Tony Rayns

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For 5 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tony Rayns' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Princess Mononoke
Lowest review score: 20 Darling
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Tony Rayns
    Mahjong
    The various strands of plot are interwoven with phenomenal mastery, and Yang's images are as effortlessly precise as ever. It's his sharpest funny/sad vision of city life yet.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Tony Rayns
    Hard Boiled
    Anyone who saw The Killer will have a fair idea what to expect, from the intense male bonding to the hyper-kinetic editing style. What's new here is a rich vein of anarchic humour (will they evacuate the maternity ward before the hospital blows up?) and a bluesy back-beat of philosophical musings on a cop's sad lot.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 20 Tony Rayns
    Darling
    Excruciatingly embarrassing at the time, it now looks grotesquely pretentious and pathetically out of touch with the realities of the life-styles that it purports to represent.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Tony Rayns
    Princess Mononoke
    Superbly imagined and visually sumptuous, it's let down only by Hisaishi's sub-Miklos Rosza score.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Tony Rayns
    Mapantsula
    It gets far closer to the sights, sounds, smells and rhythms of Soweto life than an entire Attenborough of white liberal movies. Needless to say, it's banned from SA cinema screens.

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