Robert Daniels

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For 431 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Robert Daniels' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Annihilation of Fish
Lowest review score: 0 The Instigators
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 263 out of 431
  2. Mixed: 98 out of 431
  3. Negative: 70 out of 431
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 91 Robert Daniels
    Saint Omer
    Diop’s Saint Omer doesn’t condescend to the viewer by slinking toward black-and-white offerings of good and evil, or broad statements about race or gender. This ripped-from-the-headlines narrative accomplishes a feat far more creative, and a bit less forced. It dances on the surface of these participants, and in their subtle ripples, to reveal the humanity in the seemingly inhumane.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Daniels
    The Fabelmans
    The Fabelmans is Spielberg exercising his vast filmmaking knowledge to compose a story where his entire heart is stapled across the screen. It’s beautiful, evocative, enthralling blockbuster filmmaking, perfectly tuned to remind viewers of the power that can reside within a movie.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Robert Daniels
    My Policeman
    My Policeman is surface-level queer representation lacking in visual imagination and begging for better performances. It’s the kind of glacially paced movie that sticks around for two hours and tells its viewer nothing new; a series of moving images without any sense of emotion or wonder. “My Policeman” commits the gravest of crimes—it’s soulless.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Robert Daniels
    The Woman King
    When The Woman King works, it’s majestic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Daniels
    The Inspection
    The Inspection isn’t a bad movie. Rather it’s a disappointing slog because the arduous journey it sets up should have offered greater returns.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Robert Daniels
    Blind Ambition
    It doesn’t deal in easy gags or low-hanging speeches. It understands both the thrill and the agony of desperately waiting for your dream to ripen on the vine.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 83 Robert Daniels
    Icarus: The Aftermath
    Icarus: The Aftermath is a poignant and powerful document about the unpredictable burdens of heroism.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Daniels
    Emergency Declaration
    Emergency Declaration, a piercing thriller from the South Korean writer-director Han Jae-rim, manages to deliver excitement and melodrama out of a ludicrous story line.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Robert Daniels
    Paradise Highway
    If you squint you can nearly see the kind of movie Gutto might be aiming for.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Daniels
    Anything's Possible
    Kelsa and Khal are a winning duo with dynamite chemistry. They move around each other with a palpable physical freedom that softly kindles romance. The twinkle in their eyes, flashing above their knowing smiles, is the kind of awkward, teenage swooning made for comfort viewing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 55 Robert Daniels
    Nope
    Nope is an idea more than a story. It’s a collection of individually captivating scenes, as opposed to an intriguing whole. It’s a handsome picture, but Peele is far too impressed with its handsomeness to work on populating it with fully felt characters.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Daniels
    The Killer
    While the nimble Jang holds together the robust action sequences — bloody freakouts often captured in slow motion — no one else grounds any of the scenes with any emotion. Consequently, The Killer fails to land a real knockout blow.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Daniels
    The Forgiven
    While The Forgiven isn’t concerned with making David a better person — rather to get him to fully grasp his guilt — McDonagh’s methods can’t distinguish the film from the long list of stories about white folks learning lessons at the expense of brown people. There may have been higher ideals in mind, but “The Forgiven” fails to gracefully reach them.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Robert Daniels
    The Man from Toronto
    Director Patrick Hughes’ film should be avoided at all cost.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Robert Daniels
    Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
    While most sequels invite comfort through the familiar, this film’s best moment arrives through Judge grappling with his signature humor in a modern world.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Robert Daniels
    Elvis
    Elvis certainly works as a jukebox, and it does deliver exactly what you’d expect from a Luhrmann movie. But it never gets close to Presley; it never deals with the knotty man inside the jumpsuit; it never grapples with the complications in his legacy. It’s overstuffed, bloated, and succumbs to trite biopic decisions.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Daniels
    Cha Cha Real Smooth
    This is a story written and directed by a 23-year-old. That reality defines Cha Cha Real Smooth’s truest virtue (blissful naïveté) and its grandest flaw — a blithering unawareness of reality. It’s a film defined by its myopic, narrow bandwidth.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 67 Robert Daniels
    Spiderhead
    While you will get sturdy popcorn pleasures from Spiderhead, you’ll also leave wondering what more possibilities Hemsworth holds as an actor once he lays his hammer down.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Daniels
    Hustle
    Between the sincerity shared by Sandler and Hernangomez and the high-level craft, Hustle provides enough diversions to hoist our hearts high, even if we wind up craving more specificity from these characters and their travails.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Robert Daniels
    Neptune Frost
    It’s a collective dream coated in a blue lacquer dancing on the edge of something unrecognizable, something wholly transcendent. And it arrives with an exceptional display of bravura.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Daniels
    Fire Island
    The heart behind the familiar rom-com choices: the parting of two flames, the last-second pursuit to save a relationship and the happy ending that follows — cannot be doubted. It’s laughter and it’s loving that Ahn’s “Fire Island” gleefully contains.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Robert Daniels
    Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets
    It reaffirms the ways the bootstrapping narrative can never be wholly possible in a broken capitalist environment. It connects the RobinHood boom with the rise of cryptocurrency. And it makes one say: it’s time to burn it all down.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Robert Daniels
    Cane Fire
    It’s so refreshing to see an unhurried, patient documentary, one that trusts its audience to follow along rather than relying on cheap gimmicks to manipulate emotions.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Robert Daniels
    Mondocane
    This Italian post-apocalyptic film from director Alessandro Celli angles for child soldier depravity without any of the heart.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Daniels
    Pleasure
    A stirring debut by both Thyberg and Kappel and a daring picture that makes you love it, not for tawdry reasons but for all of the truthful crimes, perils and delights it covers.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 16 Robert Daniels
    Firestarter
    It’s unsettling how every minute of this 94-minute flick delivers a new level of boredom. You have to feel for the actors.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Robert Daniels
    Our Father
    While what Cline did and the fight his victims took to find justice is a truth worth knowing and learning, Jourdan’s crass documentary isn’t the best vehicle for such weighty material.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Daniels
    The Takedown
    Sy and Lafitte still carry the day. They give the story a kinetic energy and a loose rhythm, which makes the narrative’s meandering more palatable, even as it fails to break out of the familiar action-flick mold.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Robert Daniels
    Islands
    Edralin’s Islands is a patient debut that reminds us that while our parents are important, our own happiness cannot be understated or ignored. In this sense, through its final seconds, “Islands” is a life-affirming achievement.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Robert Daniels
    Choose or Die
    The creators’ quest for deeper meaning feels strained and overreaching, and it overwhelms the adventurous spirit of the film’s first half. If anything, this is at least a great jumping-off point for Evans, who never wavers, even when everything around her does.
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