Emma Stefansky

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For 17 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Emma Stefansky's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Lowest review score: 50 Strange World
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
17 movie reviews
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Emma Stefansky
    Wicked: For Good
    Wicked: For Good brings Jon M. Chu’s movie-musical duology to a climactic conclusion that’s dark in every sense of the word. With harrowing action scenes, heart-wrenching musical numbers, and excessively dimly-lit scenery, this sequel compounds all of the problems of the first movie while introducing some wholly new ones of its own. Dual leads Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are as luminous as ever, electric whenever they’re sharing the screen together, but there’s a lot of movie to slog through to get there.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Emma Stefansky
    I Know What You Did Last Summer
    There’s a fun slasher buried beneath the too-faithful reboot plot of the new I Know What You Did Last Summer. Unfortunately, it’s overshadowed by too many callbacks to the first movie in the series and too little originality. The mix of new stars and returning favorites provides some urgency, but does little to give it an identity all its own.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Stefansky
    Dead Mail
    The movie plays its fun, spooky premise as straight as possible, while winking at the absurdity of its analog aesthetic.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Stefansky
    Last Breath
    In spite of all of its nail-biting close calls and harrowing footage from the actual rescue, it’s actually a lot of fun.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 70 Emma Stefansky
    Flight Risk
    Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk manages to entertain despite goofy dialogue and the equally goofy concept of a U.S. Marshal and the prisoner she’s transporting finding themselves onboard a tiny plane with a killer. The character types are familiar and the story is simple, but there’s enough panache to keep it in the air right up until its explosive ending.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Emma Stefansky
    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a fascinating idea with a lackluster execution, more interesting as a concept than an actual retelling of one of Middle-earth’s famous legends.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Emma Stefansky
    Cuckoo
    While it sometimes leans too heavily on its ickier aspects, Cuckoo has just enough sense of its own absurdity to remain disgustingly fun.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Emma Stefansky
    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Hashira Training
    It’s a little bit of a slog even if you’re already a fan.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Emma Stefansky
    The Beekeeper
    A semi-confusing script and heavy-handed direction from David Ayer muddle the proceedings, but enough inspired pizazz and Statham’s earnest delivery of lines like “I protect the hive” just barely bring it all home.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Emma Stefansky
    The Beast
    While Bertrand Bonnello’s film is a timely, somewhat satirical send-up of dystopian futures and past traumas, The Beast doesn’t quite measure up to its heavy portents of doom.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Emma Stefansky
    Biosphere
    Biosphere is tons of fun as a character study, but its ideas will leave you gazing out of its geodesic windows, wishing there was something more out there.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Emma Stefansky
    Strange World
    It’s tough to watch a movie whose rootbound nostalgia keeps it from making good on the promise those stories made to show us something we’ve never seen before.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Emma Stefansky
    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
    “The Last Wish” has no qualms about testing the expectations of its young audience while delivering a freewheeling tale about appreciating the nine lives we already have.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Emma Stefansky
    Retrograde
    To watch terror become desperation become despair is wrenching, more so because this puts names and faces to events the rest of us are fortunate enough to read about while sitting on our couches.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Emma Stefansky
    One Piece Film: Red
    One Piece Film: Red sails a fine line, its story beats familiar enough for the newcomers, with details as bizarre and garish as a “One Piece” story could possibly get.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Emma Stefansky
    Wendell & Wild
    The movie is a giddy joy, hilariously gross, and earnestly heartfelt, with the kind of icky-gooey attention to detail that makes Selick’s movies such a visceral experience.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Emma Stefansky
    Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
    Chock-full of popcorn nostalgia and fan favorite characters and villains and power moves exactly like what any fan of the long-running saga is looking for.

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