Cath Clarke

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The Guardian, Time Out, Time Out London
For 507 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: 128 out of 507
  2. Mixed: 367 out of 507
  3. Negative: 12 out of 507
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    The Mustang
    Brilliantly, Schoenaerts almost underplays Roman’s anger, lumbering slowly like a wounded animal, the downward slope of his eyes conveying a howl of rage. It’s an electrifying performance.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Hail Satan?
    With her funny, light-hearted documentary, Penny Lane lets the sunshine in, focusing on the Temple’s message of open-mindedness and inclusivity – LGBTQ followers speak of a sense of belonging.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    UglyDolls
    The film is constantly defining what ugly is: freckles, crooked teeth, excess weight, glasses, clumsiness. At times it feels like an unintentional crib sheet for under-sevens bullying.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Bromley Boys
    Weirdly for a film supposedly based on actual events – adapted from Dave Roberts’s football memoir about life as a fan of beleaguered Bromley FC during the 1969-70 season – a persistent whiff of fakeness hangs over it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Gwen
    This is not social realism in the style of Ken Loach, but it is a film with a strong sense of outrage. Some might find it relentlessly bleak.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Armstrong
    This Neil Armstrong documentary feels like unrequired viewing coming so soon after two cracking moon landing movies.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    We the Animals
    It is a thing of beauty: too beautiful perhaps, running a real danger of prettifying poverty.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Halston
    The archive clips suggest Halston is a role Richard E Grant was born to play: the designer had a long-limbed loucheness, grandiose affectations and put-on accent, along with a fierce perfectionism.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    A Vigilante
    The more the movie explains, the less powerful it becomes – ending with a Shining-like finale in the snow that for me was a letdown.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Thunder Road
    Cummings presents us with a guy whose heart is in the right place – he just can’t control himself. But, like me, others may find their tolerance for a clueless white man’s anger issues has maxed out.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The Secret Life of Pets 2
    Here’s that Hollywood rarity – a sequel that’s better than the original. It’s wittier, less frenetic and introduces fresh characters and a nice scene of strategic furball vomming.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Memoir of War
    Mélanie Thierry does her best in the lead as Duras, but her character is maddeningly flat and dull.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Diamantino
    The film is fun, but, for all its inventiveness, it’s a bit tame, with its nice-but-dim hero. But Diamantino is never dull.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    As per the two previous films, Stahelski cranks up the body count with a string of fight sequences so balletic you might forget you’re watching violence – until Reeves sinks a knife into a man’s eye. But, three movies in, franchise bloat is beginning to set in; the dead dog jokes are definitely wearing thin.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Let There Be Light
    Everyone here emotes like they’re acting in an electric toothbrush ad.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Missing Link
    But the storytelling is unevolved compared with the animation.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Lost & Found
    It’s written and directed by Liam O Mochain with the kind of inoffensive hot-water-bottle-laughs you wouldn’t think possible after Father Ted. Well, I say inoffensive, but one of the vignettes – about an uptight bridezilla whose sole character trait is her desperation to get married – is depressingly unfeminist.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Five Feet Apart
    Five Feet Apart, with its phoney emotions and baloney contrivances — these love-struck kids can’t even hold hands let alone get to first base because two people with cystic fibrosis aren’t allowed to touch — just didn’t do the job for me.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    What They Had
    The script, inspired by Chomko’s grandparents’ marriage, throws up plenty of authentic-looking observations of life with Alzheimer’s.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The Kid Who Would Be King
    None of the young stars shine as John Boyega did in ATB, but this movie is sentimental in all the right places, and impossible to dislike.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Reign of the Supermen
    If gym buff Henry Cavill really is quitting the role in the movies, as has been rumoured, the film-makers could do worse than to follow the direction here, opening a vacancy for a skinny, long-haired Superman with an earnest hipstery vibe that screams Adam Driver.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Upside
    This really is an incredibly cheesy remake—the original was already pretty cheesy—starring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart, doing their best with a script that cranks out all the odd-couple movie clichés.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Mortal Engines
    Mortal Engines really is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent slog, as characters leap unfeasibly out of planes on to bits of cities while a squad of rebel-fighter pilots straight out of Star Wars buzz around.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Mario
    At two hours, the film feels a little long, but this is a heartfelt and human drama with the texture of truth and characters to care about.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    The Guilty
    Miraculously, Möller turns a handful of phone conversations into a nerve shredder.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Grinch
    More bah-humbuggery – which is a rational response to the wall-to-wall Christmas jumpers – and less zany antics here would have done the job better.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
    I have to admit to being helplessly enchanted – or suckered – for the most part. There’s wit here and The Nutcracker will take you from zero to Christmas jumper in the opening sequence. What’s missing is the melancholy darkness of ETA Hoffmann’s story. Instead, schmaltz-merchant director Lasse Hallström tugs at the heartstrings and ladles on the syrup.
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