Steve Rose

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The Guardian
For 37 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Steve Rose's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Devil's Backbone
Lowest review score: 40 Bohemian Rhapsody
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 37
  3. Negative: 0 out of 37
37 movie reviews
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Steve Rose
    Night of the Living Dead
    It remains a nightmare experience that’s not easily brushed off. And despite its ramshackle scrappiness in production terms, and some dated gender politics, the storytelling is first class, pitching us straight into the action, but only revealing its full hand gradually.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Steve Rose
    The Devil's Backbone
    The political and the supernatural come together beautifully (and violently), and the unsentimental portrayal of childhood is refreshing, with terrific performances from the boy actors. It’s altogether a supremely satisfying tale.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Steve Rose
    Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
    This animated Japanese masterpiece is a war story as wrenching as any live-action movie.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Steve Rose
    The Rules of the Game
    It is not a simple film to summarise or describe as a comedy, satire or drama. Renoir was too generous to deal with such absolutes, and that's one of the reasons the film endures: nobody is good or bad, they just make good or bad decisions – hence the title.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Rose
    Kiki's Delivery Service
    This sunny 1989 fantasy by master animator Hayao Miyazaki broaches the issue of female sexuality more boldly than any Western children’s movie would dare.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Steve Rose
    My Neighbor Totoro
    Hayao Miyazaki's family fantasy is full of benign spirituality, prelapsarian innocence, but little icky sentiment.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Rose
    Shadows
    It's a cool customer – the hip lingo and fast-talking characters all of a piece with its bebop score – but there's a scrupulous honesty to the story, too.
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