Matt Donato

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For 599 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Donato's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Guardians of the Galaxy
Lowest review score: 15 Dashcam
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 284 out of 599
  2. Mixed: 280 out of 599
  3. Negative: 35 out of 599
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Donato
    Justice League
    Justice League is a sloppy team-up film that doesn't even take time to properly introduce pivotal members of its titular team, but when you're playing a dangerous (also ill-advised) game of catch up, these are the risks.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Donato
    Coco
    This is a masterpiece of woven ancestral roots and the importance of “familia,” confident in song and poetic in vision.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Donato
    Thelma
    Thelma doesn't exactly tell a unique story, but Joachim Trier's vision is so strong you'll barely even notice.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Donato
    Mayhem
    Mayhem is a wonderfully violent middle finger to corporate culture, gleeful in its desire to redecorate cubicles with red blood splatters.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Donato
    Murder on the Orient Express
    Murder On The Orient Express is an antique mystery that chugs along at 5-miles an hour without any turns that might jolt viewers in the slightest.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Donato
    Thor: Ragnarok
    This is a very funny, perfectly scored...exciting, albeit overlong exercise in pushing MCU boundaries to their franchise breaking point.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Donato
    Jigsaw
    Jigsaw feels like a forced hodgepodge of previous franchise entries that never carves its own identity, making you question what prompted such an expected reboot these few years later.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Amityville: The Awakening
    Franck Khalfoun’s often-rethought Amityville: The Awakening is sleepover background noise at its best, traceable genre road-mapping at its worst.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Leatherface
    Leatherface is an origin story that attempts to carve new mythos for one of horror's mightiest legends, but ends up leaning on franchise references and bleakness to an unnecessary fault.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Donato
    Happy Death Day
    Happy Death Day is a generic PG-13 horror purgatory that's lived on repeat until even weaker motivations take us farther out of any semblance of storytelling thrills.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Donato
    Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Professor Marston is a sweet, saucy biopic about unconventional love and iconic origins (plus bondage!).
    • 30 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Donato
    Cabin Fever: Patient Zero
    Cabin Fever: Patient Zero certainly lives up to Eli Roth's gory standards, but individual enjoyment will hinge on one's love of schlocky B-Movie antics.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Donato
    Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    Vaughn sticks to what he knows with his Kingsman sequel but rarely ups the ante, making this a fun-enough entry into an already-too-familiar franchise.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Donato
    mother!
    Your toleration of mother! will be determined by movie-going patience. Aronofsky is painting with some blistering broad strokes, but they’re just that – broad and undefined.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Donato
    The Show
    This Is Your Death is a brilliant concept, but tonal mishandling makes for another media takedown that's all bark and no bite.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Donato
    It
    As far as mainstream horror goes, It is a brilliant example of what can happen when equal attention is paid to story and scares.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Bushwick
    Murnion and Milott’s Bushwick feels like a John Carpenter film without the societal skewering. A nasty, hate-filled movie with shaky detailing.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Lemon
    Bravo’s abundance of inexplicable details makes for an interesting conundrum at first, but mystery soon fades.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Donato
    Good Time
    Good Time is just that and little more, but Robert Pattinson's performance deserves praise like "career-defining" and "best yet."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Donato
    Patti Cake$
    Patti Cake$ is a feel-good freestyle phenom that heals through artistic passion and shrugs of wackness, indulgent in highs but not shying away from crushing lows.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Donato
    The Hitman's Bodyguard
    As the word “m#th&rf$ck*r” loses meaning, you can’t help but appreciate a wholly predictable – yet unapologetically confident – action goof that’s far funnier than it should be.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Donato
    Better Watch Out
    Better Watch Out is a good movie you should watch knowing nothing about, like a spoiler-free Christmas morning.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Donato
    Ingrid Goes West
    Ingrid Goes West is the kind of social media satire we need, even if a tone-shifting second act drives focus from mental health to less interesting criminal goofiness.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Donato
    Annabelle: Creation
    Annabelle: Creation is no lifeless dummy. Plotting may run a bit thin and coincidental, but David F. Sandberg whips up bone-chilling scares and hefty doses of peek-through-your-fingers imagery.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Detroit
    Detroit is, for lack of a better term, a pornographic echo chamber of resentment. Trying to put out a fire with ten more tankers full of gasoline.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    The Dark Tower
    Director Nikolaj Arcel blends dystopian weirdness and temporal hellbeasts until all that remains is an emulsified, grey gunk, which is then forced down our throats for 95 minutes. Flavor gone, identifiers eviscerated.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Donato
    Logan Lucky
    If your script is good enough to pull Steven Soderbergh from “retirement,” color me intrigued. Such is true of Logan Lucky. An Ocean’s 7-11 hootenanny with Southern charm and Coen sensibilities.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Donato
    Dunkirk
    With tighter scripting, this’d be a masterpiece. As is? Christopher Nolan has produced a damn-fine picture that goes against most of what his catalog has become renowned for in a good, streamlined way.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets is a fantasy adventure that’s nowhere near as adventurous or fantastical as it should be.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Donato
    Killing Ground
    What Backcountry did for campfire creature attacks Killing Ground does for murderous bushmen in the same setting.
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