Vikram Murthi

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For 109 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 32% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Vikram Murthi's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Amazing Grace
Lowest review score: 33 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 109
  2. Mixed: 47 out of 109
  3. Negative: 4 out of 109
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Vikram Murthi
    The Parenting
    Shot and directed like a sitcom episode, The Parenting runs on (good, awkward, creepy) vibes, which is probably why Parker Posey, who plays the home’s “mysterious” owner and exposition dispenser, injects energy into the film just by being her off-kilter self. . . Unfortunately, The Parenting isn’t a hangout movie where tone can reign supreme.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 42 Vikram Murthi
    The Beast Within
    The Beast Within has nothing much to offer except the domestic violence allegory at its center, so Farrell repeatedly emphasizes, spotlights, and underlines it in red, just in case anyone was unclear about what the film was really about.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 42 Vikram Murthi
    Three Christs
    An insipid, boring mess, Three Christs doesn’t even have the decency to be amusing, apart from Stephen Root’s forced delivery of the film’s title followed by a what-a-world head shake.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 42 Vikram Murthi
    Back to Black
    The palpable sincerity behind “Back to Black” almost makes its myriad weaknesses more glaring. Everyone involved in the film approaches the late artist with love and respect, but its tawdry instincts and misguided sense of responsibility let her memory down.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 42 Vikram Murthi
    Easter Sunday
    Every performer conveys sincere enthusiasm to be on screen with other Filipino actors, but their joy is squandered by a cartoonish story that squanders its honest core. Easter Sunday will likely please Koy’s fanbase and possibly anyone eager to find grandma-and-kid-friendly entertainment, but everyone else might find it lacking.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Vikram Murthi
    Crooked House
    The actors never once seem engaged with the material beyond the surface. Thus, Crooked House feels as lifeless as the corpse at its center.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 33 Vikram Murthi
    The Brink
    The vast majority of the people watching The Brink have their minds made up about Bannon and will not be swayed by his flamboyant rhetoric. At the same time, it’s difficult to pinpoint what exactly Klayman accomplishes with her film beyond a mere political horror show one can safely view from behind proverbial Plexiglas.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 33 Vikram Murthi
    Blue Bayou
    Blue Bayou is designed to jerk tears out of a plainly tragic scenario, but all it does is expose the strings behind the puppets and the set. In the film’s failures, we can see the limits of good intentions: It doesn’t matter if a heart is in the right place if the mind isn’t too.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 33 Vikram Murthi
    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    It’s sad that Fantastic Beasts pulls off what I assumed was impossible: It turned an imaginative fantasy world into dreary wallpaper.
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