Jesse Cataldo
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35% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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63% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.2 points higher than other critics.
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Jesse Cataldo's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 66 | |
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Highest review score: | Almayer's Folly | |
Lowest review score: | The Ledge |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 95 out of 137
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Mixed: 26 out of 137
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Negative: 16 out of 137
137
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- Jesse Cataldo
It’s always clear who’s right and who’s wrong, which material interests each is representing, and who’s lying and who’s telling the truth.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 15, 2019
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- Jesse Cataldo
The film only succeeds at evoking a firm sense of place and an accompanying air of alluring grotesquerie.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 7, 2019
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- Jesse Cataldo
Ben Wheatley's film reduces the modus operandi of the action movie down to its starkest elements.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 14, 2017
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- Jesse Cataldo
Trading on the already-resonant associations engendered by a famous face, Garrel's film responds by forging a new, deeper connection between an actress and her public, resulting in that rare moment of cinematic alchemy where the line between fact and fiction has not only blurred, but ceased to matter entirely.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 23, 2017
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- Jesse Cataldo
Martin Scorsese crafts a versatile, multifaceted work that encourages serious reflection and contemplation.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 15, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Nocturnal Animals gets close to a double-barreled satirical thriller commenting on the historic rift between city and country.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 14, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Paul Schrader's film scrambles for contemporary relevance and finds only nihilistic hollowness.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 28, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Pedro Almodóvar’s object-oriented approach ends up blocking off the deeper emotional access that Alice Munro's stories so effortlessly attain.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 29, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Director Craig Atkinson's documentary explicates its points with blunt but persuasive efficiency.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 25, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Chad Hartigan's film is especially perceptive about the effect of external influence on personal development.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 15, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Under the Sun's overall aesthetic identifies a willingness to settle for an easy condemnation of an obviously abysmal regime, while not doing anything challenging or enlightening with all the outstanding footage collected.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 6, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Andrzej Zulawski's film experiment ranks somewhere between captivatingly off the wall and utterly exhausting.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 13, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Thom Andersen attempts to establish unity by effectively bridging vast swaths of film history into one cohesive body of work.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 24, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Kurosawa allows for a few brief flights of fancy, further abandoning realism for whimsical bursts of glowing color, but otherwise it's a humdrum slog of a voyage.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 17, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Jacques Audiard's film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 3, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Louder Than Bombs is a parable that takes depression seriously as a condition and a state of being.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 4, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
The reworking of a tired horror trope into a transformed feminist symbol stands out as an impressive act of genre revisionism.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 15, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
Benjamin Crotty's film is content to drift free-associatively through the intricacies of group mechanics via an expressive free-form structure.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 1, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
The film's black humor is inextricably tied to serious questions about moral relativism and personal responsibility.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 18, 2016
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- Jesse Cataldo
It confronts the hard realities of a world in which few make it to maturity without their share of scars, and no one makes it out of adulthood alive.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 11, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
By modeling its structure so closely after "All the President's Men," Spotlight only draws closer attention to its lack of scope and ambition.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 2, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
Despite the defeated tone of Patricio Guzmán's tales, a spotlight is placed on the power of persistence.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 20, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
Guzmán creates an interesting dialectic between the different searchers profiles, uniting them under an umbrella of humanism and cautious hopefulness.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 30, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
The film carves out a rich emotional sphere concomitant to its stunning production design, finding delicate poetry in the dispassionate pursuit of revenge.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 18, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
A definitive reflection on the work of two great directors and the specific slices of cinema they so fruitfully cultivated.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 8, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
It does well in using dialogue to shape its escalating tête-à-tête, but the filmmaking is too fuzzy to expand on those ideas.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 26, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
It confirms the Roy Andersson universe as one of near-fossilized similitude, in which any effort or movement is disruptive, revealing new cracks in the set illusion of order.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 1, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
The film's images, so continually heartrending so as to never become redundant, effectively function as visual proselytizing.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 17, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
The lack of tangible dramatic follow-through leaves the film feeling incomplete, indistinguishable from so much other undercooked festival fare.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 10, 2015
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- Jesse Cataldo
The lack of real analysis or consideration leaves this perilously close to a Goldilocks-style depiction of privileged female indecision.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2015
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