Matt Singer
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37% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points lower than other critics.
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Matt Singer's Scores
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Average review score: | 59 | |
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Highest review score: | The Fabelmans | |
Lowest review score: | The Emoji Movie |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 136 out of 321
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Mixed: 145 out of 321
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Negative: 40 out of 321
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted May 17, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Apr 6, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Apr 4, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Apr 2, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Apr 1, 2023
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- Matt Singer
This thing ain’t a “chapter.” It’s a whole damn book — a glorious, nightmarish, biblical compendium of all manners of asskickery.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
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- Matt Singer
Shazam! Fury of the Gods is just sort of there, coasting on the residual good vibes and talented cast of its much-superior predecessor.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Mar 15, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Feb 23, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Feb 14, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Feb 1, 2023
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Jan 4, 2023
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- Matt Singer
Chazelle seems so enamored with his simulacrum of this forgotten world that he loses sight of the people in it.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Dec 16, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Dec 13, 2022
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- Matt Singer
In general, Glass Onion is a much sharper comedy than Knives Out, with snappier dialogue, flashy cameos, and quirkier characters.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Nov 21, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Nov 11, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Nov 11, 2022
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- Matt Singer
This movie has a lot on its mind — and perhaps too many characters.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Nov 8, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Oct 18, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Sep 29, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Sep 23, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Sep 13, 2022
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- Matt Singer
Despite all the fairies and waving of wands, there’s just not much magic here.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Sep 10, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Jul 22, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Jul 20, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Jul 8, 2022
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- Matt Singer
So maybe Lightyear isn’t the kind of movie that Hollywood would have made in 1995. As a 2022 movie, it works just fine.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Jun 13, 2022
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- Matt Singer
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.- ScreenCrush
- Posted Jun 8, 2022
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