Shayna Maci Warner

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For 14 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 85% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 15% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 16.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Shayna Maci Warner's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 82
Highest review score: 90 Mars One
Lowest review score: 65 Framing Agnes
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Shayna Maci Warner
    This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
    Helmed by veteran music video director Dave Meyers and co-written by Lopez and Matt Walton, the visual album is, first and foremost, dazzlingly romantic. It is also minorly self-reflexive, gratifyingly excessive, ham-fistedly and lovingly referential, and gleefully riding the pendulum between the nostalgic warmth of a well-designed movie musical and the cool uncanny valley of a contemporary digital sci-fi.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 84 Shayna Maci Warner
    Mutt
    Mutt makes space for the sadness, mundanity and possibility of life in transition.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Shayna Maci Warner
    Eileen
    The visceral thrills and quiet abominations of the journey are enjoyable, and worth the watch for Hathaway’s circling of McKenzie like a shark smelling preemptively spilt blood in the water; that is, until she realizes she’s a little more dangerous than her usual prey.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 86 Shayna Maci Warner
    Cassandro
    [A] triumphant narrative feature debut.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Shayna Maci Warner
    Framing Agnes
    While the conceit is clever, these are not new storytelling techniques for documentary or fiction, and in Framing Agnes, they lack a certain follow-through.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Shayna Maci Warner
    Mars One
    Insightful, kind and exceptionally well-acted, Marte Um reminds its characters that they’ll find what they need if they just keep looking.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Shayna Maci Warner
    Sirens
    Rita Baghdadi’s new documentary Sirens is a smartly crafted, hugely entertaining look at the band as it goes through growing pains, fights for bookings, and navigates inter-band dyke drama against the backdrop of a city under constant threat of attack.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Shayna Maci Warner
    The Janes
    If anything, The Janes is a call to find and form networks in one’s own community. It’s a reminder, as the inevitability of another abortion ban inches closer and closer every day, there will always be people who disregard what is lawful in favor of what is right—and documentary can be a tool in teaching what, who and how to effectively parse and evade that lawful, undeniably wrong side of history.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 89 Shayna Maci Warner
    Girl Picture
    A joyous, resonant snapshot of growing into one’s own, and challenging even your own expectations of who you thought you could be.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 84 Shayna Maci Warner
    Cha Cha Real Smooth
    For the runtime of Cha Cha Real Smooth, Raiff’s clever script, affable characters and naturalistic direction makes it painless enough to sympathize with someone who can’t moonwalk, but will nevertheless skate on by.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 79 Shayna Maci Warner
    Call Jane
    Ultimately, it’s unfortunate that Call Jane can’t decide whether it’s a character study or the study of a movement, as it’s a visual pleasure that successfully tiptoes in both directions before retracting its more confrontational opinions.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 66 Shayna Maci Warner
    Gunpowder Milkshake
    It’s a bloody feast for the eyes, and if you’re looking for a movie sprung solely from the iconography of other neo-shoot ‘em ups, it’s got some fun in store—you just might have to leap over the plot holes and massive tonal shifts while wielding customized mini-bayonets to enjoy the good stuff.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 89 Shayna Maci Warner
    Together Together
    Stuffed with bombastic bit parts from a roster of recent television’s greatest comedic talents and casually incisive dialogue that lays waste to media empires and preconceptions of women’s autonomy alike, the film is an unexpected, welcome antidote to emotional isolation and toxic masculinity that meanders in and out of life lessons at a pleasingly inefficient clip.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 82 Shayna Maci Warner
    Wojnarowicz
    Overall, however, the viewer gets an essential introduction to Wojnarowicz—enough to foster a desire to look more deeply into his own, numerous written accounts of his life, and to examine their own upholdings of moral decency in art, sex and access to an unencumbered life.

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