Lily Janiak
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83% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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17% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point higher than other critics.
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Lily Janiak's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 67 | |
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| Highest review score: | Come from Away | |
| Lowest review score: | Cinderella | |
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- Lily Janiak
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.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 19, 2025
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- Lily Janiak
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.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Nov 15, 2021
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- Lily Janiak
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.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Oct 1, 2021
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- Lily Janiak
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.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 7, 2021
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