Clarisse Loughrey

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The Independent
For 468 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Clarisse Loughrey's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Barbie
Lowest review score: 20 Black Adam
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 223 out of 468
  2. Mixed: 223 out of 468
  3. Negative: 22 out of 468
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Where the Crawdads Sing
    Does the fact the film largely ignores the book’s treatise on nature and virtue absolve it of all connections to Owens’s real-life controversies? It certainly doesn’t, on an artistic level, improve what’s already contained on the page. Newman’s vision of rural South Carolina is scrubbed so clean you might as well call it #swampcore – the Spanish moss looks bright and pristine, the flower petals on the water almost consciously arranged.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Clarisse Loughrey
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    Kogonada neither wrote nor edited A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and so we’re largely lacking in the sophistication department, or the soft musicality he’s been able to construct in his earlier films.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    Ramos and Fishback are talented enough actors that they are able to perforate the chaos with some genuine emotion.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Swiped
    Swiped is far more interested in convincing us that Bumble’s earned its feminist credentials than in exploring what being a “feminist company” actually means when there are billions of dollars on the table.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Holland
    Holland, with its floral wallpapers and porcelain figurines, and scenes that consistently end with a flare of violins, gestures aggressively towards kitsch. But Sodorski’s story is plain, dry melodrama. There’s not a lick of the camp, the satirical, or the demented in sight.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Opus
    There’s not much about Opus, really, that fully convinces.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Clarisse Loughrey
    Persuasion
    Above all, at no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read Persuasion.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Halloween Kills
    As a thoroughly modern, self-reflective revival of one of the most famous horror films of all time, 2018’s Halloween felt like a small miracle. Its sequel suggests that Green shouldn’t have pushed his luck.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Clarisse Loughrey
    Black Adam
    Why is Dwayne Johnson delivering every line here in an exhausting monotone?
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Fountain of Youth
    This is a film that’s fun to complain about.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Clarisse Loughrey
    Venom: The Last Dance
    It’s hard to say how these films will be remembered in the grand scheme of comic book history, but, with The Last Dance, we can at least be reminded that sometimes they actually managed to have fun with these things.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Clarisse Loughrey
    Moonfall
    It’s exhausting. It’s exhilarating. And it’s exactly as absurd as you could ever hope it would be.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    The Woman in Cabin 10
    Netflix’s The Woman in Cabin 10 is Agatha Christie for the age of mindless scrolling. It’s a murder mystery that only works if you’re not really paying attention, and are happy in the fact the characters on screen aren’t really either.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Meg 2: The Trench
    Meg 2: The Trench is enthusiastically married to the idea that you must eat your vegetables before you get your dessert. But, really, it’s too little, too late.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    The 355
    The 355 is a mark of progress only in how wholly unremarkable it feels.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Clarisse Loughrey
    Here
    It’s bold in theory, a struggle to sit through in practice.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    The Exorcist: Believer
    This is a toned-down, more limply palatable iteration of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic: the projectiled pea soup is gone, the verbal abuse has been whittled down to a single ‘c***ing’, and any and all acts committed with crucifixes barely register a shock.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Dear Evan Hansen
    When all roads lead back to Evan, and to Platt’s misstep of a performance, the film becomes one giant gamble that’s quite disastrously failed to pay off.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Clarisse Loughrey
    Michael
    All Michael does is recreate, in mechanical style, the most famous visuals of Jackson’s career. It’s certainly easier that way. Why bother to depict a human being when you can simply turn them into a product?
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Jurassic World Dominion
    Though Dominion marks the end of the Jurassic World trilogy, I can’t imagine this is the last we’ll see of the franchise. As they say, life finds a way. Hopefully next time they’ll have actually figured out what they’re doing.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 60 Clarisse Loughrey
    The Addams Family 2
    These animated outings will always feel like a flash in the pan if they continue to rely on contemporary nods as a source of cheap humour.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Red Notice
    This action caper is less a film than a collection of buzzwords.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie offers very little to audiences, young or old, who don’t already know these characters and spaces like the back of their hand. But, hey, if you take a tequila shot every time something explodes, you’ll have a great drinking game on your hands.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Clarisse Loughrey
    Home Sweet Home Alone
    No, the problem with Home Sweet Home Alone isn’t that it had the temerity to encroach on a holiday classic. It’s that they bungled the whole thing so badly.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Clarisse Loughrey
    Argylle
    The real selling point is a romance so dorky, sweet, and likeable that, well, maybe only Taylor Swift could have written it.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Morbius
    ‘Spider-Man’ spin-off is too flavourless to even be the wild, untethered disaster some were secretly hoping for.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Clarisse Loughrey
    Kraven the Hunter
    Richard Wenk, Art Marcum, and Matt Holloway’s script is profoundly scattered, and there’s such a ruthless amount of re-recorded dialogue inserted that there’s little cohesion between or even within scenes.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Clarisse Loughrey
    Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver
    The Scargiver is at least basic enough to feel relatively inoffensive; the first film’s uncomfortably vague deployment of racist and sexual violence has been reduced to a single reference to the empire’s hatred of “ethnic impurity” (never to be picked up again).
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Clarisse Loughrey
    Ghosted
    There is no chemistry, sexual or otherwise.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Clarisse Loughrey
    Mercy
    Any effort to force us to identify with Chris comes to naught. Any promising idea leads to a dead end. It’s a maddening watch.
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