Rex Reed

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For 1,210 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Rex Reed's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 The Light Between Oceans
Lowest review score: 0 Corporate Animals
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 602 out of 1210
  2. Mixed: 289 out of 1210
  3. Negative: 319 out of 1210
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Rex Reed
    Darkest Hour
    Even though it does so through a dull and talky haze of cigar smoke, it is always Gary Oldman’s phenomenal performance that keeps the film airborne.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Rex Reed
    The Automat
    The Automat was owned by the people, and it’s the people who loved it, remember it with passion, and still shed a tear when you mention it now.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Rex Reed
    I'll See You in My Dreams
    The tender magnetism of Blythe Danner turns an intelligent, sensitive story of love among the not so young into a work of art.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Rex Reed
    Belfast
    The memories are vivid, but there’s no plot to connect them, and the film is rendered almost totally incomprehensible by accents as thick as congealed week-old mutton stew.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Rex Reed
    Civil War
    As a cautionary tale about America’s inevitable self-destruction, the relentless cynicism of its narrative is often preposterous, but as a visionary look at the horrors that lie ahead for a great country on the rocks—and what America has done to itself already—this is one of the most harrowing yet exhilarating science-fiction epics ever made.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 25 Rex Reed
    Side Effects
    What it turns out to be is a preposterous puzzle that fails every test under scrutiny, leaving the spectator with a “Huh?” that is meant to be uttered only while chewing gum.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Rex Reed
    A Private War
    Because it concentrates on her professional risks and accomplishments at the expense of the personal conflicts that give the film its title, it’s not a perfect film, but Rosamund Pike is so good in it that she’s certain to be remembered when the 2018 awards season rolls around.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Rex Reed
    By the Grace of God
    By the Grace of God is still one of the best films of 2019.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Rex Reed
    The Square
    For the Edgerton brothers and for their protagonists, The Square works on several levels, as it shows how far two people will go for love and profit--in more ways than one.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Rex Reed
    The Man in the Basement
    As it unfolds, The Man in the Basement is as provocative, intelligent and suspenseful as anything you are likely to see this year.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Rex Reed
    Land of Mine
    It’s a harrowing, sensitively realized study of cruelty, revenge and post-war retribution that ranks high among films about the cost of war and its continuing damage to humanity.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Rex Reed
    Emily
    Despite its visual appeal, its concentrated star performance by Emma Mackey and the dedicated obsession of Australian actress Frances O’Connor, making her debut as a writer-director, it gets almost everything wrong and seems more like a work of fiction than a believable biopic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Rex Reed
    Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    A creature of impulse to the end, she was a woman who saved everything—from lace valentines and old passports to Oscars and tear-stained divorce papers. How lucky we are she can share them with us now. She marched to her own drummer, and the beat goes on.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Rex Reed
    Another Happy Day
    I tend to forget how marvelous Ellen Barkin can be until she gets the rare chance to pull out all the stops in a movie like this.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Rex Reed
    The Good Liar
    Together, they redefine rapture.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Rex Reed
    Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    Me and Earl and the Dying Girl treats a serious subject with wackadoodle humor that is endearingly contagious. It’s tender, clever, wise and highly recommended.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Rex Reed
    The Yellow Birds
    The film is extraordinarily well directed by Alexandre Moors, realistically written, and uniformly well played by an excellent supporting cast that includes Jennifer Aniston, Toni Collette, Jason Patric, and Jack Huston. As “war is hell” movies go, this one is better than usual.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Rex Reed
    What Maisie Knew
    Acutely observed, subtly but sharply written and expertly acted.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Rex Reed
    Goats
    Ms. Farmiga is the only one who seems to be having any fun, as an aging flower child stuck in an earlier decade and addicted to healing vortex workshops and primal screams. Mellow, but very much a work in progress, Goats has a bland but overcrowded menu that could benefit from a little feta.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 25 Rex Reed
    Inception
    I'd like to tell you just how bad Inception really is, but since it is barely even remotely lucid, no sane description is possible.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 25 Rex Reed
    Bones and All
    It’s a preposterous debacle that might work better as a Halloween skit on Saturday Night Live, but it takes itself seriously, which makes it seem even sillier. I found the result too sick and disgusting to describe, but not interesting enough to care.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Rex Reed
    Bully
    Lee Hirsch is certainly one who is making a difference. I endorse him and his brave, powerful movie and urge you to see it for yourself. You might leave Bully with rage, but you will not leave Bully with indifference.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Rex Reed
    Colette
    The best and most lavishly appointed, gorgeously photographed period movie in years.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Rex Reed
    In Darkness
    In Darkness is gloomy and hard to take for a running time of 145 minutes, but it's an important film, related with deep conviction, and uncompromising in its understanding of the remarkable things members of the human race have done - to, for, and against each other - in the wilderness of war.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 25 Rex Reed
    Cyrus
    It still has a long way to go before the term Mumblecore (which sounds like a Harry Potter major at Hogwart's) can be confused with the term Class Act.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Rex Reed
    Sully
    The most moving moments in Sully occur in a coda that introduces the actual passengers and crew who lived through the experience and Sully himself. No movie defines heroism with the same impact as reality itself.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Rex Reed
    American Woman
    Beautifully acted, sensitively written, carefully and economically directed, American Woman is the best film about the gradual but triumphant empowerment of an abused woman I have seen in this age of distaff political enlightenment.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Rex Reed
    The Duke
    A charming, understated and completely enjoyable frolic about how ordinary people can do extraordinary things that seems doubly startling because, while seeming implausible, it also happens to be absolutely true.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Rex Reed
    Novitiate
    You can call Novitiate divinely inspired and mean it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Rex Reed
    Rust and Bone
    Proving again that her Best Actress Academy Award for playing Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose" was no fluke, the marvellously sensual Marion Cotillard, with her wounded doe eyes and look of permanent unfulfilled longing, delivers another kidney punch as a double amputee in love with an illegal bare-knuckle fighter in the French shocker Rust and Bone.
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