Matt Glasby

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Total Film
For 64 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Glasby's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Son of Saul
Lowest review score: 20 Winchester
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 64
  3. Negative: 1 out of 64
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    The Beast
    There are some stunning moments, such as the eerily green-screened opener, and an unsettling underwater sequence up there with Dario Argento’s Inferno. But the 145-minute runtime feels increasingly indulgent, and Bonello borrows heavily from Kubrick, Lynch and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Late Night with the Devil
    Dastmalchian shines as Delroy, mugging to the studio audience as things spiral out of control, all the while rubbing his hands that he has managed to create the TV event of the decade. And along the way, the filmmakers pull off some rather nasty surprises.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Love Lies Bleeding
    More fever dream than film, Love Lies Bleeding shows that Glass is the real deal. Who knows what sights she has to show us next?
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Saint Maud
    A stark, sinister chamber piece built on atmosphere and performances. Morfydd Clark is a revelation.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Crawl
    Aja brings an exciting if less- than-watertight script to life with a minimum of fuss, plenty of flair and just a few eye-rolls.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Annabelle Comes Home
    Creakily slick like the rest of The Conjuring series, this spring-loaded spook story hits the mark more often than not.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Glasby
    Son of Saul
    A film to make your blood run cold, Nemes’ first-person account of life, and death, in a concentration camp contains horrors you can’t – and shouldn’t – unsee.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Stan & Ollie
    Gently joyous, from soup to nuts. Take your grandparents and they’ll enjoy it as much as you.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Glasby
    American Animals
    Running from entertaining to tense as hell, Layton’s docu-drama heist flick grapples with something that most capers can’t even begin to compute: consequences.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Endless
    Benson and Moorhead’s sophisticated sci-fi/horror features minimal SFX but more ideas than a TED talk. Uncanny, and uncannily good.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Ghost Stories
    Bone-chillingly told and beautifully made, Ghost Stories is an expert twist on an evergreen genre.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    A Quiet Place
    Cleverly making the most of the quiet-LOUD-quiet-LOUD dynamics of most horror films, the sound is the real star.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    I, Tonya
    Like Tonya on the ice, this vicious black comedy is lean, mean and hard to take your eyes off.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Matt Glasby
    Winchester
    For all their technical competence, the Spierig brothers don’t show great understanding of how ghost stories actually work.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Molly's Game
    Bloom’s an extraordinary character, expertly played, and we gradually move from admiring her chutzpah to genuinely caring what happens to her.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Nails
    Dennis Bartok’s sparse horror has a spooky central conceit, and just about overcomes its budgetary bumps, while Macdonald excels as the innocent.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Glasby
    The Vault
    A rubbish fright flick.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Glasby
    The Work
    What emerges is as riveting as it is revelatory.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Wind River
    Sheridan directs as well as writes for the first time, and delivers a superb thriller with a powerful chill that gets in your bones. Smart, tense and soulful.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    A Ghost Story
    Like an arthouse Ghost, this is bold, original filmmaking with a pervasive sense of amused detachment.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Survivalist
    Too slow for the mainstream, perhaps, this presents a disgusted worldview thats painstakingly plausible, however much we may wish differently.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Glasby
    The Eyes of My Mother
    Immaculately poised but almost completely pointless, it moves from chin-strokingly pretentious to profoundly depressing.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Glasby
    Aftermath
    Reducing promising material to movie-of-the-week status, Aftermath is well meaning, but anonymously made.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    T2 Trainspotting
    Wiser, sadder but very much alive and kicking, T2 is a film that knows you can’t compete with the ghosts of the past. But at least you can dance with them.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Anthropoid
    Ellis has a real flair for action – the assassination scene is heart-stopping – but patchy accents, strange pacing and an overstretched budget nearly scupper proceedings.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    I Am Not a Serial Killer
    Intelligent, original and committed, it’s also a little meandering. But Records cuts a strikingly amoral figure, and the sight of Christopher Lloyd intoning poetry over dying embers reminds us what a wonderful actor he is.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Childhood of a Leader
    Submit to Corbet’s vision and you’ll find something original and unsettling.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Blair Witch
    Wingard and Barrett’s surprise – and surprisingly strong – sequel earns its scares. An effective follow-up to a film that can’t be matched.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    13 Assassins
    All politics and posturing, the first two-thirds of the film are stiff and uninvolving, and although the climatic 45-minute free-for-all is genuinely spectacular, it’s clear where the director’s heart lies.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    The result is so far-fetchedly entertaining it feels like a fantasist’s fevered imaginings. Which, in a way, it is.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    In Order of Disappearance
    It’s not without its moments, but more comic dexterity and less brute force would have made a less choppy watch.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Glasby
    The Conjuring 2
