Glenn Kenny

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Premiere, RogerEbert.com, The New York Times
For 1,916 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 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Glenn Kenny's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Shadow
Lowest review score: 0 Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,187 out of 1916
  2. Mixed: 470 out of 1916
  3. Negative: 259 out of 1916
1916 movie reviews
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Glenn Kenny
    Lansky
    Never as giddily awful as Gotti, this movie suffers more from a case of what film critic Andrew Sarris called “Strained Seriousness.” Except the ostensible seriousness here never runs particularly deep. Lansky is for Keitel completists only.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide
    Scharf’s stories of meeting up with Haring (they were roommates for some time) are evocative and moving.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Lourdes
    The movie also shows the volunteers and health care workers who look after the pilgrims during the devotional season. The movie allows these figures moments of frankness — there’s much about their jobs that’s tiring and unappetizing — but the viewer will be mostly impressed by their compassion.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Glenn Kenny
    The Sparks Brothers
    The Sparks Brothers, an energetic documentary directed by Edgar Wright, explains their appeal in part by emphasizing how it cannot be explained.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Glenn Kenny
    The French
    Klein weaves all these moments into a story one could call spectacularly earthbound.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Glenn Kenny
    The Space Between
    This is one of those movies that never quite sinks to the risible depths you kind of wish it would.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Glenn Kenny
    Queen Bees
    Each of these stalwarts bring more than charisma to their roles, and when the writing itself displays some snap (which admittedly isn’t that often) the performers bite right into it.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Glenn Kenny
    Flashback
    And it mostly doesn’t quite work, because Fred, as written by MacBride and played by Dylan O’Brien, just isn’t a compelling character.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Glenn Kenny
    Chasing Wonders
    In spite of its tidy running time, Chasing Wonders is diffuse and often limp.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Glenn Kenny
    Undine
    Undine is ultimately more enigmatic than most of Petzold’s work. It is also, like its title character, eerily beautiful. While it could well serve as a high-end date movie, it’s also something more.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Glenn Kenny
    Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
    If you’re not too conversant with the regions or works under consideration, the viewer has a choice of laboring to connect the dots unassisted, or just kicking back and letting the people and their recollections and philosophical reflections wash over you, like the sea of the movie’s title.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Glenn Kenny
    American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
    This is a plodding and ultimately infuriatingly noncommittal movie.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Glenn Kenny
    Moby Doc
    What Moby leaves out of his account is as revealing as the tales of homelessness and addiction he puts in.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Glenn Kenny
    Final Account
    The spirit of Claude Lanzmann, whose monumental Shoah remains a nonpareil cinematic text on the Holocaust, lingers over and around Final Account, a film assembled by Luke Holland around interviews he conducted beginning in 2008.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Dream Horse
    This sports underdog story, which is based on true events, has several features endemic to the genre. But Dream Horse, an unabashed crowd-pleaser directed by Euros Lyn, earns its smiles and cheers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Glenn Kenny
    New Order
    Franco practically dares the viewer to call his conclusion far-fetched. And for better or worse, the director’s dynamic filmmaking makes some of his projections stick.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Glenn Kenny
    Profile
    In Profile, the images mix real documentary footage with fictional social media and news organization posts. And meaning is elemental—a simplistic rush meant to induce viewer panic. While also being incredibly on-the-nose.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Glenn Kenny
    Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm
    This stuff is best appreciated by rock mavens. Many of the other bands telling their stories (including the Boo Radleys and the Charlatans) didn’t have much of an impact in the States, so Anglophilia helps, too.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    The Perfect Candidate
    The movie’s lived-in acting and unhurried pace make it a better-than-palatable viewing experience.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Glenn Kenny
    Silo
    The shooting is picturesque, the acting overbaked.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Wrath of Man
    Ritchie reveals crucial story points with clever time-juggling editing, and keeps up the tension well into the movie’s climax, which delivers exactly what the viewer will have come to hope for.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Glenn Kenny
    The Water Man
    The keen affinity the actor David Oyelowo has for his fellow performers is the best thing about The Water Man.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Citizen Penn
    Sean Penn’s work in Haiti after its devastating 2011 earthquake continues to this day. And this new documentary Citizen Penn is a revealing, engaging chronicle of the actor’s activism.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Glenn Kenny
    About Endlessness
    The “endlessness” of the film encompasses a lot of absurdity and disappointment, but its notes of grace sound the loudest.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Glenn Kenny
    The Virtuoso
    It’s not just the title character who fails to thrive. The filmmaking is on occasion, to put it kindly, fractured.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Cliff Walkers
    The numerous action set pieces would be memorable even if the plot points didn’t eventually fall into place, which they do.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Glenn Kenny
    Limbo
    Limbo, written and directed by a ferociously talented filmmaker, Ben Sharrock, takes an insinuating, poetic and often wryly funny approach. And it’s both heartbreaking and heartlifting.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Glenn Kenny
    Paris Calligrammes
    The filmmaker has what seems like a torrent of anecdotes and attendant ideas to impart, but the movie never feels rushed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Glenn Kenny
    Sisters with Transistors
    This film is informative and often fascinating.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 12 Glenn Kenny
    Trigger Point
    As is customary for many hack films, the writer or producer or whoever it was that nailed down the title Trigger Point for this cinematic bag of pain didn’t/doesn’t care what the phrase actually means, or whether it applies to anything that actually happens in the movie; they just thought it sounded cool.
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