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Meg Downey

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Biography:

Meg Downey is a film critic and entertainment journalist out of Los Angeles. They like monsters, superheroes, and love stories in any combination and preferably all at once. They're still chasing the emotional high of the first time they saw Alex Garland's Annihilation.

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Movies TV Shows
Hellboy (2019) 17% 4/10 EDIT “Hellboy returns in this unholy mess of a reboot, which is marred by terrible CGI and a poorly executed story.” – IGN Movies Apr 11, 2019 Full Review Captain Marvel (2019) 79% 8.3/10 EDIT “Captain Marvel's big screen debut puts a fresh spin on Marvel's Phase One origin story formula.” – IGN Movies Mar 5, 2019 Full Review Happy Death Day 2U (2019) 73% 8.5/10 EDIT “The level of risk-taking is refreshing, even when it's not completely successful at every single turn.” – IGN Movies Feb 13, 2019 Full Review Venom (2018) 31% EDIT “It's never boring, but it certainly doesn't hold up under close inspection - and it definitely doesn't meet the standards set by its genre predecessors.” – CBR Oct 3, 2018 Full Review The Predator (2018) 34% EDIT “If Shane Black's The Predator proves anything it's that you can, absolutely, turn what should have been an over-the-top action thrill ride about a bunch of screw-ups taking down a monster into a boring, and ultimately incomprehensible, mess.” – CBR Sep 12, 2018 Full Review The Nun (2018) 24% EDIT “It's simply having too much fun being exactly what it wants, whenever it wants, however it wants, to feel like the minor stumbles or fatty bits were actually detrimental at all.” – CBR Sep 5, 2018 Full Review Mile 22 (2018) 23% EDIT “If the nonstop reign of skull crushing, eye gouging ultra violence isn't enough to exhaust you entirely, trying to keep track of what's important and why definitely will.” – CBR Aug 17, 2018 Full Review Slender Man (2018) 8% EDIT “Slender Man doesn't manage to mine much more than cheap scares with confusing rules from the character's myriad source material...it may not be the most well rendered horror movie of the year, or the most compelling, but you could certainly do worse.” – CBR Aug 9, 2018 Full Review Teen Titans GO! to the Movies (2018) 92% EDIT “Teen Titans Go! To The Movies is a kids movie that is inviting adults to be in on the gag, not the other way around.” – CBR Jul 27, 2018 Full Review Skyscraper (2018) 48% EDIT “Skyscraper somehow manages to shoot for just about every beloved 80s action movie trope and miss them by miles, all while being, somehow and against all odds, completely and inexplicably boring.” – CBR Jul 11, 2018 Full Review Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) 87% EDIT “Its comedy is wonderfully offbeat, its heart is huge and emblazoned on its sleeve, and its intentions are wildly optimistic and bright.” – CBR Jun 27, 2018 Full Review Ocean's 8 (2018) 69% EDIT “Hopefully Debbie and Lou's team will get another chance down the line. After all, "9" and "10" are still free for titles so there's certainly room.” – CBR Jun 11, 2018 Full Review Incredibles 2 (2018) 93% EDIT “Incredibles 2 is much more self aware, and artfully dodges a lot of the tired tropes associated with husband-wife role-swaps.” – CBR Jun 11, 2018 Full Review Hotel Artemis (2018) 57% EDIT “What it lacks in asses-kicked-per-minute, it makes up for in a cast with charm and chemistry to spare.” – CBR Jun 6, 2018 Full Review Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) 47% EDIT “The end results are unsatisfying to say the least, muddled at best and egregious at worst.” – CBR Jun 6, 2018 Full Review Hereditary (2018) 90% EDIT “That's not to say there aren't a few classic jump scare moments to go around, but by holding them on a tight leash, Hereditary is able to cultivate a world in which everything feels like a potential threat, even in broad daylight.” – CBR Jun 5, 2018 Full Review Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) 42% EDIT “If Pacific Rim Uprising had to be distilled into a single word, that word would be "clumsy."” – CBR May 18, 2018 Full Review Tomb Raider (2018) 52% EDIT “Vikander's stellar performance isn't enough to rescue a story that falls apart with just the slightest bit of scrutiny.” – CBR May 18, 2018 Full Review Ready Player One (2018) 71% EDIT “The end result is a a confusing and muddled message about the "purity" of fandom.” – CBR May 18, 2018 Full Review Rampage (2018) 51% EDIT “It's a surprising show of self-awareness in a genre where restraint is generally the enemy.” – CBR May 18, 2018 Full Review A Quiet Place (2018) 96% EDIT “It's a pretty bold gambit, all told, and one that could easily turn into a massive chore - but thankfully A Quiet Place manages to weaponize its strict set of rules in (almost) all the right ways.” – CBR May 18, 2018 Full Review Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 85% EDIT “That feeling - the abruptness of the ending, the "left in the lurch" lack of satisfaction - is certainly the most bold and brazen risk-taking the MCU has dared try in the last decade.” – CBR May 18, 2018 Full Review Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) 69% EDIT “It's a smorgasbord of fanservice moments that practically look directly into the camera and wink, but each time it happens, the gesture gets less and less endearing.” – CBR May 18, 2018 Full Review Deadpool 2 (2018) 83% EDIT “It's clearly a stab at recreating grittier, more emotionally fraught origin story moments that Deadpool 1 certainly didn't shy away from, but this time it feels like the movie is trying to punch way, way above its weight class.” – CBR May 18, 2018 Full Review
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