Roger Moore

Select another critic »
McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, Movie Nation
For 6,488 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 12% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Roger Moore's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 Where's My Roy Cohn?
Lowest review score: 0 The Room
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,267 out of 6488
  2. Mixed: 1,349 out of 6488
  3. Negative: 1,872 out of 6488
6488 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 63 Metascore
    • 25 Roger Moore
    Your Monster
    Whatever “charms” it reached for vanish for the attempted over-the-top finale, which left me cold and didn’t come close to making the sale about the “Embrace your inner rage” spin this is allegedly about.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Roger Moore
    Conclave
    Conclave is a deliciously immersive experience, a narrative that commands our attention and expects our speculation even if it maintains a distance that allows it all to seem out-of-step, fusty and even darkly humorous at its most extreme.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Roger Moore
    Venom: The Last Dance
    Hardy, perfecting the “meek” American shlub “type” he tackled in “The Drop” years ago, soldiers through this and has as much fun with the synthesized voice of Venom as he can.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Roger Moore
    We Live in Time
    Such movies are manipulative by nature and we embrace them for that. Here, that’s more obvious and heavy-handed, and the manipulation tends to spare us tears — and laughs — when the tears are entirely the point.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Roger Moore
    Brothers
    Some of it works, too much of it doesn’t. The pacing is fast enough in stretches, the performances amusingly broad and the pratfuls and punches sometimes amuse.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Roger Moore
    The Man Who Loved UFOs
    There’s no suspense in the tale, even in its “big finish.” “Tragic” was never in the cards, as this con man got away with his stunt. But this could have been dark and funny. It isn’t.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Moore
    Woman of the Hour
    In Woman of the Hour, an infamous piece of ’70s serial killer lore becomes a suspenseful and disheartening thriller in the hands of director and star Anna Kendrick.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Roger Moore
    Goodrich
    There’s nothing about “Goodrich” that would scare producers away from working with a filmmaker whose only goal might be to become “Nancy Meyers: The Next Generation,” even if there’s little original to lure them in either.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Moore
    Smile 2
    Smile 2 is a genuinely horrific plunge into terror.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Roger Moore
    Another Happy Day
    Writer-director Nora Fiffer’s debut feature shows us the tears and hopes that we understand them. And she finds humor amid the insights about this particular version of post partum depression.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Roger Moore
    Lonely Planet
    I swear I never thought I’d see Oscar winner Laura Dern in a movie as empty and pointless as Lonely Planet.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Roger Moore
    Green Night
    It’s immersive enough, luring us into this world and fearing for our heroines’ safety. But the abrupt shifts in focus make one wish Han Shuai had taken some more crowd-pleasing course, or gone all-in on the darkness of this underworld an out-of-her-element ex-pat finds herself in.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Roger Moore
    Mission: Cross
    The performances are perfunctory, with little heart, heat or whimsy. The picture never looks cheap, but the melodramatic flourishes dumb it down at every turn.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Roger Moore
    Hangdog
    For all the relationship insights dog-lovers-savvy our screenwriters fold into this slight, low-stakes tale, they wisely let underfilmed Portland itself take on a co-starring role.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Roger Moore
    Panda Plan
    Daffy to the point of kid-friendly — remember, he did a kids’ cartoon series — it’s lighthearted fun with little of the grim seriousness and unsubtle People’s Republican messaging of his recent films. Because this time, Jackie Chan plays Jackie Chan.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Roger Moore
    Bookworm
    Shifts in tone aside, you’d still have to call “Bookworm” a winner — or I would — with Wood at his most vulnerable and winning and Fisher justifying her chattering pedant paycheck serving up equal parts adorable and insufferable.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Roger Moore
    Daytime Revolution
    The film is thus mostly a surface gloss with a bit of context, relying on the performers and thinkers from way back when to create all the interest here. But Daytime Revolution is a nice editing job of presenting that landmark week of slightly weird TV to viewers 52 years later.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Moore
    Piece By Piece
    Sure, it’s a gimmick. But it’s playful, it works and suits this material to a T.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Moore
    Saturday Night
    Saturday Night won’t be to every generation’s taste. The look-alike cast is generally good, if hardly substitutes for “the real thing” in some cases. But if you were “there,” or at least caught the show in those birthing years, it’s a lot of fun, with or without the stimulants.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Moore
    The Apprentice
    Strong finds his character and stays focused, first scene to last, a brilliant performance even if it never quite matches Ron Leibman’s ferocious turn as the man-as-dying-monster in the stage version of “Angels in America.”
    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 Roger Moore
    A Different Man
    Schimberg’s film goes for predictable emotions and rests on a fairly predictable formula. But what transpires in the middle to late acts is surprising, even as it feels as contrived as the shy-deformed-man who quickly becomes a master salesman transition.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Roger Moore
    CTRL
    CTRL is a slick and melodramatic Indian variation of the “runaway computer/evil AI” formula, a tale that begins jaunty and jokey and staggers into sinister in the most heavy-handed ways.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Roger Moore
    Rumours
    The fiddling-while-Earth-burns nature of global “leadership” and their parade of useless and vacuous “statements” joke lands, and is then pounded repeatedly as almost all of these leaders, scrambling through a foggy forest at night, fearing bog zombies and a planet about to go up in flames, struggle to stay on task and come up with that “statement.”
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Roger Moore
    The Silent Hour
    The script by Dan Hall is strictly paint-by-numbers — cut and dried and predictable. But the execution atones for some of that, and the performances give it that extra something that makes even a formulaic thriller worth your time.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Roger Moore
    Things Will Be Different
    The viewer is both miles ahead of the characters in guessing where this is going, and befuddled at the clumsy ways it gets there, or avoids letting us think we know how it’s getting there.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Moore
    Mountains
    Sorelle and her documentary-real characters and the grounded unknown players playing them humanize their culture and show us their challenges are versions of all our challenges, no matter how many generations removed from it we think we are.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Roger Moore
    Killer Heat
    The family intrigues don’t amount to much, and Nick’s “secret” — the thing that has him sneaking sips from bottles all over the island — is even less original.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Roger Moore
    It's What's Inside
    While writer-director Greg Jardin does his level best to bowl us over with “technique” (split screens, endless 360 degree handheld pans, etc.) and does a decent enough job at complicating his role-playing-game-run-amok plot, a somewhat bland cast of players can’t manage to convince us that they’re possessed by the mind and spirit of someone else.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Roger Moore
    White Bird
    Covering the same ground in an utterly conventional, voice-over-narrated-to-death melodrama gives us a film with no thrills, little suspense and, thanks to generally bland performances, almost no emotional resonance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Moore
    The Outrun
    Few movies about getting sober are as brilliant at conveying the allure of drowning, wallowing in alcohol, the emotional and physical liberation it seems to offer, as The Outrun. And rare is the story told within this most personal of experiences that exults in its trials, the gut check of “one day at a time” and the exultant release from the trap of addiction.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »