Kim Newman

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Empire, Screen Daily
For 667 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kim Newman's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 The Killing
Lowest review score: 20 Movie 43
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 312 out of 667
  2. Mixed: 327 out of 667
  3. Negative: 28 out of 667
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Kim Newman
    The Blackening
    The Blackening is shuddery entertainment with more laughs than the entire Scary Movie franchise.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Independence Day
    Like 2001, Star Wars and Jurassic Park, it ups the special effects stakes and gets closer to putting on screen the images you've had in your mind while reading epic sci-fi.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Perfect Blue
    Strange, stylish and intelligent, this is a rare anime film that delivers on its Eastern promise.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Kim Newman
    Blackboard Jungle
    Originating the genre of 'dedicated teacher reaches troubled kids in a ghetto school', this is still affecting although heavy-handed.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    Ritchie's colour-desaturated style, use of unusual background music, scattershot slang (some subtitled) and mostly tasteful black comedy give the whole film the feel of an altered state of perception.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Kim Newman
    Dracula
    Some interesting creative choices make this more a curio than a great film.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Speak No Evil
    The business of this story in both versions is suspense, and Watkins is very good at ratcheting screws . . . but also springs satisfying reversals and pay-offs.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    The Candidate
    With Redford giving one of his best comedic performances, helped by a Oscar winning script, The Candidate is witty and charming, while looking good and proving quite memorable, like Redford's lawyer.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Kim Newman
    The Girlfriend Experience
    Good central performances but short on plot.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Diary of the Dead
    A raw, vivid despatch from the frontline, this melds content with frights in classic Romero style. An outstanding exercise in showing the kids how to do it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Dark Horse
    Less confrontational than most Solondz movies, in that it refrains from violence or kink, but still unsettling and affecting.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Kim Newman
    The Angels' Share
    Like good whisky, Loach is mellowing and becoming subtler with age — though a swift chug still has a bit of a kick.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Seven Psychopaths
    Enormously entertaining, endlessly quotable, perfectly cast and packed full of the richest acting you'll see from an ensemble cast all year, but the result is ever so slightly hollow.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Dinosaur 13
    Like "The Cover" and "Man On Wire," this documentary comes clad in the garb of a thriller. And a heck of a good one at that.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Kim Newman
    The Informant!
    It sets out to be less pompous than similar films, which inevitably means it feels less substantial. While amusing rather than hilarious, it ought to establish Matt Damon as a star character actor.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Disorder
    A notable, unusual existential thriller that is psychologically acute without the need for Oscar-clip self-pitying speeches, it’s also terrifically suspenseful with a provocative punchline.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kim Newman
    Parents
    Unfairly neglected, perfectly creepy and disturbing suburban bizarro drama.
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