Catherine Shoard

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The Guardian
For 52 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Catherine Shoard's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Ladykillers
Lowest review score: 20 Jimmy P.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 52
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 52
  3. Negative: 4 out of 52
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
    There is comfort and joy in the routine and delight in the details. Not just the thumb-smudges and dusty crockery (Wallace has become so reliant on smart tech that he keeps pressing the teapot lid, befuddled, in hope of a cuppa), but the more startling flights of fancy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Hidden Figures
    Hidden Figures is a bouncy, almost garish feelgood girl pic. A movie that knows right from wrong and doesn’t see any use in complicating matters.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Fences
    This film is conceived as a showcase for its performers, and, as that, it is immaculate.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Queen of Katwe
    For what is, in essence, a by-numbers Disney sports flick, there’s endless freshness and vivacity to Mira Nair’s picture – her best in years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Risk
    What we have here is an embedded report that sacrifices impartiality for access. But what access.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    The Program
    It’s a fluid and nippy telling of a tale that still seems strangely urgent.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Catherine Shoard
    Anomalisa
    Anomalisa is a movie with wit to burn (look out for the Sarah Brightman line and the meeting room pit) and enough incidental touches that the total achievement feels immense.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Eastern Boys
    Robin Campillo’s drama is sweet and neat, as ambitious as it is gripping.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Still Alice
    This is an effortlessly excellent film, about a horribly hard subject.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Catherine Shoard
    While We're Young
    An almost perfect 90-minute hit of confident and inspired comedic commentary.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    The Theory of Everything
    It's a film to leave you reeling but cheered, too. It's about battling love, as well as illness. A universal story, extracted from a unique one.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    The Riot Club
    The Riot Club hands its audience a ticket, as well as a free pass to pour scorn over proceedings. That's a double-bill which should prove pretty irresistible.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Suzanne
    The brilliance of Quillévéré's direction is in the performances she coaxes from her cast, and the clear-eyed, non-judgmental way she presents them.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Sunshine on Leith
    A remorselessly rousing attempt to do for the Scottish pub rock twins what Mamma Mia! did for Abba or Tommy for The Who.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Le Week-End
    For all its flaws - in fact, perhaps because of them - Le Week-End is a work borne from, and provoking, real feeling.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Life of Crime
    It gleams with a faintly-tacky, country club sheen, as if it'd been sheep-dipped in essence of 70s and come out feeling peachy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    The Invisible Woman
    The Invisible Woman shies from propaganda just as Nelly shies from impropriety. Fiennes has done the right and proper thing here. He has, at 50, made a mature movie, prudent in the best possible sense.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Fading Gigolo
    Turturro has given Allen his biggest and best on-screen turn in years: the part was written for him and it's full of scope for amiable kvetching and nimble slapstick.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    The Railway Man
    From time to time, the script contextualises a little clumsily...but the playing and pacing are terrific.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Alan Partridge
    The genius of Alpha Papa, then, is in remaining faithful to Partridge's small-screen soul while also managing the demands of a big-screen Alan.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Catherine Shoard
    Heli
    The film functions as clammy thriller as well as poetic agitprop.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Catherine Shoard
    A Room with a View
    The final scene, a ravishing in a room, with a view, as the bells of Florence chime out, would leave only a stone unmoved.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Catherine Shoard
    The Ladykillers
    It's a film with jazz in its bones and rhythm to its beats.

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