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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Ann Hornaday
    Shirley
    Shirley sometimes feels as unfocused as the stymied protagonist at its core, but its point of view remains crystalline throughout: As Shirley tells Rose early in their friendship, best to be born a boy. “The world is too cruel for girls.”
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Ann Hornaday
    The High Note
    It’s a movie drenched in catchy pop hooks and aspirational romance. If this iteration doesn't quite achieve the full liftoff of the best of the form, it still manages to hit more than a few pleasure centers as a summery slice of light escapism.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ann Hornaday
    On the Record
    Their individual voices may not be literally captured in On the Record. But in this anguishing and essential film, they are heard — and the implications of being silenced for so long come through loud and shamefully clear.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Ann Hornaday
    The Trip to Greece
    Coogan and Brydon might scoff at such sentimentality, but over the course of the Trip films, they’ve shown us that world, at its most aspirationally easeful and epicurean. Even more brilliantly — and affectingly — they’ve constructed a world between them, an airy, reality-adjacent universe conjured in billowing clouds of witticisms, idle observations, passive-aggressive feints and silent, solitary reflections. Did they ever really live there? Maybe not. But it’s been a delightful place to visit.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Ann Hornaday
    How to Build a Girl
    The comedy that Feldstein and the filmmakers find in Johanna’s often disastrous attempts to become herself keeps the movie afloat; what keeps it tethered to reality is the universal drama of a young woman finding her voice without losing her soul.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Ann Hornaday
    Spaceship Earth
    Suffice it to say that, in addition to celebrating the energy, enterprise and idealism of America’s postwar generation, Spaceship Earth provides a sobering primer in how some dreams die, and others are strangled mercilessly in their cribs.
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