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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    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Tasha Robinson
    Spirited Away
    A wonderful encore, marked by the painstaking attention to detail and artful balance between terror and joy that make Miyazak's work unique.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Tasha Robinson
    The Platform
    It’s a movie designed for people who like their future-fiction thoughtful and relevant, and for people who enjoy the runaway-train feeling of having no idea where a given story could possibly go next.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 90 Tasha Robinson
    The Searchers
    The Searchers is more a look at American genocide and racism, and the poison of revenge-obsession, than it is an adventure movie, and it feels like one of the wisest and most mature Westerns on the classics docket.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Tasha Robinson
    The Odd Couple
    Revisiting Saks’ screen version nearly 50 years later is like a class in how comedy and storytelling evolve, and how some aspects of a story endure over time, while others get sloughed away.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 89 Tasha Robinson
    Decision to Leave
    While the procedural story takes up a fair bit of screen time, the emotional story is the center of the film, and the one that’s likely to stick with audiences longest and most clearly. As a story, it lacks the verve and dynamism of his early action films. As a portrait of obsession and regret, it’s remarkably sophisticated and satisfying.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 89 Tasha Robinson
    Better Man
    Most musicals translate emotion into song. This one takes that a step further, translating emotion into a daring central gimmick. It’s experimental and explosive.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 89 Tasha Robinson
    Weiner
    The miracle of Weiner is that like the complicated man at its center, it's open to interpretation. Schadenfreude seekers who just want to see Weiner sweat and suffer will get their money's worth. But so will curious viewers who show up in a spirit of inquiry, looking for the full story. They'll get more than one.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 89 Tasha Robinson
    Money Monster
    Foster's daringly different comedy is more interested with observing its well-drawn characters, and what it takes to change them on a fundamental level. It's easy to see it as a drama that fails to fully address America's shortcomings. It's actually something better: an insightful comedy about human perspective.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Tasha Robinson
    When Evil Lurks
    With this project, Rugna breaks plenty of horror rules and literally writes his own, turning his film into 2023’s most unnerving horror release — and a welcome revival for a subgenre that seemed like it was on its last spindly, clawed, wall-climbing legs.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 89 Tasha Robinson
    Inside Out 2
    Inside Out 2 is full of passion and empathy, letting the audience in on Riley’s inner struggle without always painting her as the hero, even in her own story.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 89 Tasha Robinson
    King Jack
    For all Thompson's talent and promise, King Jack still rests most on the actors, and the way they suggest inner worlds deep enough to get lost in, without pushing or forcing the point.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Tasha Robinson
    Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
    Street Gang certainly doesn’t tell the whole story of Sesame Street’s early years — it can’t begin to. But it’s an absorbing, nostalgia-courting start, and for people with fond memories of the show, it’s an unbeatable chance to approach it as an adult, and understand their own childhoods a little better in the process.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Tasha Robinson
    April and the Extraordinary World
    It's a rousing, thrilling adventure, beautifully animated in rich, deep hues with a look that meets neatly between the flow of hand-drawn cels and the smoothness of digital animation. But it's also a powerfully emotional piece, about family and friendship, about betrayal and disappointment, and about first love and old enmities.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Tasha Robinson
    Hell or High Water
    For all the methodical pacing and old archetypes, Hell or High Water is a thoroughly contemporary action film, complete with fast chases and flashes of dark comedy. But like the classic Westerns, it invites viewers to evaluate, one more time, the myth of the American outlaw, and the idea of criminals as heroes.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 87 Tasha Robinson
    Moonlight
    Moonlight is hypnotic not just as a character study, or as a coming-of-age story. It's hypnotic as a performance piece, full of flawless portrayals of a kid figuring out who he is, not just in relation to other people, but in relation to himself.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 87 Tasha Robinson
    Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman represents a number of delicate balancing acts: between humor and gravitas; angst and adventure; full-blown, unvarnished superhero fantasy and the DCEU’s usual unpacking of what those fantasies mean.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 87 Tasha Robinson
    The Shape of Water
    For those capable of falling into the spell del Toro is casting, The Shape of Water is a breathless film, anchored by Hawkins’ visible, ardent longing for connection, and her fierce defiance when the things she loves are threatened.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 87 Tasha Robinson
    Smile
    No matter how excessively the legitimate scares pile up, they’re startling and convincing. The editing and music are impressively tuned for maximum impact whenever the slow-burning tension resolves with an abrupt, ugly surprise. All of which makes Smile an efficient ride, if an unusually unrelenting one.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 87 Tasha Robinson
    Brigsby Bear
    Brigsby Bear holds together because it’s so flawlessly navigated and so utterly sincere. James has his ups and downs, but they aren’t manipulative, cheap, or calculated.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 87 Tasha Robinson
    Knives Out
    It lacks Hitchcockian tension or Christie-level dignity, but it’s funny, surprising, and intriguing in the way it flips the usual murder-mystery script.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 86 Tasha Robinson
    Civil War
    It isn’t what those people will think it is. It’s something better, more timely, and more thrilling — a thoroughly engaging war drama that’s more about people than about politics.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 86 Tasha Robinson
    Hereditary
    Hereditary is a hell of an intense ride, made for a crowd that enjoys heart-clutching adrenaline spikes. The cast is unerringly terrific.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 86 Tasha Robinson
    Hail Satan?
    The sharp editing turns the film into a comedy about how wickedly successful the Temple’s trolling is, and how humorless and easily riled their opponents are.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 86 Tasha Robinson
    Freaks
    In a world packed with information, it’s outright exciting to know so little about where a story is going, or how far it’s willing to go to get there.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 86 Tasha Robinson
    Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    A film that so perfectly reveals its characters both through the way they charge past calamity, and the way they subtly reflect their own pasts.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Tasha Robinson
    Project Hail Mary
    For once, fans’ “Did they do the book justice?” anxieties are misplaced: The movie version of Project Hail Mary is funny, strange, heartening, and completely satisfying.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 85 Tasha Robinson
    Ride Your Wave
    It’s rare to see an anime story that solely focuses on adults navigating the issues of maturity, personal development, and a stymied future. It’s even rarer to see anime that simultaneously tackles those ideas, and wraps them in such an extravagant visual fantasia.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 85 Tasha Robinson
    Hunt
    The movie’s strongest moments come when the action gets so ridiculous that the audience almost has to laugh, even as they’re wondering who’s going to die next.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Tasha Robinson
    The Big Short
    McKay's film is coated in sugar to make it go down easy, but at its center, it's a bitter pill to swallow.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Tasha Robinson
    Us
    Peele directs Us with a masterful collection of horror-movie tricks — jump scares that actually pay off, a cat-and-mouse game in an isolated place filled with bright lights and deep pools of impenetrable shadow, a throat-closing Michael Abels score full of intense drumming and choral chanting that elevates the action to operatic levels of drama. But his greatest asset is the performances, which turn an already creepy premise into something endlessly inhuman and unnerving.
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