Johnny Oleksinski

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For 682 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Johnny Oleksinski's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Avatar: The Way of Water
Lowest review score: 0 Gotti
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 365 out of 682
  2. Mixed: 125 out of 682
  3. Negative: 192 out of 682
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Sheep Detectives
    The evidence adds up cleverly and the script doesn’t coast on its status as a nice family movie in order to avoid delivering a satisfying conclusion. It’s meaty, like a roast leg of, well, you know.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Devil Wears Prada 2
    The Devil Wears Prada 2, the sequel to the 2006 comedy that’s not at all about Anna Wintour, is a good time, even if the high-pressure world of Vogue, er, Runway magazine is no longer the epitome of New York luxury and glamour it was back in the aughts.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Drama
    The Drama, for all its heat, is not perfect. I wasn’t won over by its climactic series of calamities that fall in rapid succession like dominoes at the end. However, most movies are completely forgotten by the time the credits roll. This one, like it or not, lingers for days. It’ll likely wind up one of the most controversial movies of the year.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Project Hail Mary
    During a moment in which movies tend to be either cynically corporate or bleaker than a black hole, “Project Hail Mary” dares to be about that once-great driver of drama: friendship.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Hoppers
    Director Daniel Chong’s original movie is terribly funny, and often in an unfamiliar, warped way for the cerebral and mushy studio.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Wuthering Heights
    This is a sexy, funny, ravishing and dark revision that keeps Heathcliff’s frightening obsessiveness, emotional toxicity and sadism intact while ably contorting the tale into a decadent, modern, yet still distinctly gothic, romance.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Wicker
    Only an actress as caution-to-the-wind as Colman could connect so profoundly with a patio chair. Skarsgard’s sensitivity also helps.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
    Wladyka keeps the film lively with a sparkler aesthetic and a flair for musical storytelling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Weight
    Familiar though it is, the skillfully made movie finds vigor in the been-there-done-that.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Invite
    Issues millions of people face everyday are addressed cleverly and poignantly, and never without a hint of humor. Wilde isn’t really interested in sentimentality, either, and her movie hits harder for it.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Buddy
    In short: Too Many Cooks plus too many minutes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    I Want Your Sex
    It’s got something for everybody — toplessness, threesomes, dildos, ball gags, S&M and, of course, art-world satire.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    Fiennes is magnificent, and a scene involving him and Iron Maiden’s song “Number of the Beast” will go down as one of the most buzzed-about sequences of 2026. Were it written for a grisly horror movie, Alex Garland’s climax would fit snuggly into a Shakespearean comedy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Song Sung Blue
    This movie’s got as many cliches as Madison’s got cheese curds. But script aside, Jackman and Hudson onstage are effervescent and, speaking as someone who’s never mounted a motorcycle, the songs rock.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Anaconda
    Whenever there’s a lull here, a big laugh soon comes along with the force of a boa constrictor that conceals the flaws.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Avatar: Fire and Ash
    No. 3, with a reported price tag of more than $400 million, is the most visually glorious of the trio, adding fresh and imaginative beings and environments that further flesh out one of the all-time great fantasy locales.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    Marty Supreme
    It’s cinematic Mountain Dew. You’ll be wired for the entire 2½ hours.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Zootopia 2
    What’s best and most consistent about “2” is how flippin’ funny it is.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Rental Family
    Rental Family is a heartwarming jewel of a movie that is a dazzling showcase of Japan’s urban and natural beauty, instead of the usual depiction of hordes of tourists surrounded by skyscrapers and lit by LEDs.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Wicked: For Good
    Darker and grimmer Act 2, though, by a hair, makes a meatier movie because characters aren’t as silly — the first flick was practically a pageant — and they are actually propelling toward a satisfying conclusion.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Blue Moon
    As for Broadway buffs and lovers of old New York, the witty, hilarious and haunting movie starring a totally transformed Ethan Hawke as musical-theater lyricist Lorenz Hart will have them utterly bewitched.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Ballad of a Small Player
    Really, “Small Player” is a great movie until it abruptly isn’t.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Bugonia
    Bugonia buzzes by, if sometimes nauseastingly, and is a huge improvement from Lanthimos’ episodic drivel last year.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    TRON: Ares
    Forty-three years later, “Tron: Ares” is groundbreaking for being the first “Tron” film with a discernible plot.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    It Was Just an Accident
    Panahi is keenly aware of his limitations — both governmental and budgetary — and has crafted a taut, intimate and blood-pumping story around them. Talk about great art being born out of impossible circumstances.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
    For the most part, however, “Deliver Me From Nowhere” is in conversation with where Springsteen’s mind and passions rest today, as evidenced by his memoir “Born to Run” and his introspective Broadway show — revisiting the mansion on the hill and returning to his father’s house.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    After the Hunt
