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
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    Darling
    There are distinctive touches to give this passing interest.
    • 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.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Kenji Fujishima
    The Fits
    This singular mix of character study and mysterious mood piece might not have come off quite so successfully if not for Royalty Hightower's internal performance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Kenji Fujishima
    Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong’s two-part structure in Right Now, Wrong Then, instead of just being a cute formal trick, reveals a character’s troubled inner life in fiendishly clever ways.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Kenji Fujishima
    Zootopia
    The film goes deeper in its allegorizing, tapping into the volatile nature of identity politics.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    Eddie the Eagle
    It remains more committed to printing the uplifting legend of its title character than in actually examining the human beings underneath.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Kenji Fujishima
    Deadpool
    The whiplash contrasts between snideness and sincerity is deeply rooted in the main character's psychology.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    Martyrs
    It's hardly a desecration of Pascal Laugier's 2008 French horror film of the same name, but that assumes the original is a canonical text.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    Sisters
    A regurgitation of Apatowian formula, wherein ostensibly edgy humor hides a core of conservative moralizing.
    • 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.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    My All American
    All of the film's nuances are ultimately negated by the its relentless canonization of its subject.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    Man Up
    Lake Bell and Simon Pegg's star wattage isn't enough to distract from the sense that their characters are almost exclusively defined by their single-ness.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Kenji Fujishima
    The Peanuts Movie
    Failure hovers over the film as much as it did in Schulz's comic strip, infusing even its most ebullient set pieces and designs with a sense of melancholy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 63 Kenji Fujishima
    The Last Witch Hunter
    It has enough ingredients for a reasonably entertaining fantasy adventure—except, that is, for an interesting lead character with an emotionally compelling hook.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Kenji Fujishima
    Goosebumps
    Some of the wittier one-liners and more affecting emotional moments feel undermined by the frenzy of chaotic excess.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Kenji Fujishima
    The Final Girls
    It lobs a grenade at slasher-movie sadism by making us care about the characters as more than just body-bag fodder.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Kenji Fujishima
    My Golden Days
    Arnaud Desplechin tries his hand at a coming-of-age tale, and does so with equal doses of mature reflection and youthful impetuosity.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    Where to Invade Next
    As informative and passionate as he often is on screen, Michael Moore also always toes the line toward shooting himself in the rhetorical foot with his own thuggish persona.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Kenji Fujishima
    The Lobster
    The near-surgical precision with which Yorgos Lanthimos approaches the most surreal of conceits turns out to be a double-edged sword.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 42 Kenji Fujishima
    Miss You Already
    Worse than offering no especially fresh angles on its cliched material, however, are the trite characterizations of the two lead female characters.
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Kenji Fujishima
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    Temperamentally, Guy Ritchie aligns more with the lithe, James Bond-like Solo: detached, above-it-all, eternally cool under pressure.
    • 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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Kenji Fujishima
    Listen to Me Marlon
    Among the film's many revelations is the level of self-aware humility Brando exudes while talking about his life and creative process.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    A Little Chaos
    Alan Rickman's film is consistently, and often dispiritingly, mired in the quaint tradition of the classy costume drama.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Kenji Fujishima
    Infinitely Polar Bear
    Maya Forbes reveals herself as a sunny optimist, insistent on remembering the ecstatic highs and never dwelling on the despairing lows.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Kenji Fujishima
    The Japanese Dog
    It may be described as a Yasujirô Ozu drama done in the Romanian style; if only there was more to distinguish it beyond such extra-textual concerns.
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