Robbie Collin

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The Telegraph
For 1,129 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 Cantona
Lowest review score: 0 Christmas Karma
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 607 out of 1129
  2. Mixed: 424 out of 1129
  3. Negative: 98 out of 1129
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    No Time to Die
    it’s often very funny indeed. The mood is often closer to the perkier passages of the Connery films, and the humour feels contemporary and British: the Phoebe Waller-Bridge script polish evidently yielded the desired result.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Shoplifters
    Shoplifters is compassionate, socially conscious filmmaking with a piercing intelligence that is pure Kore-eda. This is a film that steals in and snatches your heart.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The Irishman
    Robert De Niro is sensational in Scorsese's history-making mob masterpiece.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Sweet Country
    Sweet Country is tough, spare and lyrical right down to the bone.... It is also a work of moral conscience that rules out easy answers, with acridly funny moments of black comedy and a sense of awesome natural spectacle that is inseparable from its dramatic impact. It has a power that makes the cinema shake.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Suspiria
    Dispassionate engagement won't fly here. You either stagger out early or plunge in up to your elbows.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Like its precursor, Glass Onion doubles as a dazzlingly engineered gizmo and a raucous cautionary satire, with implications that billow out into the world even as its mechanisms snap satisfyingly shut.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    This is instant A-list Coens; enigmatic, exhilarating, irresistible.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The Wonders
    The film comes and goes without commotion, but its magic settles on you as softly and as steadily as dust.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The Batman
    The two stars generate an astonishing sensual charge in a brilliant addition to the Batman canon that refuses to behave like a blockbuster
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Under the Skin
    Glazer’s astonishing film takes you to a place where the everyday becomes suddenly strange, and fear and seduction become one and the same.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    F for Fake
    Thirty-nine years on, it’s as vivacious as ever.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    They Shall Not Grow Old
    By applying cutting-edge restoration techniques to footage shot at the time, Jackson has crafted an historical portrait of matchless immediacy and power, in which young souls lost in a century-old war stare out across the years and meet our gaze.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Toni Erdmann
    The film’s sweetness and bitterness are held so perfectly in balance, and realised with such sinew-stiffening intensity, that watching it feels like a three-hour sports massage for your heart and soul.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    SPECTRE
    It’s a feat of pure cinematic necromancy.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Out of the Past
    They don't come sourer or sexier than Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947), a pretty much perfect film noir. [26 Jul 2014, p.4]
    • The Telegraph
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Loveless
    The script, co-written by Zvyagintsev and his regular collaborator Oleg Negin, scrupulously extends to each of its characters the dignity of complexity, and both excellent leads repay the favour tenfold, investing what could have easily been petit-bourgeois caricatures – the preening shrew, the oafish office drone – with riveting sincerity and nuance.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Turning Red
    It works as beautifully as it does because the film’s comedy has been machined with Swiss precision, and all of its characters written with obvious love.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Silence
    It’s a film full of tight close-ups of hands accepting gifts that comfort, inspire and bring succour to their recipients’ souls. That’s how we should receive it.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The Apartment
    Wilder’s intoxicating script, co-written with IAL Diamond, flows like finest brandy, and Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine shine as two essentially good souls trapped in a tangle of office politics.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Berberian Sound Studio
    It is one of the year’s very best films, a great, rumbling thunderclap of genius.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Mank
    Mank feels like both a film for the ages and one hauled up from them: a forbidden tale grave-robbed from the Hollywood catacombs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Jackie
    Jackie, the English-language debut from the Chilean director Pablo Larraín, shows you the past in a hall of shattered mirrors – fractured and unsettling, with every surface sharp enough to draw blood.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Marty Supreme
    For its entire two and a half hours – which whips past in what feels like mere minutes – Safdie’s film had me vibrating like a tuning fork. It’s a joyous salute to life’s beautiful cacophony.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Cantona
    Watching that brilliance in action remains a thrill: you can see the angles and vectors align in his mind’s eye before every kick. Tryhorn and Nicholas have pulled off something similar here. Having got every calculation just right, their film soars.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    A Star Is Born
    The story of A Star Is Born may be as old as show-business, but it is also electrifyingly fresh – a well-known melody given vivid, searching new force.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Nope
    For Hollywood’s armies of unsung craftsfolk, Nope turns the blockbuster rules on their head: an expansive science-fiction thriller whose heroes rise up and claim their heroism from behind the scenes. For the rest of us, it’s an outrageously good time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The Hunt
    Mikkelsen, who is not given to sympathetic roles, has never been better. This is cinema that sinks its claws into your back.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The Post
    Shot and edited by Spielberg and his team in less than six months, The Post is very evidently a strike-while-the-story’s-hot kind of project, and it finds the master filmmaker at his most thrillingly supple and intuitive.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    The film itself is a mesmerisingly gripping and controlled parable-thriller in which the paranoia, misogyny and rage of the Iranian state are mapped seamlessly onto an ordinary family unit.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Soul
    Great animation can communicate wildly complex ideas with head-spinning clarity and wit, as Docter capably proved with Inside Out – a film which staged the interplay of emotions in an 11-year-old’s head like a vintage sitcom. If anything, Soul pushes this capacity for revelation even further: there are moments of true Blakean mystery and wonder here, expressed with a crispness that feels like a lightbulb snapping on above your head.
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