    Centering around a stoic woman who elbowed her way to the top of her field in a world of men in tweed suits, only for it all to be put at risk, the plot has heavy shades of 2022’s “Tar,” which is a much better movie.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    One Battle After Another
    With this visionary director — one of Hollywood’s best — it’s one winner after another.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
    For those who do not have a room in the house devoted to Elvis memorabilia, or care a lick about the guy, “EPiC” is still an energizing experience. To my mind, there’s nothing better than observing the greatest artists of all time do what they do best — unvarnished.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
    Nostalgia is a prime factor, yes, but the story is legitimately engrossing this time, however recycled it may be, rather than a lazy stack of trumpeted entrances and exits and half-witty asides that marred the 2019 and 2022 films.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    It’s the darkest, scariest and undoubtedly finest acted of the entire detective series.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    Hamnet
    It’s Buckley who’s giving one of those rare turns that simply beggars belief. She swings back and forth from cast iron to porcelain. The actress is thunderous, playful, grounded and ethereal. She breaks your heart — not only when the worst befalls Agnes, but whenever she cracks a smile.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Frankenstein
    Del Toro has whipped up a monster that’s enjoyable enough to stare at, all right. And you’ve gotta admire his handiwork. What’s missing are what the Creature hungers for most of all — life and love.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Lost Bus
    What keeps “The Lost Bus” from going full PlayStation — or full Brosnan — is a pulsing performance from McConaughey as a flawed dad desperately trying to reach his ill son (played by McConaughey’s own offspring, Levi Alves McConaughey) while saving the sons and daughters of others.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Christy
    The film is an often ugly character study of a hard life that only got worse the more famous Martin got.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Weapons
    The experience is akin to being blindfolded and thrown into a trunk — except fun!
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Freakier Friday
    Lohan and Curtis are the main attractions, since “Freakier” functions mostly as a nostalgia trip for 30-something ticket-buyers who can now legally enjoy a margarita. But while massaging millennials, the movie also has a good time slinging mud at Gen Z.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Naked Gun
    Someway, somehow, it’s the funniest movie to hit theaters in a long time.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Happy Gilmore 2
    Without question, the follow-up isn’t as hilarious as the original. Who honestly expected it to be? And a good 20 minutes could have been trimmed. But “2” is warm and comfortable, features another untethered performance from Sandler that only he can give, and is less lazy than I feared.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    I Know What You Did Last Summer
    It’s a lot better than the 1997 version, if equally as stupid.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Superman
    For a change of pace, you leave the entertaining “Superman” not confused or clobbered, but feeling good.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    28 Years Later
    The fact that Fiennes went right from playing a cardinal in Best Picture-nominated “Conclave” to a nearly-naked hermit with a hobby that would raise Hannibal Lecter’s brow makes me wish we could send the actor’s brain out to be analyzed by scientists.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Elio
    Beyond the requisite lessons, there are some witty touches.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    F1: The Movie
    Is “F1” too long? Absolutely. But not once did I say, “Are we there yet?”
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    How to Train Your Dragon
    The transition from the DreamWorks CGI version from 2010, one of the best family flicks in years, to real human actors is thankfully smoother and not as off-putting as most of Disney’s recent, pitiful princess efforts.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Running in the footsteps of the last two entries directed by Christopher McQuarrie, “Fallout” and “Dead Reckoning,” No. 8 is another high-voltage, gargantuanly envisioned test of Cruise’s bodily limits. Only this franchise can make wincing fun.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Thunderbolts*
    A funny-but-tortured femme-fatale performance from Florence Pugh as Russian assassin Yelena Belova, brutal and tactile fights and a merciful lack of confusing backstory makes for the most enjoyable MCU entry in a while.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Sinners
    In combining the old genre tropes with a potent message — the eternal recipe for a great horror film — the ever-entertaining director again shows he has something forceful to say, be it with boxers, superheroes or blood-suckin’ vampires.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
    Ultimately “Mad About the Boy” is much like Bridget herself: endearing, silly, messy, wacky, kind. I like it… just as it is.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Paddington In Peru
    You’d be hard-pressed not to enjoy the jolly jaunt. Clumsy Paddington, as always, makes an adorable mess of things.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Ballad of Wallis Island
    Directed by James Griffiths, this is the sort of hilarious heart-warmer that only comes around once or twice a year to offer a blessed break from darkness, snobbery and streaming schlock. It’s so easy to love, even if love doesn’t come easy for its characters.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Writer-director Mary Bronstein’s absorbing psychological drama about a mother at her breaking point is two hours of mounting anxiety and nervousness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Twinless
    You’ll begin “Twinless” with basic expectations, and you’ll end it with your mouth agape. And then you’ll ask the most satisfying question there is after first encountering an exciting young filmmaker’s work: When’s the next one?
