For 126 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Pat Padua's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 The Whistlers
Lowest review score: 25 The 9th Life of Louis Drax
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 93 out of 126
  2. Negative: 11 out of 126
126 movie reviews
    • 56 Metascore
    • 37 Pat Padua
    Directed by Mary Harron from a screenplay by John Walsh, the thoroughly unengaging film is a remarkable achievement, but only considering the misspent potential of its juicy source material.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Somehow, for all the work that went into the film, it comes across as something that may have worked better as an audiobook.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    The artistry is enough to keep children and adults watching. It may help that Mario gains power by eating mushrooms — a good message about healthy eating, on the one hand, yet one with an obvious psychedelic resonance at the same time.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 37 Pat Padua
    In this wildly uneven melodrama by writer-director Zach Braff, no member of the talented ensemble cast is entirely able to navigate its messy plot. That a few actors do manage to stay afloat for occasional breaths of air seems like a divine miracle.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    While “Missing” is just a cheap thriller, one can’t help but wonder whether, in the hands of more inventive filmmakers, the screen time that has come to define personal interaction might find a richer dramatic purpose.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    For the most part, 2nd Chance is right on target. But in the end, its aim isn’t quite true.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Behind all the gore-splattered walls and domestic rancor lies a sweet-and-sour bedtime story of good triumphing over evil. That said, please leave the kids at home.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Though lacking in the script department, this cinematic wonderland delivers on one promise: escape, to a place of such natural beauty that even these affluent characters, however cardboard, are forced to take stock of the important things in life.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    The Good House has a lot of potential and features some attractive amenities, including dramatic conflict and a seasoned cast. But like a subpar property, it just doesn’t show well in a highly competitive market.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    Far from a nostalgic package of greatest hits, “Moonage Daydream” suggests that pop music is at its best when it’s mysterious.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    Writer-director Zach Cregger’s script takes these various paint-by-number horror elements — a vulnerable debutante, an unfamiliar house, a hidden room — and colors outside the lines.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    Despite some quality craftsmanship, “The Good Boss” ultimately doesn’t pay off. Capitalism should be more fun than this.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Actress Nana Mensah (“After Yang”) makes an impressive debut as a writer-director with “Queen of Glory,” a dry comedy of culture clashes, both ethnic and generational.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Despite its broad comedy, typical of “Dukes of Hazzard” director Jay Chandrasekhar, the film has some tender and wise moments. And even if you don’t get all the ethnic jokes, there’s plenty of family drama that anybody will recognize, no matter their background.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Padua
    The archival footage is exciting enough, but editors Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput, who co-wrote the script with producer Shane Boris, make judicious use of split-screen, circular stencils and other visual effects, varying the rhythm just enough to make this world seem even more magical.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    It’s Southern-fried “The Blue Lagoon” meets “Murder, She Wrote” — and topped off with a sprinkling of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Padua
    Harbor no illusions about Lost Illusions. It’s no stuffy costume drama. Just close your eyes and imagine its characters in modern dress, toiling away in digital publishing, and its wild delusions and deceptions could be happening right now.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Although the pacing of the film — written and directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel (“What Maisie Knew”), from a story co-written with David Spreter — can be as slow as the clouds over Big Sky Country, the flawed young characters grow on you, their troubles gradually becoming as mythic as the landscape that surrounds them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    It’s all entertaining enough, in a shaggy way. But if the director can’t stay focused on his own subject, how are we expected to do so?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    Dual takes awhile to get into gear, ending on an unresolved note. But it’s a funny and provocative struggle over the meaning of life.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    So much of Ambulance works like a charm, but acting-wise, it could use a deeper bench.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    The filmmakers make just as much magic on the ground as some do in space.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    It’s a fantastic idea, but the execution is inconsistent. Alice, the movie, dares to go through the looking glass, but it doesn’t entirely know what to do once it gets there.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Ultimately, it is, like its conflicted hero, sweet and likable, and you wish it well.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Pat Padua
    The movie sounds — and looks — tasty enough, but this “Strawberry Mansion” just doesn’t bear much fruit.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Despite its poignant subject matter, much of the film feels like a pastiche of political thriller, romantic drama and tortured-genius cliches.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Pat Padua
    Despite a story line that covers such fraught historical events as 9/11 and the Iraq War, the movie is too tidy to ever really feel like a living, breathing thing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Pat Padua
    Writer-director Radu Jude’s fascinating, cynical dramedy “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” careens between lowbrow humor and highbrow philosophy, resulting in a film that is as frustrating as life itself; it’s a perfect mirror of our times.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    This is a story about people first, but also about the way we see. And the visual hodgepodge of JR’s images reveals very different perspectives that affect the way we treat each other.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Pat Padua
    The debut feature from British studio Locksmith Animation, Ron’s Gone Wrong has plenty of slapstick and potty humor for kids. But adults will also be intrigued by its frequently scathing (albeit somewhat conflicted) critique of consumerism.

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