Rocco T. Thompson

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For 48 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Rocco T. Thompson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 88 Civil War
Lowest review score: 25 Speak No Evil
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 48
  3. Negative: 5 out of 48
48 movie reviews
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Rocco T. Thompson
    The Last Showgirl
    The film is less a character study than a numbly tragic workaday fantasia held aloft by Pamela Anderson in a performance that seems to grasp beyond the bleary-eyed edges of Gia Coppola’s screen for larger truths about the choices women make to feel seen.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Rocco T. Thompson
    Novocaine
    We’re used to heroes who can take a licking and keep on ticking, but Novocaine takes action-movie invulnerability to brutal comic extremes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    On Swift Horses
    It’s difficult to shake that there’s something tragic blaring from the sidelines that the film’s wistful, pitch-perfect Hollywood ending can’t acknowledge.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    Shelby Oaks
    Chris Stuckmann’s utilitarian approach is doubly frustrating considering that Shelby Oaks does, at least in the early going, point toward potentially having something to say about the vlogger space, internet infamy, and the way tragedy takes on a cultural virality.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    Primate
    If only the filmmakers had put the same care and thought into their human characters, then Primate might have been worth going apeshit over.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    Y2K
    The big sequence where the year 2000 hits and everything from a toaster to a Tamagotchi goes homicidal is a chaotic blast, but once the film shifts into a broader comic gear, it never quite finds its heart again.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    The Watchers
    Pacing is a conspicuous problem and the rushed third act threatens to crumble as The Watchers becomes overloaded with revelations and mythology that strain a foundation barely braced to hold their weight.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    The Front Room
    If there’s any food for thought in The Front Room, it’s the ongoing portrayal of old folks in the A24 catalog.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    Hell Hole
    The most consistent recurring theme across the work of the Adams family—parenthood as a siphoning off of the life giver’s vitality in a protracted, eternal cycle of decay and renewal—finds its most literal, alien expression here.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    Oh, Hi!
    After its opening act, the film gets silly fast, with a frankly stupid witchcraft subplot and narrative turns that are telegraphed with audience-insulting obviousness.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    Wuthering Heights
    Like a particularly impressive aspic, Wuthering Heights is tantalizing to behold but not so easy to swallow.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    100 Nights of Hero
    The film’s brand of feminism is as skin-deep as the narrative.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    The Bone Temple doesn’t pack the moment-to-moment kineticism of the prior films.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Rocco T. Thompson
    Firestarter
    This new Firestarter is an almost anachronistically short production whose elements just sit there like mishandled kindling.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Rocco T. Thompson
    Road House
    Not quite a grim-dark reimagining of a cult favorite, this Road House is still a needlessly un-nice rework that takes the business end of a broken beer bottle to the soul of the original.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Rocco T. Thompson
    Holland
    The discomfort in watching Holland is not knowing if something is intended or, like the main character, you’re looking for things that aren’t there.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Rocco T. Thompson
    Speak No Evil
    This hollow attempt to turn a provocative showpiece into a crowd-pleaser makes you wonder if the filmmakers are actively disdainful of the original.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Rocco T. Thompson
    I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Late in this reboot, a character states “Nostalgia is overrated,” and it feels like an indictment of the film we’ve been watching. Far from making a case for the original I Know What You Did Last Summer as one with its own identity and a legacy worth turning over, Robinson’s update is so cynically made and self-indulgent that it will at least leave you respecting the workmanlike scare-making that director Jim Gillespie brought to the 1997 film.
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