Katie Walsh

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For 1,346 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Katie Walsh's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lowest review score: 0 Father Figures
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 796 out of 1346
  2. Mixed: 378 out of 1346
  3. Negative: 172 out of 1346
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    Celebration
    The peek into this world, at this time, feels like a rare treat, an unearthed gem released from a vault.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Katie Walsh
    Conclave
    The richness of the filmmaking, including the powerful acting, obfuscates the fact that the story itself is a pretty thin and silly mystery with twists that cheapen the intellectual quandary at the center of the tale.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Katie Walsh
    Another Round
    While Another Round inspects the varying effects of alcohol on daily life, it’s far from clinical. Waves of ebullience, love, humor and sorrow crash on top of each other, as anyone who’s ever been overserved can attest to. It isn’t prescriptive about drinking, and doesn’t seek to impart any message other than that life is hard, and sometimes dark, and sometimes ecstatically beautiful.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    Sing Street
    It's a sweetly funny, charming and poignant depiction of this very specific time in life — at once universal and specific — when anything seems possible. And with killer pop tunes to boot.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Katie Walsh
    Sand Dollars
    Sand Dollars has an assured, light touch.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    The Innocents
    The film maintains a quiet dynamic even throughout the most horrific moments, and while you might expect, or even want, the film to climax more operatically, the understated tone is a radical choice.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Katie Walsh
    The Painter and the Thief
    It is an almost startlingly intimate film, following this strange relationship between these two, as they go through the challenges of life.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Katie Walsh
    Black Bear
    It places a modern lens on complicated questions of art, love and perspective in storytelling, in an entertaining and intelligent thriller of intimate proportions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    The Queen
    In between rehearsals, they discuss their lives, from facing the draft board, to their small hometowns, with a fascinating frankness.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    BlackBerry
    What emerges from the electronic noise and fussy aesthetic of “BlackBerry” is a compelling portrait of a company that flew too close to the sun.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Katie Walsh
    birth/rebirth
    In teasing out the complex relationship between life and death in relationship to birth and “Frankenstein,” Moss presents a provocative existential quandary and reminds us that horror stories have been women’s stories all along.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Katie Walsh
    Beware of Mr. Baker
    The combination of compelling subject with an exciting and expert approach to documentary form achieves that transcendence you hope for in this genre: a melding of subject and text that is its own beast but also perfectly reflect each other.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Katie Walsh
    Fifty Shades Darker
    The last third of the film descends straight into a combination of "Dynasty" with shades of cult classic "The Room." It's fantastic because it's complete and utter silly madness. Helicopter crashes! Slaps! Drinks thrown in faces! Fully clothed shower sex! A framed "Chronicles of Riddick" poster! All the makings of an instant cult classic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Katie Walsh
    Dìdi
    Izaac Wang’s performance of this tortured teenage soul — so young, still in braces — is a sensitive expression of the insecurity Chris feels around others and anxiety about how he will be perceived. Wang’s performance is mirrored by Chen as his mother, a housewife with an artist’s heart. She delicately balances steeliness and vulnerability to deliver a heartrending performance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    Gloria Bell
    It almost seems that Moore discovered the film and character and decided she had to play Gloria, the way stage actors take on classic roles. Moore's take brings a new dimension not only to the story but also to her career.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Katie Walsh
    Breathe
    The entire piece is precisely woven together, from script to performance to execution, and the result is a chilling study of emotional annihilation and its aftermath.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Katie Walsh
    American Violence
    It’s crisply shot but suffers from poor, amateurish editing, an overwrought dramatic score and the storytelling fails to compel. The acting, writing and directing of American Violence indicate this flick is strictly a B-movie, but its tone is far too self-serious to have any fun with at all.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Katie Walsh
    Born to Fly
    If there’s any criticism to be levied, it’s just that we wanted to see more dance, which can’t quite be fully captured on film, only in person. Still, capturing Streb’s artistry, inspiration and thought processes behind her work makes it more than worthwhile.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Katie Walsh
    Hooligan Sparrow
    Hooligan Sparrow is a vital reminder of the importance of artistic and journalistic freedom, and that telling certain stories can be an inherently perilous proposition — especially when those stories reveal something that the government would rather keep under wraps.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Katie Walsh
    Zootopia
    Ultimately, all audiences can find something to enjoy in Zootopia, though adults may find more to sink their teeth into, which is always refreshing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    I'm Your Man
    The ending is ambiguous enough to be refreshingly un-clichéd. While “I’m Your Man” is very romantic in its own way, the movie is elevated by pondering not just love but life and our impending relationship to advanced artificial intelligence, a question that is surely already upon us.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Katie Walsh
    The Eight Mountains
    The love story that is The Eight Mountains expresses this ineffable relationship between those who know us best and the places in which we find ourselves with a rough-hewed grace and profound knowingness.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Katie Walsh
    Barbarian
    Cregger slowly builds bone-chilling and suspenseful sequences up to screechingly operatic moments of face-melting horror, and then swiftly cuts to a different chapter, making a hard left into a completely different mode, taking us all on the roller-coaster ride. His facility with comedy also aids in these jarring tone switches, and Barbarian is as funny as it is terrifying.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Katie Walsh
    Arthur the King
    If you’re a dog person, it will be impossible to resist the tale of Arthur and his knights of extreme sports.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Katie Walsh
    The Substance
    Fargeat delivers a macabre, funny, tragic, absurd and grotesque Grand Guignol of butts and guts; a bonkers and brutal “beauty horror” that elevates the genre to a hysterically unprecedented heights.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    The Starling Girl
    Parmet’s strong script and surety behind the camera navigate the audience through this complicated story of religion and sexuality, patriarchy and power, brought to eerily accurate life by the ensemble of excellent actors.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Katie Walsh
    Nosferatu
    The film is a feat of maximalist and moody production design and cinematography, but the tedious and overwrought script renders every character two-dimensional, despite the effortful acting, teary pronunciations and emphatically delivered declarations.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Katie Walsh
    Transformer
    Transformer beautifully captures the process of Janae crafting her own sense of femininity, unique to who she was and who she continues to be.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Katie Walsh
    You, Me & Tuscany
    Most importantly, You, Me & Tuscany is sentient. It’s transporting and ridiculous and knows exactly what it is, and therefore, we do too. So go ahead, enjoy a little dolce vita, as a treat.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Katie Walsh
    A Secret Love
    A Secret Love doesn't dwell much on queer history or activism, as laser-focused as it is on Terry and Pat, and the bond between them. The film beautifully illustrates each of their spirits: the sweet and bubbly Terry, always ready with a signed baseball card, and the stern and protective Pat, who only lets her guard down under duress, but wrote pages of love poems to Terry, and still asks for a morning kiss from her love.
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