Emma Kiely

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For 86 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 38% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Emma Kiely's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Maestro
Lowest review score: 0 The Pope's Exorcist
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 86
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 86
  3. Negative: 9 out of 86
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Emma Kiely
    Final Destination: Bloodlines
    If you don’t like horror movies, then don’t go see this movie. This isn’t for you! This is for the Final Destination fans who’ve waited patiently for over a decade. It’s also for those who enjoy a ride of a movie that will raise and drop your heart rate multiple times over an hour and 47 minutes. With horror franchises constantly coming back from the dead, Bloodlines is one of the freshest we’ve seen in a while. It’s the perfect blend of going back to basics and cooking up something new, drenched in blood and snapping bones.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Emma Kiely
    The Killer
    If The Killer teaches us anything, it’s that any director, no matter how legendary they are, can fall victim to a bad script. While Fincher’s iconic style permeates the two-hour runtime, the hollow plot and uninspired writing are impossible to ignore.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 33 Emma Kiely
    Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    The 2022 Matilda takes the narrative and world of a child and puts it on an adult’s terms. It completely misunderstands why so many children around the world adore these stories - because they were written for them and not their parents. Stick to the original 1996 movie folks, don’t be the boring witch.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Emma Kiely
    Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
    Mad About the Boy is the disappointing end to a franchise that should have never gone beyond its first sequel.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Kiely
    Die My Love
    Die, My Love is further proof that no one is doing it like Lynne Ramsay, whose technique and style continue to evolve, as she draws out a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence in a must-see thriller spectacle that turns a single woman’s experience into a brutally honest psychological epic.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Kiely
    Blitz
    With immersive action set pieces, heartfelt snippets of character-driven stories, and fantastic performances all around, Steve McQueen shows again his adept ability at bringing such enormous scope to deeply personal human stories.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Kiely
    Companion
    Apart from the impeccable cast, what’s most impressive about Companion is its balance of so many differing moving parts. It’s a genuinely funny comedy, a suspenseful thriller, and has some pretty gnarly gore scenes to boot.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 42 Emma Kiely
    The Bikeriders
    While Comer makes a committed effort to carry the film, it falls flat in its excessive filler, undeveloped characters, and symphony of bonkers accents.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Emma Kiely
    Rumours
    It’s a weird film that eventually gets lost in itself, but there’s still much to be appreciated.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Emma Kiely
    Stranger Eyes
    Stranger Eyes is a cold, disjointed, and stale mystery thriller with a thin plot and no atmosphere.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Emma Kiely
    A Quiet Place: Day One
    Led by brilliant performances all around with a simple but effective story, A Quiet Place: Day One may not be the most horrifying alien film, but it stands apart from its predecessors while staying true to why so many people love this franchise.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Kiely
    Saipan
    Instead of glorifying men at the top of their game (well, at least Keane), it’s a fascinating, funny, and smart breakdown of how one argument served as a microcosm for centuries of conflict, cultural values, and men’s egos.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Emma Kiely
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    It’s the refreshingly modern and tender depiction of intimacy and pleasure that will stay with me. After years upon years of sex scenes that are steeped in the male gaze or are shoehorned in to attract the money of horny youngsters who have no real interest in the story, it’s about time we treat sex with the tenderness, openness, and grace that it deserves on film — and this is exactly what Lady Chatterley’s Lover does.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Emma Kiely
    The Surfer
    What ultimately weighs it down is the lack of a core narrative to ground the chaos and madness around it. Still, come for the views, the insanity, and Cage giving away a priceless watch for a flat white.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Emma Kiely
    Speak No Evil
    If you want to give the 2024 film as fair a shot as possible, go in without seeing the original. However, if you only want to devote your time to seeing one version of this story, it should be the original Speak No Evil. It's truly one of the darkest, meanest, and most devastating horror films out there
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Kiely
    Eddington
    With Joaquin Phoenix at the height of his abilities, Eddington is, if you look close enough, just as, if not more terrifying than anything Paimon or a Swedish cult could ever unleash.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Kiely
    Wild Diamond
    Wild Diamond operates in both the very new wave of movies incorporating the ubiquitous presence of TikTok and the decades-old subgenre of class commentary.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Emma Kiely
    The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    The Fantastic: Four Steps successfully invigorates the MCU, but it’s the tectonic shift that audiences thought it would be.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Emma Kiely
    MaXXXine
    Sure, the story isn’t groundbreaking, but it makes up for it in its tribute to why we love cinema, specifically horror, so much. Even though it wasn’t needed, MaXXXine secures Ti West’s trilogy as one of the best in horror history.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Emma Kiely
    Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
    The style, tone, heart, and comedy of Aardman deserve better than Dawn of the Nugget’s formulaic story which doesn’t hold a candle to the original.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Emma Kiely
    A Haunting in Venice
    The twist is detailed but not too convoluted, and in my view, it's not easy to see coming. If anything, A Haunting in Venice is a reminder that even when we are inundated with mystery stories, no one does it like Agatha Christie, and it's hard to believe that someone ever will again.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Emma Kiely
    Thanksgiving
    With Thanksgiving, Roth brings horror back to basics and reminds us that it can be nasty, gory, gnarly, and a ton of fun all at once.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Emma Kiely
    Joy
    It’s the movie’s efforts to make this as digestible as possible for the audience through its light-hearted tone and simplistic dialogue that render it a movie you watch on Netflix with your parents and probably never think about again.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Emma Kiely
    The Monkey
    It may not feel as polished or suspenseful as Longlegs, but you can tell Perkins is having a whale of a time putting his years of horror filmmaking to the maximum.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Emma Kiely
    Dreams
    Dreams is probably the same old story for Michel Franco fans, but as a first-time viewer, I was in awe of how a film could go so wrong so quickly.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Emma Kiely
    Saltburn
    Fennell’s direction outdoes her writing here, and the cinematography from Linus Sandgren is exquisite (no surprise).
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Emma Kiely
    See How They Run
    All in all, See How They Run is a derivative amalgamation of too much tribute and too little originality. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun and the perfect film to bring your Nana to, but it's ultimately pretty forgettable.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Emma Kiely
    Boston Strangler
    It’s clear that Boston Strangler so desperately wanted to copy the recipe for Zodiac and bought all the same ingredients.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Emma Kiely
    Borderline
    Borderline is a prime example of how a really great cast can elevate rather frail material.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Emma Kiely
    The Book of Clarence
    Jeymes Samuel is a master of all trades who can craft character-driven arcs with fun action-packed sequences all against a beautiful score. No actor misses a beat and it confirms LaKeith Stanfield remains not just a brilliant actor but a true movie star.
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