Jen Yamato
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44% higher than the average critic
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11% same as the average critic
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45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Jen Yamato's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 63 | |
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Highest review score: | The Transfiguration | |
Lowest review score: | Dead Awake |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 18
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Mixed: 6 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
18
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- Jen Yamato
Antebellum ultimately trips over its gimmicky plotting en route to a conclusion that rings false.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 17, 2020
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- Jen Yamato
The sequel is a stab at world-expanding that veers off the rails as it reaches for dazzle over depth, rounding out the hit film series somewhere between a whimper and a bang.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 22, 2020
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- Jen Yamato
Inspired moments can be found throughout “Eurovision” if you have the patience.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jun 25, 2020
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- Jen Yamato
With a patient and unobtrusive eye, filmmakers Lucas and Bresnan paint impressionistic portraits of a quartet of charismatic teenagers over the course of a pivotal school year.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 24, 2020
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- Jen Yamato
As a character study, Selah and the Spades is more than requiem for a mean girl. Think the stylistic snappiness of “Brick” meets the fastidious world-building of “Rushmore” with a fourth-wall-bending feminist perspective and two young black female leads, and you’ve got “Selah.”- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 16, 2020
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- Jen Yamato
The film reveals its truest self as a cinematic act of negotiation, acceptance and farewell between mother and son.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 12, 2019
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- Jen Yamato
Awash in Christopher Rejano’s neon-hued cinematography and punctuated by Nick Zinner’s eerie synth soundscapes, Reeder’s meandering tale is a fever dream of ideas.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 5, 2019
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- Jen Yamato
Buoyed by sensitive and ferocious ensemble turns, “Honey Boy” is a cinematic salve for a tortured soul, in many regards a powerful vehicle for its star-screenwriter-subject and a vibrant narrative debut for documentary and video artist Har’el.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 7, 2019
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- Jen Yamato
By selectively whittling down the novel’s interwoven time lines and characters, It Chapter Two refocuses its telling of King’s 1,100-plus-page bestseller into not just a scary clown movie — which it also is, thanks to Bill Skarsgård’s demented return as the trans-dimensional titular monster — but an elegy of memory, trauma and healing, minus the more extreme and controversial elements of the novel.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 3, 2019
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- Jen Yamato
Parabellum excels when it tees up the sublimely inventive and wince-inducing close quarters fights with the lethally graceful Reeves baring John Wick’s psyche and soul between reloads and headshots.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 15, 2019
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- Jen Yamato
Go For Broke unfolds across Hawaii with lo-fi charm but introduces more characters than it can balance, falling into uneven and overly earnest stretches.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 3, 2019
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- Jen Yamato
In Deadpool 2, the manic antics fly fast, but the franchise loses its edge as wise-cracking antihero Deadpool goes dadcore, attempting to infuse standard-issue four-quadrant studio blockbuster beats into what was once a revolutionary R-rated premise.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 15, 2018
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- Jen Yamato
Mama maestro Andy Muschietti directs this visually splendid but thematically toned-down interpretation with finesse, crafting a world rich in detail where menace lurks in every shadow.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 7, 2017
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- Jen Yamato
Ingrid might be a lying, manipulative stalker, but Plaza also lets us see her humanity, engendering a crucial empathy for the desperation that drives her.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 10, 2017
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- Jen Yamato
Baywatch...is for those fans who couldn’t resist the show’s soapy charms. New ones who crave a summer blockbuster comedy might enjoy how much it not only owns its dumbness but hurtles itself all the way back around through a flurry of genitalia jokes and F-bombs to splash unapologetically in an R-rated surf of winking postmodernism.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 24, 2017
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- Jen Yamato
Despite Donahue’s best efforts in a grand finale sleep session with life-or-death stakes, the premise never lives up to its promise.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 11, 2017
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- Jen Yamato
Young’s vision of quiet middle-class mayhem, drawn from the three-handed struggle between young Vicki and her tormentors, is bold and unflinching.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 11, 2017
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- Jen Yamato
Bold and brutal in shocking spurts, the indie horror drama from writer-director O’Shea is a startling debut that leaves a fresh mark on the genre while celebrating its forbears.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 20, 2017
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