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Total Film
For 60 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kate Stables' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Widows
Lowest review score: 40 The Jungle Bunch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 60
  3. Negative: 0 out of 60
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Sing Sing
    Touching rather than touchy-feely, it’s a high-stakes story with its fair share of fights, deaths and the jail-or-joy tensions of parole hearings. If it’s also a tad starry-eyed about drama as a cultural cure-all, Kwedar’s empathy for the life-battered inmates makes this a rare, graceful work.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Thelma
    First-time writer/director Josh Margolin sharpens the film into a smart senior thriller, giving us tense geriatric POVs of the challenges that ensue (Thelma is seriously old, not the agile seventy-something of The G, another recent granny-get-your-gun outing).
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Inside Out 2
    Alongside Turning Red and Orion and the Dark, Inside Out 2 offers a timely reflection of the anxiety epidemic among kids. If it doesn’t have the sparkling originality of its predecessor, it has its big heart, keen to show us how complex and gloriously messy teens can be.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Young Woman and the Sea
    It all adds up to a genuinely affecting, Seabiscuit-style underdog tale, which will get you cheering dogged Trudy past 10ft waves, a shoal of stinging jellyfish, and a plague of obstructive men. That salty liquid on your face isn’t sea water – it’s tears.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Unfrosted
    A deliciously silly, spoofy tale of the 60s battle for breakfast domination, filled with high-fructose fun.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    The First Omen
    This classy, female-centred Omen prequel is devilishly good at keeping its nun on the run.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Scoop
    In the exquisite gunfight-style tension of the real interview, Gillian Anderson’s uncannily accurate portrayal of Emily Maitlis (that cocked head and laser stare) comes into its own. Yet even she is outclassed by Sewell’s narcissistic but oddly charismatic Prince Andrew.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Robot Dreams
    The drifty, dream-punctuated second half might puzzle younger kids, though its universal themes and visual gags are perfectly all-ages appropriate. As is the film’s sweet, un-snarky tone, free from sly Futurama satire or Bojack Horseman raunch.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Orion and the Dark
    This is a clever, all-ages charmer.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    How to Have Sex
    Refusing to become a cautionary tale, How to Have Sex explores the pitfalls as well as the pleasures of teen-holiday hook-ups; it also brings an admirably fresh, female POV to the subject of sexual consent.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Joy Ride
    If it sometimes feels a bit overstuffed, put that down to Lim’s understandable urge to prove that a gal-centred, globetrotting comedy can offer diversity, sharp social commentary, and dick jokes.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    The Beanie Bubble
    A playful, punchy tale that spills the beans about those Babies. Zach Galafianakis’ tantrum-prone tycoon transfixes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Polite Society
    What holds everything together and stops the film from sliding into a winking spoof is the intensity of newcomer Kansara’s performance. Her obsessive Ria drives the movie’s frantic pace with sheer willpower and scrappy physical courage
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    At the heart of both movie and boardgame is that deep sense of community and camaraderie, which bonds the quartet of misfits nicely.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
    What really elevates this sophisticated sequel is Banderas’ rich voicework, which reveals that, under Puss’ suave bluster, there’s a moody moggie discovering fear for the first time.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Kate Stables
    Men
    Garland’s bold, original version of what horror can be when it swaps tired old tropes for visceral, visionary thrills is an absolute game-changer.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Cruella
    It’s hands-down Disney’s best and punchiest prequel yet, one whose playful perils make for a deliciously rowdy ride.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Chadwick Boseman gives this muscular film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, added punch and poignancy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Queen & Slim
    Daniel Kaluuya is the motor for this lyrical but hard-hitting road-movie, fuelled by fury and frustration.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Bombshell
    Theron is gobsmackingly good as the real-life screen queen determined to unearth the victims of Fox News’ most powerful predator.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Little Women
    Greta Gerwig’s warm, woke take on America’s classic girlhood novel takes liberties, but makes a tender, engrossing tale.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Judy
    Zellweger knocks it out of the park, lighting up this punchy and moving late-life biopic with big-hearted, big-voiced panache.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    The powerful, vanity-free performances are the real thing in this bittersweet biopic.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Kate Stables
    Widows
    A heist movie with serious bite, Widows is both brilliantly tense and strikingly relevant.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Tully
    Theron is astonishingly good, giving a subtle, vanity-free performance.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Samson and Delilah
    There’s a bumpy, wholly unexpected dip into melodrama along the way, but the film’s commitment to its characters, and its sheer emotional heft, carries you along regardless.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Stronger
    Gyllenhaal is outstanding in this inspiring warts-and-all story of a Boston bombing survivor’s recovery battle.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Battle of the Sexes
    Stone and Carell ace it in this smart biopic, stylishly recreating the champ-vs-clown clash of the tennis titans that electrified ’70s America.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    The Big Sick
    Mixing a rom-coma into the romcom, this smart, sweet and highly personal love story finds a winning formula.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Tickling Giants
    Both smart political primer and tense cautionary tale.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Hidden Figures
    Taraji P. Henson excels in a heart-warming history lesson that proves not only rocket men had The Right Stuff.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
    Interviewing key figures in his life, they build an anecdote-rich bio.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Moana
    Coupled with the extraordinary lush visuals and fluid camerawork – moulding the ocean’s many moods and textures till it’s practically a character – Moana essays a rich, vivid feel. It might not be a whole new world, but it’s a fantastic voyage.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    The Innocents
    Based on a true story, it’s directed with beautiful, painterly restraint by Anne Fontaine (best known for pretty pieces such as Gemma Bovery), who lets powerful performances by Agata Buzek (as a nun of faltering faith), and fearsome abbess Agata Kulesza power the story.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Hugely charming if somewhat cluttered, Burton’s horror-spiked YA freaks-and-a-geek fantasy proves a Home run for Asa Butterfield.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Lucy
    Besson is at his balls-out bonkers best in this genre-scrambling, mind-expanding exhilarator.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Lincoln
    Steeped in the bitter political divisions of the Civil War, Spielberg's thrilling film about hardwon freedoms is immersed in its own time, but speaks eloquently to ours.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Kate Stables
    Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Despite its hard-scrabble setting, eco-gloominess and dystopian story, this dark fairytale is engagingly vivid and life-affirming. An ambitious love letter to a Louisiana way of life that's being literally washed away.

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