Eric Henderson

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For 262 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Eric Henderson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 The Wrong Man
Lowest review score: 0 Cannibal Holocaust
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 128 out of 262
  2. Mixed: 55 out of 262
  3. Negative: 79 out of 262
262 movie reviews
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    Everything, Everything
    The film's plot crux isn't romantic fatalism, but 2017's cutest manifestation of trendy gaslighting.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Eric Henderson
    Unforgettable
    The truly depressing thing about a thriller as undercoocked as Unforgettable is its failure to fly on dark fantasy.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    Going in Style
    No one in Going in Style seems to really know what the hell they’re doing or why. And even though that goes double for the filmmakers, at least no one succumbs to taking any of it seriously.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Eric Henderson
    Life
    Life, an incredibly square and familiar studio product, baits and switches on two disappointing propositions, moving swiftly from something expectedly cliché to something dismayingly derivative.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    The Boss Baby
    Every Republican regime gets the ludicrous devious-baby saga it deserves.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    Passengers
    Monogamy, Passengers seems to suggest, is tantamount to existing in a world where nothing else matters outside of the bond you and your partner share.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 12 Eric Henderson
    Collateral Beauty
    David Frankel's film argues that the power of miracles can be manufactured by those who can fund them.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    The film exists resolutely outside of salience and doggedly within the comfort of escapism.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Eric Henderson
    Storks
    Maybe it's not the worst thing in the world that Storks doesn't take many cues from Pixar's tear-jerking playbook.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Eric Henderson
    Bridget Jones's Baby
    The Pinkberry solipsism of this particular franchise all but requires our heroine persist as a lovelorn martyr for her audience’s benefit.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Eric Henderson
    Sully
    It presses the case that the complexity of the human condition distracts us from the pure dignity of a noble act.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Eric Henderson
    War Dogs
    The film is unrepentantly cynical when it comes to the global business of warmongering, but proves unsurprisingly earnest when it comes to the lure of the American dream.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Eric Henderson
    Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    There's something to be said for a summer movie that offers up Chris Colfer as an unapologetic misogynist hairdresser.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    Ice Age: Collision Course
    If Ice Age: Collision Course gleefully fails at being a history lesson, at least it offers an energetic recess from reality.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Eric Henderson
    Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Much like with Neighbors 2, Mike and Dave’s obvious ace in the hole is its commitment to gender parity.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Eric Henderson
    Central Intelligence
    It's a pity that no one else involved in the making of the film had Dwayne Johnson's sly intuition.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Eric Henderson
    Me Before You
    It punks its impressionable audience into believing a lie, then punishes them for their foolishness.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    The Angry Birds Movie
    The Angry Birds Movie is a lot of things, but none of them true to the app's appeal.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Eric Henderson
    Keanu
    Keanu is declawed by design, but it's hard not to wonder what the cat could've dragged in.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Eric Henderson
    Barbershop: The Next Cut
    A pop sonata of stand-up comedy routines layered with, if not vitality, then at least honest energy.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    The Boss
    The incongruity between Melissa McCarthy's eagerness as a performer and her character's total lack of compassion makes the film somehow both restless and tedious.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    As far as shameless excuses to rehash crowd-pleasing gags from the first film go, it doesn't particularly go about its duties cynically.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 12 Eric Henderson
    Risen
    It's an episode of Without a Trace: Jerusalem presented with all the panache of a Trinity Broadcasting Network TV special.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Eric Henderson
    The Choice
    Most Nicholas Sparks adaptations say, in cinematic terms, nothing so complicated as "roses are red." This one just points to a garden and shrugs.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    The 5th Wave
    The sense that children’s attitudes toward rampant militarization are being gradually normalized is the film's objectionable given.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Eric Henderson
    Ride Along 2
    Like any serving of junk food, it seems engineered to give you that initial rush of satisfaction, but leaves you in a dead zone where the only thing you want is more of the same.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Eric Henderson
    Daddy's Home
    Though Will Ferrell has made a career out of his own debasement, the film quickly becomes too cruel to generate laughter for anyone who would empathize with him.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
    In the film, Alvin and the Chipmunks proudly align themselves not with Dr. Demento, but with Kidz Bop.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    The Secret in Their Eyes
    Billy Ray unfurls the parallel time structure with the same flat, procedural monotony applied by Juan José Campanella to the original film.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Eric Henderson
    Secret in Their Eyes
    Billy Ray unfurls the parallel time structure with the same flat, procedural monotony applied by Juan José Campanella to the original film.
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