Matt Fagerholm

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For 122 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Fagerholm's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Life and Nothing More
Lowest review score: 0 Careful What You Wish For
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 95 out of 122
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 122
  3. Negative: 16 out of 122
122 movie reviews
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Fagerholm
    This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
    There’s a chilling resonance to the moment where Gigi reflects on the legacy of German physician Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Nazis that attempted to silence his groundbreaking advocacy for gay and transgender rights.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Matt Fagerholm
    Midsummer in Newtown
    The atrocity of Newtown is twofold: the fact that it happened and the fact that the government did absolutely nothing to prevent it from happening again. Snyder and Kramer’s films aren’t politicized because they don’t have to be.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Matt Fagerholm
    They Call Us Monsters
    There’s a considerable amount of catharsis in They Call Us Monsters, but it is bittersweet at best.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Matt Fagerholm
    Coin Heist
    I can’t recall another vampire film that depicted so amusingly the sheer awkwardness of adjusting to one’s fangs, as if they were yet another pitfall of puberty.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Matt Fagerholm
    Seasons
    As awe-inspiring as this footage is, it’s every bit as amazing to envision how the filmmakers had to prepare for framing these moments with impeccable precision.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Matt Fagerholm
    Disturbing the Peace
    Disturbing the Peace is a courageous and uplifting film that deservedly earned a rapturous ovation when it screened at Ebertfest this year.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Matt Fagerholm
    Miss Sharon Jones!
    If the film is a touch more emotionally muted than one would expect, that is because Jones spends the vast majority of the film holding it together.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Fagerholm
    Hooligan Sparrow
    Regardless of their ultimate fate, the existence of Ye Haiyan and every soul she has ever sought to protect are undeniable, and thanks to filmmakers like Wang, immortal.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Matt Fagerholm
    Careful What You Wish For
    Elizabeth Allen’s generically titled thriller, Careful What You Wish For, plays like a painfully stilted high school production of “Fatal Attraction.”
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fagerholm
    Welcome to Happiness
    The irony is that as Gallner’s performance gets stronger, the film around him grows weaker.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Matt Fagerholm
    A Light Beneath Their Feet
    A Light Beneath Their Feet is a triumph of empathetic filmmaking. It will enthrall viewers merely seeking a coming-of-age yarn, and it contains one of the loveliest prom scenes in recent memory.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Matt Fagerholm
    Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
    These behind-the-scenes factoids are the most interesting aspects of the film — and, regrettably, the only interesting aspects, as well.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 12 Matt Fagerholm
    Lazer Team
    This movie is, in essence, a product of fame and money without the slightest tangible shred of effort.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Matt Fagerholm
    Rabin, the Last Day
    Frequently horrifying and never less than absorbing, Rabin, the Last Day is a meticulously observant portrait of a broken society.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Matt Fagerholm
    Very Semi-Serious
    Catnip for writers and humorists of all stripes, Wolchok’s film provides delightful breakdowns of various cartoons, examining the comedic rhythm of their design and detail.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Matt Fagerholm
    Democrats
    What’s lacking from the film is any substantial exploration of the Constitution itself, and the democratic laws that would’ve made it a game-changer in Zimbabwe, had any of them been put into effect.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Matt Fagerholm
    Endgame
    Endgame tries to be about many important issues, and ends up doing none of them justice.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fagerholm
    Captive
    For a film supposedly about the transformative power of faith, Captive has very little to preach in that regard, apart from the importance of purchasing megachurch pastor Rick Warren’s hit book, The Purpose Driven Life.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Matt Fagerholm
    90 Minutes in Heaven
    A better title would’ve likely been “121 Minutes in Purgatory,” since that’s essentially where audiences will find themselves residing during the entirety of this dreary slog down a familiar road paved with painfully good intentions.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Matt Fagerholm
    Rosenwald
    Wholly engaging from its first frame to its last, Rosenwald stands as an exemplary testament to the change that can occur when wealth, power and influence are utilized for the good of humanity.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Matt Fagerholm
    War Room
    It may not be as brazenly offensive as “God’s Not Dead” or as spectacularly inept as “Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas,” but it’s still awful, offering all the forced humor and superficial substance of a half-baked homily.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Matt Fagerholm
    Dangerous Men
    Bad acting, bad writing, bad directing, bad music, bad sound and bad fight choreography can only take a film so far. A film must be entertaining on its own terms in order to be worth recommending, and Dangerous Men is, for the most part, a bore.
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