Ghostbusters Reviews: 10 Reactions You Need To Know

Kate McKinnon is best known as a star on the current iteration of Saturday Night Live, but she's about to get a major career boost after her work in Ghostbusters - that it, according to the critics, who have largely deemed her character, Holtzmann, to be the best and most memorable member of the newly-appointed gang.

The general consensus seems to paint McKinnon, whose part in the film was largely criticized when the trailers first emerged, as the most unique of the four new 'Busters - largely unexpected, perhaps, given that she goes up against comedy movie veterans like Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy.

In her review for the Toronto Star, critic Liz Braun praises McKinnon as follows:

"You already knew she was funny from her brilliant SNL Justin Bieber thing, but Ghostbusters will show you that she’s spectacularly, fabulously, through-the-roof funny. Go see for yourself. [She] steals the show."

Then there's Caroline Framke's review over at Vox:

"The revelation of Ghostbusters will have to be McKinnon’s Dr. Jillian "Holtz" Holtzmann, who not only steals every scene she’s in but chews it up with a liquid smirk and spits it out for parts."

And in her review for The Daily Beast, Jen Yamato essentially declares McKinnon to be the glue that holds the entire film together:

"McKinnon’s Holtzmann, meanwhile, is the secret weapon of this Ghostbusters. Aside from spewing rapid-fire technical jargon as the team’s resident eccentric gearhead, McKinnon oozes visceral charisma with the swagger of Murray’s Venkman. Hemsworth might be the beefcake on paper but it’s McKinnon who’ll leave moviegoers crushing."

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