Alex Abad-Santos
Alex Abad-Santos's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Anyone But You (2023)
54%
“The movie is bad, but the chemistry: It’s good.
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Vox
Dec 21, 2023
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
64%
“Remarkably, Songbirds & Snakes has found a way to make the Hunger Games feel new and sharp.” –
Vox
Nov 17, 2023
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The Marvels (2023)
62%
“The Marvels maintains its structure and doesn’t try to function as a springboard to the next Marvel movie or television show. The Marvels gets the space to let the characters just be themselves and for us to better understand what makes them heroes.” –
Vox
Nov 10, 2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
95%
“It challenges ideas about great power and responsibility, stories about the worlds we live in and the things we’re searching for, and our concepts of heroism and morality. ” –
Vox
Jun 1, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023)
67%
“The remake’s main sin... is that it’s visually confusing, if not altogether aesthetically unappealing.” –
Vox
May 22, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
82%
“Director James Gunn’s final Guardians chapter rips and roars with the confidence and emotions that nine years and multiple movies featuring this band of space underdogs bring.” –
Vox
May 4, 2023
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M3GAN (2022)
93%
“M3gan is a horror movie about a murderous, rogue AI, but it’s also an hour-and-30-minute camp meditation about how a pretty white girl best friend can be one of the most terrifying things in American life. ” –
Vox
Jan 12, 2023
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Bros (2022)
89%
“I thought I knew Billy Eichner to be someone cynical, who’d written off romance, but Bros reflects a curiosity about how love functions in the heads and hearts of gay men.” –
Vox
Sep 30, 2022
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Morbius (2022)
15%
“Morbius’s greater fault is that it cleaves away the vampire mythology without replacing that mythology with anything fun, new, or particularly interesting.” –
Vox
Apr 1, 2022
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Deep Water (2022)
35%
“Deep Water has abandoned thought and logic for horny, unhinged vibes. It’s so much beautiful fun.” –
Vox
Mar 21, 2022
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
58%
“It's nice to be able to appreciate a superhero movie that understands how scary the world can be even if you have literal superpowers, and that there's something beautiful in not going it alone.” –
Vox
Oct 8, 2021
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Black Widow (2021)
79%
“Though her selflessness goes against what life has continually taught her - that relationships are a weakness that will always let you down - it's also the skeleton key to her legacy. What a thrill to finally be able to understand it.” –
Vox
Jul 9, 2021
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Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
71%
3.5/5
“What Snyder built is a much better movie, so much that I wanted to go back to my review of the original cut and dock it a few more points.” –
Vox
Mar 15, 2021
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Promising Young Woman (2020)
90%
4.5/5
“Around 10 minutes into Emerald Fennell's blistering Promising Young Woman, I realized that it would be one of my favorite movies.” –
Vox
Jan 12, 2021
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
58%
3/5
“WW1984 is three movies rolled into one... And it's only the first two of these that truly take us somewhere wonderful.” –
Vox
Dec 15, 2020
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The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020)
56%
“By making Hudgens jump between playing these three characters, Switched Again resembles something like Vanessa Hudgens's Drag Race or Vanessa Hudgens Presents: Westworld.” –
Vox
Nov 20, 2020
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The Boys in the Band (2020)
85%
3.5/5
“The new movie left me feeling like I was a watching a well-executed, flawless emulation rather than art that demands to stand on its own.” –
Vox
Oct 2, 2020
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Lemonade (2016)
100%
“The visuals of Lemonade riveted.” –
Vox
Jun 29, 2020
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The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion (2018)
89%
“The beauty of The Witch is the dark and sublimely satisfying place Park takes us to, once we realize our hero's true motivation: survival.” –
Vox
Jun 19, 2020
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
79%
3/5
“Birds of Prey's most thrilling aspect, instead, is its stylish disregard for pain and the human body.” –
Vox
Feb 5, 2020
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Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
91%
3/5
“Spider-Man: Far From Home is great - once it gets out of its own way.” –
Vox
Jun 27, 2019
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Toy Story 4 (2019)
97%
4.5/5
“In Woody's search for love, Toy Story 4 reminds us how hard it is to let go.” –
Vox
Jun 13, 2019
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)
94%
4.5/5
“The most shocking thing about Avengers: Endgame is that there are several moments within this colossal movie that feel like a Marvel miracle.” –
Vox
Apr 23, 2019
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Hellboy (2019)
17%
“While its nightmare visuals are stellar, the real villain of the movie is its rotten writing, which turns Hellboy into hanging action sequences loosely stitched together by two or three sentences and a vague suggestion of a narrative.” –
Vox
Apr 11, 2019
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Shazam! (2019)
90%
4.5/5
“[E]mbracing earnest glee and heartfelt tenderness, Shazam allows us to fully appreciate the magical excitement and wonder that superheroes can supply.” –
Vox
Mar 23, 2019
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