Cath Clarke

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The Guardian, Time Out, Time Out London
For 513 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 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Cath Clarke's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 The Bad and the Beautiful
Lowest review score: 20 Wheely
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 130 out of 513
  2. Mixed: 371 out of 513
  3. Negative: 12 out of 513
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Queen of Katwe
    If you’re the person who watches weepies with a cynical curl of the lip, this isn’t the film for you. Everyone else, prepare to have your heartstrings plucked.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Bridget Jones's Baby
    I’ve never liked Renée Zellweger more as a warmer and wiser Bridget Jones – but still capable of making a total prat of herself.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Morgan
    What Morgan lacks in philosophy and ideas, it makes up for in bone-crunching violence.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The Light Between Oceans
    While it’s often beautiful and moving, emotionally it never quite sticks.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Up for Love
    There is a message here about celebrating differences, which would be a bit more convincing if they’d cast a smaller actor in the role – instead of using distracting CG effects on Dujardin.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Valley of Love
    The fish-out-of water moments are great fun, watching arthouse gods Depardieu and Huppert in tacky tourist hell.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Pete's Dragon
    This being a kids film, there is a ‘message’ – about the destruction of nature. But the eco theme genuinely works with the film’s wonder at nature.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Born to be Blue
    It might not be note perfect, jazz fans will probably hate it, and whole chunks might not be true. But ‘Born to Be Blue’ feels like it’s somehow getting inside Chet Baker.
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Maggie's Plan
    Intelligent and screwball-funny with clever and complicated female characters.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Adult Life Skills
    How much you love this low-budget British effort will depend on your tolerance to quirkiness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The Secret Life of Pets
    There are some funny-sweet observations about pets and our projections on to them. And the animation is expressive.... But the manic pace, piling on the action sequences, is exhausting.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)
    It’s refreshing to see a movie like this directed by a woman, Eva Husson, so boys and girls are objectified equally. Which is not to say this passes the feminism test.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The President
    Makhmalbaf says he was inspired by the Arab Spring, and his film is pitched somewhere between allegory and satire.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    The Daughter
    Few films make you care about the characters like this one does.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Mustang
    It’s raw, funny and incredibly moving.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Florence Foster Jenkins
    Director Stephen Frears sketches out her tragic backstory, and Streep in grande dame mode is not to be missed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
    A candid, often shocking documentary portrait of the great photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Hockney
    There are beautiful moments from David Hockney’s home-video stash in this thoughtful doc.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    The Jungle Book
    This Jungle Book has the bare necessities, and then some.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    The Huntsman: Winter's War
    All told, ‘Winter’s War’ is not the fairest sequel, but it’s not so terrible that it deserves to be taken out to the forest and finished off.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Barney Thomson
    There are more than a few false notes here.... Still, the sight of Emma Thompson, wearing old-lady prosthetics and a leopard skin coat as Barney’s mum...is not to be missed.
    • 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
    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.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    How to Be Single
    As modern dating movies go, How to Be Single gets a lot right.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
    The average lifespan of a chipmunk is five years – which means the kids’ cartoon franchise about the trio of singing superstar rodents has already outstayed its welcome.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Dad's Army
    The top-notch cast keep calm and carry on, but this TV remake is a waste of everyone’s time.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    Sisters
    Sisters is too strained for a comedy starring two of the funniest people alive.
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