Pat Brown

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For 219 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 28% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Pat Brown's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Come and See
Lowest review score: 12 Force of Nature
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 144 out of 219
  2. Mixed: 35 out of 219
  3. Negative: 40 out of 219
219 movie reviews
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Pat Brown
    Spaceman
    Spaceman seems to want to be an allegory about men’s emotional unavailability and its impact on heterosexual relationships, but instead of coming across universal, the film’s human characters, along with much of the drama, are mostly empty space.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Pat Brown
    The Hummingbird Project
    Throughout, the film can’t decide what attitude to strike toward its characters’ evident greed.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Pat Brown
    Shotgun Wedding
    The film has a rather perfunctory feel, as if it were unwilling to go all in on its ludicrous concept.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Pat Brown
    Last Christmas
    Clarke works hard to make the messy, perpetually flustered Kate relatable, but the film surrounds the character with a community as kitschy and false as the trinkets she sells in Santa’s shop.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
    In transforming folk metaphors into utilitarian attributes of an action hero, Disney exposes the emptiness of their product.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Zack Snyder's Justice League
    The film could be taken as an intentional travesty of the superhero genre, if only it weren’t so tortuously tedious.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Honest Thief
    The repetitious plot is more ritual than text as we watch yet another Liam Neeson avenger defy the will of younger, unscrupulous men.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Ghosts of War
    The film’s unreflective earnestness is haunting in all the wrong ways.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Vanguard
    The film is an uncanny reflection of the jingoism that Hollywood has been wrapping in glossy spectacle and exporting to foreign markets for decades.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    The Lion King
    There’s something very cheap at the core of this overtly, ostentatiously expensive film, reliant as it is on our memory of the original to accentuate every significant moment.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Army of Thieves
    Matthias Schweighöfer’s film puts itself in a box, consistently failing to justify why its story deserves our attention more than the spectacle of the recently deceased rising to feast upon the flesh of the living.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Stuber
    More than its violence, the film is defined by its vileness, its straight-faced attachment to outmoded ideas about masculinity and law enforcement.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Silent Night
    The film misplaces the root of our current existential dilemma, then covers it with tepid droll comedy and clunky melodrama.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Flag Day
    Flag Day is little more than a near-two-hour montage of tear-streaked faces shouting blandly melodramatic lines at each other.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
    Promising but failing to deliver the colorful characters and winding, breakneck plot of a caper, Operation Fortune may itself be a ruse, but it’s not a convincing one.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Brown
    After the Wedding
    The film diverts us away from its hint of a social message using a series of tired twists and turns that don’t signify much of anything.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 12 Pat Brown
    Awake
    It’s difficult to imagine a high-concept thriller that coalesces around its one-line conceit less convincingly than Awake.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 12 Pat Brown
    Force of Nature
    The film presents its scattershot cop-movie tropes in earnest, as if, like hurricanes, they were natural, unavoidable phenomena.
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