Christina Newland

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For 53 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Christina Newland's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Hard Truths
Lowest review score: 20 Joker: Folie à Deux
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 53
  3. Negative: 1 out of 53
53 movie reviews
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Christina Newland
    One Battle After Another
    One Battle After Another is a film about legacy, about fathers and daughters, about the fight against an all-too-real American government hellbent on white supremacy, militarism, and oppression. Yet it also manages to be one of the most touching and absorbing thrillers of the year. Make no mistake: Paul Thomas Anderson is a genius.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Christina Newland
    TÁR
    Tár is a film of rare and wild excellence.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Christina Newland
    The Zone of Interest
    Glazer’s uncompromising and chilling vision of evil is unlike any other film about Nazism.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Christina Newland
    Anora
    Mikey Madison gives a sparky, vulnerable, devastatingly real breakout performance as a strip-club dancer and sometime-sex-worker. Filmed with neon-lit nocturnal verve, Anora is as gorgeous to behold as it is deranged.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Christina Newland
    The Brutalist
    A work of staggering mystery and power, with an epic scope and a visual style to match, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is old school in the best possible sense.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Christina Newland
    Hard Truths
    It’s a film about ordinary Londoners living ordinary lives and facing normal challenges, from mental health to domesticity. Baptiste is toweringly real: formidable and heartbreaking in her performance.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    Black Bag
    It’s great fun to watch two actors of such calibre play these wicked games of mistrust and deception – it’s even more fun to see Soderbergh handle his story so deftly.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    Sinners
    Sinners is one of the most satisfying and fun blockbusters I’ve seen so far this year.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Christina Newland
    Small Things Like These
    A beautifully simple story of moral courage in the face of complicity, Small Things Like These is one of the best films of the year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    Tina
    A complete, if slightly overlong, view of Tina Turner’s life and career, the film is a deeply felt portrait of audacious talent and reinvention. The results are incredibly poignant.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    Conclave
    You don’t have to profess any special interest in the subject to have a fantastic time at the cinema with Conclave, which is part political thriller, part catfight, and utterly compelling.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    Frankenstein
    Oscar Isaac is ideal as Dr Victor Frankenstein, a fevered, charismatic, and darkly obsessive oddball. He’s passionate and intense, driving the plot forward with powerful force.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    The Substance
    The plot isn’t always watertight, but The Substance nails the way female youth and beauty can steam-roll and flatten out the existence of older women.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    Nosferatu
    Obsessed by rooting his supernatural folk tales in the realities of historical life, Eggers turns Nosferatu into a gothic horror fairy-tale. It’s retro in the best sense of the word.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Christina Newland
    Babyteeth
    Given the subject matter, it’s difficult not to stray into mawkishness of some kind. But even with mistakes, the power of the main narrative is hard to erode.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Christina Newland
    28 Years Later
    Boyle still has an eye for suspenseful action, and much of it is breathtaking.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Christina Newland
    Bring Her Back
    There’s too much focus on disturbing the viewer rather than illuminating anything for them. Bring Her Back is a film that knows how to provoke, but not how to provide much insight.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    Queer
    It rewards the viewer with a sense of the vast beauty – and sadness – a fleeting love affair might provide. It’s a brief thing, maybe, but it also lasts a lifetime.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Christina Newland
    A Complete Unknown
    This is not some deification story, even though it often regards Dylan’s capacity for musical storytelling with something akin to worship. Mangold steers the ship into harbour competently, even if I have some niggling questions about why the Dylan myth requires yet another movie.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    The Friend
    The Friend is a film that tells us that the only way out of heartache like this really is through. It may jump all over your bed and make you sleep on the floor, but weathering the hard part has its own kind of rewards.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    Materialists
    Song’s point about the impact of class, economics, and the insidious, algorithmic approach to finding a partner feels like an accurate one. Love should be about risk-taking, not box-ticking; Lucy learns that soon enough, and seeing it play out is compelling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    The Phoenician Scheme
    Made with Anderson’s typically droll tone, it’s often very funny and continually surprising.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 42 Christina Newland
    Old Henry
    Old Henry is a retread of the same dusty plains and macho bonds we’ve seen too many times before. It tells its slim story competently, but it does so little beyond that that it can’t help but feel mediocre.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Christina Newland
    Honey Don't!
    Honey Don’t! is another misfire, feeling bizarrely like an ersatz Tarantino. Given the Coens’ track record of making some of the smartest crime films in recent memory, it’s troubling how flat this one feels. I sincerely hope Ethan Coen hasn’t lost his knack.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Christina Newland
    Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
    Most of the movie’s machinations seem merely in service of deepening the central gambit, which is to follow Mona’s journey and to look cool while doing it. On that front, it succeeds, but the movie’s charms are limited when the originality it purports to offer only feels like a bit of a costume.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Christina Newland
    F1: The Movie
    Whether you’re a racing fan, have watched Netflix’s F1: Drive to Survive, or are a newcomer to the sport altogether, F1 uses old-fashioned, engine-revving storytelling.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Christina Newland
    Jurassic World Rebirth
    It quickly becomes difficult to care about any of it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Christina Newland
    The Last Showgirl
    There is a lot to garner from Anderson’s performance as a woman who has spent her life as the vessel of other people’s lust and projection; that is the main attraction of The Last Showgirl. But without the narrative scaffolding or depth to surround her character, Coppola’s film can often feel like a message in search of a movie.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Christina Newland
    The Return
    The twisty machinations are a bit too familiar, the pacing a tad too glacial before Odysseus’s revenge finally happens, the performances uniformly good but rather self-serious.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Christina Newland
    Caught Stealing
    Caught Stealing’s zany mix of comedy and drama tests your patience at times – though its crackerjack sexual tension is hard to argue with, and Austin Butler is a genuine, stop-and-take-notice screen presence. His charisma may well hold the whole inchoate package together, as he stammers and shrugs his way through the electric energy of the city.
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