Tara Brady

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The Irish Times
For 554 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tara Brady's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Prey
Lowest review score: 20 No Hard Feelings
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 348 out of 554
  2. Mixed: 203 out of 554
  3. Negative: 3 out of 554
554 movie reviews
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
    Watch and wonder how the cheery original could have spawned such a catastrophe.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    The Little Things
    The quality of the staff only sets the viewer wondering why they all signed up for this. And that’s before the late, sigh-making twist. It’ll do well enough for fans of 1990s artefacts.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Sweet Girl
    Too often this feels like a project that insists on delivering poor facsimiles of iconic scenes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Lightyear
    Lightyear may well feature the studio’s best opening gambit since Wall-E and Up, but the film quickly falls into, well, adequacy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    The Alto Knights
    The grand casting gambit of pitching De Niro against De Niro proves an unnecessary distraction. Curiously bloodless in every respect.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Bergman Island
    A quiet character study pivoting around mum sex and elder care, it’s not the director’s best work but it’s streets ahead of this recent misfire.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Queer
    The misused music and hollow visuals set the tone for a vacuous film that frequently feels like an overstyled catalogue shoot.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    People We Meet on Vacation
    The chronological leaping around to pop tunes by Taylor Swift, Boygenius and Billie Eilish is the most interesting thing about Brett Haley’s sunny, saccharine film. The rest is flimsy.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    The Electric State
    The loud bangs and snarky zingers that powered their Marvel films towards box-office billions are fine for superheroes but not, it transpires, for a big-hearted teenage heroine and her robot chums.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Night Always Comes
    Despite valiant efforts from Stephen James and Michael Kelly – playing an ill-defined hoodlum and a procurer, respectively – Lynette’s low-income hinterland feels strained and inauthentic.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    The pretty pictures and silhouetted, sanitised sex will do well enough for Bridgerton fans, but the material has strayed so far from the source, one wonders why they kept the title.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    As with its frantic copyright-countdown predecessor, Venom 2 is, by any metric, a bad movie. But, gosh darnit, it’s going to be the baddest bad movie of the year.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Sonic the Hedgehog 2
    Both actors are ill-served by a script that carps on about finding your moment or some such. Can’t a hedgehog go on a quest to find a magic master emerald without this constant haranguing?
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Stardust
    Exasperating viewing for fans and certain to baffle newcomers, it’s a curious, imaginative thing, but who exactly is it for?
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    House of Gucci
    As the implausible romance gives way to boardroom shenanigans, House of Gucci grinds to a dramatic halt with still more than an hour of run time to go. There’s nothing luxe about the shoddy stitching and sackcloth.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Minions: The Rise of Gru
    None of these skits congeals into anything like a plot.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Our Little Secret
    This dull-witted, soundstage-bound Christmas romance has festive trimmings and a clockwork plot.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Irish Wish
    Cartoonishly colourful cinematography brings emerald-tinted sparkle to Killruddery House, Lough Tay, the Cliffs of Moher and other tourist traps. What else? It’s professionally assembled? Everyone has nice hair?
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Tara Brady
    The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
    Cinemas are finally open; it’s hard to think of a worse way to mark the occasion.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Tara Brady
    Hellraiser: Judgment
    One for Hellraiser completists only. Assuming there are any left.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Tara Brady
    No Hard Feelings
    Every pratfall, including the naked ones, is joyless and witlessly timed.
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