Moira Macdonald
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73% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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25% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.5 points higher than other critics.
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Moira Macdonald's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 74 | |
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Highest review score: | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret | |
Lowest review score: | Fifty Shades Darker |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 397 out of 488
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Mixed: 61 out of 488
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Negative: 30 out of 488
488
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- Moira Macdonald
Louis-Dreyfus, making Beth neurotic and loving and devastated and furious all at once, is a joy to watch.- The Seattle Times
- Posted May 24, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
Bailey gives a glowing performance of effortless starshine; her singing voice has both sweetness and power, and her smile is the sort on which dreams dance.- The Seattle Times
- Posted May 22, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
Though I’d have preferred Fast X to have a little more driving and a little less fighting, and was disappointed to realize that the film’s climactic moment is pretty much in the trailer, this movie is good, silly popcorn fun — with a couple of scenes at the end (stay put during the first half of the credits) indicating even better times ahead.- The Seattle Times
- Posted May 17, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is both lovingly faithful to its source, and very much its own creation; how lucky we are to have both book and movie, preserved for girls past, present and future.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
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- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 20, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
There are pleasures to be found in Renfield, particularly a stylish black-and-white sequence early on, and in Hoult’s wistfully debonair portrayal of a well-meaning chap trapped in a job he never applied for. But even with its brief running time, the movie runs out of steam too quickly, and Awkwafina’s character in particular seems like a first draft- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 11, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
It’s a feel-good film about dreams, about obsession, about believing in yourself when nobody else seems to be doing it for you, and Hawkins carries it with effortless ease.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
Ultimately, Moving On is about friendship, and who better than Grace and Frankie to show us that?- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 15, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
How you feel about the psychological thriller Insider may depend on how you feel about spending the better part of two hours staring nonstop at Willem Dafoe.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 14, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
You can see clearly in the final scenes where “Creed IV” might be headed; you can also see that Jordan as a director shows promise well beyond this film. “Creed III” works as well as it needs to, and for the umpteenth film in a franchise, that’s more than enough.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 1, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
This Emily is indeed unworldly, uncomfortable around strangers, struggling to comply with what society expects of her. And yet the artist bubbles up inside her, emerging at moments both inconvenient (there’s a harrowing sequence at a party in which Emily dons a mask and takes on a ghostly persona) and poetic.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Feb 21, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
Great acting is a con game, of the highest order, and it’s a pleasure to be Moore’s mark.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
This quiet tale of an ordinary 1950s London man (Bill Nighy) facing the end of his life is a joy: elegantly written, movingly performed, evocatively filmed.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Jan 23, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
It’s a sly little film, playing with our expectations, keeping us guessing — and wondering if Krieps’ name might be as familiar as Streep’s, one day.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Jan 12, 2023
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- Moira Macdonald
You watch it rapt, leaning in, wanting to know more; you leave it wondering if that shadow at the window was, maybe, yourself.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Dec 29, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
I can’t say I truly enjoyed watching Babylon, or that I’d ever want to see it again, but I definitely haven’t stopped thinking about it since screening it earlier this month.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Dec 16, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
“Salvatore” is a pleasure for anyone who loves shoes and/or good movies.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Dec 8, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
Colman, on whose face the film frequently rests (does anyone in cinema have a more open, guileless smile?), quietly holds the drama in her hands. Her Hilary is fragile, yet touchingly determined to will herself toward the light.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Dec 8, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
The Fabelmans is a movie about being seen — and about learning to see.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Nov 23, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
It’s an artful, moving and often beautiful film, but be careful about showing it to young children; nightmares could ensue. (It haunted me, and I’m quite grown.)- The Seattle Times
- Posted Nov 22, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
You watch “Glass Onion” relaxed, feeling like you’re in good hands; everyone on-screen is clearly having a wonderful time, so you can’t help but join right in. The plot’s a clever, multilayered caper, echoing the elaborate structure the movie is named for, and Johnson fills the script with funny name-dropping . . . and lets the cast happily ham it up.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Nov 21, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
Adams, six Academy Award nominations later, still sings and dances like a Technicolor dream, and this time around she gets to have some fun as not only the ultra-sweet Giselle, whose voice sounds like butterflies and sunrises, but an evil alter ego.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Nov 18, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
It’s a moving and engaging film about finding truth, told through the perspective of two people who are very, very good at their jobs.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Nov 16, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
There’s so much that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever does right that it’s frustrating to blame it for the one flaw it can’t help. But you watch it wondering about the movie that never got made, the story that never got finished, the life cut short too soon. Maybe, in a few years, this franchise can make a truly fresh start; this movie efficiently and skillfully lays the groundwork for that. It takes time, as wise Wakandans remind us, to move on.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Nov 8, 2022
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- The Seattle Times
- Posted Oct 25, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
This tale of ambition and its cost — and its collateral damage — is Blanchett’s movie, and she delivers a tour de force in every scene.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Oct 21, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
Ticket to Paradise is all about the welcome sight of a pair of movie stars who know exactly what to do with their wattage.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Oct 21, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
Amsterdam is not entirely without small pleasures: Emmanuel Lubezki’s sepia-toned cinematography is lovely to look at, and it’s fun to play spot-the-movie-star with the talented cast, and to note with pleasure how Washington’s scratched-velvet voice sounds so much like that of his father Denzel. But ultimately it’s a big disappointment.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Oct 4, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
Ultimately, this “Fantastic Beasts” has some moments of charm and energy, but falls prey to the same problem the two previous movies did: a story that’s both too complicated and unintriguing; in short, not well told.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 12, 2022
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- Moira Macdonald
The night after I saw Everything Everywhere All At Once I had a dream, in which I took a journey that was chaotic and messy and strangely beautiful. I suspect that dream was heavily flavored by the movie I had just seen, which also fit that description. The dream quickly faded, as dreams do, but the movie is staying with me, turning over and over in my head like stones in a kaleidoscope, ever-shifting.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 28, 2022
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