Sara Stewart

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New York Post
For 607 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Sara Stewart's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Dolemite Is My Name
Lowest review score: 0 Would You Rather
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 324 out of 607
  2. Mixed: 176 out of 607
  3. Negative: 107 out of 607
607 movie reviews
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Palo Alto
    The result is a thoughtful, dreamlike (at times, nightmarish) tour through the day-to-day lives of several suburban California teens.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Amour Fou
    The very German lack of emotion is so acute it can be hard to tell when Hausner’s playing for laughs, but Friedel is hilariously — if morbidly — tedious as the tortured writer whose pickup line is, “Would you care to die with me?”
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    It
    The literal ghouls here take a back seat to the subtler ones, which are really where It shines darkly.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Digging for Fire
    Per Swanberg’s signature style, the dialogue is largely improvised, the performances loose and funny. This may be his most star-studded cast yet, but the work is as intimate (“mumblecore” is so passé) as ever.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Q Ball
    Q Ball is a moving and dynamically shot portrait of the Northern California prison’s basketball team, which is sponsored by the NBA champion Golden State Warriors.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    In the film’s most visceral scene, as the trio stands on the site of a mass grave in Lviv, Ukraine, von Wächter still can’t bring himself to admit his father’s direct culpability.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Sara Stewart
    Dark Star: HR Giger's World
    The film fails to represent how singular and influential the late Giger is in popular culture.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Sara Stewart
    Hide Your Smiling Faces
    The many silences in Hide Your Smiling Faces don’t speak quite loudly enough, and the film ultimately gets bogged down by its own ponderousness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Gook
    If the plot becomes a bit scattered in its third act, a generous interpretation might be that it’s a reflection of the chaotic cultural backdrop. Chon directs with style and a humane eye for all parties; he’s a dynamic young director to keep your eye on.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Sara Stewart
    Planes: Fire & Rescue
    This Disney sequel to 2013’s “Planes” is a lot like flying coach: serviceable, but not trying that hard.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Predestination
    Weirder and more contemplative than many of its time-traveling brethren, Predestination is a stylish head trip. It also marks Australian actor Snook as one to watch, as she demonstrates some serious gender-bending range.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Ginger & Rosa
    There’s not a bad performance in the bunch. Hendricks’ and Fanning’s Brit accents are nicely un-showy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    The Armor of Light
    Watching Schenck and McBath campaign to fellow Christians for a dissociation between God and guns, you suspect their words are falling on deaf ears.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Happiest Season
    Tonally, Happiest Season is a bit uneven; it can move from broad hijinks to high emotion a little too quickly. But it also delivers wonderfully heartfelt moments.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Man Up
    This featherweight comedy from director Ben Palmer (“The Inbetweeners Movie”) is a lot more fun than many heftier, supposed rom-coms, thanks to the timing and chemistry of its leads.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Sara Stewart
    Like Crazy
    It's sort of like last year's "Blue Valentine" on Prozac -- the giddy highs and the despairing lows are muted, and a well-known side effect of that antidepressant pops up, too: Palpable lust is all but nonexistent.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    The Girl in the Book
    Though its resolution is a bit pat, most of The Girl in the Book is a smart and pointed look at abuses of power and roles women too often play in the literary world.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Sara Stewart
    Richard Jewell
    Like most of Eastwood’s work (with the exception of last year’s disastrous “The 15:17 to Paris”), it’s a tightly paced feature, with strong performances all around. It’s also one of the season’s most politically polarized films.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    American Animals
    American Animals takes an appropriately wild approach to its subject, biting off a little more than it can chew, but nevertheless coming up with a truly novel entry in the overcrowded heist genre.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Sara Stewart
    Land Ho!
    A refreshingly naturalistic depiction of the dynamic of traveling companionship — at any age.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Sara Stewart
    Thank You for Your Service
    A thoughtful drama which sags when it tries to shoehorn its characters into by-the-numbers plot points.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Europa Report
    The real treat here is the science, not the fiction. The film’s sleek aesthetic was developed in consultation with NASA about what such a mission would actually require, and look like as viewed on surveillance cameras.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Avengers: Infinity War
    All the past decade’s Marvel movies have been heading toward this showdown. Turns out the payoff was worth the wait.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    A Vigilante
    The film manages to be both hopeful and devastating — and recommended viewing for anyone who subscribes to the facile notion that abused women should “just leave.”
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Sara Stewart
    Just Mercy
    Profoundly moving and, at times, almost unbearably sad.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Sara Stewart
    Vox Lux
    Natalie Portman is captivating as a damaged electro-pop star known as Celeste in Vox Lux, a flawed, flashy drama from actor/director Brady Corbet (“The Childhood of a Leader”).
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Sara Stewart
    After Everything
    Jeremy Allen White (“Shameless”) and Maika Monroe (“It Follows”) shine in this dramedy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    7 Chinese Brothers
    Feels like an homage to the early work of Wes Anderson with its plinky soundtrack, solipsistic banter and emphasis on uniforms.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    The Sapphires
    The upstart Sapphires are a smash to watch as they cover soul tunes like “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “What a Man” and “I Can’t Help Myself.”
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Sara Stewart
    Long Shot
    It’s blessed with an ace comic foil in Theron, who out-snarks Rogen in scene after scene. The duo makes a terrifically fun on-screen couple, with the kind of zingy banter (thanks to Dan Sterling and Liz Hannah’s screenplay) found in black-and-white movies pre-dating the term “rom-com.”
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