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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    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Irrational Man
    A wobbly enterprise saddled by stilted dialogue and convenient contrivances. But view it as a Woody Allen film, and the plot thickens.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Rene Rodriguez
    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    The movie is better when it’s poking sly fun at Cruise’s superheroic screen persona (look at the expression on his face when Ethan realizes just how big the guy he must fight is) than when it asks you to buy into its far-fetched antics.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Rene Rodriguez
    Ardor
    Ardor is never boring, but it’s never all that engaging, either. Here is a movie that ends with a can’t-miss scenario — a siege on a farmhouse in which the heroes are vastly outnumbered and outgunned — yet still fails to ever quicken your pulse.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Mr. Holmes
    Condon and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher reward your patience by bringing the threads together in a beautiful, stirring manner that celebrates the genius of the literary icon while also honoring the man McKellen is playing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    The Wolfpack
    Despite its considerable faults, this bizarre, fascinating story is impossible to shake off, like the expression on the face of one of the brothers as he's talking about his father and begins getting choked up (instead of crying, he smiles convincingly, evidence of a life led having to learn to hide his emotions for fear of reprisal).
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Rene Rodriguez
    Dope
    Saring, often funny comedy.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Inside Out
    If Inside Out doesn’t stack up with the best Pixar movies (Wall-E, Finding Nemo, Toy Story), that’s because there’s less plot here than usual, and even at a lean 95 minutes, the movie starts to drag a bit just before it ends.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    The Nightmare
    That’s one of the great accomplishments of Ascher’s film: Intercutting his interviews with fictional recreations of what the subjects are describing allows you to see a version of what they saw, and you don’t need to believe any of it for The Nightmare to give you a major case of the creeps.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    Jurassic World
    Jurassic World gives you exactly what Howard’s character promises at the beginning — More! Bigger! Faster! — but you know there’s something deeply wrong with a film that expects you to shed tears over digitally created prehistoric creatures and rubber brontosaurus heads instead of rooting for, you know, people.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Rene Rodriguez
    Aloha
    Yes, Aloha is a mess. But messes can be fascinating, and there’s a lot of tenderness and beauty and heartbreak here, too.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Rene Rodriguez
    Saint Laurent
    A flamboyant but hollow exercise in glitz and pizzazz.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Rene Rodriguez
    San Andreas
    This is pure Disaster 101 formula, although distilled to the minimum amount of dialogue and characters possible.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
    The main thing writer-director Michele Jouse, who was close to Shepard, wanted to do with her intimate documentary Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine was to give a voice to those who are still mourning him and allow them to share their stories.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Tomorrowland
    Tomorrowland is a crazy, disjointed mess. But it’s the good sort of crazy, and it’s the sort of mess you want to lose yourself in.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Rene Rodriguez
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    With Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller delivers the sort of jumbo-sized entertainment that makes you spontaneously break out in appreciative laughter: The breadth of his imagination and showmanship makes you giddy.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Rene Rodriguez
    The D Train
    The clownish humor is imbued with a great, genuine pain. Unfortunately, the twist proves too much for the filmmakers to handle. The second half of The D Train collapses into a series of plot curlicues and narrative dead-ends. The picture loses its nerve and opts for a pat, wan resolution.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
    A revealing and bluntly honest portrait of a previously unknown filmmaker.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    About Elly (2009)
    Like "A Separation," which used the story of a dissolving marriage to illustrate the unexpected consequences of a rigid, inflexible society, About Elly turns what starts out as a breezy comedy into an engaging and substantial exploration of human nature and how sometimes, without intending to, we hurt the ones we love most — including ourselves.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Roar
    Today, you can see it for yourself and bask in all its insane glory.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Whedon knows this is all nonsense, but it can be great fun, too. Age of Ultron is all rush and sensation with little substance. But what a feeling.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Ex Machina
    The fact that Garland manages to cram in speculative ideas about the perils of a society that relies too heavily on technology is a bonus. In Ex Machina, love hurts, big time, for man and machine alike.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Rene Rodriguez
    The Salt of the Earth
    The Salt of the Earth is a celebration of the power of art to change the world, as well as an exploration of the considerable toll gifted artists sometimes pay for their talents, and their courage to push forward regardless.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    True Story
    True Story marks the directorial debut of Rupert Goold, a respected British theater veteran who also co-wrote the script and knows how to engage the viewer with simple scenes of two people talking (with a few modifications, this could have easily been a play).
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Welcome to New York
    In the movie’s best scene, Bisset lays into Depardieu with the rage and anger of a woman who has tolerated bad behavior for too long (there’s a fiery spontaneity to their verbal sparring that makes you wonder if the scene was improvised).
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Rene Rodriguez
    While We're Young
    While We’re Young starts off as an empathetic, funny look at middle age and winds up as profound and schematic as a Neil Simon play — or, for the younger set, an episode of "The New Girl."
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Rene Rodriguez
    White God
    White God is the rare sort of movie in the era of computer-generated special effects where you can’t believe your eyes, because what you’re looking at is real.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    Eastern Boys
    Eastern Boys explores whether these lost boys are damaged beyond repair or are still capable of being saved.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Rene Rodriguez
    The Hunting Ground
    One thing nearly all the anecdotes in The Hunting Ground have in common is their resolution: A lack of justice.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Rene Rodriguez
    Furious 7
    Here is a film in which nothing is at stake: Cars crash into each other head-on at high speeds, vehicles sail off cliffs and tumble down rocky mountainsides, people jump out of buildings and fall six stories to the ground, then characters just dust themselves off and continue as if nothing had happened. Even Wile E. Coyote wasn't this resilient.
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