Status' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
For 33 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 80 Remarkably Bright Creatures
Lowest review score: 10 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 33
  2. Negative: 2 out of 33
33 movie reviews
  1. A 90-some-odd-minute adrenaline rush that gets stretched out a bit beyond its weight even with its modest running time.
  2. It feels ready-made fodder for streaming’s “You might like” tier.
  3. While it’s worth watching, what clearly aspires to be the definitive telling of the story ultimately isn’t.
  4. A 197-minute epic that piles on breathless rescues and battles in a manner whose ultimate goal seems to be exhaustion as an artistic choice, if not outright “Kneel before Zod” submission.
  5. Unlike its protagonist, there’s a refreshing lack of guile or pretense here about what this modest but breezy movie is and wants to be.
  6. The latest installment is insanely weird, gruesomely violent, and features incredibly hammy roles for Ralph Fiennes and “Sinners’” Jack O’Connell.
  7. Landing on Netflix, it’s not terrible, but by the time the credits roll it’s pretty clear why it landed directly on Netflix.
  8. Think of “Jay Kelly” as a taller and better-looking version of Woody Allen’s “Stardust Memories."
  9. Given the frequent weeping captured from her die-hard, singing-along fans, 4DX would really be the killer app, approximating the spray of their abundant tears of joy.
  10. "Michael" conveys the feeling of a slickly produced licensed product.
  11. Deftly serves old wine in an equally old bottle.
  12. The movie rises and falls on Monroe and Withers’ workmanlike performances, leaving it to the heart-tugging subject matter, mostly, to carry it across the finish line.
  13. Whatever the A.I. judge’s verdict, this human one says to wait for streaming.
  14. Loyalists should be there for the premiere, but after that, one suspects it’s game over.
  15. The basic premise could have been called “Lee Cronin’s The Exorcist,” although that probably wouldn’t have cleared legal.
  16. Fennell ratchets up the volume to 11, with more emphasis on smoldering and sexuality than literature, at the risk of bastardizing Bronte’s tale beyond recognition.
  17. In what amounts to damnation with the faintest of praise, Tron: Ares is slightly less incoherent than its most recent predecessor (granted, not a particularly high bar), while taking advantage of the passage of time to improve on the visuals, since “Legacy’s” de-aging process involving original star Jeff Bridges served as a lifeless distraction.
  18. The stitched-together concept proves too bizarre and disjointed to catch lightning in a bottle.
  19. Frankly, I’d begin with having future me warn the present-day version to skip this.
  20. James L. Brooks has no creative mountains left to climb, but watching the ill-conceived “Ella McCay” it’s hard not to wish he had quit while he was ahead.

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