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Brutalist
    To say I was never bored wouldn’t be quite right. Rather, I was always transfixed.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Sonic the Hedgehog 3
    What’s different from the previous entry is that humor here, despite a formulaic plot, is balanced with surprising dramatic heft.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    A Complete Unknown
    It is one that sweeps you up, though, in its beautifully detailed vision of an analog New York where stars eat at greasy spoons below 14th and future music legends pass the hat in basement clubs. Scrounging for their next meal.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Nosferatu
    Skarsgård’s the ace though. Without going overboard, and never being anything less than terrifying, he fleshes out Orlok into a richer character than bat-like Schreck was able to. His tragic, albeit disturbing, final scene almost puts a stake right through our hearts.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Maria
    As Callas so devastatingly starts to lose it, “Maria” satisfyingly stirs our insides in the mysterious way an opera does.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Moana 2
    The studio’s latest likable musical is nicely animated, has nice characters and a few nice songs. At risk of repeating myself: It’s nice.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Blitz
    McQueen’s script at times reeks of obviousness, even as it nurtures understated and heartfelt performances from Ronan and Heffernan. We always know where the film is going, and it dutifully goes there. Visually, though, the work’s a stunner.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Wicked
    Even after nearly three hours of sitting, I didn’t feel as though I’d gotten to know the characters very well.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Gladiator II
    Is it an essential continuation of the story of Russell Crowe’s fallen fighter Maximus? Eh, not really. A likable diversion, the film is not as epic or weighty as its acclaimed predecessor.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    Anora
    Endlessly entertaining and frequently hysterical, “Anora” is one of the year’s best films and a formidable Oscar contender.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    It's What's Inside
    Writer-director Greg Jardin’s seductive — if occasionally difficult to follow — movie is a wicked spin on a familiar tale: a group of friends spending a dramatic drunken evening in a big, luxe house.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Wild Robot
    It’s a breathtakingly human film — about a bird and a bot.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
    Lets viewers uniquely into Springsteen’s creative process: Choosing a set list, adjusting tempos, collaborating with background singers. In short: Getting the band back together.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    Babygirl
    It’s hard to imagine audiences being more glued to another movie this year, so sexy and stirring the story is from start to finish.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Saturday Night
    Since the characters barely get a chance to catch their breath, let alone say their piece, we don’t learn much about them beyond familiar traits. However, Reitman’s aim isn’t to seriously illuminate that fateful night so much as to energetically add to showbiz mythology.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Conclave
    While I needle “Conclave” for being far from realistic, its meticulous detail is evidenced immediately by the ceremonial removal of the papal ring from the corpse and the sealing of his apartment. Visually, the entire film’s a stunner.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Unstoppable
    Vitally, though, the director gets a terrific performance from Jerome, which prevents “Unstoppable” from falling into the traps so many athletic yarns do.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Nightbitch
    Heller’s enjoyable film is not the cringe fest you walk in expecting it to be, even if the premise will be a hairy leap for some moviegoers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Substance
    I enjoyed this ride of titillation, torment, insanity and exploitation to such a preposterous extent that I’ve considered signing up for online therapy to wrestle with it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Blink Twice
    It’s an impressive first effort from Kravitz that, like the island and the women, immediately has us in its grip.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Alien: Romulus
    The bonkers ending will be a talker. At first, I was skeptical, segued to disturbed, and then thoroughly creeped out. It’s a wild choice, however, one with a hint of precedent elsewhere in the series. And it serves to differentiate what is, admirably, a highly deferential film.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    It Ends with Us
    It Ends With Us is, despite its failings and indulgences, a highly emotional and absorbing couple of hours.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Deadpool & Wolverine
    Director Shawn Levy’s laugh-a-second movie is easily the best Marvel has delivered since 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and provides similarly nostalgic pleasures in its whiplash-inducing number of retro cameos — none of which I’ll spoil, for fear of my own life.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Twisters
    Twisters, the disaster movie starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, is an oddity in 2024: a reboot that’s actually worth your time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Longlegs
    What’s so unsettling about his Longlegs is, as big and cartoonish as he is, the weirdo is just believable enough. You could run into him late at night at a highway rest stop or, God forbid, on an empty subway platform. Cage makes a meal out of the murderer...During this so-so summer at the movies, something’s finally got legs.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Bikeriders
    Smooth as fresh asphalt, the film makes us pine for a pothole or two.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Inside Out 2
    We hold Pixar to a higher standard because of the true art it has achieved over the past – gulp – 30 years. If “Inside Out 2” doesn’t quite reach those heights, it is still a promising step on the studio’s difficult quest to rediscover its own sense of self.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Federer: Twelve Final Days
    “Twelve Final Days” is a tender, mellow film that delves inside the head of a deeply enigmatic figure as he asks the relatable and terrifying question: “What’s next?”
