Shirley Li

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Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic
For 76 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 86% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 13% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Shirley Li's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 77
Highest review score: 98 May December
Lowest review score: 38 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 76
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 76
  3. Negative: 3 out of 76
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 58 Shirley Li
    The Electric State
    The Electric State is so transparently eager to satisfy as many demographics of viewers as possible that it proves its own message: that a world dependent on business interests and technological optimization dulls artistic potential and human ingenuity. All that’s left is a wasteland of half-baked ideas searching for a home.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Shirley Li
    The Crow
    A generic and plodding revenge thriller that’s nowhere near bold enough to justify the franchise’s resurrection.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 45 Shirley Li
    Fair Play
    Fair Play positions itself as a psychosexual thriller, but it’s neither truly provocative nor all that sexy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Shirley Li
    Tetris
    Like a frustrated player speeding up the falling blocks to end the game, the film haphazardly stacks ideas atop one another until, well, it’s a relief when it’s over.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Shirley Li
    Emancipation
    Despite a committed cast and often stunning cinematography, the film’s script is too blunt and the direction too ham-fisted to make Emancipation anything more than another rote—albeit expensive—entry in the slavery-movie genre.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Shirley Li
    Raya and the Last Dragon
    The spectacle of a fantasy world can do only so much; a beautiful setting can’t compensate for a superficial story line. Raya loses sight of its heroine’s own connection to the cultures that the filmmakers had put so much care into depicting authentically.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Shirley Li
    Bullet Train
    Bullet Train is stupid fun—all neon-drenched style over substance. It’s the kind of late-summer flick that coasts on nonsense, violence, and actors trying out questionable accents. The film is a solid showcase for hand-to-hand combat up until it devolves into CGI drudgery.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Shirley Li
    Where the Crawdads Sing
    If the film leaned all the way into its melodrama, it could have been something different: the rare mainstream, studio-produced summer romance made for female audiences, with rich imagery worthy of the big screen. But its source material’s blemishes were always going to be hard to avoid.

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