Rodrigo Perez

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For 485 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Rodrigo Perez's Scores

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  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Captain Phillips
Lowest review score: 0 The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 282 out of 485
  2. Mixed: 130 out of 485
  3. Negative: 73 out of 485
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Rodrigo Perez
    Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    "Billie Eilish: Soft & Hard” is thrilling as a concert film, but its force comes from how carefully it maps the machinery behind the magic—the lighting choices, stage movements, emotional calibration, hidden pathways, and private moments of anticipation. It is vivid, immersive, and unusually personal, a portrait of a performer who understands the scale of her platform and still wants every person in the room to feel seen. For a film this massive, its most impressive trick is how close it comes to witnessing everyone.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Rodrigo Perez
    Apex
    Theron can survive almost anything onscreen. Apex proves, once again, that she can carry weak material farther than most actors. It also proves that even she cannot quite drag a dull survival programmer up the mountain.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 16 Rodrigo Perez
    Faces of Death
    For all its rage about moral decline and the psychic poison of content culture, Faces Of Death never rises above the same cheap sensationalism it pretends to condemn. Instead of confronting the sickness, it feeds on it and spits out something just as rancid as the faux snuff films it claims to abhor.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 16 Rodrigo Perez
    Outcome
    Outcome—and it’s bad scenes shot behind obvious blue screen and fake, manufactured sunsets—is terrible. But what makes it memorable is the queasy way the movie keeps collapsing into the very pathology it thinks it is exposing. It wants to mock the famous for living inside a bubble of privilege, paranoia, and vanity, yet it ends up sounding like it was made from inside that bubble.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Rodrigo Perez
    The Drama
    The Drama remains a vital, bleak, and admirably mean-spirited look at the cost of being known and, more expensively, the price of trying to save face. It doesn’t fully cash in on the nastiness of its best idea, but it is funny, queasy, and wholly willing to make everyone miserable for your amusement. In an era of soft, therapeutic romantic storytelling, that alone gives it biting validation.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Rodrigo Perez
    The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
    It’s disturbing and engrossing. It doesn’t fully grapple with every moral, political, or philosophical consequence of the AI rush, and there are moments when it arguably lets some of its most powerful interview subjects off the hook too easily. But it still lands because it understands the essential terror at the center of this conversation: not simply that we are building intelligence at breakneck speed, but that wisdom—human, moral, civic—may be arriving nowhere near fast enough.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Rodrigo Perez
    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
    Super Mario Galaxy is nice to look at and dead inside, a committee-made franchise object masquerading as an adventure, and ultimately little more than an empty commercial for Super Mario branding.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Rodrigo Perez
    Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
    While the documentary may not offer a startling new thesis, it still lands in its own subdued way. What lingers is not simply the ugliness of the rhetoric, but the banality of the scam.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 83 Rodrigo Perez
    Wuthering Heights
    Fennell leans into excess not as provocation, but as emotional truth, letting obsession swell until it becomes the only language the film speaks. The feeling cuts here not as poetry, but as pressure—barbed wire wrapped tight around a heartbeat. In all its wildness, Fennell seals the film with an embrace and a bruise, then lands the kiss like a sudden dagger to the ribs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Rodrigo Perez
    Send Help
    Send Help is pure Raimi: a survival thriller that disguises itself as corporate satire before mutating into something far nastier and more fun. It’s ridiculous by design, walking a razor’s edge between menace and mockery, and it thrives in that instability.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Rodrigo Perez
    The Rip
    Carnahan may be the real MVP here. “The Rip” isn’t a masterpiece, and it can be blunt and workmanlike by design, but it’s brawny, confident, and it moves.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Rodrigo Perez
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    The Bone Temple does have plenty on its mind about illness and outbreaks—perhaps the sickness that is mankind and the freakshow we doomscroll witness every day— it simply buries those thoughts under layers of bloody viscera and wreckage. That’s the movie’s defining tension: beauty against barbarism, hush against havoc, and the fleeting possibility of grace pressed up against the certainty of carnage.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Rodrigo Perez
    Cover-Up
    By the end, the movie’s harshest argument isn’t only that the government lies—it’s that ecosystems are built to manage the damage of those lies, from intelligence agencies to newsrooms to corporate interests that fear the truth like it’s an extinction event.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Rodrigo Perez
