Ella Kemp

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For 41 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ella Kemp's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Lowest review score: 40 Magic Mike's Last Dance
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 41
  3. Negative: 0 out of 41
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    Woman of the Hour
    Woman Of The Hour isn’t the serial-killer thriller you’d expect, but more noble for it. Kendrick shows promise as a director, her lacklustre male antagonist hammering home this film’s purpose.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    Close to You
    Page shines bright in an otherwise formulaic story, but this is still a thoughtful, sensitive portrait of a young man coming to terms with his sense of self and the love he deserves.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    Unicorns
    A compelling if formulaic star-crossed lovers’ narrative. Come for a wordless seduction, stay for the complexities of parenthood, drag queens and family loyalties that deserve more of your time.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    Lisa Frankenstein
    These teens may be a bit messy (who isn’t?) but it’s a joy to have Diablo Cody back to telegraph a new kind of adolescent horror, with a smile full of teeth.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    Foe
    An emotional, if familiar, take on loyalty and technology in a world where love and survival feel near-impossible. Reid’s writing shines and there’s nobody better than Mescal and Ronan to broadcast heartbreak.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Ella Kemp
    Magic Mike's Last Dance
    A misguided screwball narrative sacrifices the performances of talented men for clumsy, baggy rom-com tropes. Bring back Pony and all of Mike’s men – or just release a live DVD of London’s best night out instead.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 58 Ella Kemp
    Shotgun Wedding
    Shotgun Wedding falls flat as any kind of explosive or endearing couples comedy, but shines in moments thanks to the women anchoring its pirate antics. Maybe the script should have stayed in 2003, but what a joy to see these timeless leading women jetting off into the sunset.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    Disenchanted
    It’s more of a soundtrack album of a movie, a sequel crying out for a stage production to give little girls and lethargic parents a rare night off: something to sing about.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    The Wonder
    A darker turn for the sensitive Sebastián Lelio, and yet more proof that Florence Pugh is among our greatest treasures. Plenty of food for thought among the emptier moments.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Ella Kemp
    Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    It’s no crime to have another wholesome heroine for a new generation to look up to, only a shame that this is a sanitized reproduction and slight distortion of one who already existed.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    Girl Picture
    A small but effective portrait of adolescence in Scandinavia, unpretentious enough to avoid heavy-handed lessons, but not bold enough to become an all-timer.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 60 Ella Kemp
    The Souvenir: Part II
    The film takes a minute to let the viewer in, to get on Julie’s level, but it’s often rewarding once her heart really does open up.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Ella Kemp
    Mothering Sunday
    There is pain worth immortalising in the stories of the past, and endless sadness found in a lonely woman’s quiet existence. Yet Mothering Sunday fails to look beyond what the outside world can see, in order to really excavate a truth to be remembered once the holiday has passed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Ella Kemp
    Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
    There are flashes of deep emotional resonance . . . But there’s also a huge amount of whiplash, as the wide-reaching documentary attempts to crystallize something as mercurial as this through performers, fans, lovers, haters, naysayers, believers.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 58 Ella Kemp
    Gemini Man
    Once Lee establishes what he can do with technology in Gemini Man – and it’s a lot – it becomes difficult to refocus emotion onto anything more human. By multiplying life, Gemini Man too often merely dilutes it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Ella Kemp
    Proxima
    A film that takes so much care to spend time on a different perspective—on the woman juggling ambition and love without sacrifice—feels vital. At the same time, during the restrained and contemplative journey that precedes liftoff, “Proxima” often feels like it is waiting for a more devastating threat – you can do all the preparation in the world, and it still won’t prevent the fallout of the big leap when it happens.

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