Pat Brown

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Slant Magazine
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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    American Woman
    Sienna Miller lends credibility to a character that in other hands might seem like a caricature of the white underclass.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Suspended Time
    Olivier Assayas’s film is a gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Wild Nights with Emily
    The film’s playful tone is a corrective to a century of scholarship that insisted on projecting the image of a moody spinster onto Emily Dickinson.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    The Fight
    The film justly draws attention to the perpetual work that must go into preserving democratic institutions.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Brown
    Supernova
    Supernova is so obviously structured that it often seems to be imposing meaning on its characters.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Both Sides of the Blade
    The studied ambiguity of what’s going on in Fire doesn’t keep it from often achieving the suspense of an accomplished erotic thriller.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    The Devil's Bath
    Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala depict Agnes’s plight with empathy but with a horror maven’s sense of ratcheting unease and encroaching doom.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    The Adults
    The Adults affectingly captures the uniquely American ennui provoked by the banalities of a hometown and the lost utopia of childhood.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 38 Pat Brown
    Brittany Runs A Marathon
    The film is inspirational only in the sense that it may inspire an uptick in Amazon searches for running gear.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Promising Young Woman
    The film’s empowerment fantasy of a woman who steamrolls male egos is as stylish and fun as its portrait of gender relations is dire.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Luce
    On the whole, the film is an unvarnished reflection of the ugliness of American attitudes toward assimilation.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Midsommar
    A deeply unnerving film about the indissoluble, somehow archaic bond between self and family—one more psychologically robust than Aster’s similarly themed Hereditary. And it’s also very funny.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    Sometimes I Think About Dying
    The film is an imperfect but affecting portrait of social isolation that captures both the pain and the warmth that comes with finally letting others in.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    Searching for Ingmar Bergman
    Margarethe von Trotta's documentary reminds us of the reasons for Bergman's continued influence on cinema today.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Emma.
    This lively adaptation plays up the novel’s more farcical elements, granting it a snappy, rhythmic pace.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Brown
    Becoming Astrid
    Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    The Quake
    When the devastating quake finally strikes, it creates a truly suspenseful scenario of vertiginous falls and last-minute saves.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Pat Brown
    The Current War: Director's Cut
    The film falls back on the myth of modernity being born in the laps of practical, native-born American ingenuity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Sin
    Andrei Konchalovsky’s film is fascinated with the creation of great art in the midst of socio-political turmoil.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Redoubt
    Matthew Barney re-instills nature with some of the mystic aura that modernity, with its technologies and techniques of knowledge, has robbed it of.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    Rocketman
    As a musical, Dexter Fletcher’s film is just fun enough to (mostly) distract us from its superficiality.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    I Am Greta
    Even though it’s about a person who speaks with courage about the urgency of the global crisis, I Am Greta itself doesn’t possess enough of that urgency.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Nov 9, 2020
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    The Mole Agent
    That Maite Alberdi’s camera itself is present in The Mole Agent as a quasi-ethical concern suits the way Sergio, as he shuffles through the home’s hallways, gradually comes to be uncomfortable with his own surveillance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Take Me Somewhere Nice
    From beneath defensive layers of distanced comic despair emerges a sincere story about a young woman’s emotional reconciliation with her troubled place of origin.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Mr. Jones
    The film is an unnervingly beautiful tribute to the lives lost during the Holodomor, and to the people who have seen the world for what it is, instead of the dream of it they’re instructed to believe.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Fabian: Going to the Dogs
    Its characters are suffused with a paradoxical kind of fear that can only happen in a dream, the dread before an immense catastrophe that’s unavoidable because it’s already happened.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Pat Brown
    Never Look Away
    Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film prioritizes the sentimental over the true, the tidy moral over the messy reality.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Cuties
    Maïmouna Doucouré has a remarkable grasp of the irrationality and volatility of middle-school social dynamics.
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