Glenn Kenny

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For 1,925 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Glenn Kenny's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Inside Llewyn Davis
Lowest review score: 0 American Dreamer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,194 out of 1925
  2. Mixed: 472 out of 1925
  3. Negative: 259 out of 1925
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Voicemails for Isabelle
    The appealing Zoey Deutch is the best reason to watch Voicemails for Isabelle. Written and directed by Leah McKendrick (who also plays a small, amusing role), the movie begins as a tear-jerker and morphs into a rom-com with poignant notes.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Glenn Kenny
    Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World)
    Thompson uses archival footage, contemporary interviews, and better-than-decent animation to construct a story that’s as much about White’s legacy — one that’s crucial to Thompson the musician — as it is about White himself. The Questlove-White connection helps the movie go deeper than a portrait by a nonmusician might have.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Glenn Kenny
    Seven Snipers
    Lotta sound and fury (not just the gunfire, but Mike Forst’s “I Heart Hans Zimmer” score), but not much signifying.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Masters of the Universe
    The self-mockery is good-natured rather than disdainful, a joke even the most earnest fans of the old cartoon can appreciate. (One hopes.)
    • 33 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    The Breadwinner
    Written by Bargatze with Dan Lagana and directed by Eric Appel (of “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”), “The Breadwinner” will be familiar to anyone who’s heard of the 1983 film “Mr. Mom,” but the accents are very 21st century.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Glenn Kenny
    Tuner
    A sharp, engaging thriller with a novel premise, “Tuner” puts the viewer into a world where to hear is to feel excruciating pain.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Glenn Kenny
    Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
    The director, Andrew Bernstein, keeps the globe-trotting plot, which Krasinski formulated with the screenwriter Noah Oppenheim (“A House of Dynamite”), galloping along until a final reckoning back where all the nastiness started.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    In the Grey
    These days, Ritchie’s films are all about fabulous looking people causing a ruckus and blowing a lot of stuff up and taking out less good-looking bad guys in the bargain. “In the Grey” not only delivers these goods but goes into copious detail about just how Sid and Bronco get their ruckus up to speed.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 88 Glenn Kenny
    The Wizard of the Kremlin
    The picture sometimes plays as an amalgam of Soderbergh’s “Che” and Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” only—and this is the crucial point—with the volume turned down from 10, or 11 for that matter, to about 4.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Mortal Kombat II
    The spectacle — its eardrum-shattering, eye-popping pyrotechnics, with the violence framed against all manner of phantasmagoric computer-generated backdrops — is its own reward.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Glenn Kenny
    Deep Water
    This picture is not as ridiculous as a “Sharknado” movie — Harlin is out to make a genuine nail-biter, and he largely succeeds, maintaining interest even as the two-hour mark approaches. But it’s not enough to make you genuinely afraid to go into the ocean this summer.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Glenn Kenny
    Fuze
    In addition to serving up heaping helpings of suspense and action, “Fuze” abounds in twists.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Desert Warrior
    Rather than extend the epic sweep of this picture into the cosmic ineffable, he just wants the viewer bouncing along and rooting for its female hero. And the film succeeds admirably in this respect.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Glenn Kenny
    Eagles of the Republic
    If the movie’s conclusion is more along the lines of Voltaire than it is to, say, Costa-Gavras’ “Z,” the hair-raising route it takes to get George to a spot of tentative complacency is memorable and eye-opening.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Glenn Kenny
    Normal
    The violence is pretty graphic, and some of it is played for laughs, which would be distasteful if the laughs didn’t actually land. Oh well. Sometimes you enjoy a movie, and you don’t feel good about it in the morning.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Glenn Kenny
    The Stranger
    Make no mistake: this is a horror film; as you stare at the screen, the abyss it represents stares back at you.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Glenn Kenny
    A Great Awakening
    It’s an earnest account of a religious movement that still resonates — Whitefield’s practice was instrumental in the growth of the Methodist church, and his sermons and lectures are still in print today.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Glenn Kenny
    Kontinental '25
    While this film is often funny, its ultimate bit of wisdom, from the New Testament, is dark and undeniable: “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    She Dances
    While the picture, directed by Rick Gomez, has an often jaunty tone, it’s really at its best when it leans into the sadness that shadows the father-daughter relationship. Those scenes are where the two Zahns do their best, most affecting acting work.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Glenn Kenny
    Two Prosecutors
    While Loznitsa’s films, particularly his documentaries, often have a terrifying epic sweep, “Two Prosecutors,” as its title implies, is an altogether more intimate undertaking. And no less terrifying for all that.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Tow
    The movie steers into a “beat the system” narrative that packs some stirring “Erin Brockovich” energy.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Reminders of Him
    Reminders of Him deserves credit for serving it all up unabashedly and without a single wink. This is largely thanks to the stupendous Monroe, and also Withers.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Glenn Kenny
    Youngblood
    “Hockey will teach you what you need to know about life” is a cliché, and while Underwood’s delivery of the line almost redeems it, James’s work makes you believe it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Glenn Kenny
    Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
    As tough a life as Preston had, the music that buoys this chronicle is a constant source of joy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Glenn Kenny
    Cold Storage
    Cold Storage strikes a nifty balance between the sardonic and the stressful and throws a lot of gnarly gore and gook into the scenario, as a bargain.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Glenn Kenny
    Joe's College Road Trip
    There’s a reason that “Road Trip” is premiering in the middle of Black History Month. While expansively anarchic to a fault, the movie’s anger, and its pride, is convincing.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Glenn Kenny
    Dracula
    Besson doesn’t build up the romantic emotion he apparently aspires to with his efforts, but “Dracula” gets by on the power of his (and Landry’s) conviction.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Glenn Kenny
    Shelter
    The spy-versus-spy scenario set out by the screenwriter Ward Parry isn’t going to give the maestro Mick Harron (“Slow Horses”) any sleepless nights. But as a vehicle for Statham’s bone-breaking escapades, it’ll do. And the story avoids some of the expected clichés.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Glenn Kenny
    The Big Fake
    The hair-raising narrative content notwithstanding, the movie doesn’t create much emotional traction.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Glenn Kenny
    Shuffle
    While some institutions are legitimate, Shuffle, a shocking and confounding new documentary directed by Benjamin Flaherty, lays out in painstaking detail the collusion between moneymaking rehab treatment centers, double-dealing insurance entities and predatory social-media “scouts” who make sure cash flows into corporate pockets while the sick and suffering never get well.
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