Office Christmas Party generally smacks of trying too hard to earn its laughs.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Man Down
    Dito Montiel's silly plot machinations waste a solid performance from Shia LaBeouf.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Bleed for This
    Any initial gestures toward acknowledging Vinny Paz's macho egotism are eventually downplayed as the film becomes just another formulaic triumph-over-adversity saga.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Dreamland
    The sense of a film school student doing movie karaoke with his influences is evident throughout Dreamland.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Kenji Fujishima
    Mr. Church
    Bruce Beresford's film is remarkable for how it manages to indulge so many offensive and shopworn clichés at once.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Kenji Fujishima
    Yoga Hosers
    Any of the film's attempts at moralizing are subsumed by Kevin Smith’s obsession with taking aim at his critics.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Kenji Fujishima
    Septembers of Shiraz
    While the film aims for humane evenhandedness, recognizing both Farnez's lower-class condescension and the revolutionaries' hypocrisy, the characters are so skin-deep that we never respond to them as people.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Kenji Fujishima
    Honeyglue
    [An] unintentionally hilarious tragic romance.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Kenji Fujishima
    Rio, I Love You
    Even more than in Paris, Je T'Aime and New York, I Love You, this latest omnibus in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Love" franchise might leave viewers wondering whether these needed to be set in Rio de Janeiro at all.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Kenji Fujishima
    Too Late
    All the narrative hopscotching is little more than a superficial ploy to gussy up a clichéd redemption tale.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Don Verdean
    If the film is any indication, Jared and Jerusha Hess remain committed to clotting up the screen with ostensibly charming "eccentricity."
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Legend
    Given how Legend's script is so bereft of insight into its characters' psyches, perhaps there's only so much even an actor of Tom Hardy's stature can do.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    He Named Me Malala
    The effect of the film's animated sequences is to distance the viewer from real-life horrors--another misguided attempt at turning recent history into instant myth.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    The Transporter Refueled
    The titular Transporter is now but a blank slate serving the characters and mayhem surrounding him, a walking metaphor for a franchise that's run out of gas.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Kenji Fujishima
    Hitman: Agent 47
    If first-timer Aleksander Bach's choices as a director are any indication, he's a filmmaker who cares less about characters and actors than about dubious surface dazzle.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Kenji Fujishima
    Big Sky
    Jorge Michel Grau's ambitions are stalled by a screenplay that seems to have never made it past a first draft.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Hyena
    The Gerard Johnson film's blanket cynicism is its most shopworn quality of all.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    V/H/S: Viral
    One need go no further than the film's first segment to grasp how little interest the latest entry in the anthology series has in generating chills from the lo-fi.
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