Helen O'Hara

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Empire, The Telegraph, Time Out
For 278 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Helen O'Hara's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Avengers: Endgame
Lowest review score: 20 The Brothers Grimsby
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 88 out of 278
  2. Mixed: 187 out of 278
  3. Negative: 3 out of 278
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    tick, tick...Boom!
    It’s a lot of passion and restless, sometimes misdirected energy to channel through this film, but Miranda marshalls it effectively, communicating Larson’s talent and drive without obscuring the fact that he could, sometimes, be a bit wearisome about it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Wicked
    Chu amps up the colour and spectacle to extraordinary, almost overwhelming heights, but the real magic comes from Erivo and Grande as the frenemies at the story’s heart. 
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    Who was it made for? Everyone. You don’t have to be a diehard Eilish fan to appreciate the artistry in music, performance and filmmaking here. 
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Zootopia 2
    It loses sight of its own heroes amid the hustle and bustle of its wildly entertaining environment, but Zootropolis is still a blast to visit for a couple of hours.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    A sugar-fuelled thrill, this boasts a fine young cast and pleasantly pantomime adult roles. It may be too long for younger kids, but tweens are going to love it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Captain Fantastic
    A fiercely original, pleasantly unpredictable character piece. This is a gang of outsiders with something valuable to say about the world we live in.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Brittany Runs A Marathon
    An uneven but essentially likeable story about the joys of setting yourself improbable goals and the tribes you can find as a result, with a strong, committed performance from Bell at its heart.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Mickey 17
    Like Mickey himself, it’s goofy and a little inconsistent, but it’s also funny, thoughtful and more plausible than we might like. A charming space oddity for these unusual times.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Helen O'Hara
    Babes
    An awkward mix of gross-out comedy and big emotional sincerity, which may be authentic to the experience of pregnancy but feels clumsily balanced between these two characters.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    Revelling in its own ridiculousness but finding an emotional core too, this is a wildly entertaining high-fantasy-meets-low comedy. It will leave you prancing your way out of the cinema, lute or no.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Late Night with the Devil
    A smart, original approach makes this much more than just another Exorcist wannabe. You’ll sense that there are horrors coming, but you still won’t quite feel ready.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Sometimes I Think About Dying
    A beautiful, subdued Daisy Ridley performance anchors a story that is underplayed to the point of almost non-existence. Still, if you’re tired of blockbuster bombast, this could be the antidote.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Spider-Man: No Way Home
    Peter Parker’s second Spider-verse adventure suggests that the concept just works – brilliantly.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Wonderstruck
    Haynes’ film has lovely performances from both actors, and a keen sense of time and place help, but the story is a little too shaggy and unformed to entirely hold the attention.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Molly's Game
    It’s an intriguing look into a secret world and a great performance from Chastain, but Sorkin’s directorial debut never quite makes the leap from great poker movie to great movie.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Girls Trip
    It's loud, at times unwatchably gross and sometimes lingers on the verge of hysteria. But it's also a warm-hearted and optimistic celebration of black womanhood. Maybe friendship can save us all.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    The Theory of Everything
    A compassionate and inspiring look at an extraordinary life, anchored by two of the best performances of the year.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
    A life story packed with incident means that this sometimes rushes past events that would be formative for anyone else, but equally means that Lamarr’s life story is never, ever dull.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    God's Creatures
    It’s bleak and understated, but strong performances and a thorny moral maze give this considerable power despite the gloomy skies.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    How to Train Your Dragon
    It’s clearly made with real love and care, but shows far too much deference to its progenitor. Even in a remake, we need more originality and less playing the hits.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Helen O'Hara
    Honey Don't!
    There are colourful characters and cool moments to keep you entertained on the road to nowhere, but they can’t disguise the fact that this is a shaggy-dog story with no real point.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
    It’s silly and a little too slow, but the characters are enormously charming and the design is overwhelmingly sumptuous. It should give viewers, especially children, a welcome hit of Christmas magic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Climax
    This is often upsetting (though never to the levels of Irréversible) but as energetic and handsome as its cast. At times you’ll be watching in horror, but you’ll never look away.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
    Smart and stupid in equal measure, this is a palate cleanser after the doom and gloom of Justice League. The Titans could make you fall back in love with the entire DC Universe.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    Tuner
    It’s a light diversion rather than a symphonic masterpiece, but it’s still pleasantly in-tune entertainment.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Helen O'Hara
    Avengers: Infinity War
    Marvel has solved their third-act problem and villain problem and then some. However prepared you feel, you are not ready for Thanos. But then, neither are our heroes.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Tales from the Golden Age
    Flashes of bleak humour makes this wry portrait a compelling experience.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
    It's cheerfully nonsensical, of course, shot in a sun-drenched luxury compound straight from the big book of action movie clichés, yet lacking the flourishes of a John Woo or a Michael Bay.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Helen O'Hara
    The Little Stranger
    This lacks the sting in the tail of something like the similarly post-War The Others, but it offers a soupy atmosphere of low-level dread and paints a devastating portrait of a vanishing age.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Helen O'Hara
    Rosewater
    Gripping, humane and lighter than it sounds, Stewart’s first foray into directing suggests that he was right to quit the day job. We can’t wait to see what he does next.
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