Here are the critics who actually liked it – The Hollywood Reporter

“Madame Web”

Sony pictures

On Valentine’s Day, we remember the reassuring phrase: “There’s someone for everyone.” Well, when it comes to movies, the same is true: for every movie, there are at least some people who really like it – even Madame Webwhich opened nationally in Holiday Romance to scathing reviews and modest box office.

So, as critics and superhero fans online continue to pile in (including… Hollywood Reporter …and maybe a little too much), and in the spirit of showing a little love, we sifted through the 21 positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (where the film currently sits at 13 percent “fresh”) to get some alternative opinions on the Sony-Marvel title, starring Dakota Johnson As a paramedic in New York, she develops psychic powers.

It’s worth remembering that even truly disastrous films can be fun – Paul Verhoeven’s much-derided 1995 film Girls show, for example, is known to be funny when viewed as unintentional comedy. And critic for List opinion Madame Web In much the same way, he wrote that the film was destined to be a camp classic: “an incoherent jumble populated by substandard movie stars who make little effort to hide the apparent realization that they’ve made a terrible mistake. It’s a travesty, a disaster, and a blight on the history of superheroes and cinema itself. I enjoyed the hell out of it.” … Madame Web It’s a film completely unaware of itself, and the rare modern film that unintentionally achieves pure camp status. It may not be the kind of fun its creators intended, but that doesn’t make it a fun time at all.

the Los Angeles Times He also praised the film as “the purest form of camp” but thought Johnson’s performance suggested she was at least in on the joke: “As Cassie, Johnson is so convincingly eccentric that you can’t take your eyes off her. She delivers every bit of the line in her full voice with twinkle.” In her eye. The other three daughters—Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, and Isabella Merced—well, have clearly been cast for a potential future indie film, which would have to be DOA at this point. They’re all a bit awkward and forced, and none of them work Johnson’s galactic brain level… Johnson gets it, and for those who do too, it’s exciting to get tangled in her web.

Another review rated “fresh” by Rotten Tomatoes is from KGET, which wrote, “Madame Web It’s such a horrible mess he makes Wonders “Looks like an Oscar contender” – oh, wait. The critic gave the film a D-. In other words, one of the few “fresh” reviews of Madame Web It appears to have been misclassified as positive.

But those reviews are kind of cheating. what about sincerely Positive reviews for Madame Web – Not a cynical assessment of the camp and not a false classification. Aren’t there any of those? What they seem to have in common is the critics who at least enjoyed what the film was attempt To offer something different than just following the usual playbook and familiar Marvel-DC tropes.

One is from the Washington PostNo less than what he gave Madame Web Passing score: 2.5 stars. the mail He praised the film as “surprisingly low-key” with “a refreshing bit of the testosterone hijinks, bombastic chatter and ballistics of most comic book movies” and that the film “in its own quiet way, manages to break down some barriers”. ”

RogerEbert.com also gave the film a 2.5, insisting that it is “not the total disaster that its trailer or its place on the February calendar might suggest” and praising it as “happily breezy in its pace, which helps make it a more enjoyable watch than”. “Some of the most ultra-serious apocalypse movies we see so often,” said director SJ Clarkson, “keep things moving at a thrilling clip with fluid camera movements and high-energy transitions.”

In another score of 2.5, ComicBook.com wrote: “Madame Web While it may not have the heart-pumping tension, massive franchise connections, or painfully true parody of many of its modern contemporaries, it makes a compelling case that it’s still possible to find a sufficiently entertaining story outside of those traits. The charisma of its main heroines and the specificity of its premise keep it from being too boring, too goofy, or too ignorable.

The newspaper “Al-Akhbar Al-National” said. Madame Web “It doesn’t seem particularly interested in being a great superhero movie. It’s not particularly committed to the tropes or trappings of the genre at all. Rather than being an absolute weakness, it’s the thing that makes the movie stand out — for better and worse — in an oversaturated and fractured superhero landscape.” In fact, while it’s far from perfect, Sony’s latest attempt to jump-start its own live-action Spider-Verse is at its strongest when it embraces the weird, supernatural-tinged teen thriller it really wants to be.

So this is it. It’s not a total disaster, but rather a simple and delightful viewing experience, and quite possibly a classic reserved for midnight screenings.