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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    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Aftersun
    Deftly constructed and utterly heartbreaking, Aftersun announces Charlotte Wells as an eminent storyteller of prodigious powers.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Past Lives
    Diverging from romances in which lovers are expected to move heaven, earth, and themselves in order to make a moment of love last forever, Past Lives asks us to embrace the changes that come with time.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Petite Maman
    The film evinces Céline Sciamma’s profound knack for visual economy, communicating much with silent looks and structured absences.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    David Byrne’s American Utopia
    American Utopia feels as much like a balm as it is a surprisingly direct call to political action and social betterment.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Pat Brown
    Shoah: Four Sisters
    By uniting these four interviews in particular, Claude Lanzmann emphasizes the impossibility of moral clarity in the unthinkable circumstances into which Germany’s invasion of Eastern Europe threw its Jewish population.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    No Other Land
    With exceptional lucidity, No Other Land reminds us of the human stakes of Israel’s resettlement of the West Bank, and that fighting for justice starts from the ground up.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Pat Brown
    Memoria
    Again in a Apichatpong Weerasethakul film, we find spirits lurking behind the everyday world, but in Memoria, they might just be repressed memories emanating from a world that never actually forgets.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Here
    Bas Devos’s trademark placidity and restraint constitutes a challenge to narrative convention.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Saint Omer
    If courtroom dramas are usually about taking a stand, Saint Omer shows us that the most impactful truths often go unspoken.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Time
    It reminds us in eminently cinematic ways that behind the numbers and procedures of a court case are actual lives existing in actual, human time.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    The Worst Person in the World
    The film may be the prime example of how to restore fun, significance, and even a little bit of sex to the well-worn terrain of the romantic comedy.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    The Souvenir: Part II
    Joanna Hogg’s film is a work of understated warmth, profound emotional complexity, and eminently British dry humor.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Sound of Falling
    The past comes off in Mascha Schilinski’s film as an onerous, if unseen, weight on the present.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    Minari
    The film’s orderliness of plot somewhat undermines the sense that the family at its center is steeped in a truly messy situation.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    The Farewell
    The film taps into universal truths about the passage of time, the inevitability of loss, and how we prepare one another for it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    The Velvet Underground
    Todd Haynes’s documentary excitingly captures an era’s explosion of creativity, one that bespoke new and challenging kinds of freedom.
    • 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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Tsugua Diaries
    The Tsugua Diaries is something like Memento for an age of isolation and listlessness.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    The Inheritance
    The film’s throwback nature is in sync with Ephraim Asili’s interest in wanting to keep the legacy of black activism alive.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    The Wild Pear Tree
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film takes a leisurely approach to narrative that’s both intensely dialogical and transfixingly visual.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    One Fine Morning
    The film’s storytelling is deceptively straightforward, rooted in realistic dialogue and Mia Hansen-Løve’s light touch as a visual stylist.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Brown
    Dahomey
    Mati Diop’s captivating, fabulistic documentary Dahomey confronts the reality of how modernity has been shaped by the West’s theft of cultural heritage.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    Alcarràs
    As a tribute to farmers’ way of life, its effective and at times moving, but as an exposé of the potential losses that a business-centric green revolution is in the process of incurring, it wants for a stiffer punch.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Booksmart
    It's an R-rated teen comedy that proves that you can center girls’ experiences without sacrificing grossness, and that you can be gross without being too mean.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Reality
    The film interrogates both the state of our world and the lines between fiction and document.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Brown
    Rafiki
    The film's slotting of two African women into a familiar romantic structure represents a radical and important upending of contemporary Kenyan sexual mores.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Fire of Love
    The film oscillates between the playfully on the nose and the existentially profound with the confidence of a volcano chaser surfing on a river of lava.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Brown
    Boys State
    The film suggests that our political system is a popularity contest that functions for no one but those jockeying for power.
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