Ed Potton

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The Times
For 34 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ed Potton's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 David Bowie: The Final Act
Lowest review score: 40 Fackham Hall
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
34 movie reviews
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    Concert films are often an underwhelming proxy for a fine night out, but Cameron’s technical virtuosity and storytelling verve bring the whole shebang to life — as does shooting in 3D. I’m no Eilish superfan, but I enjoyed it a lot more than the last Avatar flick.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Heel
    Boon’s already considerable charisma is somehow magnified by Tommy’s incarceration and Graham and Riseborough prove yet again that they can find humanity in even the most disturbing characters. Please let this not be their last joint project.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
    This is a celebration of the King doing what he did best, and loving every second.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Ed Potton
    David Bowie: The Final Act
    Like the man, this film isn’t sentimental but gosh, it packs a punch.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    The Six Billion Dollar Man
    You really could not make any of this up.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Zootopia 2
    Perhaps most delightful, though, are the carefully drawn supporting characters, with welcome returns for Flash the sloth and Maurice LaMarche, the Vito Corleone-esque arctic shrew. Truly an offer you can’t refuse.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Ed Potton
    Is This Thing On?
    [A] warm and hilarious comedy drama.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    The Conjuring: Last Rites
    A suitably shiver-inducing farewell to the Warrens.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    The Naked Gun
    This film isn’t particularly new or original but it’s just like its predecessors, which is more than enough.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Ed Potton
    28 Years Later
    The sense of hallucinogenic sweatiness won’t be to everyone’s taste but [Garland] and Boyle should be applauded for taking such big swings and having the flair and confidence to pull them off. It’s an astonishing piece of work.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Deep Cover
    Howard makes a fine straightwoman, however, in a film powered by the gaucheness of Mohammed and the ridiculousness of Bloom.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Woman and Child
    Roustayi handles the change of gear impeccably, though, balancing extreme events with layered characterisation.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Resurrection
    This kind of unhinged ambition is what cinema does better than anything else.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Eleanor the Great
    Johansson and her excellent cast nail the big moments and revel in the small ones.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Pillion
    It’s knotty stuff for a first film but Lighton finds a delicate balance between disturbing, funny, sweet and sad.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Last Breath
    Cole and Liu are grippingly believable, despite doing much of their acting through helmet visors, while Harrelson provides much-needed levity. The subaquatic cinematography conveys the vastness and terror of the open ocean.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Dog Man
    The writer-director Peter Hastings preserves Pilkey’s key ingredients: lavatorial sniggers, winking details, a kid-made aesthetic.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh and his leading actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste have created a bilious protagonist to rank alongside Jack Nicholson’s ornery grouch in As Good As It Gets and David Thewlis’s scabrous drifter in Leigh’s own Naked.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Ed Potton
    Anora
    Each change of tone is handled with sinuous ease by Baker, one of the best independent directors, who is finally getting the props he deserves.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ed Potton
    A Real Pain
    This is a story that is perfectly weighted between bleak and warm, poignant and irreverent.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Ed Potton
    Withnail and I
    Robinson's curlicued dialogue and the excellent performances make for rich entertainment; the fusion of writing and acting is particularly fine in the case of the drunken, self-consciously eccentric Withnail, whose many great lines are perfectly delivered by Richard E Grant.
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