Graeme Guttmann

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For 119 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Graeme Guttmann's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Sentimental Value
Lowest review score: 30 Neon Lights
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 70 out of 119
  2. Mixed: 47 out of 119
  3. Negative: 2 out of 119
119 movie reviews
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Forbidden Fruits
    That's what makes Forbidden Fruits feel both timely and timeless. We rarely leave the inside of the mall, giving the film a claustrophobic feel. The girls use cell phones – it'd be strange if they didn't – but any recognizable social media are absent. It feels like a distinctly modern take on female friendship, but one that owes a great deal to the films that have come before it. And it's lost the sort of optimism that those films often came with.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Sebastian
    A piercing, explicit, and oftentimes sexy study of one 25-year-old's search for identity in a world that has discouraged him from accepting all of himself unabashedly.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    The Housemaid
    Even as it veers into darker thematic territory, Feig's light touch and Seyfried's committed performance add an air of deranged enjoyment that make The Housemaid one of the most fun movies of 2025.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Serious People
    Serious People doesn't deal in cynicism. Its quiet ending wraps things up too tidily, but there's a strange sort of optimism to its idiocy that is quite endearing.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Fuze
    Fuze may not reinvent the wheel, but sometimes all you need is a solid thriller with a hot cast to really give a film the oomph it needs.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Graeme Guttmann
    Tuner
    Tuner is a small film, but one that will leave a big impact. It truly is one of the most delightful surprises of the fall and deserves to be seen on a big screen with the loudest sound possible. Here's hoping it gets that chance.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Carolina Caroline
    What makes Carolina Caroline so magical is the way it transcends its clichés to tell an engrossing story.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Hedda
    DaCosta makes some key changes to the ending of this story that slightly undermine its more subversive inclinations, but that doesn't make the film any less effective. Her confident direction and Sean Bobbitt's lush cinematography make Hedda an electrifying adaptation that relishes the chaos as much as its characters, even as blood, bullets, and booze continue to fly.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    No Other Choice
    It’s bleak and hysterical and violent — everything you’d want from a Park film. But it’s also devastatingly intimate and intensely relevant, both in the ways it tackles questions of identity and our place within an increasingly dangerous system, one that could feasibly lead people to murder.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Griffin in Summer
    In its own way, Griffin's experience is universal, but Griffin in Summer finds specificity in its amusingly abrasive central character.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Ponyboi
    It doesn't reinvent the wheel, and it shouldn't have to. What it does prove is that queer stories, more often than not, add new layers to narratives that have been done before.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    It Was Just an Accident
    It’s a stunning achievement from the director, one that has sat with me since I saw it, growing in its effectiveness.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Amrum
    Amrum doesn't fully confront all the questions it poses, instead serving as a meditation on the ways a child might respond to a world he doesn't fully understand.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    The History of Sound
    It’s thoughtful and quietly devastating. In its insistence to buck conventions of the queer drama, though, it inevitably falls into some of the very traps it hopes to avoid, landing somewhere between expectations and the underwhelming pic it flirts with becoming.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Graeme Guttmann
    Sentimental Value
    Trier captures so much while saying so little and, in many ways, Sentimental Value feels like the film he's been building toward his entire career.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Alpha
    Some may find this despairing and baffling, but Ducournau finds a strange layer of hope and love beneath all the dust and grime.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Highest 2 Lowest
    It’s less challenging and possibly less rewarding but it’s no less fun.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Enzo
    Enzo is subtle in its examination of queer desire, understanding that quick glances and soft touch can be just as sensual — and even more effective — as anything intense.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    The Secret Agent
    Despite the film’s title, though, The Secret Agent isn’t your typical espionage thriller, but it’s all the better for how it plays with genre, tone, and expectations.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Graeme Guttmann
    Sirât
    A fever dream in the bleakest sense, Sirat is a wild and apocalyptic epic, mythological in scale but intimate in its story about family.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Die My Love
    Visceral, bruising, and darkly humorous, Die, My Love hits like a sledgehammer thanks to Lawrence and director Lynne Ramsay's uncompromisingly grim vision of domestic life.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Friendship
    Yet, despite this apathy, there is an emotional core to Friendship, one that made me root for Craig despite all of his shortcomings and unpleasantness.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Clown in a Cornfield
    It’s a fun B-movie with timely elements and some exciting kills. It may not be much more than that, but sometimes that’s enough.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    The Accountant 2
    Its charms grew on me so fast that I couldn't help but love almost everything about it, logic be damned.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    Holland
    Cave's assured direction creates a sickly sweet, dreamy world, and though its story sometimes lacks the dynamism it needs to fully connect, Kidman, unsurprisingly, carries the film over the finish line.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Sauna
    Broe is able to go beyond a clichéd queer cityscape to capture something that feels achingly real, all the more so in the evolution of Johan and William's relationship. There's a sadness here, but it's blunted by the fact that it plays out in a way that feels very true to life.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    The Things You Kill
    The Things You Kill may seem like a simple revenge drama, but it allows itself to be so much more through form and story.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Rebuilding
    Rebuilding chooses a gentle, deliberate approach to its story, making it all the more powerful in its observations on what it means to find a home and community in places and ways you'd least expect.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Graeme Guttmann
    The Ballad of Wallis Island
    The Ballad of Wallis Island is effortless in its execution and breezy in its pacing, which makes its emotional undertones all the more surprising and affecting.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Graeme Guttmann
    Twinless
    Twinless is designed to make you squirm, but it's through this discomfort that Sweeney finds humor and heart.
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