The Irish Times' Scores
- Movies
For 1,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 70
| Highest review score: | Son of Saul | |
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| Lowest review score: | The Turning |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 637 out of 1130
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Mixed: 467 out of 1130
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Negative: 26 out of 1130
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Donald Clarke
It remains, nonetheless, a pleasure to see a good yarn played out in such professional fashion. Just try not to think of the awful pun in the title.- The Irish Times
- Posted Apr 8, 2022
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Tara Brady
Haarla and Borisov demonstrate impeccable timing and expertly tiny movements as they warm up to one another. It’s something like love but without either sex or romance. And it’s a joy to behold.- The Irish Times
- Posted Apr 8, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Through it all the technical work remains of the highest quality. It seems a shame that Stuart Craig and Neil Lamont’s lavish production design and Colleen Atwood’s gorgeous costumes – both leaning into unreal golden-era Hollywood – are wasted on such an emotionally unengaging slog.- The Irish Times
- Posted Apr 5, 2022
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Tara Brady
Both actors are ill-served by a script that carps on about finding your moment or some such. Can’t a hedgehog go on a quest to find a magic master emerald without this constant haranguing?- The Irish Times
- Posted Apr 1, 2022
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Tara Brady
Following on from Harry Wootliff’s infertility romance, Only You, this confirms the British writer-director as an unmissable talent.- The Irish Times
- Posted Apr 1, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Adults and smarter kids will enjoy the digs at the pomposity of professional saints. Everyone else can laugh at the genuinely funny talking guinea pig.- The Irish Times
- Posted Apr 1, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Most ruinously, there is too much Jared and not enough Matt. No harm to Leto, who wears less makeup as a vampire here than he did as a human in House of Gucci, but he appears to be taking the silly role absurdly seriously. It’s not Willy Loman, dude.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Donald Clarke
At the risk of damning with the faintest praise, this is easily Bay’s best film in more than 25 years.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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Tara Brady
Bounce along as Julie might and it’s a lively, sexy, eventful two-hour adventure.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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Donald Clarke
The Cellar does sag just a little in the middle, but its spooky beginning and apocalyptic denouement set it aside from the horror pack.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Nobody looks to have helped Affleck get to grips with the author’s signature sociopath and, rather than appearing coldly ruthless, this cuboid-headed anti-hero comes across as a bored man queuing for an uninteresting clerical formality.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Tara Brady
Basholli’s simple, elegantly structured script and Alex Bloom’s cinematography places Gashi’s carefully calibrated performance in almost every frame.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Tara Brady
It is equally a solid genre effort, characterised by gory set-pieces, discombobulating scenarios, and welcome lashings of feminist revenge.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Donald Clarke
The film does feel a little thin in its later stages, but the inventive performances – Rylance’s in particular – keep the film aloft throughout. No bogie. Comfortably a birdie. Not quite an eagle.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Turning Red remains a charming film that will win friends and trigger worthwhile conversations. The right sort of feel-good.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 11, 2022
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Tara Brady
This is the kind of post-Goonies family-oriented schmaltz that plays very well on Netflix (see all of Stranger Things, a show sometimes directed by Levy) and not so well in cinemas.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 11, 2022
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Donald Clarke
For all the sinister undercurrents, Red Rocket is hilarious throughout.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 11, 2022
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Tara Brady
For much of its impressive duration, Dolan’s film blurs the line between family friction, bipolar disorder and the supernatural.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 4, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Happily, the screenplay is a model of design and economy. The dilemmas remain clear. The solutions mostly make sense.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 4, 2022
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Tara Brady
Akhtar, an actor who was so impressive in Four Lions and Utopia, and Claire Rushbrook, recently seen as Enola Holmes’s housekeeper, make for a quietly magnetic couple. For all the obstacles they face, this remains a strangely joyful film.- The Irish Times
- Posted Mar 4, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Swelling the running time close to three hours, the story, though well worked, has ideas above its humble station. One longs for the strings to be tightened. One yearns for just a smidgeon of levity.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 28, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Studio 666 is not exactly a good film. It is not a particularly enjoyable one. But it is cheering to know it is out there in the world – merrily not being a tortured autobiographical tale of ghetto life or a compilation of musings on the singer’s sociological concerns.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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Tara Brady
This is one of those snappy, well-formed Brit-coms that one expects to see reworked as a Full Monty- or Kinky Boots-style Broadway show.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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Tara Brady
In an ideal world, it’ll do Greatest Showman box office business. Mind you, in an ideal world, Dinklage’s forlorn turn would be nominated for an Oscar.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Clocking in at just over an hour, Get Back: The Rooftop Concert turns out to be simultaneously too much and not quite enough.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 18, 2022
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Tara Brady
It’s a fascinating delve or “kaleidoscope” as the film-makers have it. The film is as complete a portrait as we may ever get.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 18, 2022
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Donald Clarke
Too many bad ideas are juggled in too small a space.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 18, 2022
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Tara Brady
Still, this is an intriguing psychological thriller and a carefully calibrated study of maternal mourning, powered by perceived class differences and harsh maternal judgment.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 18, 2022
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Tara Brady
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is not quite the equal of the same film-maker’s Oscar contender, Drive My Car. Both films, however, share a deceptively languid pacing and find an aching humanity in middle-class people in crisis.- The Irish Times
- Posted Feb 11, 2022
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