Stephen A. Russell

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For 31 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Stephen A. Russell's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Lowest review score: 40 Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Stephen A. Russell
    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
    Matthew Robinson’s sloppy screenplay feels like it may have been churned out by AI itself. It’s crammed with leaden exposition and clumsy with hammy dialogue in which everyone over-explains themselves, as if we’re watching it with one eye on our phones.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Stephen A. Russell
    The Weight
    Padraic McKinley’s Great Depression gold heist flick has a welcome ’70s vibe and a careworn charm, mostly emanating from the always trusty Ethan Hawke.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Stephen A. Russell
    Cuckoo
    Sure to be a cult classic, it’s quite literally cuckoo – and often gloriously so.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Stephen A. Russell
    The Last Voyage of the Demeter
    Did we really need this Dracula footnote to set sail at all? Perhaps not, but while Øvredal’s expansion on the world isn’t as fun as the grim fables from which it draws blood, it still has some bite.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Stephen A. Russell
    Master Gardener
    As the film shifts away from the mansion and into a pretty pat subplot about far-right goons and drug addiction, it grows less like a prize-winning flower and more like a clump of unsightly weeds, further sunk by underwhelming work from Schrader’s regular cinematographer Alexander Dynan.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Stephen A. Russell
    Everybody's Oma
    Ultimately it's a tribute to a woman well-loved, and to the family who will never forget her, even if they slip slowly away from her mind.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Stephen A. Russell
    Prisoners of the Ghostland
    As envisioned by Japanese director Sion Sono, the brains behind blood-drenched show Tokyo Vampire Hotel and flushed turtle-turned kaiju film Love & Peace, it’s a hoot. But Sono fans expecting the combo with Cage to go properly off may be somewhat surprised by a slightly sedate pace.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Stephen A. Russell
    Old
    Shyamalan has never excelled at dialogue, but the mangling here is gobsmacking

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