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 4.3 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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    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Anaconda
    Anaconda is a disappointing follow-up for Gormican, who cannot crack the code on Sony's bewildering aquatic not-really-horror reboot. A cast of proven funny people are lost in a thick brush of hacky bits and ineffective storytelling, unable to machete their way through to a redeeming climax. There are brief bursts of creature-feature excitement and belly-tickling humor, but way more stretches of bafflingly unclear ambitions that feel like they're struggling to keep the "movie within a movie" gimmick afloat. It's Anaconda without the aqua-horror chills, throwback practical effects, and midnight-movie entertainment—what an odd choice.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Dark Phoenix
    Dark Phoenix takes arguably the most heavily thematic X-Men comic arc and delivers the most dully procedural, chopped-to-bits cinematic franchise entry in Fox’s mutant canon.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Ghost in the Shell
    Ghost In The Shell is exactly the high-fi cyber shooter you feared it’d be, drenched in digital paranoia and concerns of network privacy. Visual fancies overload the senses early and often, only to hope the kaleidoscope artistry lingers long enough to overcompensate for back-end dullness.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Lemon
    Bravo’s abundance of inexplicable details makes for an interesting conundrum at first, but mystery soon fades.
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    • 40 Matt Donato
    The Black Demon
    The Black Demon barely makes a splash in a pool filled with better shark attack movies, falling victim to a small body count, a grating protagonist, and disappointing digital effects.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Donato
    Blumhouse's Fantasy Island
    From start to finish, Fantasy Island is lacking wicked wonderment and poignant reboot vocality. You'd be best off skipping it.
    • 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.
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