Robbie Collin

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The Telegraph
For 1,139 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 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Robbie Collin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Inside Out
Lowest review score: 0 May I Kill U?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 610 out of 1139
  2. Mixed: 429 out of 1139
  3. Negative: 100 out of 1139
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Supergirl
    Craig Gillespie, who previously directed Cruella and I, Tonya, does contrive one or two dynamic CG brawls. And his flashbacks to Krypton and Earth – obligatory franchise infill that they are – provide a bit of welcome variation. The rest, though, is a chore: like watching an endless orangey-grey rehash of scenes from Mad Max and Star Wars.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Disclosure Day
    With its ruminations on everything from responsible government to humanity’s innate religious drive, Disclosure Day is unquestionably a big swing. But with Spielberg, big swings should be a given, and this one only glancingly connects.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Her Private Hell
    It’s all fun in the heat of the moment – or more often the chill of it – and the physically constructed city itself is a wonder. But we already know that Refn can do this stuff in his sleep. As the credits roll, you may be left wondering: what else?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Bitter Christmas
    If you wanted to be mean about Pedro Almodóvar’s new film, you could call it complacent. On the other hand, if you wanted to be generous, you could call it a spry deconstruction of artistic complacency. In reality, it’s both.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
    Everything Disney needed to revive the franchise after its seven-year absence from cinemas is in here. The problem is there is only around 20 minutes of it, and much of the rest is hopeless.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    The Sheep Detectives
    The Sheep Detectives is a profoundly odd viewing experience – entirely pleasant, lightly funny and easily absorbed, yet every so often you find yourself thinking hang on a minute, I am watching a flock of sheep investigate a murder, and feel like you are having a stroke.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Mother Mary
    Is Mother Mary a comment on modern stardom? Or the study of an intense, broken relationship? Or is it just an excuse for two hours of sculptural close-ups and artfully creepy tableaux? As you watch, you find yourself continually grabbing at meaning but, like a ghost, your fingers slip straight through.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    The Wizard of the Kremlin
    It’s smart and watchable in a miniseries sort of way, and sets the current war in Ukraine in an instructive wider context – while Dano is ideally cast as the unreadable vizier serenely pulling strings behind the scenes. But it’s also overlong.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Outcome
    It has a weird, half-finished vibe, with a lumpy, repetitive structure, a bizarre colour palette that resembles an exploding Tango Ice Blast machine, and too many scenes that wear on well beyond their natural usefulness.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Michael
    The performances are great, the rise-to-fame story gripping, and the music and choreography are making my skin tingle. I can’t wait to see how they’re going to deal with the trickier stuff.” But then you do wait. And wait. And then the credits roll, and you’re left waiting still.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
    It’s testament to just how bad the original Super Mario Bros Movie was that this sequel can be a noticeable improvement in every respect – animation, storytelling, humour, vocal performances, you name it – while still comfortably qualifying as absolute rubbish.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    How to Make a Killing
    It isn’t especially funny, and I’m not even sure that it’s meant to be.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    The Bride!
    A wildly arresting performance from Buckley is not enough to save this generic and uninspired adaptation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Saipan
    It’s a watchable national identity crisis in microcosm.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    People We Meet on Vacation
    As a low-stress package tour of will-they-won’t-they romance highlights, it does the trick.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Song Sung Blue
    Blue might be the warmest colour elsewhere, but here it’s just a bit tepid.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Regretting You
    Dramatic things keep happening in the love lives of its two central couples, yet handily for Gen-Z viewers who like their protagonists morally spotless, none is responsible for any of it. It sometimes feels as if you’re watching a couple of hours of incredibly bad luck.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Christy
    Human moments are few, and overwhelmingly feature Christy’s fellow fighter Lisa Holewyne, a rival-turned-rock tenderly played by Love Lies Bleeding’s Katy O’Brian. The relationship between Sweeney and O’Brian might be the gentlest, most unassuming part of the film – but it’s what stays with you.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
    What a relief, then, that this isn’t terrible – though to get the best out of it, you may wish to convince yourself that it’s going to be.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    La Grazia
    Perhaps La Grazia is enjoyed best as a more optimistic B-side to either Il Divo or Loro, Sorrentino’s lewd and scurrilous biopics of the former Italian prime ministers Giulio Andreotti and Silvio Berlusconi – both of which, incidentally, were also played by Servillo. But I know which ones I’d rather put on for fun.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Megadoc
    It’s an engaging, sometimes touching, slightly narrow depiction of a great filmmaker in the winter of his career who’s intent on somehow recapturing the spring of it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    The Thursday Murder Club
    As an occasional source of broad and undemanding chuckles, the film doubtless serves its purpose. But the mystery itself unfolds with such plodding expediency that there’s little suspense to speak of.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    How to Train Your Dragon
    Will it enrapture its target audience regardless? It should certainly keep them occupied for a couple of hours, though perhaps more with nodding recognition rather than delight.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Nouvelle Vague
    Nouvelle Vague stylishly captures and celebrates a certain approach to making cinema – reactive, incautious, free-range – but leaves you wishing there was a little more of it in the film you just saw.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Lilo & Stitch
    Lilo & Stitch has been tamed into one of those naughty-pet family comedies that used to roll off studio production lines with thud-thudding regularity, until the form fell out of fashion somewhere around 1994.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Thunderbolts*
    The latest Marvel title is just dollop upon dollop of dourness, leaving its stars no space to show us what they might bring to the franchise.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    The Accountant 2
    The plotting meanders its way to the very brink of incoherence, but as the scenes tick past, the vague sense of a many-tendrilled mystery being solved does gradually descend.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    The Friend
    The film carries itself like a bright and mischievous character study in the style of Nicole Holofcener, but is ultimately just a dog weepie with airs.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    The End
    These poor players have all hand-picked their roles, and are resolved to strut and fret as convincingly as they can, right up until the curtain plummets.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Holland
    Director Cave stages some nicely gripping scenes of suspense, toggling between camp and grit as nimbly as the swoony soundtrack, which occasionally cuts out for comic effect.
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