Stephanie Merry

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Washington Post
For 330 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Stephanie Merry's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 The Look of Silence
Lowest review score: 0 A Haunted House 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 199 out of 330
  2. Mixed: 60 out of 330
  3. Negative: 71 out of 330
330 movie reviews
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Red Sparrow
    What was a steamy battle of wits in the novel looks more like a chemistry-free charade onscreen. Instead of character development the audience gets torture galore, whether it’s Dominika being doused with freezing water while naked and tied to a chair or a particularly sadistic character flaying someone alive.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    A Bad Moms Christmas
    A good idea and a stellar cast lost inside a sloppy script that mostly retreads last year’s laughs.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    I Do... Until I Don't
    The story often feels like a collection of (so-so) jokes, forcibly strung together in a tenuous narrative.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    The Journey
    Every element of the movie feels fabricated, from the stilted conversation to the ­all-too-convenient obstacles the movie keeps throwing in the path of progress.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    The Ticket
    At its worst, the movie is a blunt critique of materialism, but there are some smart moments along the way in this methodically paced drama, which puts more emphasis on atmospherics than storytelling.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    The Zookeeper's Wife
    It’s a story that promises major suspense, which only materializes occasionally.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Collateral Beauty
    The movie manages to be simultaneously superficial and heartbreaking. That’s no easy feat — nor is it a laudable one.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Rules Don't Apply
    If Beatty was not trying to make a movie about Hughes, he utterly failed, because the love story of Frank and Marla is more like a framing device — a gateway drug to get the audience into the theater so that Beatty can chew some scenery. Even so, he chews it quite well.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Bleed for This
    The halfhearted attempt to tweak the boxing-movie formula is a diversionary tactic. No amount of feints will change one fact: Bleed for This has no new moves.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    The film’s subtly observed moments are more powerful than any of its technical wizardry.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Front Cover
    Front Cover is weighed down by heavy-handed dialogue and a melodramatic score.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    The movie turns what was once antic into something closer to manic. With a throwaway plot and a parade of weird characters, the comedy tries to be bigger, bolder and more outrageous than the television series, but it ends up being a lot less funny.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    The Infiltrator
    If the movie isn’t always gripping, it’s nevertheless a worthwhile examination of the intricacies of undercover life.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Seoul Searching
    It’s too bad, then, that the comedy spends so much more time mimicking the familiar than trusting in its own fresh perspective.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Our Brand Is Crisis
    The movie turns out to be something we’ve seen before: an underdog tale mixed with a redemption narrative.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Tab Hunter Confidential
    Hunter proves to be an engaging if low-key narrator, whose greatest asset is his refusal to take himself too seriously.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Goosebumps
    It’s occasionally funny and sometimes suspenseful, but it isn’t particularly imaginative. Then again, neither are Stine’s popular novellas.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Sleeping with Other People
    The romantic comedy boasts two winning leads in Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie, as well as some sweet, funny moments amid the Aaron Sorkin-esque dialogue — courtesy of writer-director Leslye Headland — that’s a little too clever for its own believability.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    A Walk in the Woods
    For a moment, the movie tries to be about something deeper — some existential epiphany, perhaps. The book didn’t deal in platitudes. It was content to be lightly educational, but mostly just entertaining. The movie aspires to be more than that, only to reveal how much less than that it really is.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Ten Thousand Saints
    The movie captures the city vibrantly, in moments of beauty and brilliance.... But Jude, our narrator, is paper thin.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    A Little Chaos
    Though it purports to be about the delights of disorder, “A Little Chaos” feels like yet another by-the-book period romance, only without the genre’s requisite spark between the main characters.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Love at First Fight
    The actors make the movie’s memorable characters all the more indelible, even when Love at First Fight loses its sense of originality.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    In the Name of My Daughter
    In the Name of My Daughter has good intentions of taking a sensationalistic riddle and turning it into a human story. But the pendulum ultimately swings too far, leaving an explosive tale behind in favor of one that fizzles out.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Tomorrowland
    Maybe the ultimate goal of Tomorrowland remains obscure because once you know where the story is headed, you realize it’s a familiar tale. The movie can conjure up futuristic images, but the story is nothing we haven’t seen before.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Blackbird
    The heart of the movie is in the right place. And although some of the acting from the younger stars comes across as amateurish, a few performances truly shine.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    The Age of Adaline
    The Age of Adaline works best as a simple story of boy meets girl; girl falls in love; girl mulls whether or not to reveal that she’ll stay young forever. Everything else is just a lot of unnecessary noise.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    The Human Experiment
    The movie was nicely shot with flashy graphics to explain the data that does exist. But in the end, this film will persuade only those who already believe.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    McFarland USA
    A new sport doesn’t equate to new ground, but there is pleasure to be had in a formula that works.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Boy Meets Girl
    Often, it feels conspicuously educational. The movie is far better when it focuses on its intimate story of love between family and friends in a small town.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Fifty Shades of Grey
    In the end, there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before. But there’s also nothing as agonizingly awkward as James’s prose.
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