Rafael Motamayor

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For 142 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 23% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Rafael Motamayor's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Everything Everywhere All at Once
Lowest review score: 25 The Astronaut
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 2 out of 142
142 movie reviews
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Rafael Motamayor
    Rather than the gritty drama of the first film or the delightful fantasy of the second, we instead get a dull romance with paper-thin characters, lame voice-over narration, and rather clean and puritan dance numbers, resulting in a film that feels more like an advertisement for the "Magic Mike Live" show than a movie.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Rafael Motamayor
    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle offers plenty of action and some emotional flashbacks, but it suffers from an overuse of flashbacks that undermine the story's pacing.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Rafael Motamayor
    This was an ambitious trilogy that tried to take the Halloween franchise to new places, but it ultimately falls short, introducing so many ideas that it quickly abandons, while forgetting about the one thing it was always supposed to be about: Laurie Strode.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Rafael Motamayor
    Paddington in Peru is ultimately a missed opportunity, but it's also a pleasant, entertaining-enough time.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Rafael Motamayor
    While it does some fascinating things with the zombie genre that we haven't seen since George A. Romero, Army of the Dead ends up bogged down by its own self-importance and forgets how fun it's supposed to be. Its promising opening credits sequence is so much better than the rest of the film.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Rafael Motamayor
    If you can look past Road House’s horrendous cinematography, CGI fights, and poor lighting, there's a fun movie to be found.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Rafael Motamayor
    Ron’s Gone Wrong has enough ideas about our current relationship with technology and social media to bring about important conversations between parents and teens that are more than just “phones are bad,” while delivering a charming and at times laugh-out-loud funny story about a boy and his robot computer friend.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Rafael Motamayor
    “Haikyuu!!” makes this climactic moment come across as rushed. Due to the short running time and amount of story to cover, this movie is not for newcomers at all.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Rafael Motamayor
    The problem is that, while Johnson crafted a good script that balances multiple tones, his directing isn’t as confident in that tightrope.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 57 Rafael Motamayor
    Hold the Dark is a beautiful-looking bore.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 55 Rafael Motamayor
    Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile has some interesting ideas about how little we know the people we love, and about the power of a celebrity cult status. But no matter how good Zac Efron’s performance as Ted Bundy is, this is the tamest way to explore such a complex and interesting story.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Rafael Motamayor
    Ash
    With heavy inspirations from games like Dead Space and movies like Alien and The Thing, Flying Lotus' Ash is an ambitious, visually enthralling sci-fi horror movie. But its tale of a space station terrorized by a mysterious, gooey threat is otherwise empty and derivative, and takes too long to get going.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Rafael Motamayor
    Zemeckis turns this beloved, dark story into a campy, weird, yet still fairly entertaining kid-friendly story of accepting oneself. The problem is that it pales in comparison to what came before.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Rafael Motamayor
    Peter Farrelly's follow-up to Green Book is a war drama with some solid laughs and a great Zac Efron performance, but a manipulative script with ugly optics and boring visuals that never achieve the prestige it clearly wants.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Rafael Motamayor
    Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money is neither dumb enough to capture the bonkers nature of the story nor smart enough to turn it into an entertaining or even informative tale.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Rafael Motamayor
    The mystery is a convoluted mess, clearly attempting to marry the intrigue of "Chinatown" with the escalating chaos of a Coen Brothers movie while failing to make things compelling, all while the wacky humor falls flat.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Rafael Motamayor
    In the end, watching Pain Hustlers is about as numbing an experience as being prescribed the drug Liza spent her career selling.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Rafael Motamayor
    The overstuffed "Despicable Me 4" abandons any pretense of caring about characters or narrative, choosing instead to fit in as many gags, characters, and little stories with as little consequences as they can.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Rafael Motamayor
    When "Final Cut" works, it's mostly because it just repeats what "One Cut of the Dead" did, and as ill-conceived as this film is, the jokes still land. Of course, that only says more about the success of the original film than this one. The problem is that, outside of the French market, it is hard to recommend this movie to anyone.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Rafael Motamayor
    It's an improvement simply because this trilogy started off pretty badly, but nevertheless an uninspiring survival horror with repetitive set pieces, baffling character choices, and a mythology that feels like it's erasing the very reason his franchise exists in the first place.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 33 Rafael Motamayor
    It is in the third act that Immaculate delivers a gonzo, rock-smashing, fiery, crucifix-stabbing and all-out bloody good time. Unfortunately, by that point, it’s too late to save the soul of this movie, which is condemned not to go to hell, but remain in dull horror movie purgatory.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Rafael Motamayor
    Varley’s homages and nods can’t help save The Astronaut from a sudden tonal shift that takes away what makes the first half of the film interesting and brings it into redundant — and honestly, quite baffling — territory.

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