Cath Clarke
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35% higher than the average critic
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8% same as the average critic
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57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.4 points lower than other critics.
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Cath Clarke's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 60 | |
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Highest review score: | The Bad and the Beautiful | |
Lowest review score: | Wheely |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 111 out of 408
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Mixed: 286 out of 408
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Negative: 11 out of 408
408
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- Cath Clarke
It’s a striking, ambitious film, but there is something about the tone – both glossy and grittily real, stylising everything to mythic proportions – that left me a bit cold.- The Guardian
- Posted May 30, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
Calamy is utterly convincing, giving a performance that pulls us right into Julie’s inner world.- The Guardian
- Posted May 24, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
It’s super fun entertainment, which mostly disguises the fact it’s not going to stick in the mind for long.- The Guardian
- Posted May 24, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
Though she might have turned the dial up, Burkovska conveys Lilya’s depression and anxiety, and finally her resilience, with a muted, powerful performance. This might be one to file away for the future, when the current conflict has ended.- The Guardian
- Posted May 18, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
A Bunch of Amateurs is a thoughtful film about film-making and has some unexpectedly deep things to say too about camaraderie, community and male friendship – though there are a couple of women in the club’s ageing membership.- The Guardian
- Posted May 15, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
At times I wondered if the film is a bit too tasteful and tactful about the pain that Halim and Mina have to suppress, but still it’s a hugely compassionate and emotionally satisfying movie.- The Guardian
- Posted May 3, 2023
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- The Guardian
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
The film offers a fascinating glimpse into the mystery of other people, especially other people’s marriages. Friends and family still look dazed that the Alters – Rita and Jerry! – were behind the theft.- The Guardian
- Posted Mar 30, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
While, yes, TCWSSF is a dreamy magical realist fable with an environmental message, Alegría weaves into her tale an emotionally satisfying, gripping family drama, with singing cows – and fish too.- The Guardian
- Posted Mar 30, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
That sweaty, close-to-a-nervous breakdown tense feeling of being trapped is nowhere in the film. And where the script goes in its pulpy nasty final twist felt to me like a disturbingly misogynist move.- The Guardian
- Posted Mar 22, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
It’s heartfelt and sweetly earnest, but humdrum and disappointingly unmagical. The animation doesn’t help: characters speak with blank paralysed faces as if they’ve had botched Botox.- The Guardian
- Posted Mar 17, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
This gentle, authentic-feeling coming-of-age drama from Ukrainian film-maker Kateryna Gornostai premiered at the Berlin festival in 2021. Released in the UK almost a year to the day since the Russian invasion, her film has become unbearably poignant.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 20, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
What’s missing is a sense of what’s at stake – we never quite get a feeling for how desperate these men are, and for the most part they feel a bit too familiar from the Britcom playbook. That said, Burrows brings cheeky-chappie warmth to the character of Curly.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
Nearly everything about Epic Tails feels a bit underwhelming, and limited imagination-wise.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 15, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
At points I wondered if this is a film that tells us anything about anything. Some of its ideas feel a bit thrown together.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 15, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
The film gives us a precious glimpse into LGBTQ+ life in the postwar period.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 10, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
This is a film with a lot of charm, and gives cinema its most lovable rats since Ratatouille. But I did wonder at points who the audience is.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 1, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
Chumbawamba split up in 2012. They’re still mates and come across here as extremely likable, not taking themselves at all too seriously. Scenes of them nattering together, having a giggle now, are lovely.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 1, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
There is without a doubt something uncanny, almost seance-like, in the way Canadian film-maker Kyle Edward Ball evokes childhood fear of the dark.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 1, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
The film sags a little towards the end, with a few too many implausible action sequences: characters jumping out of helicopters and fighting on top of speeding SUVs, the choreography glossing over the basics of gravity and physics. Still, the cheers kept coming.- The Guardian
- Posted Jan 26, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
It’s a film with a decent bit of charm, and it’s hard to argue with the greed-is-bad message.- The Guardian
- Posted Jan 21, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
The script gives us less about their emotional connection and to be honest, the will-they-won’t-they-stay-together drama is a bit of a snore. The best scenes are down the rugby club, portrayed with tremendous warmth as a happy-ish semi-dysfunctional family.- The Guardian
- Posted Jan 18, 2023
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- Cath Clarke
What an intimate, thoughtful film. I can’t remember the last time I watched a documentary so desperately wanting a happy ending for everyone – human and ocelot.- The Guardian
- Posted Dec 21, 2022
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- Cath Clarke
The impossibility of ever really knowing our parents is a familiar storyline, but it’s told here with real generosity and warmth. Malik slyly pokes fun, but never meanly. This is satire with the thermostat turned up to 22 degrees.- The Guardian
- Posted Nov 29, 2022
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- Posted Nov 23, 2022
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- Cath Clarke
The clunky script feels like it’s been re-drafted and re-drafted to the point of incomprehension – blowing any chance of conveying a message. However well-meaning, it makes for a surprisingly dull watch. That said, my five-and-three-quarter-year-old (and clearly a few other younger people in the cinema) were a bit scared by some of the dicier moments of action-adventure peril.- The Guardian
- Posted Nov 21, 2022
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- Cath Clarke
This is a painful, important film, made more urgent in light of China’s tightening of religious freedoms and human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims.- The Guardian
- Posted Nov 7, 2022
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- Cath Clarke
The film is expertly bolted together from archive newsreels, snippets of classic war movies and interviews with surviving airmen.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 18, 2022
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- Cath Clarke
The will-they-won’t-they succeed in carrying out the poisoning plot makes for pretty flat drama, and for a film about people who have suffered so much, this really fails to make us care about the characters.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 13, 2022
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- Cath Clarke
Imagine Game of Thrones crossed with Gladiator and you’ll have something like this entertainingly old fashioned action movie with epic levels of throat slashing, spectacular scenery and a fair bit of camp.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 13, 2022
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