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
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 81 Tasha Robinson
    Apex
    The movie is packed with deep colors, glorious texture, and striking sequences, plus plenty of drone footage showcasing unspoiled, rough wilderness. Apex’s narrative simplicity (and the fact that it’s a Netflix movie) might lend itself to second-screen viewing, but anyone who lets their attention wander to their phone is going to miss some beautiful footage that makes this story seem a lot bigger than it is.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Tasha Robinson
    Sisters
    Not every joke works, on paper or on screen. But Fey and Poehler at least look like they're having fun, and they make it easy to get pulled along for the ride, no matter how awkward it gets.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Tasha Robinson
    Rise of the Guardians
    While Rise Of The Guardians boasts a great deal of visual energy and amounts to a lot of fun, it's mostly lacking in that kind of depth elsewhere.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    Jojo Rabbit
    In the early going, though, Waititi manages to keep the tone light and the humor surreal enough to avoid too much association with the real world. But as his story devolves into melodrama, the comedy curdles.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Tasha Robinson
    Wrong
    It’s a Dada daydream of a movie, but no one who sits through it can complain that they weren’t warned up front.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 57 Tasha Robinson
    A Hologram for the King
    The place the story ends doesn't necessarily fit with where it began, which leaves Hologram feeling like a fractured and uncertain oddity. But at least by the end, it's a beautifully melancholy oddity. It's inconsistent in its intentions, but at least some of those intentions are good ones.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Tasha Robinson
    Prime
    Greenberg and Thurman are both engaging, but they can't quite compensate for their characters' shallowness. Streep, on the other hand, just can't stop compensating. Her oy-vey-can-you-believe-the-kid-and-his-shiksa performance is all studied mannerisms with no real heart.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Tasha Robinson
    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    By comparison with the other Rings movies - the extremely high bar Jackson has already set for himself - Unexpected Journey falls short and feels muddled, yet too eager to please its fan base with an obligatory swordfight every few scenes.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Tasha Robinson
    Shrek the Third
    Shrek The Third instead goes for less: fewer jokes, less energy, and toned-down characters.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 62 Tasha Robinson
    The Finest Hours
    This isn't just an action film; it's a multi-pronged assault on the heartstrings, with plenty of wide-eyed, apple-cheeked Norman Rockwell Americana saturating the pounding digital waves.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Tasha Robinson
    Freakonomics
    Like the 2005 bestseller that inspired it, the movie version of Freakonomics is fleet and accessible, an enjoyably light and lively pop artifact aimed at bringing some unusual economic theories to the masses.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Tasha Robinson
    Color Me Kubrick
    The film makes funny use of music (particularly Lionel Richie's "Hello") and excellent use of Malkovich, but it literally only has one idea in its head, and when that idea runs dry, it's as lost as Conway is without his plethora of Kubrick masks.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 73 Tasha Robinson
    The Wandering Earth
    No matter how familiar the plot beats feel, that level of attention not just to functional special effects, but to outright beauty, makes The Wandering Earth memorable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 73 Tasha Robinson
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    It's a frequently funny film that comes packed with the thrills of real combat, with real consequences for the characters. But the basic premise does make one question its priorities.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 45 Tasha Robinson
    Arcadian
    Arcadian does a few things remarkably well for a sci-fi/horror movie, but it needed a lot more to really spark: more commitment to its vaguely realized setting, more energy between the two very different brothers at its center, and above all, more Nicolas Cage — either version of him.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Tasha Robinson
    Smart People
    Dennis Quaid could stand in for Jeff Daniels' similarly toxic snob in "The Squid And The Whale," if only he were a little smarter and a little better-dressed.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Tasha Robinson
    The Secret Life of Bees
    It's pleasant and often touching, and the well-chosen cast sells what little drama they get, but there's no depth and little affect, and every would-be conflict peters out noncommittally.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 45 Tasha Robinson
    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' 2011 bestseller is a manic but emotionally inert movie that packs on the quirks without finding any personality underneath them.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Tasha Robinson
    Madagascar
    The tenor can be shrill, but there's no time to get bored. And on top of that, most of the gags actually work.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    Hotel Transylvania
    Hotel Transylvania is occasionally the kind of fast-moving, gag-a-second film that relies on quantity of humor rather than quality.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Like its early predecessors, it's a nominally fun trip, but it's tissue-thin and instantly forgettable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Tasha Robinson
    The House with a Clock in Its Walls
    The book is a charmingly quaint, deeply eerie supernatural mystery about grief, necromancy, and the apocalypse. The movie version is a shrieking CGI carnival full of poop jokes and barfing pumpkins.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Tasha Robinson
    The Wildest Dream
    Given the subject matter, the answer to "Why watch this doc?" should be "Because it is fantastic." But Geffen, like Everest, will have to settle for "Because it is there."
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Tasha Robinson
    Under Paris
    Regardless of what mode filmmakers lean into for a shark movie, they need to bring something worthwhile to that mode. Under Paris gets about halfway there on every front — drama, thrills, terror, character conflict, humanity-versus-nature messaging — and not much further than that.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Tasha Robinson
    Snow White and the Huntsman
    There are complicated elements at work here, with threads of curdled vengeance, victim entitlement, and insanity bound together in ways it would take a much smarter film to unravel. Snow White And The Huntsman doesn't try, and the film just keeps getting dumber as it goes along.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 79 Tasha Robinson
    How It Ends
    It’s a pleasant enough hangout movie, and someday it may be held up as a slanted portrait of what mid-2020 felt like for people privileged enough to ignore politics. But it still feels like a minor movie in the face of a major catastrophe.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Tasha Robinson
    Confetti
    Anyone who's been closely involved with a wedding knows exactly how these beleaguered schmucks feel. Those who haven't may just take Confetti as a lighthearted but convincing argument for elopement.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 51 Tasha Robinson
    Mascots
    While it's admirable that Guest is enthusiastically rooting for his characters, there's nothing particularly funny about it.
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