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
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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.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    Sentimental Value
    Skarsgard and Reinsve are excellent as two damaged people who are only able to open up when they’re working, but you yearn for the film itself to open up. It’s an intriguing premise, stylishly executed but sometimes lacking a bit of heart.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    The Six Billion Dollar Man
    You really could not make any of this up.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    It Was Just an Accident
    The screaming and shouting eventually detract from the drama, although perhaps Panahi is making a point about the hysteria of Iran’s rulers. He is certainly making a point about the traumatising effects of their cruelty, with which he is intimately familiar.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Ed Potton
    Fackham Hall
    Despite the game involvement of actors as fine as Damian Lewis, Katherine Waterston, Thomasin McKenzie and Anna Maxwell Martin, this Downton Abbey spoof is often aggressively unfunny.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    Happy Gilmore 2
    Like the original movie, this isn’t super funny, unless burping, farting and people being hit in the groin with golf balls is your thing.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    It’s when they return to Earth-828 that the film reverts to type: enervating action, platitudinous script, predictable ending.
    • 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    Young Mothers
    It’s a decent film about an underexplored subject and adequately acted by a cast of inexperienced unknowns, but nothing we haven’t seen before from the determinedly low-key Dardennes.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    Honey Don't!
    It doesn’t hang together as well as its predecessor, Drive-Away Dolls, it still offers some throwaway wickedness.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Ed Potton
    The Mastermind
    This being Reichardt, white-knuckle thrills were unlikely to be on the menu either, but you would have hoped for something to engage with beyond a vague hum of disappointment.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Woman and Child
    Roustayi handles the change of gear impeccably, though, balancing extreme events with layered characterisation.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    Romería
    A sensual reframing of a story that must still be raw for Simón, 38, the film doesn’t quite match the subtlety and originality of Summer 1993. It’s a satisfying enough addition to the saga, though, and a fillip for the Galician tourist board.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Resurrection
    This kind of unhinged ambition is what cinema does better than anything else.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    The History of Sound
    The last act has a disappointing inevitability, with little of the transcendent emotion of the first hour.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Ed Potton
    Eleanor the Great
    Johansson and her excellent cast nail the big moments and revel in the small ones.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    Highest 2 Lowest
    Sometimes, a couple of scenes can make all the difference.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    G20
    Unburdened by narrative logic, there is a joie de vivre in the way Davis, 59, throws men over her shoulder, elbows them in the face and sprays them with machine-gun fire.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Ed Potton
    Paddington In Peru
    Well, the bad news is that Paddington in Peru isn’t as good as Paddington 2. The good news is that Wilson has made an entertaining and endearing yarn that is worth 106 minutes of your time.
    • 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.
    • The Times

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