Siddhant Adlakha

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For 349 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Siddhant Adlakha's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Brian
Lowest review score: 0 Poolman
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 221 out of 349
  2. Mixed: 110 out of 349
  3. Negative: 18 out of 349
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Siddhant Adlakha
    Joker: Folie à Deux
    The worst thing about Joker: Folie à Deux is its unfulfilled potential. It begins with the promise of a novel approach to the Joker and Harley Quinn, placing them in a world where the opposite of cruelty is musical romance. Unfortunately, the DC sequel gets bogged down by a lengthy courtroom saga, which not only keeps the dazzling Lady Gaga away from the spotlight, but centers the movie entirely around its own predecessor, without doing or saying anything new.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Siddhant Adlakha
    Queer
    It doesn't always work; it loses its way midway through, as though in desperate search of purpose. But when it finds that purpose, it makes a powerful emotional impression: Visually splendid, emotionally arresting, and features some of the finest filmmaking of Guadagnino's already-accomplished career.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Siddhant Adlakha
    Wolfs
    The premise may be intriguing, but the repetitive approach and nearly identical lead characters renders the Ocean's duo without their signature chemistry and strands them in a distractingly underpopulated criminal underworld.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Siddhant Adlakha
    Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
    Tim Burton allows the cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to have fun, even if they're all off in separate movies that barely overlap. Its story is intentionally robbed of dramatic weight, but this makes way for the goofy, imaginative practical effects of Burton's early days, resulting in a small-scale legacy sequel that doesn't take itself too seriously (because it doesn’t need to).
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Siddhant Adlakha
    Rob Peace
    A sense of tangible intellect looms just beneath its surface — not only Rob’s supposed genius, but the movie’s own identity as political cinema. But it never quite unearths this, even though “Rob Peace” establishes Ejiofor as a director with a knack for dramatic storytelling, in a way his previous film could not.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Siddhant Adlakha
    Vulcanizadora
    By the time its end credits roll, Vulcanizadora proves surprisingly moving in its depiction of mid-life crises and of two men who feel so betrayed by the world (and by their own actions) that they see no escape from their malaise. To turn that feeling into coherent drama is hard enough.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Siddhant Adlakha
    The Killer
    It has no soul or style, and creates no sense of chemistry between lead actors Omar Sy and Nathalie Emmanuel. They try their best to fill the movie's dead air with charm and anguish. Unfortunately, their best isn't enough.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Siddhant Adlakha
    Youth (Hard Times)
    At nearly four hours in length, it surpasses even its gargantuan predecessor “Youth (Spring),” but it also uses that film as a platform for deeper exploration.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Siddhant Adlakha
    Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
    Its martial arts spectacle is scattered across a sprawling refugees-and-triads saga that, while adequately laying foundation for the aforementioned fisticuffs, is seldom coherent or engaging on its own.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Siddhant Adlakha
    The Fabulous Four
    Despite the caliber of its cast, “The Fabulous Four” never shakes the feeling that its on-screen talent is being severely misused.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Siddhant Adlakha
    Twisters
    With scenes of natural disaster grounded in a human point of view, Lee Isaac Chung's spiritual sequel transcends its visual shortcomings, and proves to be a wildly fun and effective summer blockbuster worth watching on the biggest and loudest screen.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Siddhant Adlakha
    Janet Planet
    Visually lush and emotionally affecting, Janet Planet marks playwright Annie Baker’s bold transition to the big screen.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Siddhant Adlakha
    Despicable Me 4
    Less of a movie and more of a series of non sequiturs, Despicable Me 4 is a Minions showcase interrupted by Gru and his family.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Siddhant Adlakha
    Babysitter
    An unhinged work that captures the escalating madness of untangling entire social webs through the lens of a single person or event, Babysitter charges through the ruins of mainstream cinema’s post-#MeToo moment.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 85 Siddhant Adlakha
    A Quiet Place: Day One
    It’s likely the best Manhattan mayhem film since Cloverfield, and it’s also a downright excellent Hollywood blockbuster, if an entirely unexpected one.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Siddhant Adlakha
    MaXXXine
    Mia Goth shines as usual, and Ti West's third slasher entry feels more visually polished than its predecessors, but it's also more dramatically sterile, thanks to a story that quickly falls apart and mounting references that add up to very little (if anything at all).
