Susan Wloszczyna

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RogerEbert.com, USA Today
For 678 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Susan Wloszczyna's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Toni Erdmann
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 347 out of 678
  2. Mixed: 183 out of 678
  3. Negative: 148 out of 678
678 movie reviews
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    The Bleeding Edge
    This is neither the most cinematically entertaining nor the sexiest topic ever examined by what amounts to a Code Red warning sign of a public service announcement. But Dick and producers Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy know the value of focusing on a compelling collection of human subjects who generously relive their first-hand agony.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    As movies about misanthropic outsider artists with medical issues go, “Don’t Worry” doesn’t come close to the superb “American Splendor” with Paul Giamatti as the irascible Harvey Pekar.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Whitney
    A well-done but all-too-woeful wallow of a documentary.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Boundaries
    Boundaries ends the way most road trips do — by running out of gas. But being in the presence of Plummer these days is always time well spent.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Half the Picture
    Documentaries that rely on a steady stream of talking heads—interspersed here with fleeting film clips—usually are not my favorite. However, when those heads belong to talented and perceptive women who rarely get a chance to speak their minds let alone get hired to make a movie, I can definitely make an exception.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Book Club
    This fairly laugh-packed comedy aims to address the desire for intimate companionship in older adults, an increasingly topical issue as more Americans live into their nineties.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Susan Wloszczyna
    Mountain
    This vertiginous valentine to high-altitude sport attempts to portray, in the most poetic of terms, why mankind feels the need to defy gravity by painstakingly clawing its way into the upper reaches of the atmosphere while risking life and limb.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    The House of Tomorrow
    It might not always gracefully connect its plot dots, but “Tomorrow” is almost always watchable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Kodachrome
    Kodachrome, alas, too often travels a well-worn and predictable highway, one that was traversed to near-perfection not too long ago by Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska.”
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
    Much like the way that Stubby was often underestimated before he found his calling, I came into this film not expecting how much I would appreciate a more thoughtful use of animation to tell an engaging story.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Chappaquiddick
    Clarke, who has skillfully brought other complex and compromised males to life in “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Mudbound,” is wholly convincing both physically and vocally as the surviving Kennedy brother. One wishes that the movie itself allowed him more performing room than it does.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Finding Your Feet
    Finding Your Feet finds its own footing by putting its trust in its sturdy performers and avoiding many of the usual tea-time clichés as it allows its British cast to be defined by their relatable human circumstances more than quaint Anglo quirks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Leaning Into the Wind
    This is one of the most relaxing experiences I have had watching a movie in a long time.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    The Boy Downstairs
    Any movie that can bring to mind a Joni Mitchell song as the credits roll — “Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone” — has earned its keep.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Lover for a Day
    The plot alone of this elegantly shot black-and-white import shares the Woodman’s affection for variations on lusty middle-age man who beds — and tutors — an adoring decades-younger nubile conquest.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Susan Wloszczyna
    In Between
    What elevates Hamoud’s screenplay beyond typical Tinseltown fare, however, is what is at stake by rebelling against cultural norms and choosing a liberal lifestyle—namely, bringing shame to your loved ones and being ostracized by your community.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
    It is somewhat refreshing to witness a May-December romance from an older female perspective and both leads pour their hearts into their roles.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Ferdinand
    What is truly amazing about this film is how thoughtfully Ferdinand questions male gender expectations.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Susan Wloszczyna
    Lady Bird
    It is also one of the better solo directing debuts by an actor in recent memory. Hardly a false step is taken by Greta Gerwig in her semi-autobiographical script that centers on Lady Bird’s final year at her rather progressive Catholic high school.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Our Souls at Night
    The hormonal surges in Our Souls at Night aren’t quite the rollercoaster ride they are in those adolescent affairs. But this steady-as-it-goes approach to a senior snuggling has its ups and downs, too.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Loving Vincent
    If you are hungry for dazzling eye candy and don’t mind a less-than-meaty narrative, this might please your palate.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Victoria and Abdul
    This sturdy regal period piece provides a perfect opportunity to properly adore the 82-year-old legend as she revisits the role of Queen Victoria two decades after first playing the indomitable monarch in “Mrs. Brown.”
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Viceroy's House
    Ultimately, Viceroy’s House might be worth a visit just for certain tasty details, such as how Lady Edwina and her adult daughter greedily scarf down the chicken meant for the family dog without shame after having their palates dulled by wartime rationing.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    The Hitman's Bodyguard
    While no one is going to mistake The Hitman’s Bodyguard for high art, it will please those in the mood for late-summer fun.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Susan Wloszczyna
    Step
    A soul-stirring, foot-stomping and inspirational step beyond most in that its final showdown is only the beginning of a path towards a brighter future for the participants.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Landline
    A forlornly funny and emotionally bruising dramedy that rarely misses an opportunity to reveal humans as the flawed and occasionally awful beings that they are.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Girls Trip
    Girls Trip is the ladies-on-the-loose comedy that everyone needs right now, even if they don’t know it yet.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Soapdish
    Soapdish is forever blowing comic bubbles. Most burst in mid-flight. But a few, thanks to the talents of stars Sally Field and Kevin Kline, work up into a laughable lather. [31 May 1991, p.4D]
    • USA Today
      • Posted Jun 28, 2017
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Beatriz at Dinner
    Hayek turns Beatriz into her own breed of wonder woman, Lithgow’s Strutt is definitely a super villain of sorts and their head-to-head battle is clearly worth seeing even if, in real life, it has only begun.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    The Exception
    For Plummer’s plum of a performance alone, you might want to make an exception for The Exception.
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