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Megan Garber

Megan Garber's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Violent Night (2022) 74% EDIT “Violent Night offers up a timely amalgam: It is torture porn that is also a morality play.” – The Atlantic Dec 7, 2022 Full Review The Christmas House (2020) EDIT “Charming and wacky and, at moments, very funny. But it is also just a little bit radical.” – The Atlantic Dec 18, 2021 Full Review Cruella (2021) 75% EDIT “Cruella is often fun to watch, but its cavalier reversal of its core character cheapens the very idea of a corrective narrative. It takes a quintessential villain and nuances her character into oblivion.” – The Atlantic Jun 3, 2021 Full Review Friends: The Reunion (2021) 67% EDIT “It is a telethon guided by a tautology: Why is Friends so popular? Because Friends is so popular. Nostalgia, the special suggests, is its own value.” – The Atlantic Jun 1, 2021 Full Review A Recipe for Seduction (2020) 73% EDIT “This rom-comic ad-movie is campy, but not camp in the strict Sontagian sense. It's silly, but deeply aware of its silliness. It's escapist in a moment when distraction from the world's realities can be a rare commodity.” – The Atlantic Dec 15, 2020 Full Review Whitney Cummings: I'm Your Girlfriend (2016) 80% EDIT “Pretty much comedy gold. It's just that Cummings doesn't stop at comedy. Her set has higher aspirations than simply to make its audience laugh. It also wants to make them think.” – The Atlantic Aug 1, 2019 Full Review Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019) 84% EDIT “The jokes here are by turns extremely earnest and extremely cynical, and there is insight buzzing in the messy mergers of the two.” – The Atlantic Jul 11, 2019 Full Review Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017) 89% EDIT “The Center Will Not Hold is instead a celebration of the thing that existed far before the internet came along: Joan, the person.” – The Atlantic Oct 30, 2017 Full Review The Mountain Between Us (2017) 39% EDIT “Skip The Mountain Between Us. If you're in the mood to be cloyed, watch a Hallmark movie instead.” – The Atlantic Oct 6, 2017 Full Review The Emoji Movie (2017) 6% EDIT “The Emoji Movie is not just a critical flop, but also a metaphor for a Hollywood that is struggling to find the line between branding that audiences love and branding that audiences resent.” – The Atlantic Aug 4, 2017 Full Review Baywatch (2017) 18% EDIT “Suffice it to say, too, that there's a lot of delight to be had in the frothy union of the Bay and the Watch, much of it coming from Johnson, who carries the whole of this movie on his epically chiseled lats.” – The Atlantic Jun 16, 2017 Full Review Snatched (2017) 36% EDIT “Snatched is a trip very much like the one it portrays: one that, in the end, does a pretty poor job of putting the "fun" in "unrefundable."” – The Atlantic May 12, 2017 Full Review Storks (2016) 65% EDIT “Storks is charming, if often nonsensical in its plot line and frenetic in its pacing.” – The Atlantic Sep 23, 2016 Full Review Ghostbusters (2016) 74% EDIT “It's funny, and nuanced in its funniness: hehs to haaaaaaas to lols.” – The Atlantic Jul 26, 2016 Full Review The Angry Birds Movie (2016) 44% EDIT “The Angry Birds Movie is really not bad. It is actually very actively okay. The film has taken its bird-brained brand... and used it to construct characters and plots that are certainly serviceable, and possibly even inspired.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) 28% EDIT “It manages to rehash the original, almost entirely, while lacking nearly all the things that made the first film, despite its flaws, compelling.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review The Boss (2016) 21% EDIT “The Boss is sketch comedy, with none of the lines colored in.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) 68% EDIT “It's a morally messy premise. Afghanistan is not Colin Firth. War is not Love Actually. And that is the problem with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, which is overall a charming comedy about a terrible war.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review Sisters (2015) 60% EDIT “Is Sisters a good movie? No. No, it is not. Its plot manages to be both jarring (so many twists!) and predictable; its supporting characters are thin; it makes gleeful use of tired stereotypes.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review A Very Murray Christmas (2015) 68% EDIT “It's beautiful and haunting and and commercial and confusing and cringe-worthy. So maybe it's also Christmas.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review Burnt (2015) 29% EDIT “Burnt is, to be clear, not a good movie. It is in fact a pretty terrible movie.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review The Intern (2015) 59% EDIT “There's something powerful in that, in the simple fact that The Intern is so sympathetic to its older character-so resolutely on the side of a person who might, in other contexts, be dismissed or ignored or, as is so often the case, invisible.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review Grandma (2015) 92% EDIT “It's a character study and morality play and bildungsroman, subtly executed and lovingly performed.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review Café Society (2016) 71% EDIT “For all its beauty and its star power, the movie never elevates to anything beyond a kind of storyboard sketch.” – The Atlantic Jul 22, 2016 Full Review Terminator Genisys (2015) 26% EDIT “Terminator: Genisys, however, has none of the stakes, and none of the moral preoccupations, of its predecessors.” – The Atlantic Jul 3, 2015 Full Review
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