For 256 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 75% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Drew McWeeny's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Guardians of the Galaxy
Lowest review score: 0 The Brothers Grimsby
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 24 out of 256
256 movie reviews
    • 34 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    I think it is precisely because the technical work by everyone from James Bobin down is so good that I find myself infuriated by the film. So much muscle, so much effort, so much raw talent on display, and all in service of demographic-and-merchandise-driven garbage that sullies the name of the source material.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 0 Drew McWeeny
    An entirely laughless affair and easily the low point of Cohen's career so far.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    Brutally unfunny, visually off-putting, and filled with cameos so embarrassing I am bruised from holding a cringe for a full half-hour, Zoolander 2 is every horrible decision you can make with a comedy sequel wrapped up into one nigh unbearable film.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    Walking out of the film, I might have given it a C+ or a C based purely on the fumes of Murray's better work that are present here, but the more I've thought about it, the more infuriating it is to see something this lazy and familiar from Murray at this point.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    Pan
    With no clear purpose in telling the story and no real focus in the actual storytelling, Pan never gets off the ground.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    Stonewall is the anti-"Selma," a movie that not only fails to fully capture the energy and importance of a true event but that fails so completely as a film that it is almost impressive.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    I think Sandler's miscasting leads to a real deficit of energy at the center of the film, and then the conceptual misfire is so dire that I just don't know what to say beyond that.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 0 Drew McWeeny
    It is a singularly unpleasant experience, not because it is scary or extreme or even interesting. It is unpleasant because it is a dull story filled with characters that are so poorly drawn as to be forgettable even while you're watching them.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    There is nothing about Terminator: Genisys that suggests that this film was a compelling, urgent, essential dream for anyone involved. This is all about squeezing cash out of people who are fond of the original films, calculated and without any of the soul of Cameron's films.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    Whimsy's hard, honestly motivated romance is harder, and when you get both of those things wrong in the same movie, the result is almost too much to take.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    It would be a lot easier to give the film a soft pass if it wasn't so aggressively lazy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    Competently made but morally repellent, Get Hard may be my least favorite Will Ferrell feature film.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 0 Drew McWeeny
    It is a staggeringly bad film, made up of lots of faulty pieces.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    I don't think Strange Magic is terrible movie, but it is a very weird one in many ways, and perhaps the most bizarre thing about it is realizing that we finally have a fairy tale written expressly for the age of date rape drugs.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    Blackhat is a staggering misfire by a whole bunch of talented people, terrible in a way that only a good filmmaker can accomplish, and it kicks off 2015 by setting the bar very, very low. Things can only get better from here.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    Wallis, who is an appealing young performer, simply doesn't have the chops for what has traditionally been one of the more demanding leads in a musical for a young performer, and Gluck, along with co-writer Aline Brosh McKenna, has built a film around Wallis that is constantly undercutting the songs, the choreography, and the entire idea of musicals.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    This is that rare case where it feels like every choice Scott made was off, and the cumulative impact of all of these choices is one of the most crushing disappointments of the year in terms of who made the film and how little of it works.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    The Judge is risible Hollywood dreck, a star vehicle with nothing genuine driving it, and at 142 minutes, it is nearly impossible to defend.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    This entire film is like someone raised a kid in a room, cut off from all contact with the outside world, and all he had was a stack of Hustlers, a stack of Soldier of Fortunes, and a bunch of black-and-white stills from old detective movies, and at the age of 14, that kid gets turned loose and spends two hours screaming in your face about these stories he's been writing.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    There are some actual big ideas bubbling around somewhere below the surface of the film, but it's so ham-handed, so unable to grapple with the full implications of any of those ideas, that it actually becomes offensive.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    Tammy is a mess, and it feels like a real misstep for this rising star.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Drew McWeeny
    It is a ridiculous story, and these aren't human beings acting in a way that any of us would recognize.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    This thing swings from broad gross-out comedy to something that seems to be struggling to be a reflection of real life, and it never establishes a baseline reality. It is a strange misfire that is only saved from being a complete disaster by the efforts of the film's two leads.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 33 Drew McWeeny
    Need For Speed is several different movies at once, and most of them are very stupid.

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