Cath Clarke

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The Guardian, Time Out, Time Out London
For 508 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 32% higher than the average critic
  • 9% same as the average critic
  • 59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Cath Clarke's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Some Like It Hot
Lowest review score: 20 Diana
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 129 out of 508
  2. Mixed: 367 out of 508
  3. Negative: 12 out of 508
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A.
    There’s a made-by-a-mate feel to the film, which jumps around confusingly: if you’re not a fan it might help to read her Wiki page for context. Perhaps there is just too much MIA for one film to handle. One thing’s for sure, in an era of manufactured pop stars, she is resplendently unfiltered.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Wild Men
    There are some very funny scenes and a reasonably tense shootout finale – though the sentimental ending felt to me like a bit of a cop-out.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Results
    Like Bujalski’s early mumblecore work, this is sensitive and meandering – and just a little bit patience-testing. But it’s also infectiously sweet and honest-feeling.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    How to Be Single
    As modern dating movies go, How to Be Single gets a lot right.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Tove
    Where biopics often end up with a cardboard-tasting blandness, the focus on Jansson’s interior world gives this film moments that really come to life.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The Racer
    What the film does very well is show how doping became so normalised. It’s as much a part of the team’s routine as a post-race rubdown.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    My Best Friend's Exorcism
    My Best Friend’s Exorcism could perhaps do with one or two genuine scares. But for anyone old enough to remember Tiffany and advice columns in teenage girls’ magazines, this is going to deliver a pleasing shot of nostalgia.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Bel Canto
    It’s overripe and improbable, but you’d need a flinty heart to resist the message of solidarity, that if you spend time with someone, anyone, you’ll find common ground.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Simon Pegg plays the world’s most unconvincing psychiatrist in this fluffy, irritating Brit comedy.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Bitch
    It’s an interesting concept, but the characters are thin and nothing here feels insightful.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Colonia
    You can see why this girl-saves-guy storyline clicked with Watson’s feminism, and she brings pin-sharp intelligence to the role. But everything here feels inauthentic.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Doors: Break On Thru - A Celebration Of Ray Manzarek
    The hits comes thick and fast, tightly arranged and slickly performed, but this lineup of well-preserved mostly male musicians gives the show the bland atmosphere of a celebrity tribute band.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Dinner
    The performances are thoughtful, and like a pinch of chilli, heat things up from time to time. But director Oren Moverman’s portrait of smug, toxic privilege misses its mark – and at the end of two long hours, this feels about as fresh as last night’s chips.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Enemy Lines
    The story has the makings of a gripping adventure, but something is lacking.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Forest
    There are a few ideas knocking about in the script – including repression of childhood trauma – but the silly, hand-me-down scares just don’t chill.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Muzzle
    The dogs give the film a touch of class, but as a whole this is forgettable.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Benefactor
    Is there something creepy about Franny’s aggressive generosity and need to be needed? In a film with a better script, yes.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    A Long Way Down
    The novel A Long Way Down is not-quite-vintage Nick Hornby. And this is a disappointing film version, a bit hokey and fake.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    ma ma
    Cruz has enough charm to melt a glacier, but she can’t rescue the shamelessly sentimental script by director Julio Medem (‘Sex and Lucia’). Ma Ma is going for the heartstrings, but don’t bother taking tissues.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Colony
    Everything here feels inauthentic, from the cast speaking their lines in English to the unthrilling final escape attempt.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Yves Saint Laurent
    Sadly, this polite film, though touching in places, is so desperate not to offend, it’s the film equivalent of sensible shoes. Diehard fashionistas may disagree.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Sky Is Pink
    The ending is unforgivably mawkish, though, and the running time of two-and-a-quarter hours is simply too long.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Bitter Harvest
    This forgotten chapter of history deserves to be better told.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Three Day Millionaire
    What’s missing is a sense of what’s at stake – we never quite get a feeling for how desperate these men are, and for the most part they feel a bit too familiar from the Britcom playbook. That said, Burrows brings cheeky-chappie warmth to the character of Curly.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Horns
    In the end Horns is weird without being interesting.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Destination Wedding
    A couple of scenes in Destination Wedding fall so calamitously flat I had the disconcerting sensation I was watching the film dubbed in a foreign language or for a spoofed internet meme.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Hooking Up
    Weirdly prudish about the intimacy scenes, the sex addiction storyline is a cheap attempt to spice up the romcom formula, but this movie is as vanilla as they come.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Lure
    [A] thin, slightly exasperating documentary.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Safer at Home
    A strong whiff of phoniness hangs over the whole thing.
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