    Marty Supreme
    Marty Supreme isn’t a moral fable about discipline and sportsmanship; it’s a portrait of ambition as a living, breathing necessity—something Marty must manifest into existence, from his lips to God’s ears. Throughout the madness, Safdie finds an unexpectedly human pulse within the chaos, transforming it into an ecstatic, white-knuckle rollercoaster ride.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Rodrigo Perez
    Thoughts & Prayers
    The film’s anger is muted but unmistakable. “Thoughts & Prayers” is about a nation that would rather teach children how to hide, how to bleed, how to die — than pass even the most modest gun reforms. It’s about an America that keeps choosing adaptation over prevention, ritual over change, and performative sorrow over meaningful protection.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 91 Rodrigo Perez
    King Ivory
    It’s bleak and uncompromising, but it’s a hell of an experience.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Rodrigo Perez
    The Plague
    The Plague is a movie-movie, rather than a genuinely searching or affecting film about that most awkward age when fitting in with a group can seem like the most important thing in the world.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Rodrigo Perez
    Predator: Badlands
    A curious, half-successful mutation in the “Predator” bloodline, ‘Badlands’ wants to transcend the franchise’s primal instincts. Instead, it proves that sometimes survival means knowing what not to evolve. Or at least, pushing the envelope with greater execution and story conviction.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Rodrigo Perez
    Love+War
    Love+War doesn’t canonize Addario. It throws the audience into her contradiction: the duty to record history versus the duty to be present at home. It doesn’t answer whether those responsibilities can coexist, and that’s the point.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Rodrigo Perez
    Is This Thing On?
    Is This Thing On? isn’t perfect. It stumbles where it should soar. But it’s alive with feeling, and that counts for something.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Rodrigo Perez
    TRON: Ares
    Ultimately, Tron: Ares is all voltage and no current—an aesthetic overload that confuses stimulation for meaning.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 83 Rodrigo Perez
    Anemone
    To see Daniel Day-Lewis reemerge under his son’s daring direction is more than a comeback; it’s a cinematic conflagration, a collision of legacy and reinvention that feels historic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Rodrigo Perez
    Are We Good?
    By the end, Are We Good? transcends its conventional biographical trappings to land somewhere soulful. Dragging us through the wreckage of grief and out the other side, it suggests that Maron’s legacy isn’t merely acerbic stand-up or podcast milestones, but the more complex work of becoming human in public.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Rodrigo Perez
    One Battle After Another
    Fierce and unrelenting, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” burns as both an incendiary action epic and a tender family drama, alive with humor, conviction, and revolutionary spirit. And amid all its pandemonium, Sergio’s reminder that “freedom is no fear” lingers as the film’s quiet truth, a mantra passed down like a torch. Few films this year feel so vital, so breathtaking in scope and soul. Viva la revolución, indeed.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 42 Rodrigo Perez
    The Fence
    The Fence presents a theatrical style that paralyzes the film into a tense but frustrating checkmate for much of its running time.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Rodrigo Perez
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    The film rests squarely on Farrell and Robbie. They have chemistry and a guiding hand in Kogonada, but ultimately A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is undone by a syrupy, over-romanticized screenplay untempered by the director’s usual delicacy and restraint.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Rodrigo Perez
    Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
    Peck’s genuine admiration for the sharpness and clarity of Orwell’s writing, combined with the rich tonality of Damian Lewis’ narration, gives the author as grandly respectful a presentation as “I Am Not Your Negro” did for James Baldwin. If “Orwell: 2+2=5” gets one more person to discover Orwell’s work for themselves, then its job will have been accomplished.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Rodrigo Perez
    Lost in the Jungle
    Ultimately, the film is not only about children who refused to surrender, but also about a country that, for a brief moment, managed to put aside divisions in service of something greater. Like the best of Vasarhelyi and Chin’s work, it transforms an extraordinary true story into something more universal: a tale of endurance, release, and the desperate search for light.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 91 Rodrigo Perez
    Good Fortune
    Good Fortune is a refreshing comedy that audiences haven’t seen in a while, a movie with a message that both advocates for a cause and entertains.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Rodrigo Perez
    The Lost Bus
    Both McConaughey and Ferrera’s characters embody the idea of an everyday hero: perhaps imperfect but unselfishly stepping up to help others in a time of crisis. While the movie’s artifice makes it a thrilling watch, its real-life inspiration is equally just as moving.
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