Ann Hornaday

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Baltimore Sun, Washington Post
For 2,056 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ann Hornaday's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 The Tragedy of Macbeth
Lowest review score: 0 Orphan
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,363 out of 2056
  2. Mixed: 375 out of 2056
  3. Negative: 318 out of 2056
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Ann Hornaday
    Jockey
    Filmmaker Clint Bentley makes a tender, visually poetic feature directorial debut with “Jockey,” a closely observed portrait of a man embarking on the downslope of his career.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Ann Hornaday
    Flee
    Thanks to his courage and Rasmussen’s compassion and creativity, “Flee” morphs from a tale of dispossession to a testament to the power of narrative — to overtake a life, and to liberate it.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 63 Ann Hornaday
    Licorice Pizza
    Licorice Pizza is at its best — and is genuinely charming — when it’s simply focused on Gary and Alana — two mixed-up kids trying to make their way in a world that feels promising and perilous in equal measure.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Ann Hornaday
    The Tragedy of Macbeth
    For such a compact and efficient vessel, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” pours forth seemingly endless wellsprings of language, emotion and psychological depth.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Ann Hornaday
    The Matrix Resurrections
    Wachowski seems to be at war with her audience, rewarding them with deep-cut callbacks one moment only to roll her eyes at the entire enterprise the next.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Ann Hornaday
    The Lost Daughter
    Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a quietly astonishing directorial debut with “The Lost Daughter,” a crafty treatise on maternal ambivalence that delivers an unsettling emotional wallop.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Ann Hornaday
    Don't Look Up
    Not content with simply stoking rage and self-righteous superiority, McKay dares to infuse Don’t Look Up with an authentic, unironic sense of grief.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ann Hornaday
    West Side Story
    Spielberg and Kaminski have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration for decades, but their work on West Side Story brings the partnership to breathtakingly poetic expressive heights.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Ann Hornaday
    The Hand of God
    For all its beauty and poignancy, The Hand of God suffers from a strange paradox: It goes on too long but somehow doesn’t go far enough.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Ann Hornaday
    Cusp
    In this mesmerizing, revelatory and deeply compassionate film, viewers are left with an indelible impression of girlhood at its most precarious and indomitable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Ann Hornaday
    The Humans
    Like The Father last year, The Humans makes the set a character in itself: Karam has concocted a diabolically creaky duplex whose wonky corners and jury-rigged improvements take on an increasingly sinister patina as the meal progresses.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Ann Hornaday
    C'mon C'mon
    Johnny’s tentative dip into family life artfully captures the tedium, terror and confounding ecstasy of parenthood, but it more eloquently conveys the pain and discovery involved in simply trying to do one’s best.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Ann Hornaday
    The Power of the Dog
    Once again demonstrating her own strong, clear vision — not to mention superb control of her craft — Campion proves her ability to illuminate hidden truths and let us see what was hiding in plain sight all along.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Ann Hornaday
    King Richard
    Will Smith delivers a ferocious, all-consuming performance in King Richard, a thoroughly entertaining portrait of Richard Williams — better known as Venus and Serena’s father.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Ann Hornaday
    Belfast
    For its frequently painful contours, there’s an abundance of pleasures to be had in Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s irresistible memoir about growing up amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 63 Ann Hornaday
    The Souvenir: Part II
    The Souvenir Part II may bring an end to the introduction of a marvelous filmmaker to a wider world. But far more promisingly, it suggests what, with luck, will be an exhilarating next chapter.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Ann Hornaday
    Eternals
    Zhao might have her eye on the nuances, but ultimately even a filmmaker with her sensitivity and vision can’t bend the Great Marvel Imperative to her will.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 37 Ann Hornaday
    The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
    The Electrical Life of Louis Wain tells its story with sympathy, but too many quirks and try-hard flourishes. In the welter and spin of tics, voice-overs, set pieces, images, flashbacks and dream states, the man himself gets as lost as a kitten in the rain.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Ann Hornaday
    The French Dispatch
    There’s attentive scrutiny here, and a surfeit of playful style, but precious little genuine curiosity or interest.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Ann Hornaday
    The Last Duel
    The Last Duel is an entertaining movie, even an intriguing one. But audiences might be forgiven for thinking, upon leaving the theater, that they’ve just been very nobly and very honorably mansplained.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Ann Hornaday
    Mass
    At its core, Mass exerts the power of ritual at its most reflective and galvanizing, reveling in human connection at its most arduous, persistent and sublime.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 37 Ann Hornaday
    Titane
    With Titane, Ducournau joins the crowded realm of elevated horror, to increasingly outlandish and alienating effect.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Ann Hornaday
    The Guilty
    For its eventual lurid machinations and hyped-up emotionalism, the film winds up being a handsomely efficient one-man show. Like the man Gyllenhaal so convincingly embodies, it gets the job done, even if it inevitably goes over the top.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Ann Hornaday
    My Name Is Pauli Murray
    My Name is Pauli Murray delivers a lively, revelatory litany of all the things Murray got right first, in a career that was driven by equal parts intellectual curiosity and call to service.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Ann Hornaday
    The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    The Eyes of Tammy Faye gives viewers an absorbing, amusing and provocative chance to rethink yet another train wreck who turned out to be, of all things, human.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Ann Hornaday
    The Card Counter
    With The Card Counter, Schrader has reverted to form, but he’s remade it anew at the same time. He’s done it again, with crafty, haunting power.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Ann Hornaday
    Everybody's Talking About Jamie
    In the tradition of such bracing musicals as Kinky Boots, Billy Elliot and Prom, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie has exuberance to burn, high spirits galore and a brand of message-driven escapism that’s as insistent as it is worthy. Resistance, in other words, is futile.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Ann Hornaday
    Cinderella
    Cinderella, the latest of countless adaptations of the centuries-old rags-to-riches story, is far less interested in enchantment than in dismantling the entire sexist, classist racket.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Ann Hornaday
    Together
    Even at its most glancing and superficial, Together offers a diverting attempt at capturing recent history, in all its maddening contradictions and compromises, recriminations and rages. It reflects a time when all we had was each other, for better or — way too often — for worse.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Ann Hornaday
    Flag Day
    As a director, Penn knows how to create arresting tableaus that draw the eye and spark the viewer’s own sensory past. As an actor, no one is better at finding honesty in the moment. Like the antihero at its center, the essence of Flag Day remains tantalizingly elusive, potently evoked but never fully realized.
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