Mark Keizer

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Boxoffice Magazine, The A.V. Club, Variety
For 95 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mark Keizer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 91 Decision to Leave
Lowest review score: 20 Burzynski
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 95
  2. Mixed: 60 out of 95
  3. Negative: 8 out of 95
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 58 Mark Keizer
    Meg 2: The Trench
    It’s faint, if legitimate, praise to say that The Meg 2: The Trench is better than the first film because, while it repeats everything the first film did wrong, it improves on everything it did right. It lacks the drive, imagination, and sense of awe to work as a pastiche of Aliens, The Abyss, Jaws, and Jurassic Park. But the more fulsomely the movie embraces its big budget, DVD-era silliness, the longer it and the audience are riding the same enjoyably stupid wave.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    A Man Called Otto
    Unlike Jack Nicholson or Bill Murray, whose smile can be either charming or sinister, Hanks always lets us know the character is headed towards redemption. A Man Called Otto would have been a more authentic emotional journey if he didn’t.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Emancipation
    A drama that aches to connect with the George Floyd era is more like amped-up misery porn, a Will Smith vanity project that pales next to more accomplished films about Black suffering that better remind us of our nation’s ongoing shame.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 42 Mark Keizer
    The Estate
    The execution is where it’s lacking: the wit, the timing, the headlong comic drive, and the ability to make us laugh at actions and dialogue that, in any other context, would be rude or distasteful.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Dead for A Dollar
    Ultimately, Hill performs his duties like a man for hire in Dead For A Dollar, much like Max Borland is a man for hire down in Mexico.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Mark Keizer
    The Good House
    Weaver is so forceful and present she can plow through the movie’s flaws until we fail to notice them. For a film about denial, that sounds about right.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 42 Mark Keizer
    Jane
    Jaglom doesn’t ratchet up enough tension for Jane to work as a nail-biter and once the catfight in the pool begins, the film forfeits all claims of being any sort of exploration of trauma. So we’re left with a slow burn thriller where complicated YA issues and vengeful social media posts make for a less than potent mix.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 42 Mark Keizer
    The Retaliators
    The film teases us with hat-tips and in-jokes and then pushes them aside to become an ungainly horror mashup that works in pieces, most notably during its climatic free-for-all, but not as a whole. In The Retaliators, the storylines fly in as many directions as the blood.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Spin Me Round
    Spin Me Round is a nice-try attempt at a shapeshifting, fish-out-of-water rom-com that was probably funny in the room—but in the end, it doesn’t quite come together as a movie.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Mark Keizer
    I Love My Dad
    Morosini, though, is smart enough to know that just grossing us out for 95 minutes is not a movie. So he tries to make his film dramatically credible. This proves more difficult, as he has nothing new or insightful to say about father-son relationships or the pernicious possibilities of social media. But managing to push the squirm-inducing envelope while still getting us to root for a reprehensible dad becomes its own sort of twisted achievement.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 42 Mark Keizer
    The Road to Galena
    It is a movie of tropes and clichés that argues, with generic earnestness and a near-total lack of surprise, that the city is a corrupting influence compared to the nurturing, sun-drenched simplicity of the country.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Mark Keizer
    Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between
    The issues the movie attempts to tackle—parental expectations, heartbreak, anxiety over choosing the right path—have all been addressed better in other films.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Firebird
    Prior and Zagorodnii have a fair amount of chemistry, although both are so Fashion Week gorgeous that it edges Firebird near soft-core territory.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    Impractical Jokers: The Movie
    Impractical Jokers: The Movie is an undistinguished and unnecessary extension of a brand whose primary attributes are likability, authenticity and relative modesty (given the worst impulses of the genre).
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Roger Waters: Us + Them
    A sonically superior if sometimes draggy affair that earns its stripes by affirming the timelessness of Waters’ thematic concerns and proving that fresh material doesn’t have to be the medicine we’re forced to swallow to hear the classics.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    The Pretenders
    While the film’s sense of experimentation carries a fair amount of intrigue, it traps its central threesome in an Easter egg-filled intellectual exercise punctuated by melodramatic strokes. It’s skillful enough to tickle the mind and the emotions but not effective enough to fully engage them.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    The Impossible
    The key selling point is Bayona's ten-minute reenactment of the tidal wave and its carnage, which is brutal, visceral and without peer. His visual mastery is almost enough to make up for The Impossible's conventional final hour and the empty feeling of trying to find the point of this whole exercise.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Silver Linings Playbook
    It's not much, but adult audiences starved for mature entertainment should be counted on to investigate this flawed, if admittedly heartfelt, work.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Cloud Atlas
    The movie version has the exciting and challenging parts down but the moral awakening it so strenuously wants us to experience remains beyond its reach.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    The Imposter
    A true crime tale with added layers of intrigue and atmosphere.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Neil Young Journeys
    Fans of the 66-year-old guitar god (which is to say the only people who'll see this homespun gem) will revel in Young's winsome cruise down Memory Lane.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Chico & Rita
    The blistering tunes and unique animation compensate for the rather unconvincing central love story that works best as a Forrest Gump-ian device to highlight some legendary real-life musicians.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    The Perfect Host
    Pierce delivers everything the role requires except serious menace, while the less-seasoned Crawford improves as his handsome face bares more of the evening's scars.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Make Believe
    Watching even the most tossed-off gag is worth whatever shortcomings Make Believe has, including its lack of real drama.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    The People vs. George Lucas
    Viewers will find its emotional arc obvious and familiar, although the summoning of those emotions is where the movie derives its power.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Dumbstruck
    The resulting distillation is brisk, light and engaging with none of the cheap shots that usually accompany any discussion of ventriloquism. If anything, Goffman is too gentle, refusing to pursue his charges into their darker corners.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Mark Keizer
    Rubber
    Where Rubber veers off the road is that for all its giggly moments and meta-whatever, it's never quite funny enough or scary enough.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Super
    This depraved charmer offers enough to admire and a specialized hipster crowd will enjoy it, if to a mutedly positive effect.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Keizer
    Cracks
    Scott excels in maintaining a low, persistent hum of eroticism whose purpose is not titillation or camp.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Mark Keizer
    Elektra Luxx
    A charmingly hardened Carla Gugino reprises her role as the titular porn star, still pregnant and now coping with retirement.
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