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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Joe Bell
    What’s remarkable about Good Joe Bell is Wahlberg plays the role in such a nuanced way, by the end of the movie you want that rousing speech. But it never comes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Wonder Woman 1984
    Wonder Woman 1984 is pure sugar. There’s little nutritional value. But we all deserve dessert right now.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Argylle
    Though I will warn you, if you haven’t cared for Matthew Vaughn’s more recent efforts, it’s unlikely Argylle is going to change that for you. It’s like he pays attention to what his detractors despise, then decides, “Well, what if I gave you more of that.”
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Mulan
    For me (no, I didn’t have to pay for it, so keep that in mind), it felt legitimately fun to watch. It wasn’t quite the feeling you get in a theater, but it just felt good to watch a new huge would-have-been-a-blockbuster movie, even at home.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Scoob!
    Scoob! is basically a really fun Scooby-Doo episode.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Frozen II
    What’s smart about Frozen II is, instead of trying to just recapture its past glory, it decides to be interesting. And when making a sequel to a cultural phenomenon, “being interesting” seems both pretty rare and the best we can hope for.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    After the Wedding
    It’s a movie about hidden family secrets, with a comical amount of twists, and it plays more as melodramatic schlock. And I just happened to really be in the mood for melodramatic schlock.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    The Beekeeper
    This movie, hot damn. It just does not care. I can’t help but respect all of this. Please create an honorary Oscar for The Beekeeper.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    The Call of the Wild
    I’m not sure who a faithful adaptation of The Call of the Wild would even be for in 2020. Instead, we get a pleasant movie about Harrison Ford having a nice time, laughing it up with his dog pal – and I really can’t imagine a better way to tell this story than that.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Oppenheimer
    At three hours long, even though the editing and narrative style keeps it moving, it gets to be redundant.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    F9: The Fast Saga
    As long as these movies keep their earnest, fun, ’90s action movie tone, there is no ridiculous plot point these movies could come up with I wouldn’t believe. By this point they’ve earned that. They are family.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Magazine Dreams
    By sheer willpower alone Majors makes Magazine Dreams something to behold. This movie exists as a vessel in which to watch Jonathan Majors act his ass off.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Creed II
    There’s a lot going on in Creed II, more than a movie featuring Ivan Drago really ever needed to have. But at its core, Creed II is about family.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    It’s kind of remarkable what can be done with a Transformers movie with a director who actually likes these characters. (And also very much loves his mid-90s needle-drop jams.)
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Solo: A Star Wars Story
    This isn’t a situation where Donald Glover shows up and is so good he saves the movie. And don’t get me wrong, Glover is great, but it’s at this point in the movie that everything gets better. This is the part where the movie finally knows what it should have been all along: a rootin’ tootin’ heist movie and not an origin story.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Bill & Ted Face the Music
    Like in the other two movies, Bill and Ted are both just so nice that it’s impossible not to start rooting for them.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    Yes, this movie is so stupid! But that seems to be the point. And Serkis knows the heart of these movies is the relationship between Eddie and Venom.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Waves
    This is a film that has such a strong first act, but then a head-scratcher of a second that left me actively disliking what I was watching in front of me, then an almost out-of-the-blue third act that ultimately won me back over.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Boseman is just so alive in this movie. This is not an “understated” performance. It’s like watching an athlete give it all on the field and we are left there wondering how this man isn’t just completely exhausted. Yeah, turns out Boseman did have one last gift for us. And, my gosh, he didn’t disappoint. He’s pure dynamite. It’s devastating.
    • 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
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Mike Ryan
    Captain Marvel
    Yes, Captain Marvel is an origin story, but it’s handled in such a unique way that it doesn’t always feel like an origin story.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 67 Mike Ryan
    The Spy Who Dumped Me
    The Spy Who Dumped Me does an effective job of putting these two outsiders into the world of a violent action movie, but then the plot of the action movie has some truly head-scratching scenes. But, whatever. This is an August movie and Kunis and McKinnon are funny and that’s what you’re paying to see.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 65 Mike Ryan
    The Croods: A New Age
    If you have kids, they will probably love this because it’s very colorful … and even I found myself mesmerized by how colorful it is. A cornucopia of colors! (I guess that’s my pull quote.)
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 65 Mike Ryan
    It: Chapter Two
    It Chapter Two is about redemption and the Losers coming together again to learn how strong they all are together. And the actors make it work. But the biggest problem is IT, because IT can be everything and IT can be nothing. IT has no real rules or motivations, or rhyme or reason, for literally anything he does.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Mike Ryan
    The Midnight Sky
    Clooney wants to direct actors who aren’t himself, which I’m sure is why we spend so much time with the crew of the spaceship. But if Clooney weren’t directing, that director would have probably realized that the story thrives in those small moments with Clooney. It’s almost like the director George Clooney is the actor George Clooney’s worst enemy.
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