Erik Adams

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IGN, The A.V. Club
For 17 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Erik Adams' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Muppet Christmas Carol
Lowest review score: 42 The Happytime Murders
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Erik Adams
    The Naked Gun
    With more jokes than you can possibly catch in a single viewing, The Naked Gun proudly brings cinematic groaners and outrageous sight gags into the 2020s.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Erik Adams
    Old Guy
    There’s no snap to the dialogue, no thrill to a majority of the action, and the other characters played by Cooper Hoffman and Lucy Liu (and their relationships to Dolinski) make no lasting impression.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Erik Adams
    Meanwhile on Earth
    A modest French sci-fi fable whose messages about letting go aren’t half as moving as the images surrounding them.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Erik Adams
    Jim Henson Idea Man
    Idea Man is a lively if shallow journey into the mind of Muppet maestro Jim Henson.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Erik Adams
    Self Reliance
    Self Reliance's comedic riff on The Most Dangerous Game benefits from writer-director-star Jake Johnson’s extraordinary ability to commit to a bit – but it's lacking a sense of danger.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Erik Adams
    Landscape with Invisible Hand
    Landscape with Invisible Hand is brimming with ideas and storylines, but they never come together as a satisfying whole.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Erik Adams
    Tom & Jerry
    It’s as though Tom And Jerry was intended to be enjoyed from home all along: Not only are you free to poke around on your phone between the set pieces, but you can use that phone to call up the 90-odd Tom And Jerry cartoons that also come with your HBO Max subscription.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Erik Adams
    Boys State
    With so much attention paid to the campaign trail, Boys State fails to show us how the waterworks get built.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Erik Adams
    Beastie Boys Story
    It’s all there in the outtakes: The Beastie Boys story is simply too big, too strange, too unwieldy for Beastie Boys Story to contain it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Erik Adams
    El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
    Refreshingly, Gilligan doesn’t try to run away from his TV-writing instincts: Each proceeding stage in Jesse’s high-stakes predicament plays out like its own distinct episode, a further blurring of the lines between media that might’ve been distracting in a bygone era, but is right at home on Netflix.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 42 Erik Adams
    The Happytime Murders
    It’d be an intriguing premise — if, again, it weren’t so nearly identical to "Roger Rabbit," right down to the inevitable frame job. Also, if The Happytime Murders had taken a few more cues from that film and focused less on the rote whodunit and more on the funhouse-mirror L.A. where it takes place.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Erik Adams
    Pee-wee's Big Holiday
    If there’s anything tying together the detours and roadblocks that comprise Big Holiday, it’s the film’s big, bold, screaming celebration of human difference.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Erik Adams
    Love & Mercy
    Capturing the spirit of that music (while dramatizing the circumstances of its creation) is Love & Mercy’s biggest victory.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Erik Adams
    Muppets Most Wanted
    The Muppets are creatures of indulgence, and their sense of humor is one of excess. Muppets Most Wanted is a mess of a movie, but anything tidier would be a poor fit.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Erik Adams
    Date and Switch
    In effect, it feels a lot like the characters at its center — not terrible, just incomplete. A comic take on this premise and these themes feels like a necessity in 2014. Unfortunately, Date And Switch isn’t the movie this day and age needs.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Erik Adams
    The Muppet Christmas Carol
    The Muppet Christmas Carol may be the most important Dickens adaptation of our time.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Erik Adams
    The Muppets Take Manhattan
    A rehash of The Muppet Movie that has the gang jumping over shorter hurdles to achieve the less-grand goal of mounting a Broadway musical. Of the first three Muppet movies, The Muppets Take Manhattan feels like the one aimed most directly at kids. In spite of its shortcomings, The Muppets Take Manhattan at least retains the spirit and message espoused by the first two entries in the series.

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