Bradley Gibson

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For 73 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 90% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 8% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 13.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bradley Gibson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 Playing with Sharks
Lowest review score: 60 Touch Me Not
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 67 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 73
  3. Negative: 0 out of 73
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Bradley Gibson
    Nostalgia
    Normally film is considered a director’s medium, but this one belongs to cinematographer Paolo Carnera. The footage of Felice rediscovering Naples is nothing short of stunning. Martone wisely understands that he has three resources in Nostalgia that other filmmakers do not: Carnera’s eye, Favino’s acting ability to quietly emote with no wasted motion, and a city that is heartbreakingly beautiful to behold.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    A Lot of Nothing
    The filmmaker plays with our assumptions around justice and race. While A Lot of Nothing uses elements ripped from the headlines, in this context, what you expect to come from it will say more about you than it does the script. The revelation of the final act changes everything that has gone before. Hang onto the edge of your seat for a wickedly entertaining ride.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    Back to the Wharf
    For Western audiences, Back to the Wharf is an engaging glimpse of daily life at the intersection of Chinese family culture and government corruption.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    Children of the Mist
    The filmmaker educates and entertains with a profoundly human story about the life of a young woman. Viewers will become invested in what happens to Di and learn about the Hmong tradition along the way.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    Actual People
    While Actual People is not going to be for everyone, it does preserve a moment in time from Gen Z culture that informs and enlightens.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 90 Bradley Gibson
    Battleground
    Lowen does a masterful job of presenting the anti-choice movement without spin.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Bradley Gibson
    Masking Threshold
    Despite, or perhaps because of, the graphic imagery, this feature is a brilliant look at obsession and the possible grisly endpoint of reductio ad absurdum.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    The Day After Halloween
    For an ultra-low-budget Indie horror comedy, The Day After Halloween provides a good share of laughs and jolts.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    The Silent Party
    The pace is tight, and the film’s last scene is a fantastic conclusion to the story: a little bit Telenovela, a little bit grindhouse, and 100% quality.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    Dakota
    For a family film with after-school-special vibes, it lands exactly where it should. Dakota and Alex take center stage with a story and characters that are engaging for kids and make for distracting cinematic “comfort food” for adults.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    Keeping Company
    Keeping Company is a delirious carnival ride at the intersection between rapacious greed and murderous insanity, and definitely worth your uncomfortable laughter.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    The Bob's Burgers Movie
    The Belcher family’s adventures are heartwarmingly engaging as they pull together while annoying the crap out of each other. The music is catchy, and the characters are beautifully drawn, both figuratively and literally. The Bob’s Burgers Movie is the best family-musical-murder-mystery for the Adventure Time generation you’ll see this summer.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    Santos - Skin to Skin
    In Santos – Skin to Skin, Golden weaves Santos’ colorful life story around Afro-Caribbean music to engaging effect.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    Red Rocket
    [Simon Rex] goes all-in and sells it with incredible skill and passion. Suzanna Son as Strawberry is also a revelation. She has star quality and a screen presence that is extremely rare. We will be seeing her again.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    I Was a Simple Man
    Yogi brings us close to Masao’s personal tragedy while at the same time pulling back to see life and death at a cosmic level. The movie delves into the cycle of life and death enough so that that audience members can understand and accept the beauty of the process.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Bradley Gibson
    Keyboard Fantasies
    This film, this artist, this music, this story: all rare gems…see this film.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    Luzzu
    Camilleri captures the beauty of Malta in Luzzu. He shows us the island, the sea, the colorful traditional boats with faces painted on the front, and the glamour of sunset over the ocean. He also shows us life there can be destructively difficult for people trying to make it on the low end, as they struggle to maintain their traditions and pride while the world changes around them.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    Lansky
    Lanksy is a workman-like film with decent production values, but Rockaway is not Scorcese or Coppola. There are no great faults to find with it, except one: fans of the genre have literally seen every element of it before.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    Saint-Narcisse
    LaBruce dresses up kink in priestly robes and biker leather and raw skin and sets it out on a runway walk in open daylight.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    Infinitum: Subject Unknown
    Infinitum: Subject Unknown works as a scary, anxious thrill ride.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    Tailgate
    The suspense in Tailgate is cringe-inducing. Crijns keeps his foot on the gas for the entire runtime, artfully ensuring that neither the victims nor the audience ever gets a moment to breathe. Even with a premise we’ve seen before, this film delivers right up to the credits and beyond.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    Dolphin Island
    As family movies aimed at the tween demographic go, Dolphin Island is entertaining enough. The beautiful vistas could be a balm to anyone who’s thinking about the islands but can’t get there.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    We Intend to Cause Havoc
    WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc is a wonderful history lesson, as well as a lovely introduction to a band and their music that, perhaps, most people would never have heard otherwise.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Bradley Gibson
    Playing with Sharks
    Anyone seeking motivation, or just looking for inspiration, will marvel at the life story of Valerie Taylor, her sharks, and her love of the sea. She is a treasure, as is Sally Aitken for bringing her story to the screen.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    The Mali-Cuba Connection
    Las Maravillas de Mali’s sound is reminiscent of another Cuban revelation, The Buena Vista Social Club, and the same fire burns here. At the heart of the film is the music, the gently driving beat that spins out joy and sadness, familial warmth and solitude, love and life.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    The Legend of Molly Johnson
    Despite struggling with a thematic focus, the film presents a woman who is well worth getting to know.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    Willy's Wonderland
    Willy’s Wonderland is a violent, glorious riot of inside-joke horror tropes and Cage’s own best tribute to a genre he helped to create.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Bradley Gibson
    A Glitch in the Matrix
    A Glitch in the Matrix is timely and full of mystery and wonder, but lingering on descriptions of surreal subjective experience misses the point. This would be a much more interesting movie if it had more focus on the science of simulation theory.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Bradley Gibson
    Night of the Kings
    Lacôte’s second directorial feature, Night of the Kings, is an epically ambitious undertaking, roaring along on several parallel tracks, with a dizzying number of sub-stories to track. The world inside MACA prison is a complex, layered cultural and political system.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Bradley Gibson
    M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity
    The appeal of M.C. Escher: Journey into Infinity is near-universal. It’s hard to imagine not falling under its mesmerizing spell with the same wonder that one would gaze on an Escher print and feel their mind slowly becoming part of the pattern depicted.
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