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    Summer blockbusters don’t get much better.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    Directed with visual splendor by Wes Ball, the meaty film’s combo of flawless zoological effects (unlike this year’s inferior primate picture “Godzilla x Kong”), superbly crafted characters and a timeless story of emerging civilization and the fight for survival is remarkably riveting for what sets the groundwork of a whole new trilogy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Idea of You
    Directed by Michael Showalter without too much sentimentality or cheese, the guilty-pleasure rom-com (emphasis on rom) is elevated by Hathaway’s layered performance as a swept-off-her-feet California mother that goes well beyond the confines of its supermarket pulp storyline.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Challengers
    Like Emerald Fennell’s shapeshifting mystery, “Challengers” is, at once, artful, addictive and deceptive. The salivating viewer believes it’s one thing, becomes sure it’s another and then leaves with a different theory altogether.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
    Ritchie is tops when it comes to getting a group of guys (and, occasionally, gal) together to complete a bloody, belligerent task. And this is as taut an ensemble of his as ever.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Road House
    The beefcake Swayze role, Dalton, is taken over by an intense Jake Gyllenhaal in this entertaining and, for better or worse, less mockable update of the cult classic.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Kung Fu Panda 4
    The so-so story aside, like the previous three movies and most of DreamWorks’ catalog, this iteration of “Panda” appealingly wears its heart on its paw. And that’s sufficient reason for families to choose it over a lot of other animated schlock out there.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Johnny Oleksinski
    Dune: Part Two
    Our blockbuster drought is over, thanks to a brilliant sequel set on a sweltering desert planet.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
    J.Lo has delivered an over-the-top song-and-dance camptacular, both gravely serious and deliriously funny, providing one cuckoo moment after another.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    Thelma
    Any plot greasing is quickly forgivable because of how damn delightful it is to be riding in the back of Squibb’s scooter. That this is the actress’ first leading role in a decades-long career is the greatest crime of all.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Love Lies Bleeding
    The entertaining movie from director Rose Glass, whose first feature was “Saint Maud,” is unsparing in its graphic depictions of violence, abuse and extreme aspects of the body. Many will find all of that stuff gratuitous, but it fleshes out this unsavory world and ratchets up the plot’s tension.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Outrun
    It is a phenomenal showcase for Ronan, who dares to be unlikable for the rare time in her career. Her natural charm and whimsy we’re used to from “Lady Bird” and “Little Women” is but a glimmer in Rona’s eye — and that little light is why the viewer roots for this troubled woman as hard as they do.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Little Death
    The trouble here is the fizzling story. The viewer can’t help but feel the loss of Ross.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    My Old Ass
    Ninety percent of the movie is a very pleasant watch. All “My Old Ass” needed was a few more conversations with Elliott’s family and friends to provide more closure for her and the film.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Johnny Oleksinski
    A Real Pain
    Impressive throughout is the way Eisenberg balances reverence for his locations and belly-grabbing comedy, while using those elements to support each other.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    Freaky Tales
    Even though you definitely don’t leave contemplating the narrative, the detailed and authentic ‘80s aesthetic conjures a spell.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Iron Claw
    Watching “The Iron Claw” can feel like getting slammed with a metal folding chair over and over again. So bludgeoning are the true and tragic circumstances that befell the famous Von Erich wresting family during the 1980s and ’90s, which director Sean Durkin’s film depicts.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    Ferrari
    The film, admittedly, does not rev up as fast as a Ferrari. The director initially prefers a relaxed pace and almost sepia color scheme that make us unsure, sometimes in frustration, of what the vibe of the story is supposed to be.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Johnny Oleksinski
    The Color Purple
    Another reason to embrace “Purple” is that the moving film is graced by a duo of exceptional performers in Barrino and Danielle Brooks as Sofia who, while singing, capture the electricity of being live onstage, and, while acting, take advantage of the raw intimacy of a close-up. Getting that combo right in movie musicals is rarer than you’d think.
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