Alison Willmore

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New York Magazine (Vulture), The Playlist
For 139 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 66% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Alison Willmore's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Little Women
Lowest review score: 10 Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 72 out of 139
  2. Mixed: 52 out of 139
  3. Negative: 15 out of 139
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
    If the series was conceived as a way to hold on to the fans of the original books and movies who are now grown, what’s clear in practice is it’s a children’s story staggering to support a few ambitious and deeply underdeveloped themes.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    The King's Man
    The real sin of The King’s Man is its near-total lack of fun.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    It’s so obviously shaped by fan response that it feels like the movie equivalent of someone who went viral online and now can only repeat themselves to diminishing returns in an attempt to hawk merch while they can.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Alison Willmore
    Infinite
    Infinite feels like a depressing fable about the movie industry.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 10 Alison Willmore
    Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
    Without Remorse is awful — an incoherently shot, grindingly dull movie in which just about every actor manages to seem miscast.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Alison Willmore
    Thunder Force
    Thunder Force doesn’t work as a comedy, but that’s because it doesn’t really work as a movie. There’s so little chemistry between McCarthy and Spencer, longtime real-life friends, that, rather than buddies, their characters often just come across as mildly surprised to find themselves in the same room.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    Voyagers
    Voyagers, in keeping its focus where it does, feels like a waste not just because of how predictable its beats are, but because it ends just when it feels like it’s getting interesting.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    Wild Mountain Thyme
    Wild Mountain Thyme is not just charmless. It is genuinely confounding, a movie constantly working against itself to make its characters and their dilemma comprehensible.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    The Witches
    It’s an adaptation without direction or purpose, with an unwieldy but deeply committed performance at its center. Hathaway looks to be having fun, at least. Someone should!
    • 47 Metascore
    • 10 Alison Willmore
    Irresistible
    Irresistible isn’t just shockingly ineffectual in its insights into national schisms — it is, in an added betrayal, unfunny, requiring its audience to slog their way through so much laborious farce without a laugh in sight.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Alison Willmore
    Artemis Fowl
    The movie is so charmless and hopelessly incoherent that you might feel the need to consult Wikipedia afterward for some help on what it was even about.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    Scoob!
    The best part of Scoob!, a computer-animated reboot of the Scooby-Doo franchise, is the part in which the movie painstakingly recreates the opening credits of the original series.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    Capone
    The problem with Capone isn’t that it’s an unconventional biography or a challenge to the image of a famous figure. It’s that it’s not bold enough on either of those fronts.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Alison Willmore
    Blumhouse's Fantasy Island
    It is a terrible horror movie, by the way, just wretchedly unenjoyable.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Alison Willmore
    Like a Boss
    It’s hard to guess whether the story was mangled by studio reedits or just didn’t have much to say to begin with — both seem possible. The bigger question is why so many strong actors signed on for this misfire.

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