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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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Strange World
    The clunky script feels like it’s been re-drafted and re-drafted to the point of incomprehension – blowing any chance of conveying a message. However well-meaning, it makes for a surprisingly dull watch. That said, my five-and-three-quarter-year-old (and clearly a few other younger people in the cinema) were a bit scared by some of the dicier moments of action-adventure peril.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Last Love
    This sentimental Michael Caine drama is so dull that doctors could prescribe it to treat insomnia. What the hell, they could probably use it to medically induce a coma.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Weekender
    From the opening voiceover to the out-of-their-heads party scenes, it’s utterly generic.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Humbling
    “Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre,” Roth wrote in Everyman, but other than a few jokes about Axler’s limp erection and thrown-out back, we don’t see much of that.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    My Name Is Hmmm...
    It aims for a loose, French New Wave style but settles for muddled and rambling. It’s tortured for all the wrong reasons.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Addams Family 2
    As charmless as its predecessor, The Addams Family 2 is without an iota of ooky, nor any shred of kooky. Really, it’s just kind of ghastly – and not in the intended way.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Insidious: Chapter 3
    It's silly rather than scary, more insipid than insidious.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    Diana
    A right royal mess.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    Freelance
    Brie and Cena look lifeless and blank-faced; they’ve got no chemistry, and the objectionable dynamics of him manfully rescuing her shrieking from the clutches of the bad guys on repeat feel like a satire of the genre – which this isn’t.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    The Reckoning
    The film left me shaking with anger more than fear.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    Me, Myself and Di
    There’s nothing quite so naff and depressing as a British comedy misfire, and Me, Myself and Di is the real deal: a miserably unfunny romcom about Bolton’s answer to Bridget Jones.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    After We Fell
    The acting is daytime-soap standard and the tasteful, softcore sex is shot in such a way as to not look like actual sex. It’s unerotic, unsweaty and performed with expressionless faces. It feels like the film-makers know they have to do the sex bits, but don’t really want to actually do them.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    From the Vine
    An Italian-American man in late middle age rejects the rat race and embarks on a voyage of self-discovery and winemaking in this lifelessly unfunny comedy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    Wheely
    It really is such a blatant copycat job, ripping off Cars note for note and lifting so many elements – from talking driverless cars to the dim-witted, buck-toothed sidekick – they might as well have called it Carz.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    The Poison Rose
    It’s a preposterous plot, with a damp-squib ending, and like an episode of Dallas, the dialogue gets phonier and phonier.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    Viking Destiny
    The film dies an agonising death long before it ever reaches Valhalla.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    That Awkward Moment
    The actors – who seem to have been involved in a hideous industrial accident that’s left them with the superpower of repelling all comic timing – are spectacularly unfunny.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    What Lies Below
    The denouement when it comes is meant to be shriek of pure sci-fi horror; but really, you’d find better entertainment – and more energetic acting – watching a fish tank.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Cath Clarke
    Buddy Games
    Semen cocktails, broken testicles and dancefloor laxatives are among myriad reasons to avoid this grim grossout comedy.
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