Donald Clarke

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The Irish Times
For 560 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Donald Clarke's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Son of Saul
Lowest review score: 20 Sonic the Hedgehog
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 283 out of 560
  2. Mixed: 256 out of 560
  3. Negative: 21 out of 560
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    • 5 Metascore
    • 20 Donald Clarke
    Melania
    No good impression emerges of the former Slovenian model. No bad impression emerges either. Ratner’s film achieves, rather, a sort of passive distance – as you might get by pointing a camera, for close to two hours, at a waterfall or a wheat field.
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    • 20 Donald Clarke
    Eye for an Eye
    An early contender for turkey of the year.
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    • 80 Donald Clarke
    I Never Cry
    I Never Cry works best as a showcase for a terrific young actor with a nuanced grasp of a complex character.
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    • 80 Donald Clarke
    Redemption of a Rogue
    Here is a film clawed up from the damp soil and smeared imaginatively across the screen. It is unlikely to be confused with Wild Mountain Thyme.
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    • 20 Donald Clarke
    Survive the Game
    Embarrassingly for a film that actually features a star of Pulp Fiction, Killing Field is still harbouring an undignified passion for early Tarantino.
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    • 60 Donald Clarke
    The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
    Clocking in at just over an hour, Get Back: The Rooftop Concert turns out to be simultaneously too much and not quite enough.
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    • 60 Donald Clarke
    Let the Wrong One In
    The perfunctory attempts to address social issues do not really come off. But it works through its tolerable high concepts with a great deal of verve and charm.
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    • 80 Donald Clarke
    Lakelands
    It is the relationship between Grace and Cian that most engages. Galligan, seen recently in the TV series The Great and Kin, exhibits a rare charisma and a gift for dry comedy that should take her far.
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    • 80 Donald Clarke
    Pray for Our Sinners
    Pray for Our Sinners (clever title, incidentally) is not a shocker on the scale of clerical-abuse documentaries such as Mea Maxima Culpa or Deliver Us from Evil. It is a smaller story that connects directly with a tight community. Its power lies in its intimacy and, ultimately, in its cautious hopefulness.
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    • 60 Donald Clarke
    Blue Lock the Movie -Episode Nagi-
    Though largely for already-persuaded aficionados, Blue Lock The Movie: Episode Nagi has enough imaginative zing to make up for its somewhat monotonous storytelling. This is football reimagined as a heightened form of futuristic warfare. Those who already know they like it will like it very much.
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    • 60 Donald Clarke
    Beezel
    Many worse horror titles will make it to cinemas throughout the coming year. This is pulp as pulp should be.
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    • 80 Donald Clarke
    Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
    Blue Road is most memorable for its crisply edited evocation of unlikely triumph.
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    • 100 Donald Clarke
    On Falling
    An astonishing, unsettling fable of hidden miseries.
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    • 60 Donald Clarke
    King Frankie
    A strong set of performances from a top-flight cast help close Malone’s deal.
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    • 60 Donald Clarke
    So This Is Christmas
    For all the richness of the tales told, So This Is Christmas remains an enormously peculiar project.
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    • 70 Donald Clarke
    Amongst the Wolves
    Before Amongst the Wolves resolves itself into a familiar genre (I was much reminded of a particular British film from the noughties), we get a grim survey of stubborn urban discontents.
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    • 70 Donald Clarke
    Kim Novak's Vertigo
    Philippe brings few stylistic flourishes to the film, but the fascinating conversation, punctuated by delving into her personal archives, should be more than enough to satisfy the serious cinephile. She is kinder about Hitchcock than some of his other female leads. She is realistic about the rigours of the studio system.
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