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
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Vortex
    Merciless but affecting, Vortex suggests that one respite from the loneliness of life lived in the shadow of death is the realm of dreams.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Cold Pursuit
    It’s the way the film’s humor specifically subverts its genre’s expected emotional valences that makes it so effective.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    A Hero
    The film is a demonstrative examination of the way our raising of heroes onto social media pedestals diminishes the messy, sometimes impenetrable truth of human lives.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen’s documentary is both otherworldly and humanizing, as if it were bridging a gap between different forms of existence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Celebration
    Olivier Meyrou’s ironically titled documentary weaves a tightly constructed story about success, power, and mortality.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    This One's for the Ladies
    There’s a surprising sense of communal exchange between the male strippers and their fans in Gene Graham’s documentary.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Les Nôtres
    The film is a j’accuse aimed at those complicit in oppressing the most vulnerable in order to protect the powerful.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    #Manhole
    Kumakiri Kazuyoshi counters the comic absurdity with a genuinely discomfiting sense of the manhole’s atmosphere, and threads of intrigue that are already mostly spun by the time you see them.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Cave
    Its depiction of the perpetual terror of living in a war zone will stick with viewers long after The Cave’s doctors have left Ghouta.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Survival of Kindness
    An epic adventure in the guise of an arthouse flick, The Survival of Kindness makes up in visual power and moral clarity what it lacks in subtext.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Territory
    Alex Pritz’s documentary provides an affecting look at indigenous lives at the frontline of deforestation in the Amazon.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    L'Immensità
    By turns wry and tragic, but never glib or mawkish, this is a visually rich and evocative drama about navigating the often treacherous path to adulthood.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Border
    The film’s slow reveal of its fantastical elements, which evoke the erratic, dreamlike strangeness of folk tales, makes them all the more unsettling.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Magazine Dreams
    Magazine Dreams melds the alluring and the horrific in an unsettling mixture suited to its account of the peril of pursuing physical perfection.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    When Lambs Become Lions
    Think Michael Mann’s Heat but in East Africa and with real-world stakes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Sasquatch Sunset
    What we’re confronted with in the film may be less the quaint idiocy of four dull simians and more our own inability to loosen up and just live.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Nitram
    Implicit in the film’s bleak but sympathetic portrait of a disturbed and shunned young man is that sometimes it takes a village to make a monster.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Audition
    With great clarity, the film conveys how discipline can be directed both inward and outward.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Emma.
    This lively adaptation plays up the novel’s more farcical elements, granting it a snappy, rhythmic pace.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Cuties
    Maïmouna Doucouré has a remarkable grasp of the irrationality and volatility of middle-school social dynamics.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Reality
    The film interrogates both the state of our world and the lines between fiction and document.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Ancient Woods
    The film brings us somewhere where we aren’t, and probably could not be, but nevertheless feels tangibly real.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Luce
    On the whole, the film is an unvarnished reflection of the ugliness of American attitudes toward assimilation.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Happiest Season
    The film translates the often difficult realities of a specific kind of marginalized love into a story with broad appeal.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Toy Story 4
    The film seamlessly interweaves fun escapades and earnest emotions, but it lacks the visual power of its predecessor.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Graduates
    While Hannah Peterson, with her emphasis on quiet moments and mementos mori, effectively suffuses The Graduates with a mournful absence of life, she also reminds us of the warmth that can be so typical of high school.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Knock Down the House
    Rachel Lears’s film is a rebuttal to the position that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's election victory was an incidental event in American politics.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Good Boss
    In the end, Fernando León de Aranoa’s film suggests that there may not be a lot of daylight between a good boss and a true villain.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    On the Record
    Russell Simmons’ victims’ sense of their own complex relations to historical power structures emerges from the film’s lucid recounting of the sexual assault allegations against him.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Film About a Father Who
    Throughout, Lynne Sachs undercuts the image of the past as simpler or more stable than the present.
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