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 1.1 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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Tasha Robinson
    Tangled
    The story should be a standard mismatched-couple-falls-in-love tale, but the script and the sprightly directing give the story plenty of snap and humor, and the animation is so luminously beautiful that even a falling-in-love sequence cribbed in part from The Little Mermaid is overwhelmingly magical.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Tasha Robinson
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    They essentially replace the book's blank spaces with gaping plot holes and laughable clichés.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Tasha Robinson
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    Most of the content of this film is wheel-spinning or conscious setup for the final installment, and that feels apparent at every melodramatic moment.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 16 Tasha Robinson
    The Nutcracker
    Nutcracker In 3D doesn't just compound past errors in re-imagining the story. Thanks to a big budget, huge staging, massive overacting, and the non-wonders of post-production 3-D conversion, it adds a wide bevy of new errors.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Tasha Robinson
    The Kids Grow Up
    By experiencing Block's films, we aren't merely witnessing his neurosis, we're abetting and validating it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    It's rarely tedious, but it's also rarely insightful or propulsive, and since there's nothing new to discover about the characters or their world, much of the film feels like a protracted, contrived pause, as everyone waits for Rapace to finally get back into the game.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    Hollywood Dreams
    It's unclear whether Frederick's an awful actress or a tremendous one pretending to be awful, but either way, it's hard to pity her nasal, pushy, babyish Iowa girl.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Tasha Robinson
    Stardust
    The film's merry, enthusiastic tone--set largely by Robert De Niro, playing a giddy transvestite sky-pirate to the hilt--is hard to beat.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Tasha Robinson
    Shock Treatment
    The film looks great, with vivid colors and sharp, snappy staging, but its 92 minutes drag by interminably. Tim Curry in fishnets might have helped, but a coherent storyline would have been far better.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    Bottle Shock
    Trouble is, it's too rambling and digressive to feel focused, yet too calculating to feel as observational and natural as a good Altman flick.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Tasha Robinson
    Bolt
    For the first time in years, it feels like Disney has done its namesake proud.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Tasha Robinson
    Is Anybody There?
    The script is always shakier than the performers trying to bring it across, and by the third act, it lets them down completely.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    Eat Pray Love
    Trouble is, most of the major changes took place inside her head and heart, which makes her story a natural fit for a book, but an awkward one for a film.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Tasha Robinson
    Toy Story 3
    The film never lets banter, visual gags, or the usual manic kid-flick running about interfere with its more delicately handled thoughts on loyalty, longing, broken relationships, and generational continuity. It honestly earns its emotion, moment by painstakingly executed moment.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 95 Tasha Robinson
    Mary and The Witch's Flower
    Mary and the Witch’s Flower doesn’t just borrow elements from Ghibli, it feels like a complete continuation of the studio’s work. It’s a welcome relief for every animation fan who thought that particular era of Japanese animation had, after 30 years, quietly come to a close.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Tasha Robinson
    James and the Giant Peach
    At least there’s plenty to look at among Selick’s beautifully detailed characters, who each have expressive bodies and their own ways of moving.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Tasha Robinson
    Glengarry Glen Ross
    It is, in short, a strange and unrepeatable success, driven by its own uniqueness as much as anything else.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Tasha Robinson
    Teacher's Pet
    Impatient adult escorts ought to appreciate the brevity, and their kids should find plenty of good-natured diversion in the film's generally charming story.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Tasha Robinson
    Ponyo
    It’s essentially a stroll through a fantastically detailed pastel world, in which the plot is little more than an excuse for Miyazaki to dive into a world teeming with colorful (and sometimes prehistoric) life.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Tasha Robinson
    Cold Souls
    The premise seems profound, but the claustrophobically inert execution lacks reach or imagination.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Tasha Robinson
    Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    Riveting, eye-opening issue film.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Tasha Robinson
    Agora
    Weisz makes for a vivid, charismatic Hypatia, but the script lets her down.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code isn't terrible. Brown's novel presented its concepts seriously, as food for thought; Howard's glossy version is more of a snack, designed to be taken only slightly more seriously than "National Treasure," and with the much the same sense of a puzzle-based thrill ride.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Tasha Robinson
    Evelyn
    From the maudlin musical cues to a senseless romantic subplot that's only barely tacked on, every aspect of Evelyn stabs blindly and insistently at emotional buttons -- Beresford has made the feel-manipulated movie of the year.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Tasha Robinson
    Brick Lane
    Brick Lane comes far too late to be groundbreaking, and tries to do too much to be fully coherent, but its talent for avoiding obvious choices on all fronts, narratively and stylistically, make it worth a look.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Tasha Robinson
    Beyond the Sea
    The stories Pérez-Rey's subjects tell are shocking, even moving. But they're also narrow, limited, and staid, and so is the film that contains them.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Tasha Robinson
    Corpse Bride
    Like all Burton's best work, it takes place in a distorted, vividly colored, meticulously crafted world where whimsy and gleeful ghoulishness mix freely.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Tasha Robinson
    Disturbia
    Once the plot finally kicks into gear, director D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives) effectively cranks up the tension.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Tasha Robinson
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Slumdog Millionaire features the simplest story Boyle has ever told, which may explain why its many pleasures are so pure.
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