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Siddhant Adlakha
    Inside Out 2
    While its chaotic new cast serves a clear purpose, Inside Out 2 is more metaphor than meaning. It explains plenty about the confusing emotions associated with puberty, often in intelligent ways, but it rarely lets them be felt or experienced, the way its predecessor did.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Siddhant Adlakha
    The Apprentice
    Outside of watching modern Trump characteristics being absorbed from the worst influences around him, it rarely has the insight you’d hope for from a biopic centered on one of the defining political figures of the 21st century.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Siddhant Adlakha
    The Shrouds
    The Shrouds may seem impenetrable at first, but it grows in the mind and heart like a cancer. Let it linger long enough, and it also starts to feel like Cronenberg's most complete, self-assured, and dramatically accomplished work in years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Siddhant Adlakha
    Santosh
    While often more intellectually stimulating than emotionally engaging, Santosh lays bare the dark heart of communal divisions in modern India.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Siddhant Adlakha
    Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
    The first chapter in Kevin Costner's epic western series is a meandering, regressive snooze.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Siddhant Adlakha
    Kinds of Kindness
    Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his days of nasty absurdism, with three vicious, amusing stories about love and obsession. The recurring ensemble, led by Emma Stone and Jesse Plemmons, delivers a showcase of versatility in which they meet the director on his peculiar wavelength, leading to nearly 3 hours of unsettling fun.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 90 Siddhant Adlakha
    Parthenope
    Parthenope is a film that rumbles with the hum of nostalgia, recapturing the feeling of youthful, summer freedom while refusing to shy away from the uncertainties of young adulthood. But it’s no mere coming-of-age story; rather, it’s a film about coming-to-oneself.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 90 Siddhant Adlakha
    Megalopolis
    Megalopolis is so chock-full of ideas that Coppola’s melding of time periods eventually buckles under its own weight in a controlled demolition that initially confounds, but eventually shatters the screen in thrilling fashion. The film ends up not only being a cautionary tale about the end of empires, but one that likens the Hollywood system to empire as well (or a tyrannical extension of it).
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Siddhant Adlakha
    Intercepted
    It isn’t interested in finding a bright side to war; such an outcome would feel too complacent. Instead, it points its microphone unflinchingly at the darkest parts of the human soul, while forcing the viewer to hold the camera and search for the brutality within its images and empty spaces. It makes the audience, and their recognition, a necessary ingredient to portraying the bigger picture.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Siddhant Adlakha
    The Contestant
    Titley consistently anchors her unfolding chronicle to the kind of backstage emotional truths often hidden from the audience, and in the process, she crafts something halfway between sensationalist exposé and intimate confessional — a remedy to reality TV based on its own format — co-authored by her subjects
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Siddhant Adlakha
    Power
    Anyone watching the film is likely to learn something, though whether its lessons will stick, or claw their way beneath one’s skin, is less likely.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Siddhant Adlakha
    Spy x Family Code: White
    Spy x Family Code: White is far more chuckle-worthy than laugh-out-loud funny, but there’s an innocent, adolescent charm to even its jokes that miss the mark.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Siddhant Adlakha
    Challengers
    A film that volleys back and forth in time, Luca Guadagnino's Challengers builds the relationships between its leading tennis trio in exciting and exacting ways. Enhanced by layered physical performances from Mike Faist, Zendaya, and Josh O'Connor, the result is one of the sexiest and most electric dramas of 2024.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Siddhant Adlakha
    Wicked Little Letters
    Olivia Colman is a diamond in the rough, but even she can’t rescue a movie this flat and uninteresting.
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