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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    • 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.
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