For 408 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Cath Clarke's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 The Bad and the Beautiful
Lowest review score: 20 Wheely
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 11 out of 408
408 movie reviews
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Cath Clarke
    Calamy is utterly convincing, giving a performance that pulls us right into Julie’s inner world.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    It’s super fun entertainment, which mostly disguises the fact it’s not going to stick in the mind for long.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 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.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    What a shortchanging of Af Klint’s extraordinary life and work this is.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Cath Clarke
    Nearly everything about Epic Tails feels a bit underwhelming, and limited imagination-wise.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The film gives us a precious glimpse into LGBTQ+ life in the postwar period.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    It’s a film with a decent bit of charm, and it’s hard to argue with the greed-is-bad message.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    It’s a gentle and superbly shot film.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Cath Clarke
    The film is expertly bolted together from archive newsreels, snippets of classic war movies and interviews with surviving airmen.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 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.

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