Mike Ryan

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For 162 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 28% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mike Ryan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Dune: Part Two
Lowest review score: 20 Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 119 out of 162
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 162
  3. Negative: 6 out of 162
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    Creed III
    Creed III does serve as a nice springboard to whatever future movies Jordan wants to direct. He’s done a really great job here. And it, of course, allows Jonathan Majors another chance to emote. Right now, Majors has to be the king of emoting. He is truly great at it. What’s interesting about this movie is a viewer can see both sides of the conflict between Adonis and Dame, at least to a point.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    Like John Wick himself, this third chapter feels like a lean, mean, fighting machine – and, yes, it’s the best film of the franchise so far, even surpassing the first film. There are moments in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum where I thought to myself, “Well, I’ve never seen that before.”
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Mike Ryan
    Honey Boy
    I realize this is an important movie for Shia LaBeouf, but I’m not convinced it’s an important movie for us.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Mike Ryan
    The Killer
    This is just David Fincher making a bloody, fun, gritty movie about an angry assassin. The name of the movie is The Killer and our lead character very much does that.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    Bros
    It really is joke after joke after joke, most delivered wonderfully by Eichner. And they sure landed in front of this big audience, but I do wonder how all that will play in a more subdued environment.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    The Suicide Squad
    The Suicide Squad is the polar opposite of the movie that came before. Just the fact it’s, again, “competent,” and also “entertaining,” alone put it in direct opposition to its predecessor.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    The Invisible Man
    Leigh Whannell’s version of The Invisible Man is a smart take on a story that seems next to impossible to tell in an interesting way, but here it somehow is.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Ryan
    The Batman
    The Batman isn’t revolutionary. It doesn’t upend the superhero movie dynamic. Heck, people used to the recent superhero movies getting more cosmic and playing around with alternate timelines might not even like this more back to basics approach. But I, for one, found it refreshing. A nice little breather amidst the chaos. And proof that a good story with good characters can go quite a long way.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 65 Mike Ryan
    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    When the characters are just being the characters, instead of listening to exposition, this is a really fun movie. (And Destin Daniel Cretton excels at characters.) It’s all here. And it’s why I’m really looking forward to the next chapter now that we got all the explaining out of the way.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Ryan
    Prey
    A down and dirty Predator movie that rivals the first movie as a simple film about a Predator on a hunt.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Ryan
    Spider-Man: No Way Home
    It’s the giving season, so, sure, give us some fan service. But the story is still there (though the second act does start to feel a bit long) and I felt some actual emotion, even with all this chaos swirling around. And in the end Spider-Man: No Way Home somehow finds a way to keep it all together.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Mike Ryan
    Onward
    It’s almost as if the filmmakers just thought the idea of a pair of legs were funny, like if it were in a The Far Side panel. But then decided to try to base a whole movie on what should have been at most a single still or a single joke.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    A Quiet Place Part II
    By the end of A Quiet Place Part II my stomach literally hurt. There’s no way I could have done another 20 minutes because it is too intense. That’s one of the best compliments I can give it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Mike Ryan
    Blinded by the Light
    Blinded by the Light features scenes of the most pure, unadulterated joy I’ve seen on screen in quite a while.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    Shazam!
    After Shazam! ended I said out loud, “What a fun time at the movies.” You know, isn’t that all we need sometimes? A reason to leave the house and also not regret leaving the house? That is a tough combination to pull off...It’s just one of those movies that feels like a communal event. In the end, it’s about family. It’s just a nice movie to watch with other human beings.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Mike Ryan
    Ant-Man and the Wasp
    Ant-Man and the Wasp is a two-hour mental break when a lot of people could need a mental break. If this sounds like I’m being condescending to this movie at all, I promise you I am not. I mean this as a huge compliment. It’s so lighthearted and everyone in the movie is so darn pleasant and they all seem to like each other, it kind of feels like the most fictitious Marvel movie to date.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    Late Night
    Late Night is going to wind up being one of the best comedies of 2019.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Mike Ryan
    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story isn’t trying to be Walk Hard, strangely. It’s trying to be a movie co-written by “Weird Al” Yankovic and there’s just a certain THING about his comedy that’s hard to pinpoint but it’s actually weird, not “oh, this is the epitome of comedic genius.”
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    Rocketman
    The sheer brute force of Egerton holds it all together. And despite some darker themes, Rocketman is still quite a ride. It plays more as a musical than a standard biopic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Mike Ryan
    Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Spider-Man: Far From Home is a heck of a lot of fun. And I can’t get over how great of a Mysterio movie this is.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    That’s the thing about Borat 2, it’s not shocking anymore. Because it certainly should be. There’s certainly a lot of hilarious things that happen . . . . But over the last 14 years, things have drastically changed enough where “shocking” is no longer a relevant emotion to these movies.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Avengers: Infinity War
    So, for basically 90 percent of this movie, I’m sitting there thinking, Okay, this is awesome. Then things changed slightly. And I need to be clear: not to the point it changes how I feel about the movie. I still enjoyed it immensely. But Infinity War did send me out on an unfulfilled note, which, to be fair, is probably by design
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Mike Ryan
    No Time to Die
    The problem is the movie doesn’t always realize this should be a hoot. Rami Malek and Christoph Waltz realize what movie they are in. And I love Craig’s Bond, but there are times when he’s trying to be a Connery Bond in a clearly Roger Moore Bond movie.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Ryan
    Black Widow
    Set right after the events of Captain America: Civil War, watching Black Widow kind of feels like watching that MCU movie you just never got around to seeing.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    Monsters and Men
    Monsters and Men is at the once depressing and hopeful. And for the life of me, I can’t believe Reinaldo Marcus Green had the guts to make this.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Concrete Cowboy
    Concrete Cowboy is a nice movie about fathers and sons and humanity and the legacy of why there are people riding horses in places you wouldn’t expect to see any horses.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Mike Ryan
    Avatar: The Way of Water
    Like the first movie, the technical wizardry won me over and (again, having just rewatched the first movie) the story is deeper and richer.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Mike Ryan
    The King of Staten Island
    The big standout here is Bill Burr.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Ryan
    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, like I said, I think Peyton Reed has given us an installment that, with the material that has to be introduced, is about the best version this could be. But I found myself missing the more grounded and funny world of Scott Lang that the prior movies had set up. You know, being a palette cleanser is a good thing.
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