Joe McGovern

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Entertainment Weekly
For 61 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joe McGovern's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lowest review score: 25 Song to Song
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 61
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 61
  3. Negative: 5 out of 61
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Joe McGovern
    The Book of Henry
    Lieberher delivered such a nuanced performance in Midnight Special (ditto Tremblay, in Room) that The Book of Henry can (we hope) just be chalked up to a case of early-career hiccups.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Joe McGovern
    Song to Song
    In terms of content and meaningfulness, Terrence Malick’s Song to Song is the cinematic equivalent of a Trump press conference. Incoherent, disconnected, self-interrupting, obsessed with pointless minutiae and crammed full of odd, limp stabs at profundity from a closed-off man in his 70s who apparently has no ability to edit or accept constructive criticism.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Joe McGovern
    Criminal
    Criminal’s story moves like a fat cow. Costner and Oldman’s characters are sluggishly chasing after — irony alert! — a big black duffel back full of $100 bills, hidden behind a stack of George Orwell books.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 33 Joe McGovern
    Trumbo
    How could a movie about a great screenwriter have such a terrible screenplay?
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Joe McGovern
    Captive
    The thin story has been stretched like Silly Putty to feature-film length and the result is utterly see-through in its sledgehammer moralizing.

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