Neil Smith

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Total Film
For 227 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Neil Smith's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Favourite
Lowest review score: 20 Scary Movie 5
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 90 out of 227
  2. Mixed: 133 out of 227
  3. Negative: 4 out of 227
227 movie reviews
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Longlegs
    The horrors, like Cage himself, are largely kept off-screen for much of the movie’s duration. Yet with its eerie soundscape and sepulchral visuals, Longlegs nevertheless succeeds as a deeply disconcerting experience, one that burrows into the brain as insidiously as the innocuous means its villain employs to disseminate his evil.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Predator
    Directed by John McTiernan, it’s an ’80s classic full of still-thrilling action, quotable one-liners (“Get to the chopper!” “Stick around!”) and sly digs at Uncle Sam’s penchant for unwinnable jungle wars.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Finding Nemo
    The H2O theme fits in with the main feature, its tale of a clownfish searching for his son constituting Pixar’s most effective amalgam of comedy, artistry and emotional pull.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Hamilton
    Do not throw away your shot at watching Hamilton’s original cast both make and recreate history. ‘Satisfied’? You will be.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Skyfall
    The Daniel Craig era comes of age with a ballsy Bond that takes brave chances and bold risks. Guess what? Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Only Angels Have Wings
    One of [Hawks'] finest pictures: a swoony saga of fatalistic flyboys and the women who try to keep their feet on the ground.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Withnail and I
    Will Richard E Grant ever get a better role than bitter thespian Withnail? Has anyone devised a more iconic comic notion than the Camberwell Carrot? Has any screenplay combined so many quotable lines with such tear-jerking pathos or blatant homophobia?
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Mr. Turner
    One great British artist pays tribute to another in a lengthy but rewarding homage that boasts a titanic turn at its centre. Rarely has watching paint dry been so fascinating.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Gone with the Wind
    Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh create their own sizzle as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara in a lavish four-hour epic that juxtaposes scenes of jaw-dropping majesty – that aerial shot of the Confederates’ wounded, for example – with moments of elegant intimacy and playful verbal jousting.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    The Favourite
    A spiky, pithy, and unconventional delight.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Marriage Story
    Driver and Johansson face off to stunning effect in Baumbach’s finest feature to date. So good it hurts.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Room
    A prize-winning page-turner becomes a moving, harrowing and redemptive drama about the ties that bind a mother to her child. Be warned: one box of tissues may not be enough.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Smith
    Casablanca
    A peerless example of Hollywood studio moviemaking, director Michael Curtiz turning the Warner backlot into a gloriously romantic vision of WW2-era Morocco crammed with real-life European exiles and larger-than-life character actors.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    Waves
    Devastating and uplifting in equal measure, this emotionally draining film makes good on Shults’ early promise.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    Pride
    A feel-good charmer with an important message, Pride will have you clutching your sides, wiping your eyes and punching the air in triumph.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    God's Creatures
    Atlantic cod and oyster beds provide a pungent backdrop for this effective fillet of atmospheric psychological drama.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    The Suicide Squad
    Task Force X has the X factor in James Gunn’s lively, funny, and very bloody improvement on a DC disappointment.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    American Sniper
    Cooper’s performance grounds a solid, authentic drama – Eastwood’s best since Letters From Iwo Jima – that is less about one single field of combat than the price of war itself.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    Dreams of a Life
    A bleak yet strangely heartening film.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    A Coffee In Berlin
    Jan Ole Gerster’s deceptively slender character study has a complex undertow, subtly linking its wallflower anti-hero’s acceptance of his failings with his country’s wider atonement for its World War II past.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    Mindhorn
    A rib-tickling homage to the gumshoe shows of yesteryear, with an endearingly daffy mindset.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    The Nightmare Before Christmas
    A stop-motion charmer.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    Life, Animated
    Best of all...is the mini-animation fashioned out of Suskind’s Walt-inspired scribblings.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    SPECTRE
    Though not as dramatically rich or emotionally compelling as Skyfall, Spectre still ranks as a sleek, pulse-pounding if slightly overlong entertainment.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    Shadow Dancer
    An expertly calibrated drama confirming Marsh’s status as one of Britain’s most formidable filmmakers.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    Eternals
    Chloé Zhao gives the MCU just the kick in the pants it needs at this phase in its evolution.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    The Autopsy of Jane Doe
    André Øvredal (Troll Hunter) ruthlessly ratchets the tension – with no little assistance from Olwen Kelly, conveying menace without moving a muscle.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    The African Queen
    With Huston spending most of the shoot big-game hunting, it’s probably cameraman Jack Cardiff who deserves kudos for turning this odd-couple romance into such a colourful escapade through east Africa.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Smith
    Challengers
    It might be too heady a brew for some, especially those whose appreciation of tennis is limited to strawberries and cream. On the acting front, though, it’s a virtual grand slam, Zendaya, Faist, and particularly O’Connor fine-tuning their characters’ 13-year romantic imbroglio into a lusty love match for the ages.
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