Susan Wloszczyna

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RogerEbert.com, USA Today
For 674 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Susan Wloszczyna's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Amy
Lowest review score: 0 Nine Lives
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 344 out of 674
  2. Mixed: 183 out of 674
  3. Negative: 147 out of 674
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    The Bleeding Edge
    This is neither the most cinematically entertaining nor the sexiest topic ever examined by what amounts to a Code Red warning sign of a public service announcement. But Dick and producers Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy know the value of focusing on a compelling collection of human subjects who generously relive their first-hand agony.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    As movies about misanthropic outsider artists with medical issues go, “Don’t Worry” doesn’t come close to the superb “American Splendor” with Paul Giamatti as the irascible Harvey Pekar.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Whitney
    A well-done but all-too-woeful wallow of a documentary.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Susan Wloszczyna
    Woman Walks Ahead
    Clumsily conflates our country’s racist genocide of Native Americans with the era’s marginalizing of women and their lack of rights.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Susan Wloszczyna
    Beach House
    As the director, co-writer, editor and composer of ominous piano tinkling heard on the soundtrack, Jason Saltiel is nothing but ambitious when it comes to this semi-successful creepy thriller that, intentionally or not, pushes the #MeToo buttons perhaps a little too hard.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Boundaries
    Boundaries ends the way most road trips do — by running out of gas. But being in the presence of Plummer these days is always time well spent.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Half the Picture
    Documentaries that rely on a steady stream of talking heads—interspersed here with fleeting film clips—usually are not my favorite. However, when those heads belong to talented and perceptive women who rarely get a chance to speak their minds let alone get hired to make a movie, I can definitely make an exception.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Susan Wloszczyna
    Social Animals
    The film desperately tries to be wild and out of control, but it ends up as more of a slapdash portrait of cartoony desperation than any sort of realistic depiction of millennial angst when it comes to current-day female lifestyle choices.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Susan Wloszczyna
    Mary Shelley
    Misguided effort to once more stage the fateful stormy summer night at Lord Byron’s Lake Geneva villa in 1816 that would give birth to a tale that continues to spark our imaginations today.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Book Club
    This fairly laugh-packed comedy aims to address the desire for intimate companionship in older adults, an increasingly topical issue as more Americans live into their nineties.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Susan Wloszczyna
    Mountain
    This vertiginous valentine to high-altitude sport attempts to portray, in the most poetic of terms, why mankind feels the need to defy gravity by painstakingly clawing its way into the upper reaches of the atmosphere while risking life and limb.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Susan Wloszczyna
    Overboard
    As movie-going experiences go, there is nothing worse than to sit through what purports to be a comedy and never have a reason to engage your laugh reflex. Exhibit A: The gender-switch remake of the 1987 screwball farce, "Overboard."
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    The House of Tomorrow
    It might not always gracefully connect its plot dots, but “Tomorrow” is almost always watchable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Kodachrome
    Kodachrome, alas, too often travels a well-worn and predictable highway, one that was traversed to near-perfection not too long ago by Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska.”
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
    Much like the way that Stubby was often underestimated before he found his calling, I came into this film not expecting how much I would appreciate a more thoughtful use of animation to tell an engaging story.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Chappaquiddick
    Clarke, who has skillfully brought other complex and compromised males to life in “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Mudbound,” is wholly convincing both physically and vocally as the surviving Kennedy brother. One wishes that the movie itself allowed him more performing room than it does.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Finding Your Feet
    Finding Your Feet finds its own footing by putting its trust in its sturdy performers and avoiding many of the usual tea-time clichés as it allows its British cast to be defined by their relatable human circumstances more than quaint Anglo quirks.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Susan Wloszczyna
    Allure
    Wood, whose whippet-thin appearance in this dank noir-ish drama semi-draped in mystery could be described as Kristen Stewart lite, fully dedicates herself to embodying a rather unpleasant and contradictory character as she attracts her prey and then goes about abusing them physically and emotionally.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Leaning Into the Wind
    This is one of the most relaxing experiences I have had watching a movie in a long time.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Susan Wloszczyna
    Half Magic
    After sitting through this rather unpolished production as it lightheartedly bumbles its way around a serious subject, I mostly wished that I could un-see it. To say that Half Magic, in which Graham also stars, is half-baked would be kind.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    The Boy Downstairs
    Any movie that can bring to mind a Joni Mitchell song as the credits roll — “Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone” — has earned its keep.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Susan Wloszczyna
    Peter Rabbit
    Clearly there is a severe case of “Paddington” envy here and a hunger for yet another animated franchise. But easy chuckles are no substitute for genuine charm.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Susan Wloszczyna
    Forever My Girl
    Still, there is more pleasure to be had in the dwindling returns of CMT's “Nashville” than in this country soap-opera.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Lover for a Day
    The plot alone of this elegantly shot black-and-white import shares the Woodman’s affection for variations on lusty middle-age man who beds — and tutors — an adoring decades-younger nubile conquest.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Susan Wloszczyna
    In Between
    What elevates Hamoud’s screenplay beyond typical Tinseltown fare, however, is what is at stake by rebelling against cultural norms and choosing a liberal lifestyle—namely, bringing shame to your loved ones and being ostracized by your community.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Susan Wloszczyna
    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
    It is somewhat refreshing to witness a May-December romance from an older female perspective and both leads pour their hearts into their roles.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Susan Wloszczyna
    Ferdinand
    What is truly amazing about this film is how thoughtfully Ferdinand questions male gender expectations.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Susan Wloszczyna
    Just Getting Started
    My most basic litmus test for whether a comedy is working is whether it makes me laugh. I groaned, maybe, but no chuckles emanated from me or from my lone fellow patron.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Susan Wloszczyna
    The Dancer
    The Dancer clearly needed a better task master behind the camera. There are too many scenes of Fuller physically and mentally suffering for her art as she questions if what she does actually qualifies as dance.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Susan Wloszczyna
    The Star
    A feature debut that might have its heart in the right place but can’t quite manage to smoothly blend the spiritual with the silly without a few Biblical hitches here and there.
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