Tasha Robinson

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For 807 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tasha Robinson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Son of Saul
Lowest review score: 0 Sydney White
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 479 out of 807
  2. Mixed: 262 out of 807
  3. Negative: 66 out of 807
807 movie reviews
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The King and the Mockingbird
    Seen today, The King And The Mockingbird doesn’t have the tight pacing or propulsive narrative of modern animated stories, or the consistency of a film made to a specific house style. It’s recognizably the work of an idiosyncratic artist dealing in bizarre caricature, and exploring weird ideas... But its visual design and movement are striking, and its story beats are intriguingly unpredictable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    How I Live Now
    Part of the point may be how trauma simplifies life by stripping away everything inessential, but just as there’s little satisfaction in watching Daisy pursue an unworthy goal, there’s little satisfaction in watching a specific, colorful, keenly felt portrait become such a familiar story.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Tattoo
    Unlike so many "Seven" followers, it makes its missteps memorably, and offers a variety of stylistic rewards by way of compensation.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The Beautiful Country
    A gorgeous film, framed with an eye that makes every country seem beautiful in one way or another. It's probably fitting that the human element seems fragile and flat by comparison, but the contrast leaves Beautiful Country fairly bland.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The Maze Runner
    By establishing some of the Glade’s castes, rituals, and personalities, the writers make an incredibly contrived scenario seem a little more tangible. But once that high gear is engaged, the IQ and ambition drop precipitously.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Black Nativity
    While Black Nativity often lacks polish and restraint, at least it never lacks for soul.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    It's all innocuous, forgettable fun, but it's firmly aimed at those who find underwear endlessly funny.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The War Within
    Sometimes too pat and sometimes ragged with omissions and confusions, but it's still a fascinating look outside of that familiar world and into a harsher one.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
    Like Ghibli’s features, Kingdom is a friendly, elegiac, approachable movie. But it lacks the studio’s well-polished sense of energy and commitment.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The Wolverine
    The lack of plot coherence is a lingering irritant in a film that otherwise seems to be trying to improve on its cinematic-series forebears.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Remote Area Medical
    Reichert and Zaman don’t editorialize, which keeps Remote Area Medical from being preachy, forceful, or didactic, but also leaves it feeling shapeless.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    Three Of Hearts seems like an unwieldy mating of two films: one a glossy documentary about the fictionalized perfection that three lovers and a director wanted to believe in, and another about the all-too-human truth.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Chronicles
    It's daring and it's different.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Despicable Me 2
    Despicable Me 2 has its charms, in its spritely pacing, a rapid-fire gag-delivery system that hits as often as it misses, and especially in its innovative, expansive use of 3-D space.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Yes
    Like Potter's "Orlando" and "The Tango Lesson," Yes showcases a craft and a hushed, vibrant intensity that prove compelling even when the story loses its focus.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Third Person
    Third Person’s considerable strengths generally come from the actors.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
    It’s amiable goofiness, delivered at an emphatic, feverish pitch. Inevitably, what works fine in 11-minute episodes becomes strained over 90 minutes on the big screen, especially during a grating musical number about teamwork.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    On the Outs
    It's all too easy to dismiss the characters' troubles as entirely of their own making. But the cast's fearless, evocative performances help a great deal.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    It’s hard to fight the feeling that The Hobbit simply isn’t an epic story, and the efforts to expand it into one leave it feeling like an anvil crammed into a sock: The sock is taking on some weird shapes, and it’s being stretched awfully thin.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    This Girl's Life
    Marquis herself rarely comes off as less than fascinating, in spite of her cheaply titillating material.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The Zero Theorem
    It isn’t just that Gilliam’s ragged, wild style is easily recognizable after nearly four decades of feature films, it’s a sense that Zero Theorem recycles its tone, visual design, and plot points directly from his past work.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Ladies in Lavender.
    It's important to go in knowing the central secret of the movie: Nothing exciting is going to happen. Ever. Armed with that knowledge, viewers should be able to settle down and enjoy the extremely low-key, melancholy character study that plays out between a handful of excellent actors.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Thanks for Sharing
    The many-threaded approach makes it feel narratively rich and sophisticated, but it also shorthands and shortchanges some of the most interesting characters.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Valley of Tears
    Not everything Perry's voices say seems relevant to his central thesis, but they speak fervently and colorfully, and their intensity is compelling even when their message is lacking.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Given the talent on display in Sinbad, and the winning brio it dredges out of questionable material, it's easy to wonder what Dreamworks' animation department could accomplish if it stopped following Disney's lead and started forging new paths of its own.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    There are no surprises in Dreamer--except that for all its visible and unselfconscious schmaltz, it's actually pretty enjoyable.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    The Sisterhood of Night
    As silly as it is, Sisterhood is smart as well, about the modern draw of victimization and attention, and how people (not just girls, and not just teenagers) who live life on a perpetually scrolling online stage can become starved for validation in any form.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
    Shou focuses on a meaty subject, and he has an insider's access to the world he's exploring. But his behind-the-scenes film doesn't spend nearly enough time behind the scenes.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Tasha Robinson
    Riddick
    Riddick taps into a primal well of audience wish-fulfillment, but over the course of its unrelieved, monotonous length, it does its best to suck that well dry.
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