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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    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Boyhood
    Boyhood is more than a movie; it is a vibrant, living thing, and it is beautiful, and it is sad, and it is wise, and it is sprawling, and it is intimate, and it is painful, and it is more than any filmmaker could have intended, and, yes… when it comes to trying to capture truth in a way that cannot be argued or denied or even summarized… I am sure that nothing will ever be this good again.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea is an extraordinarily wise and well-observed film about what can happen to someone when life gives them more than they can handle, and Casey Affleck's lead performance is, simply put, the model of what great film acting should look like.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Inside Out
    Co-directors Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen have told a very, very small-scale story when you look at what happens in the actual physical world. But in doing so, they've done something very powerful, because they have paid full respect to just how turbulent and important the inner life of a child can be.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    There is nothing easy or predictable about what George Miller delivers with Mad Max: Fury Road, a stone-cold action master class, beautiful and brainy and startling in the ways it throws off the current definition of the blockbuster.
    • 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.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Anomalisa
    Anomalisa is an extraordinarily wise film about the reasons we turn to other people and the enormous difficulty of doing so.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    It is safe to say that The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of those breakthrough moments, a movie that is so beautifully realized from start to finish that I almost doubted myself on the way home. Could I really have enjoyed that film that much?
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Drew McWeeny
    Force Majeure
    Force Majeure is an impressive and adult piece of work, bracing and intelligent.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Everybody Wants Some!!
    Everybody Wants Some!! offers a mature and crystal-clear voice, a filmmaker of enormous muscle who makes it all look ridiculously easy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    The Witch
    Eggers manages to create a sense of mood and dread that is so suffocating at times that it feels like we're watching something genuinely transgressive, something we should not be seeing.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Kubo and the Two Strings
    Kubo works because it is so direct, so honest about the emotional story it’s telling. Knight may have epic ambitions, but he keeps the stakes very personal.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Snowpiercer
    The action sequences in the film are spectacular, and there's one in particular that I think is an all-timer, both in the way it's imagined and in the way it's accomplished on film, but this isn't a film about empty sensation. It's a richly realized science-fiction world, and the cast is just tremendous.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    De Palma
    DePalma emerges as a charming storyteller, funny and slightly wicked, and he offers up some terrific anecdotes about his casts, his process, and his choices over the years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Drew McWeeny
    The LEGO Movie
    Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, and with a voice cast that nails it in every role, large or small, "The Lego Movie" is a genuine delight.
    • 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Drew McWeeny
    It Follows
    At its best, the film has moments that are creepy and that work on some strange primal level.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Creed
    By the time Coogler wraps things up, his film manages the difficult trick of looking back with earned nostalgia and standing alone as a genuinely strong dramatic piece.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Top Five
    Top Five is, above everything else, really entertaining. It is a successful sophisticated spin on Hollywood formula, and it feels like Chris Rock finally finding a filmmaking voice that is just as limber and funny and sharply satirical and angry and even romantic as Rock's stand-up.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Inherent Vice
    This movie is so funny, so strange, so wonderfully charmingly deranged.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Skyfall
    Despite the very real threat and the personal stakes and the grim weight given to things, director Sam Mendes manages to pay sophisticated, sincere homage to the conventions that define the Bond series while remembering that one of the things that makes the series such an enduring presence is fun.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    While Hunt For The Wilderpeople is very funny, what makes it stick is the way Waititi allows the relationship between Hec and Ricky to develop slowly, and how nimbly he sets the emotional stakes for both of the characters.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    The Martian
    It takes a genuine master craftsman to take something as complex and difficult as this and make it look easy, but it also takes an artist with a great ear to take something as dense with exposition as this is and make it practically sing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 Drew McWeeny
    Z for Zachariah
    Z For Zachariah may not be a faithful adaptation of a well-liked book, but as a film, it is a lovely, powerful piece of work.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Love & Mercy
    In essence, we get to study Brian's break with sanity and his eventual healing, but by keeping the focus tight on these two moments, the film becomes emotionally exhilarating.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    It must have seemed like a nearly-impossible task when JJ Abrams and his collaborators set out to bring "Star Wars" back to life, but they've more than done it. They've made something honest and beautiful and, above all, fun, and I find myself energized by the movie and by the promise it represents.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Drew McWeeny
    A Most Violent Year
    J. C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year is a powerfully told story, a thrilling surprise, and both Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain do remarkable work.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Drew McWeeny
    Gone Girl
    Gone Girl is not Fincher's best film, nor is it the most conventionally satisfying of them, but it feels like this is a movie that represents the very best that Hollywood craft can offer at the moment.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Drew McWeeny
    Maggie
    The film feels very tiny, and intentionally so. This isn't a horror film at all, which is an odd thing to say when you're talking about a movie with zombies in it.
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