For 559 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Alan Ng's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Dracula
Lowest review score: 20 Mufasa: The Lion King
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 14 out of 559
559 movie reviews
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    Elio is a complete misfire—an ambitious premise that never takes off.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    While Florence Pugh and David Harbour try to inject some soul into the chaos, the film proves that no amount of punchlines can save a story that forgot its superpower. Sometimes you don’t need a group hug—you need a good old-fashioned throwdown.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    Every modification fails to improve the tale, and the whimsy and wonder of fairy tales are missing. It does not honor the original but shuns it instead.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    The problem with Brave New World falls squarely on the writing and the story.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    Love Hurts is a prime example of what happens when a film spreads itself too thin trying to juggle multiple genres—it drops all the balls. Ultimately, it’s a forgettable attempt at blending action and romance, proving once again that genre mashups rarely deliver a knockout.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 20 Alan Ng
    The acting is sub-par, with Selena Gomez delivering the weakest performance. I don’t know Spanish, but even I can tell she struggles to sound like it’s her first language. As Emilia, Karla Sofía Gascón is stiff as a board and can’t sing. Zoe Saldaña is the only one putting an effort in, but even she can’t make horrible lyrics sound authentic.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Alan Ng
    Dear Lord, this movie didn’t need to be made. It is profoundly awful. The foreshadowing is relentless. Sorry, Barry Jenkins just can’t direct animation.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    It drags through a slow love story, lacks the original’s dark, gritty atmosphere, and misses the intensity that made the 1994 film a cult classic. Even the crow legend feels like an afterthought, leaving this remake bland and forgettable.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    Unfrosted is dumb. Not only is it dumb, it’s stupid. It commits the sin of being a comedy that thinks its funny. The film goes wrong in so many ways.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    For a film meant to be a milestone for 100 years of the Walt Disney Company, Wish is a monumental failure.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    Ultimately, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga fails to transport us into this hyper-realistic world of Iceland as Ferrell is equally unable to endear us to his character of Lars in a film that didn’t need to be two-hours long.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    It’s insulting to think that children will see a movie solely because you have animals that talk and act silly.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    The bright spot of Paul W.S. Anderson’s film is the villains.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Alan Ng
    This is yet another example of the Big Studio pushing out a film for the sole reason that they own the intellectual property and believe that we, like sheep, will see it because… well, we’ll see anything because we’re desperate for content.

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