Roxana Hadadi

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Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine (Vulture), Polygon, RogerEbert.com, The A.V. Club, The Playlist, Variety
For 125 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Roxana Hadadi's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Attica
Lowest review score: 10 Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 96 out of 125
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 125
  3. Negative: 4 out of 125
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Roxana Hadadi
    Mogul Mowgli
    A simultaneously deeply personal and sometimes-opaque cinematic experience that often feels like walking through memories—messy, malleable—in search of an intrinsic inner truth.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Roxana Hadadi
    Who You Think I Am
    Nebbou and Peyr’s script crackles most with its observations about aging, sex and second chances, and Who You Think I Am spins a tale of love, attention, manipulation and obsession that is recognizably uncomfortable and summarily captivating.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Roxana Hadadi
    Behemoth
    Some of it is sophisticated and more of it is silly, but Behemoth is jarringly effective more often than not.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Roxana Hadadi
    The Protégé
    It’s a shame Maggie Q was so busy carrying The Protégé on her back that she couldn’t make time to kick the film’s embarrassing script into shape, too.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Roxana Hadadi
    Sweet Girl
    Momoa can believably howl in anguish and throw a devastating punch, but he can’t carry a script this muddled.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Roxana Hadadi
    The Meaning of Hitler
    The Meaning of Hitler never quite reconciles its central concern of whether continuing to talk about Hitler is an inherently compromised pursuit, and that uneasiness feels like an unintentional capitulation for an otherwise well-intentioned project.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Roxana Hadadi
    Beckett
    The Beckett character is sparsely written, and the sometimes bland performance Washington delivers doesn’t fill in many characterization gaps; it’s a problem that affects the pacing, too.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Roxana Hadadi
    Settlers
    Rockefeller only repeats other science fiction, rather than inventing big ideas of his own.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Roxana Hadadi
    Jolt
    A B-movie designed by people who knew exactly what kind of enjoyable trash they were making, Jolt is unabashedly silly, sloppily written, and overly reliant on the likability of Beckinsale and fellow cast members Stanley Tucci and Jai Courtney. But it’s also a breezily entertaining reminder of how delightful it is to watch Beckinsale get pissed off.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Roxana Hadadi
    Gunpowder Milkshake
    The film’s intermittent delights are momentarily satisfying, but then numbness sets in, like the brain freeze that blooms after you slurp on the film’s titular ice-cream treat.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Roxana Hadadi
    Platform
    Its truncated ending, and the sense that there is far more to this story than what “Platform” includes, puts a damper on the otherwise-engaging documentary.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Roxana Hadadi
    Werewolves Within
    Richardson’s task is to play off everyone else’s broadness, and his ease in doing so smooths over the rougher patches of Werewolves Within.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Roxana Hadadi
    Sisters on Track
    Although Sisters on Track has some gaps in its narrative that seem as if certain chunks of the girls’ lives were compressed or skipped over, it's most impactful when offering a thoughtful analysis of the rapidity with which children grow, adapt, and change.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Roxana Hadadi
    Sun Children
    A tidal wave of compassion and empathy that crests into rage and sorrow—all of it provoked by the plight of Iran’s child laborers.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Roxana Hadadi
    Untitled Horror Movie
    Untitled Horror Movie is the kind of finely tuned exercise that benefits from the chemistry of its cast, the managed-expectations feel of its storytelling, and a firm awareness of the kind of low-stakes entertainment so many of us might appreciate right now.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Roxana Hadadi
    Infinite
    Mark Wahlberg should never be in a science fiction movie ever again. While the Paramount Plus exclusive streaming movie Infinite isn’t entirely his bad — the direction, script, and overall absence of creative vision also range from nonsensical to embarrassing — it suffers profoundly from his bland, phoned-in, looking-for-the-craft-table performance.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Roxana Hadadi
    Tragic Jungle
    Through the alien beauty of its visuals, Andrewin’s hidden-waters-run-deep performance, and its increasingly tense atmosphere, Tragic Jungle casts an unsettling spell.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Roxana Hadadi
    Oslo
    What results is a very Western-specific view of this conflict and of the Oslo Accords that doesn’t embody the “both sides” approach the film ostensibly intends to provide.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Roxana Hadadi
    Those Who Wish Me Dead
    Amid the paper-thin plot, stilted script, inartful editing, and imbalanced character development, Jolie stands unblemished. She isn’t the only good thing about the otherwise rote Those Who Wish Me Dead, but she doesn’t have much competition, either.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Roxana Hadadi
    High Ground
    Between its evocative ensemble, fluid editing, and interest in Aboriginal culture, High Ground is worth a watch, even if it ultimately feels overshadowed by the message it’s trying to send rather than being defined by the story it actually tells.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Roxana Hadadi
    There Is No Evil
    The film’s as compassionate as it is unsettling, and as provocative as it is poignant.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Roxana Hadadi
    The County
    Set in rural Iceland, The County unfurls as if Ken Loach found himself near the Arctic Circle, looked around at the myriad villages and struggling farms, and thought, “Hm, I wonder if there is a labor struggle to found here!” There is.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Roxana Hadadi
    Limbo
    The narrowness of the frame forces us closer to what is caught within it, and the result is often bracing or achingly tender.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 85 Roxana Hadadi
    Mortal Kombat
    That go-for-broke violence has always been a core component of Mortal Kombat, and this reboot succeeds because McQuoid and his team remember that, and have the self-awareness to acknowledge it. It isn’t a flawless victory, but it is lizard-brain fun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Roxana Hadadi
    Once Upon a River
    Laden with demoralizing tragedies, Haroula Rose’s film is only fleetingly affecting, preferring to put its characters through the wringer rather than provide them with much interiority or consistency. Without that depth, neither the external nor internal journeys of Once Upon a River captivate as much as they should.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Roxana Hadadi
    Voyagers
    Burger has crafted a shrug of a movie that insists teenagers should follow the rules and submit to the greater good, but fails to imagine what toll that kind of sacrifice would really take.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Roxana Hadadi
    Charli XCX: Alone Together
    As much as Charli is the star of this documentary, her fans are, too, and Alone Together manifests as both a wild ride and a soothing balm—as long as you don’t think too hard about the labor ethics at the center of it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Roxana Hadadi
    The Fever
    When progress stops feeling like progress is what Da-Rin captures in The Fever, and fantastic lead actor Regis Myrupu is a conduit for a calamity that builds and builds.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Roxana Hadadi
    The Inheritance
    Asili experiments with cinematic form as he considers “inheritance” as legacy, heritage, and tradition, resulting in an engrossing, challenging film that allures and confronts you in equal measure.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Roxana Hadadi
    Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words
    Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock draws from photographs, video footage, and audio recordings of Ginsburg; collects interviews with mentees, colleagues, and fans; and utilizes animated sequences of courtroom proceedings to pad out this 89-minute documentary. That tactic means that the documentary is essentially stitched together by available archival material, and makes for an uneven balance.
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