Fionnuala Halligan

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For 441 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Fionnuala Halligan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Nickel Boys
Lowest review score: 30 Absolutely Anything
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 306 out of 441
  2. Mixed: 126 out of 441
  3. Negative: 9 out of 441
441 movie reviews
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    A strangely lacklustre, unconvincing attempt to tell the story of the Heineken kidnapping.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    Blonde
    Technically-skilled, well-acted and fatally over-long, it’s hard not to see Blonde as a chronicle of exploitation and abuse which merrily carries on the tradition – a sensation reinforced by Ana de Armas’s poignant performance as Marilyn.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    In Harm's Way
    Veteran Danish director August (1987’s Pelle The Conquerer) has presented a well-meaning, flat film which also feels somewhat unfinished - although there’s not much in here to suggest that a further reworking is merited.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    You Should Have Left
    If it never quite delivers on its promise of cheesy scares, neither does it really try for true psychological thrills with enough conviction.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    Hitman: Agent 47
    Consistently off by a beat, Hitman: Agent 47 fails to ever click into gear.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    Breaking In
    Union is capable of powering the film through, valiantly trying to plug the holes the high-concept plot can’t reach. She’s got that big screen charisma, even though, this time, she’s working with small-screen material.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    The Call of the Wild
    Call Of The Wild isn’t animation, it isn’t live action, it isn’t fish, fowl or dog and somewhere in between it falls off its sled. Mankind can always benefit from some digital enhancement; man’s best friend, not so much.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    Even given that lazy stereotyping is the point of her schtick, Vardalos’ broad routine hasn’t aged well, her heavily-(and widely-) accented ‘oily’ Greek family an uncomfortable, almost retro fit for today’s global sensitivities. Apart from that, the gags just aren’t that funny.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Fionnuala Halligan
    Emmanuelle
    Mostly Emmanuelle feels like a package and looks like packaged luxury, the kind that comes with money and not very much taste.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    The King's Man
    It’s an understatement to say that The King’s Man has a weird, unsettling, tone.
    • 10 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
    While it’s important to have seen Canto Uno in order to savour Intermezzo, this film in itself doesn’t seem remotely essential.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    Goodbye Christopher Robin
    Goodbye Christopher Robin doesn’t just lack authenticity, it appears to scorn it.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    Artemis Fowl
    This is an earnest, half-baked fairy story drenched in a thick soup of CGI. It’s awkwardly staged, with turgid, expository dialogue that is appreciably tricky for a palpably ill-at-ease young cast to deliver
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    Absolutely Anything
    [A] depressingly inept comedy.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    The Professor
    Sometimes a bad film is just a bad film, but Depp is most likely to pay the price.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    The Pope's Exorcist
    Stitched together from better pictures - all of which viewers would be better advised to check out - The Pope’s Exorcist’s one saving grace is Crowe who still, despite the hound of hell that is this film, is a significant screen presence who commits to some dialogue that only Satan himself could have dreamed up.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    The Laundromat
    Obvious good intentions are drowned in a hot wash of showboating stars and flooded by self-indulgence.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Fionnuala Halligan
    Persuasion
    It’s not hard to figure out the recipe that resulted in Netflix’s Persuasion arriving half-baked from the streamer’s busy oven. Take one measure from Clueless. Cast an American actor as the lead (Dakota Johnson). Turn Jane Austen’s most mature heroine into a Bridget Jones, slugging red wine from the bottle and winking at the camera. Filter it all through a Regency Britain that comes straight from Bridgerton. Shake, too hard, and try not to cringe as the cake collapses.
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