    This furiously bizarre follow-up deserves full marks for throw-everything-at-the-screen entertainment value, but none for execution.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Glassland
    Ends up an impressive addiction drama. Stay with it and it’ll stay with you.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Glasby
    Sicario
    Pulled from the news but punched up to fever pitch, Sicario represents the perfect mix of cerebral and visceral thrills. Star, director and screenwriter all bring their A-game.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Macbeth
    Bleak as a morgue, even more brutal than the play, Kurzel’s stark psycho-drama can’t unseat its source, but is still mighty screen Shakespeare.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Wolfpack
    A once-in-a-lifetime subject, sensitively brought to the screen, the Angulos’ story makes the strange seem ordinary and the ordinary, insane.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Poltergeist
    Very tame, but saved from the remake scrapheap by Sam Rockwell's surprisingly touching performance and a final reel that – briefly – takes the material somewhere new.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Tribe
    Original, engrossing and extremely confrontational, The Tribe treads the dark path between misery porn and masterpiece.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Rosewater
    A modest, moving film, Rosewater goes to show that quiet outrage can speak as loud as any atrocity.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Glasby
    Everly
    A facepalm of a film that places no value on life or limb yet still expects the audience to, this sub-par shoot-’em-up plays out like Four Rooms’ fifth part.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Town That Dreaded Sundown
    Slasher smarts with guts and heart. Town is no Scream but it’s still one of the most entertaining, enterprising remakes in recent memory.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Glasby
    Lost River
    Coasting on charismatic performances and a quality crew, Gosling’s debut proves two things: screenwriting is hard, and stylish and stylised are very different things.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Force Majeure
    A minor-key appraisal of modern marriage that manages to be funny, sad and, sadly, true – just don’t watch it on your anniversary.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Good Kill
    Required viewing as a critique of US foreign policy but forgettable as a drama, Good Kill is a timely warning, even if it lacks the power of the horrors it depicts.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Signal
    The best sci-fi trilogy you’ve never seen amalgamated into one organic whole. Surprising, exciting and, at times, strangely beautiful.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Mommy
    Exhilarating and exhausting in equal measure – a decent approximation of how the characters feel – Mommy puts us through every setting on the emotional wringer.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Hyena
    Hyena may be grim, but it’s also grimly engrossing in a way that gets under the skin.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Glasby
    It Follows
    A horror film that will haunt your waking hours for weeks. Every frame of It Follows is stamped with nameless dread.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Predestination
    Slick but overstretched, Predestination deserves respect for what it tries to achieve rather than dismissal for not getting there. Either way, you will not be bored.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Camp 14: Total Control Zone
    A challenging watch, steeped in numbing horror.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    A Most Violent Year
    A sombre crimer that resists easy thrills, investing instead in grit, intelligence and complex characterisation.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
    Harper’s well-appointed sequel has strong performances even if the Woman becomes a supporting character in her own tale.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    '71
    A brutal army thriller that feels like the truth, thanks to take-no-prisoners storytelling and a tell-no-lies performance from Jack O’Connell.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Bad Turn Worse
    Though its influences (Badlands, early Coens) are writ large, and the denouement disappoints, the performances convince, the dialogue captivates and the sense of backwater boredom is overpowering.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    A Walk Among the Tombstones
    Exciting, in places, though a stranger to subtlety, it ticks all the genre boxes, but there’s something about its knowing noirisms that feels superficial rather than soaked-in.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Guest
    Cool as you like one second, camp as Christmas the next, this entertainingly overpumped action-horror will have genre fans (and their mums) grinning from ear to ear.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Metro Manila
    A moving morality tale set in a world rarely seen in western cinema, Metro Manila is an underdog drama that feels as authentic as it is original.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Matt Glasby
    Boyhood
    Extraordinary in form, ‘ordinary’ in content, Boyhood is ambitious, intimate and unforgettable. It might just be the apex of Linklater’s life’s work.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Matt Glasby
    Salvo
    Writer/directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s debut explores over-familiar territory and suffers from fiercely ponderous pacing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Neighbors
    A heated, hysterical battle between Apatow smarts and Animal House smirks. Subtlety takes a hazing, but humour emerges with honours.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    Magic Magic
    It ebbs away at the climax, but there’s 45 minutes where it sings loud and strange.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Matt Glasby
    The Machine
    Despite some striking imagery and sterling FX work, Welsh writer/director Caradog W James’ expert use of limited resources doesn’t stretch as far as the subtlety-averse script.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    The Ritual
    Entertaining, engrossing and at times genuinely unnerving, Bruckner’s bad trip is one for horror fans to relish.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Matt Glasby
    Mystery Road
    Deliberately paced and expertly acted by a weathered ensemble including Hugo Weaving, Mystery Road also boasts some of cinema’s most gorgeous magic-hour photography even if, elsewhere, light is in perilously short supply.

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