David Robb

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For 50 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 8% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 86% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David Robb's Scores

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  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 88 Blue Heron
Lowest review score: 25 Fear of Rain
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 50
  3. Negative: 8 out of 50
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 David Robb
    On the Adamant
    Unwilling to risk subjectivity or authorial input, and also lacking in the forensic detail that might have provided a more in-depth analysis of the Centre de jour l’Adamant and its functioning, On the Adamant ultimately feels half-formed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 David Robb
    Rye Lane
    Rye Lane’s antic energy and caricatured portrait of England’s capital city fail to make its central romance truly resonate.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 David Robb
    Ticket to Paradise
    George Clooney’s and Julia Roberts’s undimmed charisma brings enough grace notes to Ticket to Paradise that you could easily be taken in by its low-stakes frivolity.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 David Robb
    The Silent Twins
    Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s film is unwilling to really sit with the peculiarity of its protagonists’ unique psyches.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 David Robb
    Those Who Wish Me Dead
    The film half-heartedly teeters between a kinetic action thriller and something a little more low-key.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 David Robb
    Shiva Baby
    Emma Seligman’s film effectively builds tension from what is a relatively familiar, low-key scenario.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 David Robb
    Shoplifters of the World
    The film lacks for the empathy, curiosity, and sense of humor that are the defining characteristics of the Smiths’s music.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 David Robb
    Language Lessons
    Had the film trusted its self-imposed minimalism a little more, it might have been a lot more successful as a character study.
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    • 25 David Robb
    Fear of Rain
    The film portrays mental illness with all the nuance and insight of Jared Leto in Suicide Squad.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 David Robb
    Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
    Best exemplified by its fixation on culottes, the film never feels like more than a half-formed in-joke between close friends.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 David Robb
    Ammonite
    Francis Lee’s compulsion to make Mary Anning stand in for something broader than herself keeps tripping up the film.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 David Robb
    Beginning
    The low-key, serene natural beauty of Beginning’s setting provides a counterpoint to the often-disturbing events of the film.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 David Robb
    Kajillionaire
    The precarity and itinerant lifestyle of the central figures in Kajillionaire can be seen as a logical next step in Miranda July’s filmmaking trajectory.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 David Robb
    The Trip to Greece
    The series’s ambient preoccupation with death is foregrounded more than ever before with this film’s main dramatic subplot.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 David Robb
    Arkansas
    The film’s insistence on keeping the stakes low throughout is probably its key strength.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 David Robb
    Atlantis
    The film’s use of scale to drive home the absurdity of its characters’ actions sometimes calls to mind Werner Herzog’s tragicomic existentialism, as well as early silent cinema.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 David Robb
    The Misogynists
    Onur Tukel’s film doesn’t live up to the promise of this fleet-footed opening.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 David Robb
    Intrigo: Death of an Author
    The film evinces neither the visceral pleasures of noir nor the precision to uncover deeper thematic resonances.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 David Robb
    The Scary of Sixty-First
    In a way, the film feels like a true heir to the petulant, low-budget horror cinema of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
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