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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    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Wonder Woman 1984
    So if Wonder Woman 1984 is playing near you, should you pounce? If it even remotely appeals, I’d say absolutely – even though the film itself, a direct sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman, is a bit of a marshmallowy muddle.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    The Midnight Sky
    It’s a project driven by ideas but made for a mass-market audience, which are always welcome in principle. The problem here is the good ideas are all extremely familiar, and the handful of new ones aren’t much to write home about.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
    Redemption may have eluded Michael Corleone, but his third film was more fortunate.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Black Beauty
    In a story that could have offered a parade of vivid character roles, only Foy and Glen really register: a kindly park ranger (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) deserved more screen time, while the various surly faces on the Manhattan carriage-toting scene are only thinly defined.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Robbie Collin
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    It’s the opposite of what a Borat film should feel like: business as usual.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Rocks
    Rocks would rather reckon with – and in the end, celebrate – youthful potential itself, and its extraordinary ability to flower in even the most unpromising soil.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    The Trial of the Chicago 7
    The Trial of the Chicago 7 is both a courtroom drama for the ages and an urgent shot across the bows.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    On the Rocks
    There may be no more fitting snack for a film that exudes casual bon-vivant allure, but is fundamentally nibbles and froth.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    The World to Come
    It's as simultaneously chilling and warming as a slug of ice-cold vodka, and just as liable to make your mind swim and eyes prick.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Run Hide Fight
    The film makes no attempt to grapple with the American school shooting as a nihilistic cultural phenomenon.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Thanks to both its mesmerising cast and McQueen’s flawless command of atmosphere and mood, it pulls off what I can only describe as a kind of cinematic jiu-jitsu – heaving you back to that precise moment in history, then lifting your soul out of your skin in one seamless move.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    One Night in Miami
    King’s fluid direction of her four actors means the snug setting never feels dramatically constricting, while their jostling performance styles make each combination of voices feels like its own distinct treat.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Nomadland
    The sheer compassion of Zhao's direction is one of the film's most elemental pleasures, while McDormand is one of those rare actors who can somehow make the act of listening as thrilling as a barnstorming speech.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Ammonite
    One of the finest films of the year: a shiveringly passionate period piece.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Children of the Sea
    A surging tsunami-crash of creativity and beauty.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Mulan
    Perhaps more than any other Disney live-action remake to date, Mulan feels like a blockbuster version of great mime – it’s performed with such consummate precision and showmanship that at times you would swear you were watching something with a heart.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Robbie Collin
    Tenet
    The depth, subtlety and wit of Pattinson and Debicki’s performances only becomes fully apparent once you know where Tenet is going, or perhaps that should be where it’s been. Still confused? Don’t be. Or rather do be, and savour it. This is a film that will cause many to throw up their hands in bamboozlement – and many more, I hope, to clasp theirs in awe and delight.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    The Old Guard
    Sleekly enjoyable.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Homemade
    One of the great pleasures of the collection is watching human ingenuity at work almost in real time, as each filmmaker in turn fathoms what’s possible, then keeps pushing, to regularly thrilling effect.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    Sending up the Eurovision Song Contest is like flattening Salisbury Plain: one quick look at the thing should be enough to reassure you that the job took care of itself long ago. Nevertheless, Will Ferrell has decided to give it a shot, and the result is this pulverisingly unfunny and vacuous two-hour gauntlet run of non-tertainment.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Artemis Fowl
    The end product is all but unfollowable, thanks either to a screenplay that was incoherent to begin with, or an edit so slicingly brutal that almost every trace of the plot’s connective tissue was chopped out.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Da 5 Bloods
    With a story that straddles two generations and stretches from Trump’s United States to the Vietnam jungle, Da 5 Bloods is one of Spike Lee’s most expansive films to date. But it’s built with the precise, snap-shut mechanisms of an ancient moral fable – a Pardoner’s Tale made about and for unpardonable times.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Extraction
    Like its absurdly named hero, Extraction gets a serious and deeply silly job done in style.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Robbie Collin
    Iron Mask
    Incoherent two-hour fantasy epic isn’t quite accurate: it’s more of an incoherent one-and-a-quarter-hour fantasy epic, plus an all-star warm-up.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Robbie Collin
    Trolls World Tour
    To watch it is to be waterboarded by joy. In terms of both visual dazzle and invention and sheer comedic stamina and pep, it handily surpasses the original Trolls from 2016, which itself set an impressive new standard for films based on novelty keyrings and pencil toppers.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    Elephant
    Elephant is set in a world without poachers, developers or tourists: the picture it paints is beautiful and educative, but doesn’t feel quite complete
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Robbie Collin
    The Platform
    If you want to watch an elaborate metaphor being wrung out like a bathing suit for an hour and a half, The Platform might be the film for you.
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