Rene Rodriguez

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Miami Herald, Variety
For 1,942 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Rene Rodriguez's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Manchester by the Sea
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,218 out of 1942
  2. Mixed: 455 out of 1942
  3. Negative: 269 out of 1942
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Rene Rodriguez
    The Place Beyond the Pines
    While the scope of the movie is bigger, its impact is smaller. "Blue Valentine" was a precise, heartrending portrait of a marriage coming apart at the seams. The theme of his new movie is a lot harder to discern.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Room 237
    Ascher treats all these insane theories seriously, but that doesn’t mean you have to.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Rene Rodriguez
    Evil Dead
    Evil Dead is just a well-made gross-out, and it's kind of a bummer.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    No
    No is an exploration of the power of the media to manipulate hearts and minds. The moral of the story: Always go positive.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Spring Breakers
    The movie is wild, but not in the ways that you expect, and it’s also surprisingly chaste — you think you see a lot more than you actually do.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Rene Rodriguez
    John Dies at the End
    Despite its astronomical body count, John Dies at the End never takes itself seriously, and neither should you.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    Oz the Great and Powerful
    Oz the Great and Powerful is an oppressive, bloated bore.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    West of Memphis
    The movie leaves you feeling angry and frustrated anyway. And justice for all? Hardly.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    A Good Day to Die Hard
    Time to give the shoot-’em-up thing a rest, guys: It’s tired and played out, and so are you.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Side Effects
    The main thing to keep in mind while watching Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Side Effects is not to take the movie too seriously or else you’ll feel betrayed by the end.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    Identity Thief
    An unsalvageable wreck.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    Stand Up Guys
    An excruciating and melodramatic comedy.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Rene Rodriguez
    Bullet to the Head
    Bullet in the Head is a throwback to the past with its eyes trained on the present, and it proves Hill has kept up with the times.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Rene Rodriguez
    Amour
    This is the sort of small, intimate drama about unpleasant subject matter Hollywood rarely deals with, but Haneke isn't worried about turning off his audience, because death is something everyone has in common. It fascinates us, the way it also scares us.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Zero Dark Thirty
    Maya is as consumed with finding bin Laden as Jake Gyllenhaal was obsessed with finding a serial killer in "Zodiac," only he was doing it as a hobby.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Django Unchained
    Django Unchained is the most brutal film Quentin Tarantino has ever made. Unlike "Kill Bill" or "Inglourious Basterds," where the violence was thrilling and carried a visceral kick, the carnage here is often ugly and difficult to watch.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Rene Rodriguez
    Jack Reacher
    Reacher is so good at everything he does, and Cruise plays him in such a robotic manner, that the movie becomes a bit of a bore: The hero is practically omnipotent.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    There will be opportunities to see the picture in regular 24 frames per second, but I recommend going the whole hog and sampling what Jackson has come up with - a new way to watch movies and a new take on a universe that seemed to have exhausted its narrative possibilities.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    Hitchcock
    Hitchcock spends too much time off the set of Psycho, where the real story was, and focuses instead on incidental matters that feel like outtakes. Mother would not have been pleased.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    Playing for Keeps
    There isn't a moment in the entire picture in which you will recognize an element of your own life.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Holy Motors
    Holy Motors is wild and unfettered and playful - the work of an artist who carries his love of cinema in his bones, and knows how to share that affection with the audience.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    This Must Be the Place
    This Must Be the Place is as emotionally zonked-out as its protagonist, and just as difficult to warm up to.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Silver Linings Playbook
    This is writer-director David O. Russell's idea of a romantic comedy, and it's terrific - one of the freshest, funniest, most elevating crowd-pleasers of the year.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    The House I Live In
    The House I Live In is a work of journalism, not propaganda: Jarecki has done his research and leaves it to you to decide what to make of it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Skyfall
    Mendes' approach to action is classical and elegant - no manic editing and blurry unintelligible images here - but what makes the movie truly special is the attention he gives his actors.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Café de Flore
    This is a gorgeous, flashy, widescreen epic, like "Boogie Nights" or "Casino," about the most essential things in life: Family, friends and love. But most of all, love.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Wreck-It Ralph
    Wreck-It-Ralph is a gorgeously rendered story that will play just as well to children as to their parents, albeit for different reasons. Playstation and Xbox junkies will be equally pleased.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    The Sessions
    Hunt gives this funny, touching movie its soul, and the actors elevate the material into something more resonant and memorable than the story promises.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Rene Rodriguez
    Cloud Atlas
    If you're interested in the sheer craft of filmmaking, Cloud Atlas is required viewing - a rare example of a movie getting by entirely on technique and creative bravado.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Madrid, 1987
    Madrid, 1987 operates on a dizzying number of levels - as a romantic comedy, a sex farce, a study of culture clash, ageism and idealism - and the highest compliment you can give this ridiculously talky movie (which plays better if you speak Spanish) is that you're a little sad to see the characters go on their way once they part, probably forever.
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