Matt Fowler

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For 96 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 75% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Fowler's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 90 Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself
Lowest review score: 20 Cosmic Sin
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 96
  2. Mixed: 50 out of 96
  3. Negative: 2 out of 96
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    War Machine
    War Machine has just enough juice to prevent it from being a Snore Machine.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Fowler
    Psycho Killer
    Psycho Killer may "have a Hulk," but it's also a parade of missteps and missed opportunities.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    A House of Dynamite
    A House of Dynamite has the acting and directing goods, but its weak resolve arrives late in the game.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    The Astronaut
    The Astronaut has a game lead in Kate Mara and the decent stagings of a monster mystery, but it winds up being a humdrum offering in a genre usually teeming with imagination and innovation.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Fowler
    The Union
    The love story between Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry works, or at least meagerly satisfies, on only surface levels, as does most of the movie.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Do Revenge
    A muddled mix of '90s teen flicks, curated for a new generation (with a Hitchcock premise swirled in), Do Revenge is a lukewarm high school vengeance tale that never settles on a tone and is barren when it comes to laughs.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Me Time
    Me Time has bursts of energy and vibrancy, mostly involving its two leads and their snappy chemistry, but it's also a hodgepodge of predictable buddy comedy beats that doesn't do much to separate itself from what's come before.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
    Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank curiously exists as a Mel Brooks movie remake, though that's also its most redeeming feature.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Don't Make Me Go
    Don't Make Me Go features excellent performances from John Cho and Mia Isaac, but it stumbles big at the finish line.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Firestarter
    Despite solid performances from Zac Efron and Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Firestarter feels stifled in story and presentation.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    The Cellar
    The Cellar has a cool and creepy set up but then fizzles once the answers start arriving.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Metal Lords
    Metal Lords is earnest with metal but sloppy with character and story. It delivers a rousing finale but the journey there is uninspired and half-formed.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Cheaper by the Dozen
    Zach Braff and Gabrielle Union are great pillars here, though the film itself isn't consistent enough with its tone, snapping back and forth between sweet sentiment and cheap gags.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Black Crab
    Black Crab has all the ingredients to grab you and take you on a thrill ride -- and at times it achieves this -- but it suffers partial collapse by the end because of its need to land a little loftier than necessary.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Bruised
    Bruised is a good outing for Halle Berry as a director, though a better reminder of her as a star. Aside from that, however, the story progression is light on impact.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Zeros and Ones
    Zeros and Ones uses the spy genre as a thin mask for a fever dream that evokes nightmarish uncertainty.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Home Sweet Home Alone
    Despite the inherent ugliness of watching a rich kid diabolically dig into a mom and dad who are just trying to save their home for the sake of their own children, Home Sweet Home Alone has some decent wit and heart to it. Archie Yates is good as the new precocious protector of his lair, but it's Rob Delaney and Ellie Kemper who anchor the film and give it something resembling a soul.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Hypnotic
    Kate Siegel does her best to elevate a simplistic thriller that follows all the same beats you're accustomed to.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Night Teeth
    Night Teeth's winning lead trio and its glossy, electronic buzz save this Collateral clone from sinking into full nonsense. The film's usually interesting, though it never truly strikes with malice or meaning the way it wants to
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Escape the Undertaker
    Escape the Undertaker is a benign but effective use of Netflix's interactive abilities. Pairing the most macabre WWE Superstar with the company's most positive players makes for a fun showdown, one that you might wish had made it to official WWE TV -- not in this form, of course, but as a noble "turn to the dark side" storyline.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Fowler
    The Addams Family 2
    It's a bizarre and overly rambunctious ride that forsakes cleverness for Billboard acts and dizzying set pieces.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Fowler
    The Starling
    The Starling contains themes of grief and guilt that are worth exploration, but finds itself unable to delve deep into these elements, instead relying on bad bird effects and a needlessly quirky and eccentric tone to gloss over most of the uncomfortable elements.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Copshop
    Copshop is meaningfully and enjoyably derivative as a patchwork homage to '70s shoot-em-up cinema (even Spaghetti Westerns), but it never quite reaches its potential.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Cry Macho
    Cry Macho has spare moments of charm and tranquility, but mostly it's a dry and unfinished story that fails to hit even the most basic of Story 101 beats.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    Nightbooks
    Krysten Ritter, along with Winslow Fegley and Lidya Jewett, provide enough pizazz to keep Nightbooks afloat, creating an engaging supernatural hostage scenario.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    PAW Patrol: The Movie
    Paw Patrol: The Movie is a precious and peppy offering for the pre-preteen set that utilizes gentle character drama and buzzy action to stand out as a big-screen adventure. It won't be any parent's first choice, from an animation standpoint, but the standards of storytelling hold firm, making for an overall calm and comforting watch.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    The Last Mercenary
    The Last Mercenary has bounding energy and a fun take on star Jean-Claude Van Damme's past exploits as an action star, but the humor is way more miss than hit and the actual nuts-and-bolts spy plot is a trudge.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Fowler
    Gunpowder Milkshake
    Gunpowder Milkshake does its formidable cast dirty with a bland script, recycled story, and an empty comic book style that does little but shine up a stale outing.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    The Boss Baby: Family Business
    The Boss Baby: Family Business delivers middle-road mirth, full of action and quasi-clever jokes, and featuring the fun voice additions of James Marsden, Jeff Goldblum, and Amy Sedaris.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Fowler
    The Woman in the Window
    The Woman in the Window has both flash and fizzle. Amy Adams is great in the lead role, presenting us with a shattered recluse who wages war on lucidity daily, but the rest of the cast, while noteworthy, are sort of relegated to being plot pawns. Still, if you're looking for a higher class of claustrophobic Noir, and don't care too much about the resolution, there's a playfulness on display here that might scratch an airport novel itch.
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