Robbie Collin

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The Telegraph
For 1,122 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Robbie Collin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Sentimental Value
Lowest review score: 0 Christmas Karma
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 601 out of 1122
  2. Mixed: 424 out of 1122
  3. Negative: 97 out of 1122
1122 movie reviews
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Avatar: Fire and Ash
    Some of us saw a while ago that turning Avatar into a franchise would prove to be a creative cul-de-sac. Having reached the top of the street three years ago, Cameron spends all of Fire and Ash trying to turn his enormous articulated lorry around. The back-up beeper is beeping, the spinning yellow lights are spinning, and he’s just knocked over his third wheelie bin. I do hope he eventually gets out.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Fackham Hall
    Usually, a spoof franchise would only feel this exhausted by the second or third sequel, so I suppose Fackham Hall deserves points for efficiency at least.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Wicked: For Good
    A second instalment of the Oz origin movie is bloated and boring despite new songs for both Elphaba and Glinda.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Now You See Me: Now You Don't
    Pike’s preposterous accent is as close as the film ever comes to acknowledging its own premise’s inherent corniness.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 0 Robbie Collin
    Christmas Karma
    It is like watching British cinema undergo a deathbed hallucination.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    The Twits
    If you don’t actually want to make a film out of a Roald Dahl book, this critic’s advice is: don’t.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    TRON: Ares
    A shambolic film populated by some of the most aggressively charmless characters ever seen in a blockbuster.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Smurfs
    It has all the charm and personality of a dented traffic cone and features perhaps the single most tin-eared screenplay – in which Papa Smurf is kidnapped by the villainous wizard Gargamel, and Smurfette leads a globe-trotting mission to free him – that I have ever encountered in my two decades as a critic.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Honey Don't!
    In place of classic thriller techniques and mechanisms are a beige aesthetic, limp dialogue and glib let’s-just-vibe-with-it attitude that only grow more maddening as things progress.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Leave One Day
    Cannes has had its share of opening-night turkeys over the past decade or so (2014’s Grace of Monaco was a memorable one), but for sheer unabating feebleness this must take the biscuit.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Ne Zha 2
    As filmmaking, it’s as mindless as Hollywood’s worst.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    We Live in Time
    The amatory mechanisms here are so basic they make 1970’s Love Story look like Wuthering Heights, but at least Love Story had the courage to wring every last drop of pathos from its tragic-romance premise.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Venom: The Last Dance
    As last dances go, it’s the Macarena in film form.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Baby Invasion
    Baby Invasion, which premiered at Venice tonight, may be the stupidest film I have ever seen. And I use the word “may” only because I’m not entirely sure this thing actually is a film in the first place.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Deadpool & Wolverine
    The film is so myopically gripped by the idea of Marvel as endlessly fascinating corporate soap opera that in five years time, you wonder if it will make any sense at all.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
    There is a noxious undead pong emanating from this latest entry in the 1980s franchise, which is now being necromantically sustained through force of sheer commercial desperation, and nothing else.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Madame Web
    All in all, it’s a new low in a mini-franchise comprised almost entirely of new lows: Venom, Morbius, and now this.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Argylle
    The action is slapstick-driven, yet the set-pieces are all so transparently bogus – with fourth-rate CGI and actors’ digital doubles flopping about the place like haunted marionettes – that they play as insulting rather than outrageous.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Padre Pio
    In cinematic confession, no number of Hail Marys could make amends for this.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Next Goal Wins
    After a while, it’s as if Thomas’s self-loathing begins to rub off on the script, which keeps undercutting should-be-resonant moments with smirking references to other films.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
    The film never tries to do anything other than look good, and is hellishly ugly even so.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    The Marvels
    The shortest of the films yet is also the most interminable, a knot of nightmares that groans with the series' now-trademark VFX sloppiness.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Dance First
    A lot gets packed in here, none of it good.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Expend4bles
    How can it be possible that nine years have passed since the previous instalment, yet every facet of this one feels so woefully first-draft? Expend4bles: wh4t a lo4d of cr4p.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    DogMan
    There was barely a scene in Dogman that didn’t have me yelping in disbelief.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    Every shot is sluiced in flat grey light – the action scenes look like gravel in a food processor – while the dialogue is all botched quips and clichés (“Did somebody order backup?” one Transformer smarms while cocking a rocket launcher), and the human characters timidly written nobodies.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    The Super Mario Bros. Movie
    Somehow, this new animated adaptation of the video game is even worse than the abominable 1993 live-action. Even the CGI is second-rate.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
    The whole thing is stupefyingly unfunny and un-tense, and doesn’t end so much as just give up and grind to a halt.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Cocaine Bear
    It’s a grinding disappointment all round, though at least now we know that what bears famously do in the woods can extend to their film work.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Avatar: The Way of Water
    For all its world-building sprawl, The Way of Water is a horizon-narrowing experience – the sad sight of a great filmmaker reversing up a creative cul-de-sac.
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