Leah Greenblatt

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Entertainment Weekly
For 697 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 17% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Leah Greenblatt's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 TÁR
Lowest review score: 33 Blonde
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 595 out of 697
  2. Mixed: 99 out of 697
  3. Negative: 3 out of 697
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Amulet
    At times, Amulet can feel a little too in love with style over story; immoderately hung up on gooey close-ups of gutted fish or Magda engaged in a sort of jerky, mesmerizing dance whose offbeat rhythms rival Elaine on Seinfeld. But even as it builds toward a more conventional climax — only the first, it turns out, of several twist endings — the movie casts a grim sort of spell; a brooding, stifled dread that creeps in quietly from the margins, and lingers long after the last triumphant frame.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Fresh
    Cave has a smart, stylish way of storytelling that somehow makes a film built on bone saws and grotesqueries feel almost breezy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    The Way Back
    Affleck keeps the movie anchored with his rumpled, unshowy performance: a man killing himself to live, until he can start to believe that maybe there's a better way.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Senior Year
    The extremely game presence of actors like Zoë Chao, Veep's Sam Richardson, and This Is Us's Justin Hartley (as the dimpled bohunk she left behind) help anchor the chaotic wisp of a plot that follows, as does Wilson's barrelling, blithely crass energy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    To the Bone
    For young people suffering, the movie offers both hope and clarity; for more experienced viewers, it may come off a little too much like "Girl, Interrupted" through a Lifetime lens.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Dark Phoenix
    For what is being called a final installment, it all tends to feel both anticlimactic and a little grim in the end.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    The Batman
    It falls on Pattinson's leather-cased Batman to be the hero we need, or deserve. With his doleful kohl-smudged eyes and trapezoidal jawline, he's more like a tragic prince from Shakespeare; a lost soul bent like a bat out of hell on saving everyone but himself.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Tammy
    It's a broad, helter-skelter farce whose best bits hinge almost entirely on the considerable charms of its star.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Morbius
    Swedish-Chilean director Daniel Espinosa (Life) gives it all a dark sheen, and shoots the pair's inevitable confrontations less like traditional comic-book clashes than something from The Matrix.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    The Night House
    Though the bag of tricks that Bruckner (V/H/S, The Ritual) digs through — the jump scares and shadow figures, the eerily suspended rules of gravity and physics — are familiar, he uses them to build a kind of clanging, feverish atmosphere. And British actress Hall (The Gift, Godzilla vs. Kong), tasked with carrying nearly every scene, grounds her performance in more than meat-puppet panic; her unraveling springs from genuine, furious grief.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Maggie's Plan
    Sometimes that tips too far into silliness (the final scene, especially, works strenuously towards an end-cute); still, its mildly subversive rom-com sensibilities are just sour-sweet enough to pull it off.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    The King
    What’s left is primarily a series of grand battleground set pieces — filmed crunchily, and well — and a series of consistently strong performances. (Has Mendelsohn every not been menacing and great in anything?).
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    The Pale Blue Eye
    Until [Cooper] loses his way in the cascading absurdity of the final twists, though, the movie is mostly a study in how good its two main actors can be: Bale's soulful, hollow-eyed conviction, and his odd-couple chemistry with Melling, isn't quite enough to sell The Pale Blue Eye's loopy improbabilities in the end, but it's still a pleasure to watch them try.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Bill & Ted Face the Music
    Mostly, the joy comes from watching Reeves and Winter on screen, two holy fools just doing their best to bring light and love and non-heinous riffs — and remind the bleary-eyed citizens of 2020, perhaps, of a simpler, sweeter world gone by.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Just Mercy
    It’s solidly rewarding to watch the wheels of Mercy turn, though the direction ... can’t seem to help falling into certain schematics that tend to follow movies like these: the original sin; the uplift; the leering good-old-boy sheriffs; the big-moment court scenes.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Emancipation
    [Smith's] conviction carries Emancipation a long way, elevating what is essentially a B movie to the realm of something better than its outsize premise: a blunt instrument, maybe, but a brutally affecting one too.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Like Father
    The movie’s arc is too conventional by half, but the appeal of the two main actors keeps it (sorry) afloat, maybe more than it should.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Money Monster
    As a solid B-movie elevated by A-list talent and pushed along by a brisk running time — it’s only 98 minutes—Money has its own rewards.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Dear Mr. Brody
    The heir himself turned out to be a naïve and troubled young man, though Strickland leaves his particular fate a mystery until the final moments of the film. What's in between is unevenly executed but still compelling: a far-out cautionary tale of money, media, and gonzo idealism gone wrong.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Black and Blue
    Harris, eyes blazing, brings a humanity and an urgency that serve the story maybe more than it deserves: a performance above and beyond the call of duty.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Official Secrets
    And even as the narrative goes through its sometimes sermonizing paces, it’s hard not to be moved by the singular passion of a woman who effectively dismantled her own life not just to salve her conscience, but to save the soul of a nation.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    The Florida Project
    The story begins to feel more like a series of strung-together anecdotes: an intriguing project, incomplete.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    The Angry Birds Movie
    The 3-D animated film delivers a mildly diverting mix of winky meta-jokes and moral lessons, cannily aimed at both the next generation of tiny consumers and their more sophisticated parents.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Dear White People
    The movie finds real power in its climax, a party that turns into a nightmarish orgy of leering white kids in blackface. And the end-credit photos of real parties just like it at schools across the country are a stark reminder of the ugliness that Dear White People, flawed as it is, wants to confront.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Unicorn Store
    The result is a candy-coated, willfully quirky wisp of a film; like a Michel Gondry fantasy dipped in glitter and rainbow sprinkles.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    21 Bridges
    It’s not a bad setup, and Bridges would be a better movie, easily, if it had let a little more nuance creep into its script. Instead, it lays the task squarely on Boseman’s shoulders — having him fill in all those broad strokes with his own fine lines, and spraying bullets and mayhem across the rest.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    A Dog's Purpose
    Purpose itself plays like a family film from another era, its gentle sensibilities a million miles removed from the winky pop culture references and meta layers of most modern all-ages entertainment. The effect is sweet, benignly retro, and just a little bit boring; a comforting Milk Bone for the soul.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Despicable Me 3
    What shines through is the visual wit and innate sweetness of the storytelling, and Carell’s cackling, cueball-skulled misanthrope — a (mostly) reformed scoundrel who can still have his cake, and arsenic too.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    The Green Knight
    In a way, the movie feels almost like Marvel antimatter, an auteur's willful response to whiz-bang emptiness and Infinity Stones. Knight is ultimately a tale of honor though, and a deeply moral one — inscrutable, but haunting too.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Leah Greenblatt
    Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    If it’s not exactly unforgettable, it’s still pretty fun.
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