Matt Goldberg

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Collider, TheWrap
For 30 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Goldberg's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 River
Lowest review score: 0 Reality Winner
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 30
  3. Negative: 7 out of 30
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Matt Goldberg
    Outcome
    A subject as slippery as “cancellation” needs a firm grip, and Hill, who came in for his own public criticism a few years ago, seems to have little worth saying on the matter other than celebrities are as imperfect as anyone else. The lack of specificity makes Outcome painfully broad both thematically and comically where it seems more like a collection of half-sketched ideas of Hollywood life rather than anything substantive about the unique social relationships formed by fame.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 35 Matt Goldberg
    The Woman in Cabin 10
    The film aspires to be yet another eat-the-rich parable in our time of oligarchs, and while there’s no rule that these stories need to be dark comedies, they should at least aspire to have some kind of personality.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 35 Matt Goldberg
    The Pickup
    A feeling of sparseness permeates Tim Story’s new action-comedy The Pickup. You see it in the small cast, the desolate settings, and the meager production values. If this movie were a western, then these elements might play to the film’s favor. But as an action-comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, and Keke Palmer, it all reeks of overbearing cheapness to where we’re left to wonder why anyone would bother.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 35 Matt Goldberg
    The Electric State
    Everything in The Electric State feels done for convenience, so there’s no tension in the storytelling or the emotional stakes. It glides on a smooth track from point to point without ever considering how narrative friction would deepen the characters and the story.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Matt Goldberg
    Hillbilly Elegy
    It’s non-stop drama, and the way the story plays out, it’s like Vance took every crazy episode from his life and played them back-to-back without pausing for a single pleasant memory or character defined beyond a single dimension.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Matt Goldberg
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    Trying to overwhelm the audience with spectacle, as “Kingdom” attempts to do, is a sorry substitute for the detailed characters and thoughtful conflicts that populate prior entries in the series.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 0 Matt Goldberg
    Reality Winner
    This review isn’t to say Winner is a “good or bad” person or that her actions were “good or bad.” This review is to say that the movie about Winner and her case is bad.c

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