Michael Frank

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RogerEbert.com, The Film Stage
For 67 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 38% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Michael Frank's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 91 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Lowest review score: 33 The Starling
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 67
  3. Negative: 2 out of 67
67 movie reviews
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Frank
    Centigrade
    Though just under 90 minutes, the film falters with pacing. The story rarely progresses further than exchanged glances, lots of sleeping, and a few, tense, cold moments. The couple never looks to be in serious danger.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Frank
    Don't Make Me Go
    Cho, Isaac, and a cameo from Jemaine Clement become bright spots in a film trying too hard to buck trends of other road-trip journeys while ultimately falling into similar traps. Life lessons and karaoke songs go to waste with the talent of a cast too good for this story.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Frank
    Bullet Train
    Pitt’s charm can’t save Bullet Train from its inappreciable destiny, even if the film represents a decade-long shift in the genre: a misunderstanding from directors that audiences are more excited by jokes rather than action and depth.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 42 Michael Frank
    Foe
    It becomes a mess of concepts, issues, and messages, an amalgamation of errors in tone and story.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 33 Michael Frank
    Drift
    Chen’s film doesn’t contain the care needed for this story, wasting the talent of Erivo in a role that underserves her already-known abilities. The script holds much of that fault for attempting to capture the totality of West African politics and the entirety of the refugee experience into a single distant, empty character. It’s ill-advised and unconsidered, forgetting to add a semblance of thoughtfulness.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 33 Michael Frank
    The Starling
    It will provide a fun discussion on what went wrong, rather than what went right, and that conversation will give more joy, story, and clarity than the film itself.
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