Jimi Famurewa

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For 8 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 75% higher than the average critic
  • 12% same as the average critic
  • 13% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 14.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jimi Famurewa's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 80
Highest review score: 100 Small Axe: Mangrove
Lowest review score: 60 Yardie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Jimi Famurewa
    Judas and the Black Messiah
    Buoyed by a trio of standout performances, this freshly resonant thriller brings urgent life to one of the Black Panther movement’s greatest tragedies.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Jimi Famurewa
    Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Displaying a more light-hearted and impressionistic hand than usual, Steve McQueen’s second Small Axe film is a woozy, musical fever dream with wit, sexiness and one unforgettable extended singalong.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Jimi Famurewa
    Small Axe: Mangrove
    Impassioned, sensitively acted and supersized in scope, Steve McQueen’s tribute to the Mangrove Nine provides a pulsating Black British history lesson — and kicks off his Small Axe anthology with an urgent bang.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Jimi Famurewa
    Irresistible
    Scabrous, watchable and deceptively provocative, Jon Stewart’s political parable may be slightly out of step with the political reality of 2020 — but Carell and Byrne do enough to earn your VOD vote.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Jimi Famurewa
    The Hate U Give
    A sophisticated adaptation of a hugely important book that adeptly handles its daunting themes, and provides a platform for a star-making performance from Amandla Stenberg.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Jimi Famurewa
    Skate Kitchen
    A minor-key coming-of-age triumph that manages to simultaneously be relatable and wildly distinctive. Will almost certainly have lapsed, adult skateboarders (unwisely) dusting down their decks.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Jimi Famurewa
    Yardie
    Neither a luridly enjoyable piece of Scarface-style pulp or a nuanced genre subversion, Idris Elba’s directorial debut is a fitfully entertaining 1980s gangster thriller.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Jimi Famurewa
    Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    Thrillingly paced, ravishingly shot and eerily topical, Sicario 2 retains much of its predecessor’s dark charm despite its shuffled creative personnel. But a jarringly Hollywood ending dulls its overall impact.

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