Matt Singer

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For 419 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 36% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Singer's Scores

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  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 American Graffiti
Lowest review score: 10 The Emoji Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 176 out of 419
  2. Mixed: 196 out of 419
  3. Negative: 47 out of 419
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    American Graffiti
    It isn’t simply a nostalgic movie, it’s a nostalgic movie about nostalgia. Lucas could have set the film in 1959, when Steve, Curt, and John were still in high school and still cruising night after endless night. Instead, Graffiti begins right as the fun is about to end, and gives its characters just enough self-awareness to recognize that this is last call at the party. George Lucas isn’t the only one mourning for this magical lost era; the characters onscreen mourn right along with him.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    Killers of the Flower Moon
    Killers of the Flower Moon earns its expansive presence. Not only is Scorsese trying to condense an epic of American history and true crime, its extravagant runtime emphasizes the staggering indifference — or, in some cases, deliberate neglect — by the Osage’s white neighbors to the acts of violence happening all around them, which allowed these crimes to continue for as long as they did.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    The Fabelmans
    I hope Spielberg makes 20 more movies. But if this is the last one he ever directed, it would be the perfect career capper: An origin story, a thesis statement, a love letter, and a cautionary tale. Like life, it is hilarious at times, and pitifully sad at others. From the first scene to the last, it had me leaning forward in my seat like Sammy Fabelman at The Greatest Show on Earth.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    Past Lives
    However you write its title, Past Lives is a great romance, a great coming-of-age story, a great tale about the ways technology can bring people together (but only so far), a great New York City film, a great story about immigrants — and a great movie, period.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
    Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar isn’t a movie, it’s a wavelength. You either get on it or you don’t. I’m sure some viewers will complain that Barb and Star are so quirky and chipper that they’re annoying, or that the film’s comedy is too bizarre and random. Take my advice: Cut those people out of your life. You don’t need to associate yourself with anyone who is that wrong about something this important.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    It is a movie about how anger consumes and destroys, and how the only cure for that anger is empathy, something that’s in short supply these days but Three Billboards has in abundance.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    Turning Red
    It’s one of those special movies where during your first viewing you already know there’s going to be a 100th viewing someday.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    Inside Out
    It is, from start to finish, one of Pixar’s best films.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    Uncut Gems
    The Safdies have crafted a complete experience here: A pointed critique of the “American Dream,” a wry portrait of Jewish assimilation in the 21st century, a cautionary tale about gambling addiction (that also doesn’t shy away from showing how seductive sports betting can be), and an unflinching character study centered around the best performance of Adam Sandler’s career.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Marty Supreme
    You want to hate this guy for his arrogance and the way he repeatedly sabotages his own successful. But he’s played with such dynamic verve and genuine movie-star charisma by Timothée Chalamet that you can’t help but root for him anyway, especially as the stakes mount and he refuses his quest to become the world’s greatest table tennis player despite the mountain of evidence that he absolutely should.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Green Room
    The brilliance is all in the execution, which is just about perfect, from the score of hard-rocking music (and ear-piercing feedback) to the gritty cinematography by Sean Porter.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Dune: Part One
    To my amazement, and to Villeneuve’s credit, this new Dune is totally clear in its premise, politics, and operatic sci-fi story. It’s also filled with the sort of epic grandeur of vision that Dune fans always insist makes the original text special.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    A Ghost Story
    This film disturbed me way more than most conventional horror movies, because Lowery understands that the really frightening part of any haunted house tale isn’t the ghost or the demon or the everyday objects moving of their own accord. It’s the reminder that death is coming for us all, whether we’re ready for it or not.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    The World's End
    As in all of Wright’s films, the surface is just as satisfying as the subtext: hilarious comedy, compelling character drama, eye-popping visuals, and a juicy science-fiction story.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Soul
    At times, Soul is as heavy as it sounds, and invites all sorts of contemplation from viewers about our purpose on this planet, and whatever (and wherever) comes afterwards. At other times, it is uproariously funny, particularly after Joe and 22’s story takes a very unexpected turn in its second half. In typical Pixar fashion, it’s also visually stunning.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Da 5 Bloods
    Even as it interrogates the traditional rules of its genre, Da 5 Bloods remains an outstanding war movie about the values at the core of most great films of its kind, like honor and brotherhood. And Da 5 Bloods is also a great heist movie about the values at the core of all great heist movies, like greed and distrust. The friction between those two genres generates incredible tension as the story progresses.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Blade Runner 2049
    Ford’s memorable performance is just one of the many ways Blade Runner 2049 surpasses the original film. Its clever and compelling storyline is another. And then of course there are Deakins’ incredible images.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    The Big Sick
    One of the best things about The Big Sick is that the obstacles facing this relationship are real and relatable. It’s a funny movie, but it’s about really serious stuff.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    Even though this is the fourth Mad Max, and it’s indebted to the style of the previous films, Fury Road stands alone. It’s better looking and more thrilling than any of the other installments. The color palette is vibrant and beautiful, and every inch of the frame is crammed with crazy, brilliant ideas.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    One Battle After Another
    It’s so many different kinds of movies crammed together; a paranoid thriller, a stoner adventure, an issues movie of the sort that used to be the Hollywood studios’ bread and butter but rarely get made today in the world of IP and risk-averse corporations. That’s one more reason to see it, and another reason to marvel at the fact that it exists at all.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Annihilation
    It is tough, bleak, brutally intense, and genuinely scary - not in the cutesy cathartic way of most horror films, but in a way that makes you ponder the nature of existence and leaves you with a pit in your stomach.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    The Hateful Eight
    Those willing to put in the time will find a movie that is both beautiful and hideous, funny and shocking, and even thoughtful on occasion.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    La La Land
    With infectious enthusiasm, charismatic leads, gorgeous songs, vibrant colors, and dazzling camerawork, La La Land restores the original movie musical to its former glory.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    John Wick: Chapter 4
    This thing ain’t a “chapter.” It’s a whole damn book — a glorious, nightmarish, biblical compendium of all manners of asskickery.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Phantom Thread
    Phantom Thread is classical and deliberate, with few of his former signatures like ostentatious flourishes of camera, editing, or music. That may frustrate some Anderson fans, but Phantom Thread’s luxurious but restrained aesthetic perfectly matches Reynolds Woodcock’s approach to design.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    After two decades, Fallout might be the finest film in the series. (To me, it’s a toss-up between this and Ghost Protocol.) Either way, Mission: Impossible is clearly the best ongoing action franchise in the world. And nothing else even comes close.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Demon
    Whatever Demon’s autobiographical elements, this film feels incredibly personal; like a howl of pain ripped straight out of someone’s soul.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    Of course, making food that looks effortless requires enormous effort. Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros is a movie about that effort; about the hours and days and months and years of sweat, thought, choices, and practice required to produce something worthwhile — great food, certainly, but really any work of art.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    His Three Daughters
    When you have Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne as your central stars, some things don’t need to be said out loud.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    The Girl with All the Gifts
    The Girl With All the Gifts is full of surprises. It keeps shifting before our eyes, from atmospheric horror to intense survival thriller to thoughtful contemplation of humanity’s place in our planet’s food chain.
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