Ann Hornaday
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49% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.4 points higher than other critics.
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Ann Hornaday's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,259 out of 1913
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Mixed: 353 out of 1913
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Negative: 301 out of 1913
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- Ann Hornaday
The classic college party-crawl comedy gets a smart, self-aware refresh with Emergency, a funny, adroitly executed satire that manages to find genuine laughs in the unlikeliest places.- Washington Post
- Posted May 18, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
If this all sounds too insufferable and in-jokey, fear not: Gormican, with the help of his fabulously game ensemble cast, keeps the balloon afloat with a light touch, crisp pacing and an overarching mood that’s more goofily endearing than smugly self-amused.- Washington Post
- Posted Apr 20, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
As arresting and elaborate as the images are in The Northman, there are just as many sequences that revert strictly to pulpy, B-movie type.- Washington Post
- Posted Apr 20, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Top it off with Pinaud’s final dedication, and The Rose Maker turns into a film that wears its emotions lightly but generously, like dew on a blush-colored petal.- Washington Post
- Posted Apr 13, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
In The Automat, Hurwitz and writer Michael Levine trace the rise and fall of Horn & Hardart, illuminating not just a surprisingly compelling corporate history, but a facet of American culture that feels both brimmingly optimistic and thoroughly extinct.- Washington Post
- Posted Apr 5, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Based on a spare, exquisitely crafted novel by Graham Swift, this thoughtful but ultimately inert dramatization respects its source material and tries valiantly to give arresting visual expression to its finely layered themes.- Washington Post
- Posted Mar 30, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
The two actors have charisma to burn, finely tuned comic chops and the kind of smoldering physical star power that manages to look effortless and superhuman at the same time. But even gifts as prodigious as Bullock’s and Tatum’s can’t keep “The Lost City” afloat.- Washington Post
- Posted Mar 23, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Master might be a horror film, but its scariest elements are off screen, in the form of the persistent social realities that inspired it.- Washington Post
- Posted Mar 16, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
After Yang again demonstrates Kogonada’s mastery of form, framing and composition. But audiences will be forgiven for wanting to reach through the screen to mess it up a little, if only to inject some recognizable warmth and spontaneity.- Washington Post
- Posted Mar 2, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Welcome to “The Batman,” yet another lugubrious, laboriously grim slog masquerading as a fun comic book movie.- Washington Post
- Posted Mar 1, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Kuosmanen has given us another affair to remember, this time about love as something for which you’d not just go to the ends of the Earth, but to the beginning of time.- Washington Post
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Trier and Reinsve have gifted audiences with a movie that understands the ecstasy of diving into the unknown, the flush of new love, the beauty of connecting amid unspeakable loss.- Washington Post
- Posted Feb 10, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
It’s a movie that’s all too happy simply to go through the motions when its star is clearly capable of busting bigger, more interesting moves. Luckily, there are other films in the sea. This is one that Lopez should have left at the altar.- Washington Post
- Posted Feb 10, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Filmmaker Clint Bentley makes a tender, visually poetic feature directorial debut with “Jockey,” a closely observed portrait of a man embarking on the downslope of his career.- Washington Post
- Posted Jan 19, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Thanks to his courage and Rasmussen’s compassion and creativity, “Flee” morphs from a tale of dispossession to a testament to the power of narrative — to overtake a life, and to liberate it.- Washington Post
- Posted Jan 19, 2022
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- Ann Hornaday
Licorice Pizza is at its best — and is genuinely charming — when it’s simply focused on Gary and Alana — two mixed-up kids trying to make their way in a world that feels promising and perilous in equal measure.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 22, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
For such a compact and efficient vessel, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” pours forth seemingly endless wellsprings of language, emotion and psychological depth.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Wachowski seems to be at war with her audience, rewarding them with deep-cut callbacks one moment only to roll her eyes at the entire enterprise the next.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a quietly astonishing directorial debut with “The Lost Daughter,” a crafty treatise on maternal ambivalence that delivers an unsettling emotional wallop.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 14, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Not content with simply stoking rage and self-righteous superiority, McKay dares to infuse Don’t Look Up with an authentic, unironic sense of grief.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 9, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Spielberg and Kaminski have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration for decades, but their work on West Side Story brings the partnership to breathtakingly poetic expressive heights.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 7, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
For all its beauty and poignancy, The Hand of God suffers from a strange paradox: It goes on too long but somehow doesn’t go far enough.- Washington Post
- Posted Dec 1, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
In this mesmerizing, revelatory and deeply compassionate film, viewers are left with an indelible impression of girlhood at its most precarious and indomitable.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 22, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Like The Father last year, The Humans makes the set a character in itself: Karam has concocted a diabolically creaky duplex whose wonky corners and jury-rigged improvements take on an increasingly sinister patina as the meal progresses.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 22, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Johnny’s tentative dip into family life artfully captures the tedium, terror and confounding ecstasy of parenthood, but it more eloquently conveys the pain and discovery involved in simply trying to do one’s best.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 22, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Once again demonstrating her own strong, clear vision — not to mention superb control of her craft — Campion proves her ability to illuminate hidden truths and let us see what was hiding in plain sight all along.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 17, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Will Smith delivers a ferocious, all-consuming performance in King Richard, a thoroughly entertaining portrait of Richard Williams — better known as Venus and Serena’s father.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 17, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
For its frequently painful contours, there’s an abundance of pleasures to be had in Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s irresistible memoir about growing up amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 10, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
The Souvenir Part II may bring an end to the introduction of a marvelous filmmaker to a wider world. But far more promisingly, it suggests what, with luck, will be an exhilarating next chapter.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 9, 2021
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- Ann Hornaday
Zhao might have her eye on the nuances, but ultimately even a filmmaker with her sensitivity and vision can’t bend the Great Marvel Imperative to her will.- Washington Post
- Posted Nov 2, 2021
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