Pat Padua

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Washington Post
For 132 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Pat Padua's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Personal Shopper
Lowest review score: 25 The 9th Life of Louis Drax
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 132
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 132
  3. Negative: 11 out of 132
132 movie reviews
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Happy Death Day 2U
    Ultimately, Happy Death Day 2U doesn’t live up to its aspirations. Landon’s script may be better than his direction, but he leaves a potentially resonant subplot — one that involves existential questions — flat and lifeless, as if our most important choices were of no more consequence than a joystick maneuver.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    The Burnt Orange Heresy
    A mostly smart and sexy crime drama, even if it loses steam by the time the ridiculous ending rolls around.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Wrath of Man
    But this is Statham’s show, and his stoic brutality makes this a captivating slow burn.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    I Am Michael
    I Am Michael, is an intermittently affecting — but not entirely convincing — conversion story.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    Ambulance
    So much of Ambulance works like a charm, but acting-wise, it could use a deeper bench.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Violent Night
    Behind all the gore-splattered walls and domestic rancor lies a sweet-and-sour bedtime story of good triumphing over evil. That said, please leave the kids at home.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Minamata
    Despite its poignant subject matter, much of the film feels like a pastiche of political thriller, romantic drama and tortured-genius cliches.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Stockholm
    Moviegoers may be happy to hum along with the jaunty soundtrack — and maybe even sympathize with the movie’s unlikely couple — but it’s unlikely to hold anyone entirely in its thrall.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Mr. Right
    The film’s likeable leads almost carry off a dark premise: that the love that strengthens this couple also makes them dangerous.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    The Sun Is Also a Star
    If its heart-pounding romance doesn’t make you cry, its sorely needed sense of optimism will surely make you smile.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 37 Pat Padua
    Te Ata
    Simultaneously earnest yet maudlin, Te Ata lacks the one thing its subject is said to have possessed: a gift for storytelling.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    The Grinch
    With its charming character animation and inventive art direction, The Grinch is a vast improvement over Ron Howard’s live-action adaptation of the same story.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 37 Pat Padua
    A Good Person
    In this wildly uneven melodrama by writer-director Zach Braff, no member of the talented ensemble cast is entirely able to navigate its messy plot. That a few actors do manage to stay afloat for occasional breaths of air seems like a divine miracle.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    The Boss Baby
    The Boss Baby (adapted from the 2010 book by author and illustrator Marla Frazee) is a sweet adventure tale about sibling rivalry that ultimately becomes a moving tribute to family and brotherhood.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Ticket to Paradise
    Though lacking in the script department, this cinematic wonderland delivers on one promise: escape, to a place of such natural beauty that even these affluent characters, however cardboard, are forced to take stock of the important things in life.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    The Chaperone
    Yet despite the stirring performance at its heart, the movie is ultimately too restricted by its own dramatic conventions, and it only seldom comes to life.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    The Predator
    In his effort to inject fresh blood into this gory franchise, which has already seen four sequels (including two “Alien” crossovers), the filmmaker can’t seem to summon up that old Black magic.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    The Marsh King's Daughter
    The film’s execution isn’t entirely convincing. It’s not the actors’ fault.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Alice
    It’s a fantastic idea, but the execution is inconsistent. Alice, the movie, dares to go through the looking glass, but it doesn’t entirely know what to do once it gets there.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    The Super Mario Bros. Movie
    The artistry is enough to keep children and adults watching. It may help that Mario gains power by eating mushrooms — a good message about healthy eating, on the one hand, yet one with an obvious psychedelic resonance at the same time.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Reminiscence
    “Reminiscence” has all the ingredients for electrifying summer entertainment. But despite its considerable star power and impressive set pieces, the sprawling meditation on memory is simply an attractive mess.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 37 Pat Padua
    Rebel in the Rye
    Writer-director Danny Strong’s feature debut embodies the very phoniness that the author — and his signature character, Holden Caulfield — railed against.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Unforgettable
    Unforgettable borrows elements from film noir, Lifetime movies and slasher flicks and updates them for the Internet age. But this forgettable thriller will simply make you remember other, better films.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Butter
    Ultimately, it is, like its conflicted hero, sweet and likable, and you wish it well.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Kidnap
    Kidnap is a solid and economical piece of filmmaking. It just goes to show: A big budget isn’t necessary to make a big impression.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Manhattan Night
    Manhattan Night gets by on the strength of its visuals and a few vivid central performances, but by the time we find out whodunit, it doesn’t really matter.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Night School
    The movie gives some depth to its misfits, and ultimately sends the valuable message that nobody should be ashamed of who they are.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    The Art of Racing in the Rain
    The movie has its flaws. Still, for anyone with a soft spot for the mute gaze of man’s best friend, it’s hard not to shed a tear — or two — during The Art of Racing in the Rain.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    A Journal for Jordan
    Despite a story line that covers such fraught historical events as 9/11 and the Iraq War, the movie is too tidy to ever really feel like a living, breathing thing.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Pat Padua
    The 9th Life of Louis Drax
    Unfortunately, this film’s dark premise is drowned in whimsy and a forced childlike wonder.
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