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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    The Whole Truth
    The filmmakers are so disengaged from the psyches of its characters that The Whole Truth ultimately plays as little more than the cinematic equivalent of a trashy airport novel that will grip you in the moment before it dissolves from memory immediately afterward.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    The Greasy Strangler
    It aims for John Waters-style transgression without evincing half of Waters’s wit and affection for eccentric lifestyles.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    Women Talking
    For better and worse, writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Women Talking is most noteworthy for its imagery.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kenji Fujishima
    Félix And Meira
    Maxime Giroux's sharp filmmaking instincts aren't always supported by similarly acute dramatic instincts.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Kenji Fujishima
    Assassin's Creed
    It’s all window-dressing for an ending that reveals this alternately goofy and self-serious big-budget Hollywood product to be little more than a two-hour prelude to a potential future franchise.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Kenji Fujishima
    Junction 48
    Junction 48 mostly sticks to uplifting formula, rarely offering anything particularly fresh or interesting.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Deepsea Challenge 3D
    Less explored in all the ensuing back-patting is the question of whether Cameron is, in fact, sincerely interested in learning more about the world around him or whether this mission is merely intended to stroke his own ego.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Metro Manila
    Sean Ellis doesn't so much understand Filipino society as merely sees it as grist for standard genre fare, perhaps hoping that the foreign setting will somehow automatically make the clichés feel fresh.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Wilson
    Wilson lurches jarringly from poignant melancholy to cartoonish slapstick, unable to settle on a consistent tone.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Dreamland
    The sense of a film school student doing movie karaoke with his influences is evident throughout Dreamland.
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Hyena
    The Gerard Johnson film's blanket cynicism is its most shopworn quality of all.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    The Legend of Hercules
    Given its virtuous subject matter and the relative bloodlessness of its violence, perhaps Renny Harlin means for this film to be a means of atoning for his previous cinematic sins.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Man Down
    Dito Montiel's silly plot machinations waste a solid performance from Shia LaBeouf.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Flex Is Kings
    Putting aside the generic human interest, the film turns out to be shockingly deficient in its on-screen depiction of flexing.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Kenji Fujishima
    Victoria and Abdul
    By privileging the white characters in its narrative, Victoria & Abdul exposes itself as insidiously hypocritical.
    • 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
    Gold
    The film finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its energetically told but crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.
    • 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.
    • 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."
    • 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.
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