Donald Clarke

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The Irish Times
For 556 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 2.1 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: 280 out of 556
  2. Mixed: 255 out of 556
  3. Negative: 21 out of 556
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Donald Clarke
    Queen & Slim
    Some of the stylistic flourishes are delightful. Others work too hard for their own good.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Donald Clarke
    The Turning
    The movie doesn’t quite stop mid-sentence, but it comes as close as any film I’ve seen. That can’t be it. Can it? ... A total waste of time.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Donald Clarke
    Honey Boy
    It works as therapy. It works as an acting showcase. But the dips and flips we demand from narrative art are missing throughout.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Donald Clarke
    Jojo Rabbit
    Jojo Rabbit works such tensions throughout: between laughter and groans, between emotion and sentimentality, between daring and bad taste. Such gambles are worth taking even if you believe the gambler is headed for the breadline.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Donald Clarke
    Bombshell
    Bombshell is entertaining throughout, but it offers little more nuance than a morning spent with Fox & Friends.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Donald Clarke
    A Hidden Life
    Exhaustingly beautiful, serious of purpose, the film knows where it’s going and, when it gets there, it stays for a very, very long time. A Hidden Life risks inducing Stendhal syndrome with its early overload of beauty. It risks something closer to narcolepsy in its repetitive final act. But even then, the singularity of Malick’s approach repels irritation.
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