Tara Brady

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The Irish Times
For 572 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tara Brady's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Son of Saul
Lowest review score: 20 Hellraiser: Judgment
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 363 out of 572
  2. Mixed: 206 out of 572
  3. Negative: 3 out of 572
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Tara Brady
    Rebel Ridge
    Pierre, who replaced John Boyega after the latter’s controversial departure, is a convincing and charismatic action hero. The supporting cast, particularly Robb, Emory Cohen, and Johnson, make for good company. The film’s cinematographer, David Gallego, does some nifty footwork around a thrilling Mexican standoff. Worth the wait.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Tara Brady
    Close to You
    Page’s closeness to the material grafts a fascinating biographical dimension to this intimate drama. The story may lack conflict and clout. But it’s great to see Page back on the big screen.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Oddity
    McCarthy’s directorial precision is complemented by wit and an imaginative backstory that deserves an expanded universe.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Cuckoo
    The gunplay of the final act isn’t as much fun as the properly creepy build-up. No matter. This self-aware German-Hollywood coproduction atones with plenty of Teutonsploitation humour.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Between the Temples
    The most anxious Jewish comedy since the Coen brothers visited Jobian trauma on Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man stars Carol Kane as an adult bat-mitzvah student. This alone would justify the admission price, but there’s more.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Only the River Flows
    A jigsaw puzzle, dream sequences and continuous snatches of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata build towards an uneasy denouement that will leave the viewer guessing and obsessing long after the final credits roll.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Swan Song
    In Swan Song, feathers, synchronicity and sheer graft define the world’s most popular ballet.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Tara Brady
    Tuesday
    A carefully modulated tone allows zombie cows, end-of-life care and jokes about furious masturbation to coexist, sometimes in the same scene.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Tara Brady
    It Ends with Us
    Loyal fans will be pleased. Untold millions of BookTok users can’t be wrong, surely.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Shayda
    Niasari, who writes and produces as well as directing, racks up the tension to match his psychopathy in this sure-footed debut feature.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Kensuke's Kingdom
    The unlikely friendship between Michael and Kensuke is the heart of a film that touches lightly on environmental themes, loss and history.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Tara Brady
    About Dry Grasses
    The vigorous, masterful script, written by the director his wife and frequent collaborator Ebru Ceylan, counterpoints the extended runtime. The director says he could have made the film longer; remarkably, most viewers will agree.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Tara Brady
    I Saw the TV Glow
    It’s a haunting spectacle that will leave you reeling, even before a heartbreaking aftermath.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Tara Brady
    Crossing
    Following on from Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Crossing gifts us the second essential Georgian screen heroine of 2024.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Thelma
    Writer-director Josh Margolin, making his feature debut, based the eponymous character on his grandmother. The script, accordingly, is never patronising.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    The Sparrow
    Hardwicke and O’Hara make for forbidding facades with unexpected depths, but impressive newcomer Ollie West, who appears in every scene, shoulders most of the emotional heft.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Tara Brady
    Fly Me to the Moon
    This underpowered, $100-million-budgeted space oddity was originally intended for streaming. And it shows.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    The Commandant's Shadow
    Völker’s sensitive film brings together these two wounded families to sit down for tea. It’s a fascinating encounter defined by guilt and unspeakable hurt. There is no sense of absolution or cathartic breakthrough. There is only imperfect reckoning.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Tara Brady
    MaXXXine
    Goth remains fiercely committed to the bit. West, a talented, ideas-driven film-maker, makes merry with contemporaneous tropes, yet falls well short of the substance or sleaze that defined Cruising, Hardcore, or the other films referenced throughout.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Eternal You
    “If you had the chance to talk to someone that died, that you love, would you take it?” asks Christi Angel in this apprehensive documentary portrait of dead-raising digital capitalism.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Ama Gloria
    The Caméra d’Or-winner Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq’s affecting quasi-autobiographical drama is sweetly reminiscent of Céline Sciamma’s childcentric will-o’-the-wisps Petite Maman and My Life as a Courgette.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Tara Brady
    Green Border
    The cross-cutting between activism, brutish military figures and merciless degradation doesn’t always work. But the haunted faces of actors such as Jalal Altawil are hard to forget.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    The Exorcism
    The pacing can be too stately, but an impressive ensemble working through a surfeit of good ideas compensates for the lack of jump scares.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    Sasquatch Sunset
    Hang in there and it’s rewardingly novel, touchingly human and agreeably nutty.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Tara Brady
    The Dead Don't Hurt
    Mortensen’s script tussles between feminist revision and old-school male showdowns, imagining Vivienne as a Joan of Arc-inspired frontierswoman yet subject to the degradations of the era.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Tara Brady
    Hit Man
    Arjona brings heat to an undeveloped character. Powell, who manages to wring a moment of magnetism from iPhone notes, inevitably steals the show.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Tara Brady
    Gasoline Rainbow
    Straddling the current revival of the picaresque in US indie cinema (The Sweet East, Riddle of Fire) and cinéma vérité, this is a pleasing meander, skilfully directed, shot, and edited by the upcoming auteur siblings.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Tara Brady
    The Substance
    Director Coralie Fargeat follows up her gory 2017 rape-reprisal thriller, Revenge, with this outrageous comic body-horror, pitched somewhere between Sunset Boulevard and Brian Yuzna’s cult classic, Society.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    In Flames
    The many textures and mysteries don’t always fit together. Indeed, the movie is better when it trades in real-world patriarchal controls and abuses rather than things that go bump in the night. But this remarkable debut feature will keep you hooked until the final reveal.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Tara Brady
    The Surfer
    The Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on and this unsettling Ozpoiltation thriller provides a perfect sandbox for “Nicolas Cage”, the actor who enjoys a good metatextual jape.
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