Sarah Marrs

Tomatometer-approved critic

Publications: Lainey Gossip, Cinesnark

movie Reviews Only

Movies
TV

T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
21%	Serenity (2019)	Serenity is a disaster, but it's so bad it crosses into fascinating. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 29, 2019
No Score Yet	Behaving Badly (2014)	Oh my God, it's so boring. - Pajiba EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 28, 2019
87%	The Vanishing (2019)	Pretty okay. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 21, 2019
37%	Glass (2019)	This Glass is half empty. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 21, 2019
97%	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)	...demonstrates the any-person nature of heroes with cleverness and heart. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 28, 2018
85%	The Sisters Brothers (2018)	A revisionist Western road movie comedy with a heaping side of existential drama and great performances. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 14, 2018
96%	Roma (2018)	Roma is small life drama writ large. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 14, 2018
85%	Dumplin' (2018)	Cheesy, schmaltzy, weirdly shallow for a film that Is Making A Point, Dumplin' is the worst of the Netflix factory line...and yet, at the same time, it's impossible to dislike it. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 14, 2018
63%	Mary Queen of Scots (2018)	...trying to update a medieval story for modern times doesn't quite work. But at least Mary Queen of Scots is watchable. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 14, 2018
65%	Aquaman (2018)	I'm not saying Aquaman is good. But it is extremely watchable, totally insane good time. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 14, 2018
75%	Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)	A kitschy Lynchian dream. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 11, 2018
94%	The Favourite (2018)	The Favourite is funny and sexy and sad and weird, and ultimately a portrait of loneliness, as no one ends up with what they need, only whatever power they can grab. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 27, 2018
14%	Robin Hood (2018)	Well this didn't work out at all. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 27, 2018
81%	Boy Erased (2018)	I feel bad marking this rotten because the subject is so important, but the execution is just not there. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 19, 2018
37%	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)	Kills any interest that might have existed for more fantastic beasts. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 19, 2018
40%	The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)	The worst case scenario of homogenized, generic filmmaking. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 18, 2018
63%	Outlaw King (2018)	Points for technical proficiency, but otherwise Outlaw King doesn't justify itself. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 11, 2018
61%	Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)	A weirdly punishing portrait of Freddie Mercury. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 2, 2018
37%	Hunter Killer (2018)	Hunter Killer is basically what you think it is-a low-rent Hunt for the Red October that is a straight-up ludicrous hero fantasy. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 1, 2018
34%	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)	Keira Knightley's performance is completely off the rails and really the only watchable thing in this movie. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 1, 2018
98%	Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)	Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a misanthrope's character study, a candid revelation of a shocking literary scandal, and a brilliant performance from Melissa McCarthy. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 19, 2018
79%	Halloween (2018)	A cut above your typical slasher fare. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 19, 2018
29%	Venom (2018)	Venom is the worst parts of the Sam Raimi and Sony reboot Spider-Men combined. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 5, 2018
85%	A Simple Favor (2018)	A blackly comedic take on all those tropes common to salacious "women's entertainment", done in a way that actually empowers women. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 20, 2018
87%	First Man (2018)	First Man is as much a spectacle as it is an emotional experience, and in that way feels as old-fashioned as its protagonist. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 14, 2018
32%	The Predator (2018)	The Predator dismisses itself as "dumber than group one", which, no argument. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 14, 2018
73%	Assassination Nation (2018)	It actually defies logic that this movie works. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 12, 2018
94%	If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)	A haunting piece of cinema, fully evocative and intimately illuminating. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 12, 2018
91%	Widows (2018)	Widows is a heist movie with a mind and a voice and a total lack of fear in using both. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 12, 2018
69%	Beautiful Boy (2018)	It is perfectly fine. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 11, 2018
59%	The Front Runner (2018)	Gary Hart is the least interesting character in the story, which is kind of a problem when he's the protagonist. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 11, 2018
70%	Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben) (2019)	Equal parts pulp, examination of the class divide, and ESCANDALO. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 10, 2018
48%	Destination Wedding (2018)	Destination Wedding isn't a rom-com, it's a horror movie about a woman trapped with a men's rights activist. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 10, 2018
90%	A Star Is Born (2018)	It's not adding anything new to the Star is Born canon, but it is a solid retelling for a new generation. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 10, 2018
79%	Alpha (2018)	It's fine. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 26, 2018
22%	The Happytime Murders (2018)	Not funny, not clever, and not nearly as shocking as it thinks it is. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 26, 2018
91%	Searching (2018)	An extremely well plotted thriller with enough satisfying twists and turns to keep you entirely engaged. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 26, 2018
96%	BlacKkKlansman (2018)	Spike Lee at his fiery best. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 19, 2018
23%	Mile 22 (2018)	Incomprehensible and flat-out ugly in pretty much every way it can be. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 19, 2018
7%	Slender Man (2018)	Slender Man commits the double sin of being not only bad, but boring. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 16, 2018
91%	Crazy Rich Asians (2018)	The world is on fire, enjoy this glass of champagne. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 16, 2018
99%	Eighth Grade (2018)	A lovely but cringe-inducing film about one of the most precarious times in a person's life. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 13, 2018
45%	The Meg (2018)	Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 13, 2018
49%	The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)	Points for Kate McKinnon and a ruthlessly supportive female friendship. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 5, 2018
73%	Christopher Robin (2018)	The movie is okay, Tigger is a nightmare. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 5, 2018
89%	Pin Cushion (2018)	...dark, weird, uncomfortable, sad, and occasionally dangerous. - Cinesnark EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 5, 2018
93%	Blindspotting (2018)	A little messy, but more often than not Blindspotting is a bold, freewheeling examination of race in class in gentrifying America. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 31, 2018
97%	Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)	Mission: Impossible - Fallout might as well start with an epigraph that says "Buckle up" followed by a giant explosion and an air horn. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 27, 2018
76%	Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)	A little mundane for a subject as interesting and creative as John Callahan. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 24, 2018
51%	Equalizer 2 (2018)	Equalizer 2 is a slow, ponderous affair that not even Denzel's considerable charisma can save. - Lainey Gossip EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 21, 2018