Emily Maskell

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Little White Lies
For 14 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 14% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Emily Maskell's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 80 EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Lowest review score: 50 Dragonfly
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Emily Maskell
    EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
    The director has described his film as a poem, but its rhythms feel more abstract, like recalling the best concert of your life in a dream. Brilliantly forgoing nostalgia to frame Elvis in the present, Luhrmann offers the closest experience of a live Elvis show that we may ever see. And like the Vegas residency, EPiC deserves a standing ovation when Luhrmann’s curtain falls.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Emily Maskell
    Dragonfly
    Throughout, Dragonfly plays with perspective, fascinated by the potential of others and what people are capable of. However, the film’s final note is deeply cynical, as if it is embarrassed by the sincerity of its genuine and vital message.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Emily Maskell
    Islands
    Delightfully, Islands doesn’t patronise viewers. The film refuses to confirm or deny suspicions. It’s an exhilarating feast from co-writers Gerster, Blaž Kutin and Lawrie Doran who pen this winding tale with sharp subtlety.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Emily Maskell
    Lollipop
    Hudson’s film makes room to acknowl­edge that this is a fam­i­ly affair. Mol­ly is at the epi­cen­tre, but the rever­ber­a­tions impact every­one around her.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Emily Maskell
    Magic Farm
    Magic Farm may not be a blanket crowd pleaser, but Ulman’s smart writing lands in a deeply optimistic place about the pure magic of human connection.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Emily Maskell
    National Anthem
    Gilford’s tale of chosen family awash with bright blues and reds maintains a bold sense of hopefulness at a time when America’s LGBTQ+ population is bracing for the worst.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Emily Maskell
    The Crime Is Mine
    Tereszkiewicz and Marder delight as a double act, but it’s Huppert who steals the show with a cunning smile.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Emily Maskell
    Lie with Me
    The heartache of wasted time and missed love is a familiar arena in queer drama and while Lie With Me rets on classic tropes, it still makes for a moving reflection on adolescent love.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Emily Maskell
    Our Eternal Summer
    Blurring the line between reality and fiction, Aussel hones in on what it is to lose someone as an adolescent in sequences that are stripped back conceptually but pack an emotional punch.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Emily Maskell
    Swan Song
    Paying homage to a true hometown pioneer, Stephens’ portrait of a gentleman who knows how to be nothing but entirely himself is a compassionate and colourful character study.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Emily Maskell
    Small Body
    It’s an accomplished directorial debut, focusing on the power of faith and the strength of motherhood to become symbiotic beasts fighting for dominance in its hero’s mind during her quest for autonomy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Emily Maskell
    Jockey
    In the authentic way is captures this unique world, Jockey shares similarities with Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, another quietly meditative and poignant tale of life on the fringes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Emily Maskell
    The Nowhere Inn
    The Nowhere Inn is fan service in the most St Vincent of ways: solidifying her mysterious image as a queer women’s deity, baring everything and revealing nothing at all.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Emily Maskell
    Shithouse
    This wonderfully promising debut from Raiff transposes personal experience brilliantly and showcases the filmmaker’s talent both in front of and behind the camera.

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