Drew McWeeny

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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. Positive: 171 out of 256
  2. Mixed: 61 out of 256
  3. Negative: 24 out of 256
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Deadpool
    It is almost preposterous how little "plot" there is in the film...What it has in spades is attitude, and right up until the moment the film began, I was afraid It was going to be so juvenile and filthy that I would end up annoyed by it. Instead, from the very beginning of the opening credits, it is clear that director Tim Miller and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have crafted something deeply silly that isn't remotely interested in playing by the conventional rules of what we've come to think of as "the superhero genre."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Pee-wee's Big Holiday
    While it’s doubtful any film could match the weird giddy energy that made Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure a classic, this movie honors and expands his legacy, and should prove to be a pleasure for anyone who has ever loved this character.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Snowden
    Snowden has a secret weapon, and it’s one that I wasn’t expecting: a fully-engaged and on-his-game Oliver Stone.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    If you have a fondness for the genre and a particular love of '60s pop, The Man From UNCLE is the summer's big fizzy drink, all bubbles, and while it may be gone the moment you walk out of the theater, the smile it puts on your face will likely linger.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Suicide Squad
    Suicide Squad is not the darkest mainstream superhero comic book movie ever made, nor is it even the darkest live-action film featuring Batman ever made. However, it is gleefully nihilistic, and it takes a different approach to what has become a fairly familiar story form at this point, right at the moment when it feels like superhero movies either have to evolve or die.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Home
    Tim Johnson gets the character stuff right, and the animators do an amazing amount of subtextual work with color and with texture ripples on the various Boov characters.. It's lovely work overall, and it might be the most cheerfully benign conquering force we've ever faced on film.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    If I Stay
    While I think If I Stay has to do a fair amount of juggling to get its premise to work, there is a cumulative power to it that I found undeniable and earned.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    High-Rise
    Wheatley is all about control of tone and how he's using this big obvious metaphor. His film is alive with human behavior, heightened at times and stylized as hell, but alive and identifiable and crackling with a wicked energy.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Knock Knock
    Knock Knock has something genuine to say, and it uses some really dark dramatic beats to get there.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Southside with You
    Southside With You is quietly romantic, but more than that, it burns with a deep sense of optimism.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    The Peanuts Movie
    Frequently very funny, undeniably aimed at younger audiences, and true to the source material, The Peanuts Movie is too mild-mannered to win over brand new audiences, but it's going to please people who were already fond of the underlying property, and it should be a big nostalgia-driven hit for the studio.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    The Neon Demon
    The Neon Demon’s going to frustrate anyone who goes in looking for a conventional film or a thriller that has any interest in actually scaring you. This is a ride, a carefully crafted experience, and it is precisely because it is so immersive and controlled that I would recommend it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Avengers: Age of Ultron
    This is a movie that is almost exhaustingly large-scale, and Ultron's ultimate plan involves a crazy visual idea that Whedon makes sort of beautiful and eerie. It's got so much action that I'm going to bet some audiences go numb after a while. But in scene after scene, there are beats and stunts and poses that suggest that an army of comic book fanatics worked on this movie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Spy
    There is a giddy sense of glee that runs through most of this movie, making it feel like Feig can barely contain himself with all of the things he wants to do and show you in the movie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    X-Men: Days of Future Past
    It feels like the single most successful attempt to pull the shape of one of the beloved comic stories into the film world. It also feels like Bryan Singer has finally figured out how to shoot an action scene where the X-Men actually look and feel like the X-Men, and where the fantastic is handled the right way.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Jupiter Ascending
    Fast, frequently teetering on the cusp of the ridiculous, and eye-poppingly pretty, Jupiter Ascending is a wicked slice of entertainment, and a heck of an antidote to the typical February box-office blahs.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Whiplash
    By far, the best part of the film is the last twenty minutes or so, and it's so good that it almost makes up for some of the missteps along the way.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Straight Outta Compton
    Both of its time and of the moment, Straight Outta Compton is potent and largely successful, and makes a hell of a case for why this was a story worth telling.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    22 Jump Street
    Suffice it to say that it is a cannily-constructed film, and it does have a bigger "movie" feel than the first film. There are places where they swing for some big jokes that don't quite work, but the ambition is dizzying all the way through.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Red Army
    Gabe Polsky has made a smart and incisive film about an important moment in the history of a now-fallen empire, and he happened to make it wildly entertaining as well. No easy feat.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Blair Witch
    The movie is as good a Blair Witch film as anyone could have faithfully delivered.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Miles Ahead
    While there is an untruth at the heart of the film, it's in service of illuminating any number of smaller truths, and I find that approach fascinating.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Frank
    Frank rides a really strange tone, and director Lenny Abrahamson deserves credit for how he manages to make the strange and the sad and the funny all feel like it's part of the same film.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    The Gambler
    This is a film that is quietly confident. Everything's well-composed. Everything's put together right. There's a very sure hand on the wheel here, and at this point, I'm sold on Rupert Wyatt as a guy who can tell a story with a certain kind of intelligence, both towards his subject and towards his audience.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    By focusing on a few key emotional arcs instead of making it about every shot being the BIGGEST THING OF ALL TIME, Jackson gives the battle a sense of urgency that builds and ebbs, builds and ebbs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Bridge of Spies
    I was pleased to see that "Spies" is not a thriller so much as an ode to both American diplomacy and the tradition of moral movie fathers along the lines of Atticus Finch.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    Foxcatcher
    These performances are beyond reproach, which makes it even stranger that the film never quite turns into the crushing experience it feels like it should be.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    The Walk
    When you're watching something Zemeckis made, anything can happen, and reality is up for grabs. In this case, he's used his powers for good, and the end result is stirring and spectacular at times, with a devastating, if subtle, final line of dialogue.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    The Nice Guys
    It is an easy sit, a big fat slice of smart entertainment. Constantly funny, startlingly violent, and oddly heartfelt, The Nice Guys is a grown-up delight, a perfect antidote to the nonstop barrage of effects spectacle that normally marks the summer movie season.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Drew McWeeny
    The Book of Life
    The Book Of Life may play by the rules when it comes to story, but it plays its own game when it comes to how it looks, and in the world of animated family films, that's what really counts.
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