Pat Padua
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48% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points lower than other critics.
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Pat Padua's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 64 | |
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Highest review score: | The Whistlers | |
Lowest review score: | The 9th Life of Louis Drax |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 82 out of 109
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Mixed: 18 out of 109
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Negative: 9 out of 109
109
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- 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.- Washington Post
- Posted May 16, 2022
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- 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?- Washington Post
- Posted May 3, 2022
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- 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.- Washington Post
- Posted Apr 11, 2022
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- Pat Padua
So much of Ambulance works like a charm, but acting-wise, it could use a deeper bench.- Washington Post
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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- Posted Mar 28, 2022
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- 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.- Washington Post
- Posted Mar 16, 2022
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- Pat Padua
Ultimately, it is, like its conflicted hero, sweet and likable, and you wish it well.- Washington Post
- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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- Pat Padua
The movie sounds — and looks — tasty enough, but this “Strawberry Mansion” just doesn’t bear much fruit.- Washington Post
- Posted Feb 14, 2022
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- Pat Padua
Despite its poignant subject matter, much of the film feels like a pastiche of political thriller, romantic drama and tortured-genius cliches.- Washington Post
- Posted Feb 7, 2022
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- 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.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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- 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.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 14, 2021
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- 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.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 10, 2021
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- 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.- Washington Post
- Posted Oct 18, 2021
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- Pat Padua
Bergman Island is a compelling, enchanting film that works both as a relationship drama and as a conversation between one generation of directors and another. It’s almost as though Mia Hansen-Love were teaching Ingmar Bergman how to get down.- Washington Post
- Posted Oct 12, 2021
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- Pat Padua
With a tone that shifts as much as a profile picture, Who You Think I Am is a nail-biting ride through social media anxiety.- Washington Post
- Posted Sep 8, 2021
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- Pat Padua
The Year of the Everlasting Storm doesn’t end with catharsis, but even insects may have something to teach humanity: to endure the best way we can, however minuscule we may feel in the face of an incomprehensible world.- Washington Post
- Posted Sep 8, 2021
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- Pat Padua
“Reminiscence” has all the ingredients for electrifying summer entertainment. But despite its considerable star power and impressive set pieces, the sprawling meditation on memory is simply an attractive mess.- Washington Post
- Posted Aug 18, 2021
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- Pat Padua
What drags this “Squad” down to the dreary level of Ayer’s vision is the tone of Gunn’s film, which is more violent and less lighthearted than his “Guardians” movies.- Washington Post
- Posted Aug 5, 2021
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- Pat Padua
But this is Statham’s show, and his stoic brutality makes this a captivating slow burn.- Washington Post
- Posted May 6, 2021
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- Pat Padua
Fans of the director may be a little mystified by what at first seems like something of a commercial sellout, by a director known for more challenging material. And indeed, The Whistlers has more than enough sex and violence to satisfy the average action movie fan. But dig a bit deeper, and you’ll find a mother lode of meaning just below the surface.- Washington Post
- Posted Mar 26, 2020
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- Pat Padua
A mostly smart and sexy crime drama, even if it loses steam by the time the ridiculous ending rolls around.- Washington Post
- Posted Mar 9, 2020
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- Pat Padua
If The Traitor proves anything, it’s that an 80-year-old filmmaker can still pounce.- Washington Post
- Posted Feb 5, 2020
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- Pat Padua
Even if you’re not familiar with the source material, this Chinese production provides plenty of supernatural thrills for the modern young adult.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 25, 2019
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- Pat Padua
At once charming and bittersweet. But the film loses focus a little as it heaps accolades on the late actor.- Washington Post
- Posted Aug 27, 2019
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- Pat Padua
The Angry Birds Movie 2 is not great cinema. But the animated sequel — inspired by the popular Angry Birds games, available on mobile devices and other platforms — goes above and beyond what is to be expected from such things.- Washington Post
- Posted Aug 13, 2019
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- Pat Padua
The movie has its flaws. Still, for anyone with a soft spot for the mute gaze of man’s best friend, it’s hard not to shed a tear — or two — during The Art of Racing in the Rain.- Washington Post
- Posted Aug 5, 2019
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- Pat Padua
Unfortunately, in the filmmaker’s narrative-feature debut, she takes the theme of betrayal and turns it into fodder for a sitcom, and not a particularly funny one at that.- Washington Post
- Posted Jun 18, 2019
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- Pat Padua
5B is ultimately about survival, and the struggle at its center is undeniably a heartbreaking one. Too often, however, the filmmakers get in the way of their own story.- Washington Post
- Posted Jun 13, 2019
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- Pat Padua
“Echo” recalls a fertile era in the history of American pop music. But all too often, it wanders out of the very canyon that defines it.- Washington Post
- Posted Jun 3, 2019
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- Pat Padua
The film has more than enough true material to fuel an effective thriller, but director Aviva Kempner doesn’t quite manage to bring this fascinating figure to life.- Washington Post
- Posted May 20, 2019
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