Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
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For 492 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joshua Rothkopf's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 61
Highest review score:
Attack the Block
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
The Nutcracker
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 168 out of 492
  2. Mixed: 289 out of 492
  3. Negative: 35 out of 492
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    • Metascore: 72
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
    Simply skip the first part entirely: "Killer Instinct" bulges with a disconnected jumble of nightclub attacks and fence-clipping escapes you've seen better elsewhere. Yet a tide change happens with the superior Public Enemy No. 1, which takes the subject's raging ego as its cue.
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    • Metascore: 43
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    The Romantics
    It ends where you want it to begin.
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    • Metascore: 59
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    A completely unnecessary sequel, plays a lot like "The Godfather, Part III"-lush, self-parodic and cut adrift from urgency.
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    • Metascore: 58
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Freakonomics
    Despite a roster of off-kilter documentarians each directing an episode, Freakonomics only partly delivers the sense of traipsing into uncharted territory.
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    • Metascore: 61
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Secretariat
    Lane, experiencing her career heyday, is sweet enough to have you rooting for her, even if her journey to the winner's circle is an odds-on favorite.
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    • Metascore: 67
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Nowhere Boy
    If only the script had been content to stick with its let's-start-a-band verve. Like many a musical biopic, Nowhere Boy wants to explain away the man (as if a song like "In My Life" weren't explanation enough).
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    • Metascore: 56
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Jackass 3-D
    The 3-D effects, so promising on paper, don't really add much-and, worse, there's a overreliance on slow-motion, which kills the fun.
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    • Metascore: 68
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen
    Writer-director Von Trotta, an icon of the New German Cinema, doesn't have the technical chops for the fireworks you desire, so she settles for wan earnestness.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Waste Land
    It probably would have helped if Walker (who credits two other codirectors) had chosen just one of those avenues for deeper study; her doc has a vertiginous way of feeling arty and ephemeral at one moment, humane and maybe too earthbound the next.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
    Some moments are so deliciously shivery-our heroes' breath condensing in the air like in John Carpenter's "The Thing"-that you wish the film were naughtier and less nice.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Night Catches Us
    Night Catches Us surges awkwardly in its latter third, suddenly aware that a promising setup isn't enough. Regardless, here is an honorable attempt to address a complex chapter of African-American pride, one that's usually hidden under hairdos and wah-wah pedals.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    The Company Men
    A quintet of actors carve out a beautiful, ill-fated geometry in John Wells's layoff drama, which might play like a retort to "Up in the Air" if it didn't have shortcomings of its own.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    The King's Speech
    Firth is exceptional in letting us into his dissolving pride.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Tiny Furniture
    The funny thing? It all works reasonably well, especially if you have a yen for the urbane register of city kids and their amazingly cool parents.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Love and Other Drugs
    The film definitely gets it up, but has some commitment issues.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    TRON: Legacy
    The profusion of Dudes is - pardon the apt pun - game-changing. By turns a fierce megalomaniac and a Lebowskian monk, Bridges supplies more soul than any sci-fi sequel deserves.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    The Way Back
    The Way Back then takes its time, creeping through gorgeous locations in Bulgaria, Morocco and Pakistan, and basically feeling like a two-hour-plus version of the desert scene from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
    • Metascore: 74
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    The Woodmans
    If The Woodmans has something profound to say-and it does, unwittingly-it's that art can't raise a child solo.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    How I Ended This Summer
    The movie's first hour happens to be its most absorbing. Director Alexei Popogrebsky sets up the quiet tensions between his two generationally divided characters like a chess match pocked with occasional power grabs.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Into Eternity
    Into Eternity has the grandeur of ominous suggestion, but might have benefitted from a director more creatively unbound-an Errol Morris ready to play around at the end of the world.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Cold Weather
    Just as soon as that rarest Lebowskian blend of casual pursuit and big-world conspiracy begins to emerge from the fog, Cold Weather appears to lose its nerve (or run out of money).
    • Metascore: 64
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Orgasm Inc.
    Sometimes, the debunking is overshadowed by cringe-inducing graphics involving pills with little legs running toward a finish line.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Unknown
    Unknown is probably the movie "The Tourist" wanted to be, if it had a pulse. Its sheer momentum makes Neeson and Kruger more attractive than even Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Hall Pass
    A largely sexless sex romp, has such a winning sense of middle-aged exhaustion to it that you might want to add a star or two, especially if you're familiar with the banalities of matrimonial bliss.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    The Adjustment Bureau
    You outsmart the movie way too soon.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    I Saw the Devil
    Ultimately, the returns of the film's premise can't justify a nearly two-and-a-half-hour squirm. The savagery is honest, raw and hardly entertainment.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Black Death
    With unexpected supernatural restraint, the movie approaches a religious parable; am I being unfair in wishing it had a touch more apocalyptic hysteria to it?
    • Metascore: 75
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    The Desert of Forbidden Art
    As brought to life in the stentorian tones of Ben Kingsley, the curator comes off like a driven visionary, but his actual efforts aren't dramatized enough. The paintings speak more articulately: doomy, dank colors and oppressive shapes.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    The Soft Skin (1969)
    Redemptively, the cast goes a long way: Jean Desailly is perfect as a jowly literary celeb deep in midlife crisis, while the aloof Françoise Dorléac is magnetic as his airline stewardess and all-too-scrutable love object.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Joshua Rothkopf 60
    Win Win
    No matter how predictable his arc is, writer-director Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent) never loses sight of the difficulties of cashflow and making one's weekly nut. You'll want to give his movie-and his secret weapon, the lovably neurotic Bobby Cannavale, as a recent divorcé hoping to co-coach the team-a pass for sweetness.
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