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      The News-Herald (Willoughby, OH)

      The News-Herald (Willoughby, OH) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Mark Meszoros.

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      Rating Title | Year Author Quote
      2.5/4
      		Scream VI (2023) Mark Meszoros It’s easy to understand the rush to make this latest Scream, but a little more time between it and the inevitable seventh installment might just help the horror heart grow just a little fonder.
      Posted Mar 08, 2023
      2.5/4
      		Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) Mark Meszoros A bigger, bolder and, unfortunately, increasingly over-the-top version of the show.
      Posted Mar 07, 2023
      2/4
      		Creed III (2023) Mark Meszoros Jordan makes his directorial debut with Creed III and shows some promise in that arena, but the screenplay by Keegan Coogler and Zach Baylin weighs him down.
      Posted Mar 01, 2023
      1.5/4
      		We Have a Ghost (2023) Mark Meszoros Given some of the creative ideas found in Freaky and the Death Day affair, you keep waiting for something fresh, something unexpected.
      Posted Feb 26, 2023
      2/4
      		Cocaine Bear (2023) Mark Meszoros Given the mediocrity of the material, there probably wasn’t a top-level movie about a rampaging, cocaine-fueled bear to be made here.
      Posted Feb 24, 2023
      2.5/4
      		Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) Mark Meszoros Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumani” is a wild ride that will be more to some tastes than others.
      Posted Feb 14, 2023
      2/4
      		Sharper (2023) Mark Meszoros As a viewer, you hope for one last slice of the knife from Sharper, that final piece of the puzzle you couldn’t move into place. But no, it’s just another con movie, and maybe you’ve just seen too many.
      Posted Feb 13, 2023
      2/4
      		Your Place or Mine (2023) Mark Meszoros The most personality Your Place or Mine has to offer is frequent use of the music of The Cars, which eventually is explained. But, uh oh, it’s NOT magic; when we’re not hearing the tunes of the late Ric Ocasek and the boys, there’s not much of a rhythm.
      Posted Feb 13, 2023
      3/4
      		Knock at the Cabin (2023) Mark Meszoros An engrossing if sometimes mildly frustrating affair based on Paul Tremblay’s bestselling 2018 horror novel The Cabin at the End of the World.
      Posted Feb 06, 2023
      2.5/4
      		You People (2023) Mark Meszoros When you scrape all of the heavy stuff away, to its rom-com bones — this is ultimately a movie about a guy and a gal who fall in love — You People should work for a wide range of folks.
      Posted Jan 26, 2023
      3.5/4
      		Women Talking (2022) Mark Meszoros It is a special experience, one not to be forgotten quickly.
      Posted Jan 26, 2023
      2.5/4
      		A Man Called Otto (2022) Mark Meszoros Despite its slow start, Otto mostly hits its emotional mark
      Posted Jan 26, 2023
      2/4
      		The Pale Blue Eye (2022) Mark Meszoros A highly promising but ultimately uneven period mystery drama
      Posted Jan 10, 2023
      2.5/4
      		White Noise (2022) Mark Meszoros Although he struggles with tone, Baumbach clearly wanted to do the novel justice, taking us through its three titled parts for a journey unusual and unpredictable.
      Posted Jan 10, 2023
      3/4
      		Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022) Mark Meszoros A charming-and-heart-warming affair kids are likely to adore.
      Posted Dec 23, 2022
      3.5/4
      		Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Mark Meszoros Rian Johnson is really getting the hang of this Agatha Christie thing.
      Posted Dec 23, 2022
      3/4
      		The Whale (2022) Mark Meszoros Fraser ... gives an arresting performance that makes The Whale well worth seeing, despite some issues.
      Posted Dec 23, 2022
      3/4
      		Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) Mark Meszoros As lovely, powerful and thought-provoking as it can be, it also can be exhausting.
      Posted Dec 22, 2022
      3.5/4
      		Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Mark Meszoros The Way of Water explodes with brilliant colors and fast-moving otherworldly images that, thanks to the 3-D, reside between you and the screen and rarely fail to dazzle the eyes for any lengthy stretch of this more-than-three-hour epic.
      Posted Dec 22, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Empire of Light (2022) Mark Meszoros Empire of Light is a story of love, racial upheaval and mental health. As enchanting and engrossing as it can be for stretches, it bites off a lot and ultimately is somewhat unfocused.
      Posted Dec 22, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Emancipation (2022) Mark Meszoros An exercise of style over substance, a brilliantly shot but ultimately underwhelming ordeal.
      Posted Dec 08, 2022
      3/4
      		Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Mark Meszoros The pleasantly odd-and-quirky fare we’ve come to expect from del Toro.
      Posted Dec 08, 2022
      3/4
      		Spoiler Alert (2022) Mark Meszoros With a deft touch, Showalter infuses what ultimately is a heartbreaking story with life and laughs.
      Posted Dec 08, 2022
      3/4
      		The Fabelmans (2022) Mark Meszoros It is entertaining, a journey through the American upbringing of a Jewish male with a passionate drive to make movies that is at times heartwarming and at others heartbreaking.
      Posted Nov 23, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Strange World (2022) Mark Meszoros This movie isn’t everything it could have been, but at the end of the adventure, once you catch your breath, you may walk out of the theater with some food for thought. And a desire to call your dad.
      Posted Nov 23, 2022
      2/4
      		Bones and All (2022) Mark Meszoros Uou may never acquire a taste for this coming-of-age road-trip horror film about a pair of fine young cannibals who fall in love and try to find happiness — and flesh — together in 1980s middle America.
