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
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Good Grief
    It doesn’t quite work. Actors as talented as Negga and Patel can’t enliven the “zany” auxiliary friend roles. Levy’s script, more damningly, can’t quite reconcile grief with the film’s romcom ambitions. A promising first film, nonetheless.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Hive
    Basholli’s simple, elegantly structured script and Alex Bloom’s cinematography places Gashi’s carefully calibrated performance in almost every frame.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Mandabi
    Mandabi’s playful grammar and arresting camerawork are as exciting and politically charged as anything that emerged from the contemporaneous Nouvelle Vague.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Tara Brady
    Athena
    This electrifying new film from director Romain Gavras starts as it means to go on: with a riot and fireworks.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Tara Brady
    Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    Save for some Skittle-coloured CG and cartoon violence, the original West End director Matthew Warchus puts a filmed version of the stage show onscreen. Theatre fans will be delighted; movie fans will wonder where the wide-angle chorus lines went to.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Tara Brady
    Timestalker
    Unrequited love is seldom so much fun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Cairo Conspiracy
    A deserving winner of the best screenplay at Cannes last year, this nail-biting drama is offset by Barhom’s terrific wide-eyed performance. The gorgon’s knot of political and religious machinations add distinctive hues to a genre piece with shades of All the President’s Men and The Name of the Rose.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Weathering with You
    The wacky mythology is offset with gorgeous hyperreal visuals, as raindrops bounce off umbrellas and puddles. With more than a nod to real world climate change, Weathering With You clings to love in the face of rising oceans and environmental catastrophe.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
    There are cruising parallels with American contemporaries the Ross Brothers and Halina Reijn, but this daisy chain has an earnest, festive charm unlike any other. It’s a vibe.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    The Mad Women's Ball
    The director and star deftly juggles social commentary, genre tension, spookiness and some fabulous period costumes (courtesy of designer Maïra Ramedhan Levi).
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Tara Brady
    Elio
    Elio is a half-formed thing. The basic story beats suggest that subplots and jokes have gone missing. Even the buddy comedy between Elio and Glordon is curiously marginalised. The candy-coloured character designs will please younger viewers, but the all-ages pleasures of peak Pixar are in short supply.
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