Tim Robey

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The Telegraph
For 944 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tim Robey's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Roofman
Lowest review score: 0 Cats
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 340 out of 944
  2. Mixed: 542 out of 944
  3. Negative: 62 out of 944
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Spring Blossom
    As a gently exploratory portrait of adolescence, Spring Blossom is tender, amiable and sweetly played, but it doesn’t risk (or say) all that much.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Nuremberg
    If the film had been tightened to two hours of Crowe and Shannon ruthlessly going at it, we might have been mesmerised.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Karate Kid: Legends
    The secret weapon, though, is dimpled star Ben Wang, the 25-year-old lead in the Disney+ series American Born Chinese.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    The Outrun
    These relationships are poised to be explored in more depth than they are.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Molly's Game
    And there’s a hidden triumph in the supporting cast from the always-reliable character actor Bill Camp (Black Mass, Midnight Special), whose spectacular, hideously convincing wipe-out as a guy called Harlan Eustice, in the course of a single night, sets much of the plot in motion.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Bachelorette
    There’s nothing soft and romcom-cuddly here, but a brutal dissection of competitive friendship dynamics, eating disorders and selfish misery.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    The Rip
    Part Heat, part Miami Vice, this sinewy thriller keeps motives hidden as a police unit weighs duty against dirty money.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Bombshell
    Bombshell is a bright, watchable film on a subject that ought to make us squirm.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Effie Gray
    There are clever and sensitive touches right through, and a moving ending. But Fanning seems wholly uncomfortable, and not always intentionally.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Blinded by the Light
    It takes a love of Springsteen’s widescreen balladry, perhaps – all hail the mighty Thunder Road – to get on the film’s wavelength, but it’s an invitation right there for the taking.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Emma.
    This Emma is pleasant enough in passing, and nothing if not scenically lush. I just couldn’t get on with its Emma at all.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Bohemian Rhapsody
    The final hurrah for Mercury’s genius, this huge, hubristic spectacle lets you grant his troubled film a pass: at least it keeps on fighting to the end.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    The Vanishing
    The Vanishing makes an unmistakable effort, but also feels like one, and fades almost fittingly from the imagination within hours of seeing it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    We're All Going to the World's Fair
    The film’s narrative obliqueness heightens its gallery-piece surrealism. What payoffs we get are affecting, though.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Carry-On
    The set-up is grabby and effectively alarming, even if it lends itself to more nail-biting stress than actual suspense.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Where to Invade Next
    It’s jocular, never feels like a screed, and it’s refreshingly outward-looking.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    The Ritual
    It’s the character dynamics here, more than the dark and stormy set-pieces, that get things off the ground.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Boychoir
    Hoffman's performance has a sadness, an unexplained loneliness, which gives this slightly diffident piece a centre of sorts, and there's a pleasing air of melancholy all round.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Oasis: Supersonic
    There’s only so much lovable bad behaviour you really want to indulge them in now.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    My Cousin Rachel
    The story’s insistent ambiguities ought to make it seductively complex, but it never quite shakes off a stuck-in-the-mud vibe.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Blood Father
    In the grizzled spectacle Gibson willingly makes of himself, it has a B-movie equivalent of that A-plus Mickey Rourke comeback, delivered with just enough clout to count as a step in the right direction.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Cedar might have built up a broader satirical thesis from all this wheeling and dealing, but he’s happy to let the film rest gently on Gere’s shoulders – these days, a pretty safe foundation.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    The Salesman
    On this present occasion, Farhadi may hardly be reinventing himself, but his old tools serve him just fine.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Cheap Thrills
    It’s well-acted, especially by Healy (The Innkeepers), who makes you feel the pain of every wound, the ratcheting torture of every dilemma. But the film’s also a gimmicky exercise whose hollowness and credibility are constant problems.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Enemy
    Does it add up to much? Not really. Not finally. But it’s a suggestive puzzle-box of a picture, worth turning over in your palm.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Censor
    The tone oscillates between earnestness and mischief, a little uneasily. There’s a trippy, funhouse aspect to it which yields a couple of splattery punchlines, but it could have gone further in this direction
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Downton Abbey
    Watching it is like settling into a reupholstered armchair which still creaks in the same old places.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Marry Me
    Take one high-concept format, two big stars and lots of songs... this romcom isn’t perfect, but you can’t help rooting for the main couple.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    Love, Simon
    It’s a casual breakthrough, normalising what was once a taboo.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Robey
    The Mauritanian
    What lifts it to a major degree is Rahim’s performance. We know little of Salahi’s life outside Guantánamo, dealing with him as a virtual blank slate, but he fills this in with a remarkably charismatic personality, riven with contradictions, and clinging to bursts of mischievous humour as a survival strategy.
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