      Posted Nov 23, 2022
      3.5/4
      		She Said (2022) Mark Meszoros Does She Said reach the lofty heights of All the President’s Men and “Spotlight? From here, no, but it comes pretty close.
      Posted Nov 18, 2022
      3/4
      		The Menu (2022) Mark Meszoros Despite a mildly disappointing course or two, The Menu is a movie well worth tasting and savoring, if not considering all that seriously.
      Posted Nov 18, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Spirited (2022) Mark Meszoros Spirited offers a lot of fun little gags that work, along with a few misfires.
      Posted Nov 14, 2022
      3.5/4
      		Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Mark Meszoros The late Chadwick Boseman is never far from our minds as we watch what is both a fitting tribute to him — and to the character with which he had become most associated — and a satisfying action-filled superhero story.
      Posted Nov 11, 2022
      2/4
      		Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Mark Meszoros It is fitting that a biopic about the king of the song parody would itself be a parody of a biopic, one that plays at times like a jukebox musical and at one stretch like a satire of a “Rambo”-like action movie (for some reason).
      Posted Nov 04, 2022
      3/4
      		Armageddon Time (2022) Mark Meszoros Although its title may suggest something different, Armageddon Time is an intimate and deeply personal film, a portrait of a boy’s life during a brief stretch of time when he experiences a few impactful events.
      Posted Nov 01, 2022
      3/4
      		Enola Holmes 2 (2022) Mark Meszoros Enola Holmes 2 offers all the fourth-wall-breaking fun of the original and is built around a rather interesting and well-architected mystery, one touching on cultural issues.
      Posted Oct 31, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Wendell & Wild (2022) Mark Meszoros Wendell & Wild brings together such an appealingly eclectic collection of pieces and parts that it’s pretty easy to forgive its convoluted plot and herky-jerky storytelling.
      Posted Oct 31, 2022
      2/4
      		The Good Nurse (2022) Mark Meszoros Really, there is nothing you can slam the movie for beyond an increasing case of dullness. Still, that’s a flaw that may prove fatal for some viewers.
      Posted Oct 31, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Ticket to Paradise (2022) Mark Meszoros We can’t help enjoying every minute of Roberts and Clooney — our longtime screen pals Julia and George — bantering as combative-but-with-chemistry Geogia and David. They’re pretty fun to be around even when they’re acting as The Bickersons.
      Posted Oct 21, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Till (2022) Mark Meszoros Chukwu delivers a somewhat uneven film but one that comes through with its requisite powerful moments, thanks in no small part to the stirring performance of Danielle Deadwyler.
      Posted Oct 21, 2022
      3.5/4
      		Tár (2022) Mark Meszoros Even at more than two and a half hours, TÁR is an engrossing symphony almost from its opening notes to its final fading sounds.
      Posted Oct 21, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) Mark Meszoros Lyle, Lyle Crocodile surely won’t do much for grown-ups, and kids of a certain age may not want much to do with it either, but the little ones are going to eat it up the way Lyle scarfs down discarded delights.
      Posted Oct 21, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Catherine Called Birdy (2022) Mark Meszoros Most importantly, Catherine, Called Birdy succeeds in pulling us into this young woman’s world, helping us to see it as she does.
      Posted Oct 21, 2022
      2/4
      		Amsterdam (2022) Mark Meszoros It’s apparent from the early minutes of Amsterdam — a comedic mystery thriller that blends fascinating fact with rather lackluster fiction — that the divisive filmmaker’s latest likely will never come together.
      Posted Oct 21, 2022
      3/4
      		The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) Mark Meszoros Beer Run isn’t as substantive as Green Book, a film that has its detractors, but if nothing else is a different kind of Vietnam War movie.
      Posted Sep 30, 2022
      2/4
      		Blonde (2022) Mark Meszoros Instead of pulling you in to experience the world from Marilyn’s point of view, as Dominik intends, Blonde is an endeavor that often keeps you at arm’s length.
      Posted Sep 30, 2022
      3/4
      		Don't Worry Darling (2022) Mark Meszoros An engaging and unsettling keep-you-guessing drama — at least until its rushed climax.
      Posted Sep 30, 2022
      2.5/4
      		See How They Run (2022) Mark Meszoros Filmed during the pandemic shutdown in West End theaters and hotels during the pandemic shutdown, when the fantastic locations otherwise likely wouldn’t be available, See How They Run is a perfectly pleasant passer of time but little more.
      Posted Sep 20, 2022
      1.5/4
      		Clerks III (2022) Mark Meszoros Clerks III is so packed with callbacks that it’s amazing Smith actually earns a heartfelt moment shared by the two characters late in the affair.
      Posted Sep 08, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Pinocchio (2022) Mark Meszoros Pinocchio at times is every bit as charming and whimsical as you’d hope. At others, it suffers from leaning too much into spectacle, especially in the film’s second half, when “Pinocchio” can feel a bit hollow.
      Posted Sep 08, 2022
      1.5/4
      		Me Time (2022) Mark Meszoros Somewhere around the midpoint of Me Time, if not sooner, it may hit you: You could be watching Old School or The Hangover instead.
      Posted Aug 29, 2022
      2/4
      		Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) Mark Meszoros Three Thousand Years of Longing is a mediocre time-passer that’s something a bit different for Miller.
      Posted Aug 29, 2022
      2.5/4
      		Beast (2022) Mark Meszoros Kormákur gives us serious horror-flick vibes, the camera sticking close to the characters to help us feel the incredible anxiety they’re feeling. And when the camera drifts a bit away from them, that’s when we truly worry the monster will strike.
      Posted Aug 29, 2022
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