Xan Brooks

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For 194 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Xan Brooks' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Riefenstahl
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 100 out of 194
  2. Mixed: 91 out of 194
  3. Negative: 3 out of 194
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    Mandy Lane feels bogus and compromised: an unreconstructed horror romp in the guise of a nerdish intellectual.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    In from the Side
    This one almost makes it, but a boggy script slows it down.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    Suburbicon
    Suburbicon is too lightweight and mannered; it lacks proper fury. Watching it is like having your trouser-leg savaged by an energetic small dog.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    The kids are charmless, the adults bemused.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    The Lone Ranger
    The spirits fly in and out of The Lone Ranger at random. It's nice to see them come and go. I just wish they'd stay for longer.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    Cold Comes the Night
    Even Cranston looks to be on auto-pilot here: he comes stomping through the action with a perma-scowl that suggests that his break from playing Walter White is little more than a busman's holiday.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    Angel Face
    Filho’s film is never less than heartfelt and strident, like a tale torn from life, or an episode of Jeremy Kyle played as stentorian opera. And this, I suspect, may be part of the problem. Crucially, Angel Face lacks shading, pacing and nuance.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    Runner Runner
    This is a lazy, trashy film that barely goes through the motions.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Xan Brooks
    A Fantastic Fear of Everything
    Crispian Mills's London-based horror-comedy is so spectacularly bungled that it leaves the viewer in a state of advanced petrification.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    A Good Day to Die Hard
    I don't think it knows where it's going. I'm not even sure it cares.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Xan Brooks
    Assassin Club
    By the end, his getaway car is almost as riddled with holes as the plot itself.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Xan Brooks
    American Skin
    No one in real life speaks the way they do in this film. No genuine drama is this crudely ordered drama, with its telegraphed turnabouts and conveniently-placed confessions, all building to a stage-managed plea for tolerance and unity.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 0 Xan Brooks
    Melania
    It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.
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