Liam Lacey

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Original-Cin, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
For 1,801 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Liam Lacey's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Citizenfour
Lowest review score: 0 Vacation
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,088 out of 1801
  2. Mixed: 514 out of 1801
  3. Negative: 199 out of 1801
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    • 67 Liam Lacey
    The Golden Girl
    While all of this is too niche for wide interest, the film touches the troublesome heart of adolescent girls’ gymnastics, which is both a triumph of art and athletics and a sport riddled with a legacy of abuse. That abuse is the secondary but most interesting theme in The Golden Girl.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Liam Lacey
    The New Mutants
    If this were a pilot for a TV series, home audiences might be willing to baby it along until it grows stronger. As a stand-alone movie, this particular mutation looks like a badly-adapted dead-end.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Liam Lacey
    Flannery
    The film certainly does not ignore O’Connor’s attitudes and fictional treatment of race. It just doesn’t make it particularly central to her reputation.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 67 Liam Lacey
    Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
    Relentlessly episodic and missing the taut focus of the first film, Peninsula compensates with overkill, populating the screen with long-stretches of CGI action (Yeon’s background is in animation) including nighttime car chases and oodles of zombie splatter.
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    • 100 Liam Lacey
    Nose to Tail
    Like the small bistro that is the film’s setting, Nose To Tail is minimal and uncompromising in the details, from the delicious tasting dishes onscreen to the retro jazzy score from Ben Fox, that propels the action forward.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 Liam Lacey
    Family Romance, LLC
    In the current moment, with our wary physical distancing and awkward artificial socializing, Family Romance LLC’s gaze into the uncanny valley absolutely chimes with the times.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Liam Lacey
    The Truth
    Starring two grande dames of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, The Truth is a mistress-class in the art of French close-up acting, from the twitch of a dismissive eyebrow to a pout of disappointment.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Liam Lacey
    The Beach House
    What’s mildly interesting about The Beach House, the low-budget debut feature from Jeffrey A Brown is that, while human beings have their struggles and conflicts, the universe doesn’t much care.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Liam Lacey
    The 11th Green
    The 11th Green is presented in a deadpan, naïve tone of a fifties’ B-movie or a low-budget X-Files knock-off. The smeary sci-fi effects are deliberately hokey, in contrast to the authentic home movies and newsreel footage. Indeed, the sci-fi story is a kind of feint.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Liam Lacey
    Hammer
    While there are a few credibility hurdles here (including a lot of butter-fingered gunplay) Patton’s authoritative performance keeps things honest.
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