Matt Singer

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For 321 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Singer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 The Fabelmans
Lowest review score: 10 The Emoji Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 136 out of 321
  2. Mixed: 145 out of 321
  3. Negative: 40 out of 321
321 movie reviews
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Matt Singer
    Fast X
    Walker’s presence in the Fast movies was the sweet, underplayed counterbalance to Vin Diesel’s ultra-sincere, ultra-sleeveless bombast, and the franchise still hasn’t found a way to fill the void he left behind. In hindsight, the series probably should have stopped after Furious 7, which not only marked the franchise’s farewell to Walker’s character but also to any semblance of logic or cohesion in its ongoing mega-narrative. Since then, Fast & Furious has basically been running on fumes.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    I don’t think Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 quite matches the sublime pop silliness of the first film in this trilogy, but it’s easily better than Vol. 2, which had wonderful bits along with an overstuffed storyline. Vol. 3 isn’t exactly streamlined — it still runs about two and a half hours — but it is more focused on its themes and ideas, and on giving the Guardians the sendoff they deserve.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Air
    In another director’s hands Air could very easily have become a piece of corporate propaganda for Nike and its ongoing Michael Jordan apparel empire. And, in a way, it still is — only it’s now an exceedingly entertaining and impressively heart-warming piece of corporate propaganda.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Singer
    The Super Mario Bros. Movie
    For a couple minutes, it starts to feel like the film is building on top of the Super Mario mythology rather than simply regurgitating it. The rest reminded me of the attract mode that would automatically start to play on old arcade games if no one pressed start: A bunch of computerized images going through the motions over and over.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Tetris
    The lead performers bring a lot of energy to the material, and for a while Tetris hums along as part The Social Network and part Ocean’s 11, at least until a final act that collapses under the weight of an action sequence so ludicrous it feels like it belongs in a parody of bad Hollywood biopics.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    It manages to capture not only the adventure of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, but also the sense of camaraderie the game engenders, because it is typically played by groups of close friends meeting regularly for months or even years to a complete a campaign.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Matt Singer
    John Wick: Chapter 4
    This thing ain’t a “chapter.” It’s a whole damn book — a glorious, nightmarish, biblical compendium of all manners of asskickery.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Singer
    Shazam! Fury of the Gods
    Shazam! Fury of the Gods is just sort of there, coasting on the residual good vibes and talented cast of its much-superior predecessor.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Singer
    Scream VI
    Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett do know how to stage a good scare sequence, and Scream VI has enough decent ones to prevent the film from tipping over into disaster.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Creed III
    Creed III returns the franchise to its roots in macho melodrama. Yes, Adonis and Dame eventually fight. But a lot of Creed III is about their lives away from the ring, and about universal themes that have nothing to do with boxing like getting older and feeling as if your dreams are about to slip through your fingers.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    If you want to see a lot of strange CGI visuals and the you’re interested in the groundwork of the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’ll likely walk out satisfied (if maybe a little confused about the specifics of Kang’s larger plan). If you want to see an Ant-Man movie like the previous two Ant-Man movies — with wry humor, simple stories, and inventive uses of Ant-Man’s shrinking powers — you’re as out of luck as Scott Lang after Kang drags him to the Quantum Realm.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Knock at the Cabin
    Before that, though, Knock at the Cabin is about as well-acted and intense as a movie of this kind gets. For a long time, Shyalaman had a reputation as a guy obsessed with twists. While he does still occasionally veer into that sort of territory, his movies these days are less about structural gimmicks than insistent messages. In Knock at the Cabin’s case, it is a poignant tale about faith and sacrifice — and, above all, avoiding family vacations at all costs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    M3GAN
    While most of 2022’s holiday toys are destined to be dumped in storage bins or even the garbage in a matter of weeks, I have feeling M3GAN is going to stick around a lot longer than that.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Matt Singer
    Babylon
    Chazelle seems so enamored with his simulacrum of this forgotten world that he loses sight of the people in it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    Avatar: The Way of Water
    You can’t say The Way of Water doesn’t give you your money’s worth, especially in the visual department. This thing’s got enough eye candy to give you ocular diabetes.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    In general, Glass Onion is a much sharper comedy than Knives Out, with snappier dialogue, flashy cameos, and quirkier characters.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    Weird won’t make anyone forget Walk Hard, but it might make some folks go and break out their old Weird Al records for the first time in a while. I recommend Dare to Be Stupid.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Singer
    The Fabelmans
    I hope Spielberg makes 20 more movies. But if this is the last one he ever directed, it would be the perfect career capper: An origin story, a thesis statement, a love letter, and a cautionary tale. Like life, it is hilarious at times, and pitifully sad at others. From the first scene to the last, it had me leaning forward in my seat like Sammy Fabelman at The Greatest Show on Earth.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    This movie has a lot on its mind — and perhaps too many characters.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Singer
    Black Adam
    There could still be some cinematic potential in Black Adam, perhaps in contrasting his grim demeanor with the eternally sunny Shazam in some kind of crossover sequel. But this Black Adam was already a long time coming. And it wasn’t really worth the wait.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Singer
    Hocus Pocus 2
    Hocus Pocus 2 doesn’t necessarily demand Kubrickian levels of visual splendor, but it’s still a film, and film is a visual medium. If there was anything even remotely interesting to look at on the screen, that would be nice.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Matt Singer
    Don't Worry Darling
    A film is not how it’s made; it’s how it plays. And Don’t Worry Darling plays very poorly. It’s the sort of sustained puzzle of a movie that is very hard to pull off especially for over two hours, and here, Wilde was simply not up to the task.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    The Woman King
    Like another of the year’s very entertaining action movies, RRR, it uses real events as a jumping-off point to tell an invented tale flecked with real history supported by fanciful storytelling. In other words, it’s a movie, not a documentary. And a fairly exciting one at that.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Confess, Fletch
    It didn’t knock me out with ingenious plot twists, bold cinematography, or groundbreaking editing. But it made me smile for 98 minutes. That doesn’t happen too often lately.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Matt Singer
    Pinocchio
    Despite all the fairies and waving of wands, there’s just not much magic here.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    The Gray Man
    I’m not sure The Gray Man fully qualifies as a “good” movie, but I will admit I wasn’t bored by it. It has a knowing sense of its own absurdity and a really fun Chris Evans performance. As long as the action remains at a smaller scale, it’s satisfying.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Singer
    Nope
    But the more I sat with the film, the more I found myself returning to the sequences that work (and I mean really work), and to the way all of Nope’s stories and characters collectively create a portrait of an uncaring entertainment business that’s constantly looking for new targets to chew up. It doesn’t even spit them out. Sometimes, it devours them whole.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Singer
    Thor: Love and Thunder
    A lot of Love and Thunder’s individual parts are sharp, and the film is full of likable performers like Hemsworth, Portman, and Thompson. It’s not a terrible time at the theater. If you enjoyed the last Thor movie, you’ll probably enjoy this one. Just not as much.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Matt Singer
    Lightyear
    So maybe Lightyear isn’t the kind of movie that Hollywood would have made in 1995. As a 2022 movie, it works just fine.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Matt Singer
    Jurassic World Dominion
    Trevorrow and his team have steadfastly refused to learn their own film’s message: You should never bring a dead thing back to life, no matter how beautiful or unique it was.
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