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 3 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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Exit Through the Gift Shop
    What makes Exit Through the Gift Shop so fascinating -- and it is riveting, regardless of your interest in the art world -- is the eloquent way in which it illustrates how beauty and meaning really are in the eye of the beholder and how that eternal phrase still holds true: There's a sucker born every minute.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    American Splendor
    American Splendor reminds you that sometimes, simply getting out of bed each morning can be the most heroic of acts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Delivers all the expected moments of high suspense --that is worthy of Hitchcock
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Winged Migration
    Leaves you in a state of stunned, exhilarated awe, both for what it shows and how it shows it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    L'Enfant (The Child)
    Doesn't feel so much like a movie as a glimpse into the extraordinarily messed-up life of a young man about to make the simple yet life-changing realization that actions have consequences, and that other people matter, too.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Towelhead
    The movie puts Jasira -- and the audience -- through the wringer, but it also makes the ride worth it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    This is a long, impeccably detailed, richly textured movie about a most unusual life, and although it's far from perfect, the sum of it achieves what Fincher set out to do in the first place: Make you blubber like a 6-year-old who just found his pet turtle lying belly-up.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Birdman takes advantage of every facet of Keaton’s talent, from his knack for absurdist comedy to his seemingly effortless ability to tap into graceful profundity without making a big show of it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Big Hero 6
    With a film this funny, exciting and visually stimulating, who cares if you know exactly what's going to happen next, and when.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    The wait for a great action movie is finally over. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is pure popcorn of the highest, most flavorful order, and it's good for you, too.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Amélie
    At two hours, the movie is probably 15 minutes too long -- the final half-hour in particular could have used some trimming -- but complaining about having too much of a good thing makes one sound like a grouch.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Whiplash
    The film’s true subject, though, is innate talent — for music, writing, painting, sculpture, plumbing — and the superhuman lengths we sometimes have to go to in order to wring it out of ourselves.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Wendy and Lucy
    Within the confines of this minimalist picture, there are sequences so vital, timely and of-the-moment, so powerful and well-observed and precise, the effect can be emotionally overwhelming.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Calle 54
    The rapturous power of music has rarely been captured as purely and joyously as it is in Calle 54.
    • Miami Herald
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Ghost World
    A unique bond still develops between the two outcasts, leading to an unexpected resolution that ends this subtle, deeply humane movie on an ambiguous, but unmistakably hopeful, note.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    A Prophet
    Most prison movies are about escape or survival. A Prophet (Un Prophete) is about the creation of a consciousness. This one, too, could have been called “An Education.”
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Our Lady of the Assassins
    In a film overstuffed with tragedy, the most painful one might be the gradual transformation of Fernando's moral and intellectual indignation into a weary, cynical detachment.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Letters From Iwo Jima, much like any war movie, honors the courage of men who took part in a war not necessarily of their making. But by placing us on the opposite side of the battlefield, the movie forces us to approach it from a fresh perspective.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    For now, The Two Towers feels like the second installment in what next year, when Frodo finally reaches Mount Doom and the story draws to a close, we'll surely be hailing as a masterpiece.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    The Dark Knight
    The Dark Knight is dark, all right: It's a luxurious nightmare disguised in a superhero costume, and it's proof that popcorn entertainments don't have to talk down to their audiences in order to satisfy them. The bar for comic-book film adaptations has been permanently raised.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    This iconoclastic filmmaker seduces you with ridiculous laughs, then sends you home contemplating your mortality and your place in the world.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Animal Kingdom
    Animal Kingdom moves with a brisk efficiency - Michôd trusts the viewer and doesn't waste time with unnecessary back story - and the plot twists and turns at brutal speed.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    And so the saga of Harry Potter comes to an end - not with a whimper but with a rousing thunderclap of incident, emotion, suspense and old-fashioned movie magic.
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