Jack King

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For 17 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jack King's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Last and First Men
Lowest review score: 33 The Roads Not Taken
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Jack King
    The Stranger
    The film finds a little verve; Edgerton is put through the imagined ringer in a handful of unnerving dream sequences, and a motif featuring the mountainous crime scene is interesting (until it isn’t). But for all of the interesting twists and turns, as the story comes to its smoky conclusion, one can’t imagine who in the audience will make it to the payoff.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Jack King
    Blonde
    This is a nasty, queasy, unforgiving piece of work. It is utterly devoid of hope. It’s as shocking as any slasher, as horrifying as any grizzly bit of wartime realism — yet there’s something so compelling about the director’s broader argument, and it’s rendered with rare visual deftness, with some big swing moments that land terrifically.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 91 Jack King
    The Whale
    What it boasts in abundance — in this riveting study of a deeply broken man, suffocated by nine years of self-immolation — is a rare and deep compassion, elevated by Fraser’s starring turn.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Jack King
    Pearl
    Flimsy logic notwithstanding, Pearl is the superior of the two heavily-stylized slashers, partly because it dedicates so much time to building the eponymous antiheroine from the ground up.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Jack King
    Bones and All
    For all of the blood, guts, and gore, for all of the stomach-cramming gluttony, here’s a story brimming with extraordinary romanticism. What emerges, by the end, is one hell of an ode to giving yourself to the ones you love: your bones and all.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Jack King
    Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
    For all of the visual treats on display and for the moving moments that are better left unspoiled, nobody thought to withhold this director’s greater indulgences. And that is a shame — because when ‘Bardo’ hits the softer note it strives for, it’s really something to behold.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Jack King
    TÁR
    Though not without its blemishes, here’s a timely — and, indeed, timeless — piece about the corrupting essence of power, exploitation, and the burdensome nature of the crown, elevated by a hydrogen bomb of a performance from Cate Blanchett, inarguably at her best since 2015’s “Carol.”
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Jack King
    Enys Men
    The witchy atmosphere Jenkin conjures is spine-tinglingly devilish, the poetic manifestation of the subject’s deep grief, ever-ambiguous and frosty, taking on the aching melancholy of loss.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Jack King
    Natural Light
    For a film that so often trades in claustrophobic close-ups, some of the strongest compositions in Natural Light are its grander landscape shots, making a sinister beast of Hungary’s jagged treelines.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Jack King
    What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
    One finds oneself hard-pressed to find a wasted frame here.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Jack King
    Soul
    It’s a ravishing ode, too, to gestures, touches, smiles, and pithy, pointless conversations; in Soul the tiny human interactions that we so often brush over come under the magnifying glass.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Jack King
    Dear Comrades!
    Dear Comrades!, from veteran Russian auteur Andrei Konchalovsky, is a fascinating blend of dark satire and bleak archaeology.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 33 Jack King
    The Roads Not Taken
    The Roads Not Taken is perfectly satisfactory in terms of style, but the film leaves much to be desired when it comes to content.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Jack King
    Siberia
    Siberia juggles a number of intriguing ideas without any real success at marrying them. It’s an enjoyable watch, if only for the confident surrealism, albeit one which could inspire confusion and/or disgust in many film fans.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Jack King
    Undine
    Petzold’s unsettling film is awash with wonderful ambiguities and strives to challenge both its audience and filmmaking conventions. They’re incomparable and largely succeed through their independent nuances.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Jack King
    Last and First Men
    This experience is one of rare, absolute immersion.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Jack King
    My Salinger Year
    While My Salinger Year is not always successful in the larger debate it tries to have around how we can define authorship, and how the commercialization of writing infringes upon creativity, the film’s central narrative following Joanna’s conflicting aspirations as a writer largely succeeds.

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