Rocco T. Thompson

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For 48 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% 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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Challengers
    Challengers is an intoxicating showcase for the beauty and excitement of bodies in motion.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Warfare
    This is a formidable technical showcase and obsessive forensic recreation whose imposed formal limitations become meaning-making ends in and of themselves.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    The Plague
    The Plague is vividly, terrifying attuned to the way children create a social order that resists sensible adult intrusion and influence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Twinless
    The film is a bizarrely moving and darkly comic story about feeling like you’ve lost something you never had.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Rocco T. Thompson
    Better Man
    Walking a dizzying line between the stupid and the profound, this exuberant, positively unique biopic is as hard to resist as it is to believe that it got made in the first place.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    28 Years Later
    The film’s conception of the future, perceptively, looks back to humankind’s primeval past.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Hokum
    Damian McCarthy threads the needle between supplying old-school scares and a richly layered character piece that also functions as a meditation on his own perspective as a storyteller.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Sisu: Road to Revenge
    Much of Road to Revenge plays like a spectacularly gory silent film, with Aatami taking out scores of Red Army soldiers in action scenes that are as inventive as they are incredibly funny.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Rocco T. Thompson
    Civil War
    Frightening, even-tempered, and disarmingly humane, Civil War is intelligent precision filmmaking trained on an impossible subject.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Rocco T. Thompson
    Together
    That Together treats its body horror as just another wrinkle in the complexities of what it means to love someone else is writer-director Michael Shanks’s smartest move.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Bring Her Back
    The film has a white-hot nerve of pain running inside it that burns right through the screen.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Mickey 17
    Though Mickey 17 can feel like a mixtape of Bong’s greatest hits, it may actually be his most refined and articulate anti-capitalistic critique to date.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Babes
    By turns tender and raucous, Pamela Adlon’s feature-length directorial debut, Babes, spins the uneasy, unwelcome, weirdly cool corporeal realities of pregnancy into heartfelt comic gold.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Bugonia
    The film unearths new depths of existential anxiety engendered by the increasingly tumultuous 2020s.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Rocco T. Thompson
    Relay
    Set to the rhythms of a pulsing, ultramodern New York milieu, the film, at its best, wrings real tension and excitement out of the simple exchanging of clandestine messages and sensitive information.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Smile
    Everything Smile is doing is familiar enough at this point to be considered old-fangled, but the striking precision of its craft sloughs away any sensations of déjà vu.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Sovereign
    Christian Swegal’s feature-length directorial debut is like staring into a national wound.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Smile 2
    Parker Finn, like his entity, is interested in getting his bony fingers into those sticky tender parts we’d rather hide away, slurping our pain like ambrosia and confronting us with the fact that more often than not, the enemy staring back is you.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Rocco T. Thompson
    Plainclothes
    Sexy, scary, and occasionally clumsy, Carmen Emmi’s feature-length directorial debut, Plainclothes, is an anxious and unabashed gay drama about social repression and its impacts.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Rocco T. Thompson
    Caught Stealing
    The story’s boilerplate setup gets a noticeable lift thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s style and focus.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Drop
    The film knows that when the stakes are sky high, the emotions need to be firmly grounded.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Eddington
    Eddington is especially pointed in the way that it views our online connectedness as a social cancer rather than an engine for progress.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Rocco T. Thompson
    100 Nights of Hero
    The film’s brand of feminism is as skin-deep as the narrative.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Bookworm
    Ant Timpson’s heartwarming Bookworm is an effulgent love letter to ’80s kid cinema laced with a distinctly quirky, Kiwi dryness.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Rocco T. Thompson
    Terrifier 3
    Primarily a vehicle for inventive and wince-inducing practical effects that best anything to be found in a 1980s-era Italian gorefest or the Saw franchise, Terrifier 3 continues the series’s trend of dotting a sparse and sinuous thread of plot with mini-masterpieces of cinematic ultraviolence.
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