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

  • Movies
  • 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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    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Rodrigo Perez
    The Old Guard 2
    For anyone who even gives even the remotest care about movies, god forbid you dare to waste your time with this utterly disposable discard.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Fountain of Youth
    Fountain Of Youth may feel superficially dynamic, and cinematically, it sure tries its best to trick you into thinking it’s a vigorous thing, but it’s just a cup filled with empty calories, sustaining nothing and ironically, only just wasting precious minutes off your life.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 25 Rodrigo Perez
    Nouvelle Vague
    This pleasingly mellow portrait of a bunch of kids making movies is also an instance of defanged nostalgia — when it was an occasion to highlight the economic, political, cultural circumstances that made this kind of creativity possible.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Rodrigo Perez
    Kinda Pregnant
    With a weak script, no visual engagement, and limp comedy despite the comedic actors on board, Kinda Pregnant was always a sure-fire miss.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    The Gorge
    In the depths of the abyss below, The Gorge mostly turns into a high-concept action film that’s so dull, predictable and ugly to look at it’s extremely easy to tune out and have your mind go on autopilot while the otherwise charismatic Teller and Taylor-Jones are wasted.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 16 Rodrigo Perez
    Venom: The Last Dance
    Contrarian so-bad-its-good specialists with PhDs in advanced irony once hailed the “Venom” films as entertaining campy classics and tongue-in-cheek antidotes to the more conventional superhero genre, but you will not be surprised when none of those scholars pipe up in support of this grueling cinematic slog that further underscores just how bad the entire affair was all along.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Rodrigo Perez
    The Instigators
    This is a B-movie of the week at best, which should be starring also-ran actors looking for a paycheck, not some of Hollywood’s finest.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 16 Rodrigo Perez
    Atlas
    Atlas is rote and routine, using the concept of sci-fi and artificial intelligence in the most obvious way: A.I. runs wild, attacks humans, and becomes the central enemy of the entire world; the ultimate threat that humanity must face, battle, and hopefully defeat. But all of it is conventionally realized, uninspired, dull, and something you’ve seen done more inventively a thousand times before.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Unfrosted
    It’s maybe not excruciatingly bad, but certainly even less nourishing and satisfying than even the most fleeting and calorically empty of sugar highs.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 16 Rodrigo Perez
    Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver
    Much like ‘A Child Of Fire,’ “The Scargiver” is exhausting, enervating, and exasperating, frantically flailing around with explosions, lasers, laser lightsaber-like swords, grenades, et al., but always failing to make you give a damn.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
    At this point, the Monsterverse needs the much simpler, dumb-fun, pleasurable joy of “Kong: Skull Island” because ‘New Empire,’ just ain’t cutting it beyond loud and senseless brawls that aren’t even a delight to watch.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    The Greatest Hits
    The Greatest Hits is way worse than just a sophomore slump, more accurately, a long-the-works opus that should have just stayed in the vaults.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Road House
    It’s all largely an ugly, vulgar, vacuous time that’s disposable and never as amusing as it clearly thinks it is.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Damsel
    The heroine of the film may not be in distress, but oh boy, is this movie in desperate need of saving.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    “Rebel Moon” is nearly unwatchable and one of the most stunning misfires of this scale in quite some time.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    No One Will Save You
    No One Will Save You is a very bizarrely unremarkable, abnormally lifeless movie, seemingly starting right out of the gate in the second act and then trying to reverse engineer the audience’s sympathy—and everything else— for the unknowable protagonist.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Heart of Stone
    Heart Of Stone purports to have characters made of sturdy, gritty, golden, unbreakable stuff, but that’s a tagline, not a movie or story; it’s really just flimsy work easily tossed off and broken as it tumbles into the ever-filling bin of barely-one-use Netflix movies.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Ghosted
    It’s incredibly soulless, disposable, and as generic as they come.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Black Site
    As the clock ticks, the film asks, who can this qualified woman trust, but mostly, we’re just looking at our watch, waiting for the dull torment to end.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Rodrigo Perez
    The 355
    Given how poorly made, poorly written, and poorly crafted “The 355” is —with action that is casually visceral, but actually borderline incompetent and super sloppily staged—the final product reeks of superficial vanity project intended to “let girls be badass” rather than trying to circumvent, better, or elevate the genre (or women for that matter).
    • 37 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Red Notice
    Never once does it carry any of the unclassifiable “It factor” charm that sometimes elevates a mediocre movie. Nope, “Red Notice” is just deeply unexceptional and pedestrian: a lot of lights shining on three worldwide-class superstars, with perfect white teeth with explosions and gloss all around them, and never once creating anything that resembles a captivating spark.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 16 Rodrigo Perez
    Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    In doubling down on would-be humor, the already poor, perspiring, flop-sweat CGI mess of Venom actually gets worse and arguably even more incoherent, thanks to the unbearable, overweening quarreling between Brock and Venom and the vaudevillian crazy legs antics and presentation.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Rodrigo Perez
    Infinite
    The premium placed on upmarket, glossy, muscular cars is so conspicuous that Fuqua scored buyback product placement cash. Elon Musk would surely be enamored. It’s essentially that kind of movie, “The Matrix” and Nolan-lite for dudes who check their bitcoin futures during the movie on their smartphones. Sick, bro.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Rodrigo Perez
    Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
    Ultimately, put its questionable politics aside, Without Remorse, even as a simplistic action thriller is joyless and lifeless, an arid space of empty macho bullshit with a lead character who is the equivalent of a bulging forehead veins meme.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Rodrigo Perez
    Chaos Walking
    It’s just dull, deeply bland, and unsophisticated, with little to say about any of its themes of intolerance, fear, misogyny, and gaslighting, other than these feelings exist.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
    Look, America certainly needs relief, support, escape, and laughter, yes, but good god, ‘Barb & Star’ is not it.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 16 Rodrigo Perez
    Locked Down
    Resembling a patched together sketch of an idea, and a thrown-together filmed play, set (mostly) inside a house, Locked Down should have just been terminated in the lab, instead of rushing out like a vaccine of entertainment that cured absolutely no one of their doldrums.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 33 Rodrigo Perez
    Wonder Woman 1984
    A movie that is fundamentally ill-conceived, poorly written, and missing most of the basic charms that made the original “Wonder Woman” such a delight (minus the last act). Directed again by Patty Jenkins, the film is also something of a nonsensical mess narratively, even by the most lenient and forgiving standards of superhero movies where fantastical, impossible things routinely occur. Suspension of disbelief is crucial to this genre, but ‘WW84’ is constantly breaking or conveniently upgrading its rules in ways that definitely break or at least always test your suspension of disbelief.
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