Lily Janiak

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San Francisco Chronicle
For 6 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 83% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 17% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lily Janiak's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Come from Away
Lowest review score: 25 Cinderella
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
6 movie reviews
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Lily Janiak
    Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    The formula persists two centuries after Austen perfected it because it’s aspirational and satisfying at the same time: We want it to wreck our own lives, too. It’s durable precisely because it’s pliable, offering storytellers a template in which to explore their own era’s mores and ideals, questions and anxieties.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Lily Janiak
    tick, tick...Boom!
    Perhaps the greatest gift of Tick, Tick … Boom! is that it rejects the false narrative of the artist’s one big shot, the make-it-or-break-it moment. Jonathan might keep hearing a timer ticking down in his head, but he has to learn that the singular event of his arrival as an artist is a myth.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 75 Lily Janiak
    Diana: The Musical
    Writers David Bryan and Joe DiPietro are somehow always generous yet trenchant with their rich source material. It’s a fairy tale with a “a pretty, pretty girl in a pretty, pretty dress,” but one with a rotten foundation — a royal marriage less built on love than strategized by cold pragmatism.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Lily Janiak
    Come from Away
    To see Come From Away onscreen now — directed by Christopher Ashley, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway direction of the show — is to see a path to mercy and compassion off in the distance and wonder if we can still get there — or if it’s too late for us.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Lily Janiak
    Cinderella
    Here, where even the stepmother has a backstory, Cannon seems intent not just on trying to blot out the original’s sexism but also its mystery. In trying to be safe and copacetic with modern sensibilities, this Cinderella neuters itself.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Lily Janiak
    He's All That
    Directed by Mark Waters, cast members seem to operate on the belief that they can best deal with the plot’s improbabilities by grimacing their way through and not giving anyone time to react to them. Pesky details brushed aside, the film can play to its strength, which is the charm of its leads.

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