Matt Singer

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For 427 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 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Singer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 American Graffiti
Lowest review score: 10 The Emoji Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 180 out of 427
  2. Mixed: 200 out of 427
  3. Negative: 47 out of 427
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    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Singer
    Triple 9
    This sort of ultra-dark crime picture is commonly described as “hard boiled,” but that adjective feels insufficient for Triple 9, which burns away any sense of hope until only misery and suffering remain.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    How to Be Single
    How to Be Single isn’t particularly hilarious, but it’s not particularly unpleasant either. The characters are likable. Their lives are fun to wander through for 100 minutes. Their small, daily battles are relatable, even to a 35-year-old dude.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Matt Singer
    Zoolander 2
    If Zoolander 2 was a party, the guest list alone would make it the greatest ever thrown. But Zoolander 2 is not a party. It is a movie. A bad movie.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Singer
    Deadpool
    While Deadpool’s core audience will appreciate the way it flatters their knowledge of genre conventions with winking, cynical humor, too much of this stuff just plays like smug self-satisfaction. The movie is so impressed with itself that the viewer’s satisfaction seems completely irrelevant.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Hail, Caesar!
    Beneath the (sometimes hysterically funny) gags, is a surprisingly thoughtful examination of the same issues that bubble through Joel and Ethan Coen’s more serious pictures; the folly of man, the nature of faith, and the terror of trying to figure out what path through life is the correct one to take.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    The Finest Hours
    If The Finest Hours is light on surprises it’s still heavy on suspense, as the script by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson treats each new obstacle in Bernie and Ray’s paths as a new brainteasing puzzle with an impossible solution.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 20 Matt Singer
    Dirty Grandpa
    There’s no issue with De Niro and Efron’s effort; both are game for every disgusting line and ludicrous set-piece. But they have less material to work with than Aubrey Plaza’s costume designer.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Singer
    Concussion
    It’s the very definition of a film with its heart in the right place. And also a prime example of how good intentions don’t automatically make great movies.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    Although Star Wars has always been about the past, The Force Awakens is ironically at its best when it looks the future.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Singer
    The Revenant
    If Iñárritu wanted to show how life on the frontier was miserable and monotonous he succeeded — by making a movie that is miserable and monotonous. Some of the greatest cinematography in history can’t change that fact.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Singer
    Joy
    Joy has none of the energy or precision of any of Russell’s recent efforts. Not even Joy Mangano could invent a mop good enough to clean up this mess.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    The Big Short
    Even if it falls a little short as a character study, the fact that it’s both hugely weird and hugely watchable is impressive.
    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Kill the Messenger
    Kill The Messenger isn’t a great movie, but it’s a great vehicle for Renner, and a showcase for the kind of work he should be doing more regularly.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    A Walk Among the Tombstones
    Neeson’s latest effort, A Walk Among The Tombstones, is slightly more subdued than his average shoot-’em-up, but no less gruffly satisfying.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Singer
    The Expendables 3
    The film actually has some solid elements—a couple of appealing supporting performances, a good villain, effective comic relief, and even some awkward but sincere attempts at subtext about its aging cast. But the fact remains: An Expendables movie should be fun, and for long stretches, this one isn’t.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Lucy
    Lucy earns points for its unpredictable treatment of its vaguely superhero-ish premise and an appealing silliness, but it struggles to match wits with the genius at its center.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Matt Singer
    Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    Give Age Of Extinction this much credit: Of all the Transformers movies, this is the longest. And save for a few visual centerpieces and a couple of amusing supporting turns, it’s also an endless, incoherent mess.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    X-Men: Days of Future Past
    At its best, Days Of Future Past feels not just like an X-Men comic book, but like an X-Men comic-book crossover... Like Days Of Future Past, crossovers in comics tend to be light on character development. But when they’re good, the huge stakes and epic scale of the action make them hard to put down.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Draft Day
    The biggest problem with Draft Day is that even as it shows Sonny sticking to his guns, its absurd, saccharine third act suggests Reitman didn’t stick to his, and allowed his latest celebration of free-spirited mavericks to get co-opted by the very kind of system they were created to criticize.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Sabotage
    Sabotage’s mystery component is mostly dead on arrival, and poor Olivia Williams has the thankless job of carrying it as the no-nonsense detective searching for the killer. But as Ayer proved with his previous film, End Of Watch, he has a natural eye and ear for the ecosystem of law enforcement.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    A Field in England
    Even though the film’s overall impact is blunted by Wheatley’s frequently inscrutable plotting (co-written with Amy Jump), Rose’s images...speak louder than words.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Singer
    Charlie Victor Romeo
    The small company of actors make convincing pilots, flight attendants, and air-traffic controllers, but their activities, tragic and brave though they may be, quickly grow monotonous.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Singer
    Enemies Closer
    Too bad no one else in Enemies Closer can match Van Damme’s oddball charisma.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
    Shadow makes an urgent, compelling case for the importance of bright, clear, fluid battles. This movie has everything modern blockbuster spectacles lack: precision, grace, intimacy, stakes, and genuine, gritty excitement.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Matt Singer
    Grudge Match
    The rare cinematic experience that is both wall-to-wall jokes and wall-to-wall depressing.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    The film pinballs from one setpiece to the next with almost no concern for plot, characters, pacing, or stakes. At times, laughing at all the jokes actually gets a little exhausting.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Singer
    Oldboy
    This is a very confused movie, designed for an audience that doesn’t exist.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Singer
    12-12-12
    Occasionally entertaining but rarely memorable, 12-12-12 never goes beyond the level of a really good bonus feature on a special-edition concert CD.
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