Randall Colburn

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Consequence, The A.V. Club
For 79 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Randall Colburn's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 91 Weiner
Lowest review score: 16 War Dogs
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 79
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 79
  3. Negative: 11 out of 79
79 movie reviews
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Randall Colburn
    Bird Box
    There’s a fundamental problem here, one of conception, not of execution.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 58 Randall Colburn
    The Equalizer 2
    The franchise, however, feels less solid than Washington’s performance. There’s a formulaic quality to it, an aversion to the basics of world-building that gives The Equalizer 2 an outdated feel in a cinematic landscape where more attention is being paid to continuity and myth-making.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Randall Colburn
    Insidious: The Last Key
    Robitel and Whannel are still too bound to the franchise here to make something truly original, but The Last Key will make you grip your armrest, squint your eyes, and prepare for the worst. Sometimes, that’s enough.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Randall Colburn
    Morgan
    Morgan isn’t hard sci-fi. It isn’t trying to solve the questions that have suffused the genre since its inception. Rather, it couches those ever-more-timely concerns in scenes of high action and affecting character connection.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Randall Colburn
    American Assassin
    American Assassin never transcends the exploitation at its core.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 33 Randall Colburn
    Hunter Killer
    Hunter Killer has thrills, but they’re of the cheapest variety.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Randall Colburn
    Trash Fire
    Neither Bates Jr.’s assured direction nor the strength of the performances can salvage the narrative, which feels overly convoluted and spackled far too much finery.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Randall Colburn
    Extinction
    While the script is fundamentally flawed, the direction doesn’t help. Young, who previously helmed the brutal 2016 indie Hounds of Love, feels out of his element in the sci-fi action realm.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Randall Colburn
    The Cloverfield Paradox
    It’s weird, intermittently amusing gobbledygook that should help a drowsy weekday night pass a bit quicker. Unfortunately, mediocrity won’t do much for the Cloverfield brand, which set a high bar for itself with 10 Cloverfield Lane.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Randall Colburn
    How It Ends
    How It Ends ends with something of a whimper, leaving us feeling as if a compelling story was undercut by being told through its least interesting characters.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Randall Colburn
    Assassin's Creed
    What saves this head-scratching, relentlessly portentous movie is what also saves the games: the action is on point.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 33 Randall Colburn
    Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
    Unfortunately, the good stuff comes not only too late, but is more or less undone by a head-scratcher of an ending.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 42 Randall Colburn
    Ride Along 2
    Hart, the firecracker that he is, has a fitting comedic (and crime-fighting) partner out there somewhere. But it’s not in the Ride Along series.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Randall Colburn
    Death Wish
    There’s something distinctly odious about a storyteller exploiting both a city’s tragic reality and a country’s debate about firearms to make a film that thrives on violence.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Randall Colburn
    London Has Fallen
    London Has Fallen is terrorism porn, an alarmist, jingoistic piece of CGI-soaked garbage that implores its audience to fear nothing after sensationalizing the slaughter of innocents and the destruction of a major city.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Randall Colburn
    Rings
    Rings is too beholden with current trends to truly exploit the potential it displays in its early going.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Randall Colburn
    Dark Crimes
    The only subtlety to be found is in the performance of singer and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, though it’s her co-star, Jim Carrey, who will be the subject of most of this strange, ugly film’s discussion. And why not? It’s a bizarre, fascinating turn for Carrey.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Randall Colburn
    Shimmer Lake
    Shimmer Lake’s climax does a fine job of bringing together its disparate parts for a resolution that’s surprising, effective, and logical.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Randall Colburn
    Ánimas
    Ánimas packs a lot into its 90 minutes, and occasionally suffers for it. There’s a dourness to the movie, a self-seriousness that won’t make it anyone’s favorite escapist flick. But while it wears its themes on its sleeve, they remain undoubtedly striking and thought-provoking, especially in an age where the issue of mental illness is being discussed on a global scale.
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