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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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Plot for Peace
    [A] sometimes fascinating, often convoluted, movie.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Bird People
    The whole thing is so inconsistent, with intermittent slow motion and curious motivations, that you have to finally just accept things like a disappearing narrator as par for the course.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Watermark
    It’s as if the movie’s many pieces are supposed to be like impressionistic brush strokes. When seen together, the result is pretty to look at. But it’s not as meaningful as it should be.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Enzo Avitabile Music Life
    Enzo Avitabile Music Life succeeds at conveying one-quarter of its title. It is full of beautiful sounds that should delight fans of Avitabile and world music in general. The life portion is a bit trickier, but you get the sense that Avitabile wanted it that way.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Bitter Honey
    It would be nice to know if the troubling images we see are a sweeping problem or just a small glimpse of a minority.
    • 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
    McFarland USA
    A new sport doesn’t equate to new ground, but there is pleasure to be had in a formula that works.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Just a Sigh
    Without much to go on, Just a Sigh lives up to its name. It disappears without a trace.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    God Help the Girl
    The tone is all over the map, switching from fantastical one moment to naturalistic the next... It all gives God Help the Girl a disconnected, haphazard feel.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Low Down
    It’s appropriately melancholy, and yet there’s a sense that the movie only scratches the surface.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    The Zookeeper's Wife
    It’s a story that promises major suspense, which only materializes occasionally.
    • 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Draft Day
    This isn’t a sports movie so much as a procedural about backroom dealings, double-crosses and high-stakes trades.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Stephanie Merry
    Flex Is Kings
    The movie’s great strength is the way it captures these dancers, sometimes in slow motion, as they contort their bodies in ways that don’t seem possible. When it comes to the narrative, though, the movie struggles a bit.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
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