Trevor Johnston

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Little White Lies, Time Out, Time Out London
For 147 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Trevor Johnston's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 147
  2. Mixed: 75 out of 147
  3. Negative: 7 out of 147
147 movie reviews
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Trevor Johnston
    A White, White Day
    What’s remarkable about Hlynur Pálmason’s drama is the way its elemental settings lend everything an oneiric quality. Yet the scenes play out with a very real, visceral intensity, especially once Ingimundur uncovers an uncomfortable secret about his marriage and seeks an outlet for his anger.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Trevor Johnston
    Burning
    It’s gripping in the moment, but with plenty to take away for afterwards. Genius really isn’t too strong a word.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Trevor Johnston
    Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
    This is a magnificent, career-capping achievement from one of the great storytellers of our era.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Trevor Johnston
    Upstream Color
    If you’ve ever sat at your desk wondering whether there’s more to life, or been kept awake by an insidious hum in the darkness, this will speak to your soul – even as its enveloping, disturbing, uplifting story sends your mind reeling with giddy possibilities.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Trevor Johnston
    My Neighbor Totoro
    An animated achievement almost without parallel.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Trevor Johnston
    Transit
    With so many layers to unpack, this one stays with you.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Trevor Johnston
    In Front of Your Face
    This is another subtle jewel, wise and charming, insouciant yet measured, and somehow squaring the circle between the overwhelming sadness of lost time and the glint of eternity in a passing instant.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Waterloo Bridge
    Leigh, in her first film since Gone With the Wind, is fresh, needy, poignant, while Taylor's unexpectedly assured restraint allows her to carry the film's surge of emotion.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Krisha
    The extraordinary skill with which Shults’s camera prowls and probes the enclosed surroundings also channels Robert Altman in chamber-drama mode. Those are strong comparisons, but this unexpected and hugely impressive US indie debut is worthy of them.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Black Sea
    Black Sea runs a few fathoms short of classic status. But its blend of old-fashioned storytelling values and zeitgeisty relevance make it a worthy addition to sub-aquatic cinema’s nerve-juddering legacy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Trophy
    The film has no easy answers, but it does strenuously challenge all sides of the argument. Which is exactly what you want from a great documentary.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    La Piscine
    This is a deliciously languid, slinkily unsettling affair.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Black
    Against a backdrop of tensions between French and Flemish speakers, this is a forceful presentation of social divisions and the urgent need for change from within.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    The Search
    Although there's a slight suspicion that (as in Rossellini's work from this period) the plight of children is being used as a sort of emotional shorthand, the integrity and moving effect of this piece is never really in doubt.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    A Silent Voice
    Yamada’s creative direction shows a filmmaker with a distinctive way of looking at the world, following in the footsteps of other maverick Japanese talents like Ozu, Kitano and Miyazaki. Yep, she’s that good.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    The Overnighters
    The film’s unwillingness to judge either the decent yet doubt-wracked pastor, or the damaged souls seeking a new start, effectively draws us in to a whole cluster of gnarly dilemmas, where humane intentions prove counter-productive and the truth only makes matters worse.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    I Stand Alone
    A film of alarming intensity.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    The Levelling
    A somewhat dour, slightly clenched viewing experience perhaps, but delivered with admirable insight, control, and nuanced subtlety by all concerned. It stays in the mind long afterwards.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    The Falling
    This dizzying, courageous, utterly humane and slightly unhinged film is a unique achievement.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Dirty Wars
    Even after The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, this brings us chillingly closer to the real story of the post-Iraq shitstorm.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Machines
    Some accuse the filmmaker of being just like the politicians who turn up, look around and do nothing. It adds a confrontational edge to the film’s already startling combination of immersive aesthetics and humane empathy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Innocence of Memories
    Gorgeous and haunting, this is a tantalising introduction to Pamuk’s work.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Blind
    It’s all presented as a playful cinematic puzzle by director Eskil Vogt’s confident direction and mischievous humour.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    The material inspires affection, given its knowing pastiche of everything from Universal horrors to '50s grade-Z sci-fi, and a shamelessly hedonistic, fiercely independent sensibility that must have seemed a welcome relief from the mainstream bombast of other '70s musicals.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    The Book of Life
    It’s hugely entertaining.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Tchaikovsky's Wife
    With its intensely-felt performances, haunting winter lighting, and seemingly inescapable claustrophobia, it leaves a mark.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Li'l Quinquin
    Here’s heavyweight French auteur Bruno Dumont demonstrating his gift for deadpan comedy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Welcome to New York
    Not just a cheeky stunt, Ferrara’s film is a genuine, worthwhile, thoughtfully unresolved attempt to understand the deepest, darkest mysteries of manhood and power.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
    A pleasure and an education.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Trevor Johnston
    Monsters University
    While Monsters University can’t claim outright originality, this is a far richer movie than most were expecting.
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