Pat Brown
Select another critic »For 180 reviews, this critic has graded:
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27% higher than the average critic
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8% same as the average critic
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65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.2 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Pat Brown's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 63 | |
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Highest review score: | Come and See | |
Lowest review score: | Force of Nature |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 115 out of 180
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Mixed: 31 out of 180
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Negative: 34 out of 180
180
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reviews
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- Pat Brown
The Tsugua Diaries is something like Memento for an age of isolation and listlessness.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 25, 2022
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- Pat Brown
The film fiercely homes in at the moral perversity of an industry at a particular intersection of capitalism, patriarchy, and digital-age spectacle.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 10, 2022
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- Pat Brown
The film oscillates between the playfully on the nose and the existentially profound with the confidence of a volcano chaser surfing on a river of lava.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2022
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- Pat Brown
Implicit in the film’s bleak but sympathetic portrait of a disturbed and shunned young man is that sometimes it takes a village to make a monster.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 28, 2022
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- Pat Brown
For all of the film’s somberness, its depiction of an era of rigid class divisions and incalculable loss still comes through the hazy, soft-focus goggles of nostalgia.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 23, 2022
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- Pat Brown
After a first hour that may well hit Zoomers and their millennial parents in the feels, Turning Red gradually runs out of steam.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 7, 2022
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- Pat Brown
After a brilliantly constructed opening, Dario Argento’s film gives the impression only of a giallo doodle.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 23, 2022
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- Pat Brown
The film fleshes out the perhaps familiar characterizations at its center by tying contemporary wounds to the persistent presence of Europe’s ugly history.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 21, 2022
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- Pat Brown
Peter Strickland’s playful mockery of performance art and excessively serious-minded “collectives” feels both insular and, at times, a shade too flavorless.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 21, 2022
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- Pat Brown
The film goes from biting satire to broad farce and back as Alain Guiraudie fills it with both social observation and ludicrous incident.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 21, 2022
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- Pat Brown
A heady rush of ideas, the film’s avant-garde mélange of live-action footage, abstract video art, and multiple kinds of animation just barely masks that it’s a rather simple story about a Zoomer’s inner struggle with both her own mortality and that of the world.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 21, 2022
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- Pat Brown
The studied ambiguity of what’s going on in Fire doesn’t keep it from often achieving the suspense of an accomplished erotic thriller.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 21, 2022
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- Pat Brown
Small, Slow But Steady is one of the first great pandemic movies because it reflects the lessons about mutual support and communal perseverance that we should be taking from very familiar pandemic struggles.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 18, 2022
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- Pat Brown
As a tribute to farmers’ way of life, its effective and at times moving, but as an exposé of the potential losses that a business-centric green revolution is in the process of incurring, it wants for a stiffer punch.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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- Pat Brown
Leonora Addio is a wrestling with memory and history through a deeply personal, if at times indulgent, lens.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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- Pat Brown
Cyril Schäublin’s precisely framed snapshot of a microcosm of timekeepers ends up being a bit too, well, mechanical.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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- Pat Brown
Strawberry Mansion playfully and delightfully draws parallels between the creative agency of dreams and the waking creativity of filmmaking.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 15, 2022
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- Pat Brown
The film extend into impactful hyperbole the tensions inherent in the situation of being subjects of and subjects to incessant surveillance.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 10, 2022
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- Pat Brown
The material realities of being a woman in Chad are expressed with profound sympathy in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s film.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 31, 2022
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- Pat Brown
It’s at a certain point toward the finale that this Scream becomes almost as drearily repetitious as the reboot culture that it skewers.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 15, 2022
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- Pat Brown
Long stretches of the film are simply mesmerizing, but both Sylvain Tesson’s written compositions and the conversation between him and Vincent Munier often lapse into clichés about the distractions and decadence of modern society.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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- Pat Brown
The film misplaces the root of our current existential dilemma, then covers it with tepid droll comedy and clunky melodrama.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 30, 2021
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- Pat Brown
The film’s approach is completely subsumed by the importance of the Mayor Pete persona as the means and ends of the candidacy.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 8, 2021
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- Pat Brown
Matthias Schweighöfer’s film puts itself in a box, consistently failing to justify why its story deserves our attention more than the spectacle of the recently deceased rising to feast upon the flesh of the living.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 26, 2021
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- Pat Brown
Juho Kuosmanen’s film interestingly thrives off of an ironic juxtaposition of character and environment.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 1, 2021
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- Pat Brown
Merciless but affecting, Vortex suggests that one respite from the loneliness of life lived in the shadow of death is the realm of dreams.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 20, 2021
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- Pat Brown
Again in a Apichatpong Weerasethakul film, we find spirits lurking behind the everyday world, but in Memoria, they might just be repressed memories emanating from a world that never actually forgets.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 16, 2021
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- Pat Brown
The film’s evocative imagery doesn’t compensate for the story being told with such a heavy hand that it dulls, rather than sharpens, Justin Chon’s urgent political message.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 16, 2021
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- Pat Brown
The film may be the prime example of how to restore fun, significance, and even a little bit of sex to the well-worn terrain of the romantic comedy.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 16, 2021
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- Pat Brown
Sean Baker is dedicated at the same time to the material realities of being poor in the United States and to the irreverent artificiality of snap zooms, smash cuts, and unexpected music cues.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 15, 2021
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