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 Blade Runner 2049
Lowest review score: 0 Christmas Karma
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 610 out of 1139
  2. Mixed: 429 out of 1139
  3. Negative: 100 out of 1139
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
    It is grippingly unpredictable – a film with a glint in its eye and smoke curling from its nostrils and underpants. But you dismiss it, or miss it, at your peril.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Wuthering Heights
    Style over substance? Not at all – it’s more that Fennell understands that style can be substance when you do it right. Cathy and Heathcliff’s passions vibrate through their dress, their surroundings, and everything else within reach, and you leave the cinema quivering on their own private frequency.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    The Secret Agent
    Like carnival itself, The Secret Agent sucks you in and buffets you along, with every swing and sway making it harder not to submit.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Saipan
    It’s a watchable national identity crisis in microcosm.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    H Is for Hawk
    A prestige drama it may be, but it’s at its best when it’s a little messy and wild, and content to let the feathers fly.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Rental Family
    A supremely sweet and touching comic drama.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    The Voice of Hind Rajab
    The film’s aim, to my eyes, is not to revel in, score points with or otherwise sensationalise the killing of a five-year-old girl. Rather, it confronts us with the dilemma the taped call itself poses: what are we, as humans, meant to do with it? More to the point, what can we?
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    In staging the Jimmies’ various acts of violence (to which they refer, horribly, as “charity”), DaCosta may have taken a cue from Kubrick’s own parable of British decay: even toughened horror fans should find it disturbing, if not downright hard to watch.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Song Sung Blue
    Blue might be the warmest colour elsewhere, but here it’s just a bit tepid.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Eleanor the Great
    There is a complex yet recognisable psychological dynamic at work here, and Squibb navigates the muddle of it nimbly.
    • 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Goodbye June
    Goodbye June is a keenly observed, nicely played drama about a family whose members are still working out how to muddle along with one another, despite three of its four adult siblings having long flown the coop.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Zootopia 2
    Disney, when minded, can still do this stuff as well as anyone – and in the pleasurable spring and snap of its animation, its at-times-unsettlingly comely character design, and set-pieces that swarm with humour and panache, Zootropolis 2 is proof.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Relay
    While a late twist may potentially dismay, it also allows Mackenzie to raise the stakes in a battle of wits whose participants previously felt more like opponents than foes. It gets personal – nasty, even – and this ice-cool throwback suddenly bursts into flames.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    The Choral
    This wintry tale of art blooming in adversity is far from a schematic feel-good jaunt. . . it’s an anthem for doomed youth in a familiar Bennett key: wry, melancholic, sneakily profound.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Train Dreams
    Nothing about it should work as a film, yet almost everything does.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The Running Man
    It’s perhaps Wright’s first feature to feel, in a positive way, like the work of a director for hire: every flourish and trick here isn’t in service of a singular creative vision so much as a great, rumbling excitement machine.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Hamnet
    What Hamnet leaves you with isn’t sadness, but joy – at the human capacity to reckon with death’s implacability through art, or love, or just the basic act of carrying-on in its defiance. It blows you back on to the street on a gust of pure exhilaration.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    It all pays off elegantly when Blanc delivers his grand summing-up, a sequence which in vintage Knives Out fashion playfully subverts the cliché – but not too briskly to break it and spoil the fun.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    TRON: Ares
    A shambolic film populated by some of the most aggressively charmless characters ever seen in a blockbuster.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Anemone
    Its two central performances pair perfectly. Bean is subtle, reactive, intuitive, funny – he, too, is on terrific form – while Day-Lewis is every bit the marvel you remember: every gesture, every glance, every twinkle comes freighted with wiry intention. You could watch these two go at it for hours, which for the most part is what Anemone offers, with two indestructible Day-Lewis monologues to serve as dramatic bookends.
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